(I'll try that again, without the link syntax that got scrubbed).
Apologies for length, yet this is long and requires words.
> brad wrote:
> I like this
> (what Joseph Eisenberg wrote)
> better than calling a state park a national park. Tagging them state parks
> with the national park tag is
Apologies for length, yet this is long and requires words.brad wrote:I like this(what Joseph Eisenberg wrote)better than calling a state park a national park. Tagging them state parks with the national park tag is an abstract concept that will just result in confusion.Brad, I "like it," too (what
Thanks, Kevin. I believe it will be sorted in a month, but you never know.
Great to have a dedicated mapper like you so willing to help, I will mention it
if isn't sorted by then. Kerry Irons (ACA volunteer) believes the AASHTO
ballot process will be around "month's end" so that sketches a da
I appreciate it! I'm now/soon scouring more aerial/satellite imagery before I
MIGHT (with trepidation) enter this. I do think it would be better if locals
who are more certain about this were to enter it. Though if MassDOT asserts a
USBR 7 re-route through here, "it must exist."
SteveA
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Oops, USBR 7 (not 1) through the area.
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Does anybody local-to-Massachusetts know if the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail (ART,
in Adams) exists (in real life) north of Hoosac Street? It both does exist in
real life and in OSM south of Hoosac Street, but while the railtrail "area" is
entered in OSM as a leisure=recreation_ground, there is no
Apologies if I've already answered these.
On Apr 24, 2019, at 4:34 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I think Kevin has it right that we should tag primarily by something
> about land use, not by owne/operator, although it's fine to tag
> operator.
I 100% agree. Yet I peruse landuse key values (except pa
The linguist in me feels compelled to be a bit pedantic: terms like "plain
language" and "human language" used to distinguish between data/code/machine
kinds of "language," including what we mean by "tagging" or "codepoint" are, I
believe, well-expressed with the (linguistic community) phrase "
At today's creation of https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Talk:Key:park:type , I
introduce a proposal to reduce usage of the park:type tag (initially, in the
USA) with the goal of better clarifying USA park tagging. There are a couple
of "low hanging fruit" tasks we might do as a pilot run, though past
I do think it important we hear about distinctions between British English (and
how it had a defining influence on much tagging in OSM), and American English,
which I often say distinctly affected the way Americans have used the
leisure=park tag. "Park" in American English is much more encompas
How much consensus IS there for tagging national_park on "large, (important?)
state parks" which roughly (or not) meet the national_park definition in our
wiki?
We have two in New York, quite a few in California, some in other states. Do
we wish to keep these as they are? Do we rough out "rul
Oops, I meant landuse=recreation_ground. (Not landuse=recreation_area). My
apologies.
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James Umbanhowar wrote:
> Just to throw another curveball in here, there is also
> leisure=nature_reserve which is frequently (occasionally?) used for the
> city/county parks that are less structured and used for hiking and
> nature appreciation.
Thanks, James. Reiterating, when I say "Existing
On Apr 28, 2019, at 9:27 AM, Josh Lee wrote:
> Where is the consensus or vote? The wiki page says "Status: de facto"
> which implies that the wiki page should document *actual usage* and
> not some sort of idealist, narrow viewpoint.
Perhaps this is where I throw up my hands in exasperation. Wit
> Jmapb wrote:
> ...if I saw a playground on a map
> and then arrived there and found it was just an empty lot or an
> undeveloped bit of land, I would find fault with that map. So if these
> places (kids play here but it's unofficial) are to be mapped, I'd
> suggest different tagging.
I would fi
On 4/25/2019 8:39 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:
>
A hazy sort-of-emerging along with this is wider recognition that a proto_park
thingy exists.
And on Fri Apr 26 22:44:56 UTC 2019, Jmapb replied:
Sounds like a good case for some lifecycle prefixes -- proposed:leisure=park
Doug Peterson wrote (about "Parks in the
USA..."):
> It is just that there is so much variety to deal with.
I agree, it proves frustrating from an OSM perspective. I believe partly what
happened is OSM started in the UK, where British English is spoken and
"typically British" concepts entere
It may be emerging that tagging boundary=protected_area (where correct) where
leisure=park now exists and we delete it, begins to supersede leisure=park on
many North American now-called-parks. I think that's OK, maybe even overdue.
To be clear, there are plenty of "we now call them parks" whi
On Apr 24, 2019, at 2:05 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote:
(a LOT about parks! thanks, Kevin!)
> TL;DR
I tried to be brief, sorry if I wasn't.
> - Tag the land use, not the land ownership. A city, town,
> county, or state park may be virtually indistinguishable urban green
> spots, recreation grounds, nat
A brief update: I have blown the dust off of a relevant wiki,
https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States_Public_Lands , started over
eight years ago and hardly touched since then. As originally written, this
addressed federal (admin_level=2) public lands only. Mainly, it still does,
On Apr 23, 2019, at 10:02 PM, Tod Fitch wrote:
> You are a brave person to try to get this organized.
That IS how it feels, thank you for that recognition! I'm might be thought of
as more of a single person initiating dialog (with my shoulders shrugged) than
a full-fledged "organizer." I supp
I'll try to be brief, but there's a decade of history. The leisure=park wiki
recently improved to better state it means "an urban/municipal" park, while
boundary=national_park (or perhaps leisure=nature_reserve, maybe
boundary=protected_area) works on large, national (and state or provincial in
FWIW, I believe these TIGER tags have exceedingly low value in OSM:
approaching or at zero. I say this because of a large/wide/far-reaching
consensus we have reached with "similar" values in the USA on
boundary=admin_level tags, where such entities were not only found to not be
admin_levels (
An update. Seeing Mark's recent post about is_in reminded me that it has been
two weeks since I politely asked the Rails-To-Trails Conservancy to donate to
OSM the same trail data they donated to Google Maps. I did receive a reply
that my message was forwarded to their "TrailLink group that ha
I believe I can make that date and time! (I do use zoom.us with clients (though I don't / won't use Slack and other proprietary tools) ; THANK YOU for making a dial-in option available for those who tend towards Luddite / more open / old-fashioned comm methods). Of course, I'm assuming you'll let
As I believe the etymology of the word "motel" (circa 1920s) is a contraction
of "motor hotel," I believe it is fair to say that a motel is a hotel which
caters to motorists. That is, patrons who arrive in an automobile and wish for
it to be immediately accessible, as in parked directly outside
t 2:43 PM, Mark wrote:
> Thanks Steve.
> Mark
>
> > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 10:00:20 -0800
> > From: OSM Volunteer stevea
> > To: talk-us
> > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Rails-to-Trails data
> >
> > While I'm not sure the email address from their websi
While I'm not sure the email address from their website I used is exactly
correct, I did make this request to RTC (and cc'd Richard). I'll let people
know here if or how they reply.
Cheers,
SteveA
California
On Mar 6, 2019, at 4:00 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I see that Rails-
I'm OK with this as well. I especially wish to call to the attention to others
who may do mechanical wiki edits like this (by Mateusz' good example) that he
was careful to:
1) Explain the problem; it confuses mappers/map consumers and wiki
authors/readers,
2) Offer a polite proposal as well
d), part of the Santa Clara (city) municipal boundary relation. I
believe this is moderately better, which is "moderately better."
SteveA
> From: Minh Nguyen
> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] The San Jose / Santa Clara border
> Date: January 28, 2019 at 5:06:15 AM PST
> To: talk-us@
On Jan 26, 2019, at 4:00 AM, Andy Townsend wrote:
> A mapper has recently changed this to "cut the corner off" north of the 880
> between San Jose airport and Stevens Creek Mall / Westfield Valley Fair. You
> can see the change at
> http://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=66619223&zoom=18&lat
On January 6, 2019 at 7:50:44 AM PST, brad wrote:
>
> Joseph, I'm not stuck on class 27, but as you say, that fits the definition
> on the wiki. I should probably look for other specific protection in the
> attributes and translate that somehow. Mostly it's just grazing and
> recreation
On Dec 21, 2018, at 4:17 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea
wrote:
> (Hawai'i, our national page says light_rail is "westerly portion is under
> construction." Updates?)
OK, I updated our Hawaii wiki so it has a Railroads section and table. A
dedicated Hawaii/Railroads wiki see
In 2013 OpenRailwayMap was released. After 2014 talk-us posts about "Rail
Westerly" I spoke at SOTM-US Seattle in 2016 about Rail USA during a theme of
building community.
Let's call Rail USA today (a decade after our mid-2000s rail import) a version
0.4. This includes:
* a certain amount of
Eric Ladner wrote
> That may be more of a note to motorists that "hey.. this freeway is coming to
> an end" rather than an absolute marker of "this freeway ends here at this
> sign". San Diego's own GIS system has it marked as I-8 all the way up to
> where it splits into motorway links at Nimi
I've seen 25or6to4's work, I am impressed. Furthermore, I've asked him
(off-list) if he would be willing to share his work more widely (here on
talk-us), as it may "spark" a wider launch into the sort of clean-up of
tiger:LSAD=57 data I've been waiting to see happen. (Their
boundary=administr
Carl Anderson is correct: what is in the map from TIGER about LSAD is true and
affords the possibly to derive geo data about incorporated entities (in some
cases, where they haven't been deleted), although the data (being somewhere
between 11 and 13 years old) may not be accurate, given annexat
A lot of people have (quickly) chimed in about this; political boundaries,
admin_level and cities extending into counties usually gets to be a "hot" topic
as people have a lot to say or strong opinions on these.
I and others recognized this years ago and what has emerged in OSM are two
wikis, o
Reminding everybody that whatever Frederik decides to do about California, it
isn't "authoritative," simply helpful to keep OSM data manageable. Sure,
keeping "a solution" logical, simple, "politically correct" and achieving some
consensus (as we have) are all helpful towards that goal, but nob
Simon Poole wrote:
> I think the question is less where N vs S California is but more if
> there is a regional split of California that would make sense from a
> processing pov. Is for example somebody likely to do something with a
> North-CA extract, or if you would want to do something on a smal
Bradley White wrote:
> I would suggest splitting into North & South along the northern edge
> of the SLO/Kern/San Bernardino county lines as the first step; this
> will at least split the LA and SF Bay areas into separate files, both
> of which I assume account for a significant portion of CA's da
On Nov 6, 2018,at 12:38:05 AM PST, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> ...on the Geofabrik download server, we usually split up countries into
> sub-regions once their single .osm.pbf has gone over a certain size. The
> aim is to make it easy for people to work with data just for their
> region, even on lower-
Hi Andrew:
Your wiki for the import is quite sparse, to the point of being so incomplete
it isn't even "skeletal." If that is your "Import Plan," I don't believe it
meets OSM's Import Guidelines (https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines ).
You might have completed Step 1 (Prerequisites), t
cky, OSM sure could use a "triple-check" of these
data, or even a comprehensive effort at statewide TIGER Review with state- and
county-level road naming/numbering authorities. Thank you in advance!
SteveA
California
> On Oct 27, 2018, at 2:30 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea
> wrote:
Thanks, Greg, I'm now "double-check reviewing" USBR 23 in Kentucky. Thanks for
your reciprocity on 21 (when/as you get your 'net back, of course).
SteveA
California
> On Oct 27, 2018, at 11:38 AM, Greg Morgan wrote:
>
> I will be happy to review your implementation of the route. A second pass
Sorry, I should use the abbreviation of KYTC as Kerry does, not KDOT.
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"Having little confidence that KDOT got it right, either" is exactly why I
didn't change the names: let the locals (cities, counties, local
residents/citizens) hash this out as well as KDOT, if KDOT wants to get
involved. For whatever reason, I've only seen these serious differences of
this m
s are welcome, of course; email one or both of us if you are interested in
helping.
SteveA
California
> On Oct 26, 2018, at 10:51 AM, OSM Volunteer stevea
> wrote:
>
> Wow, Greg, you are quick. Thank you!
>
> Additionally, (a major reason I'm including Kerry in this missive
I am told that "E datīs multum" would be more accurate Latin ("Out of data,
much.")
OSM might need a motto as much as we need a state flower, I'm simply having a
bit of fun tossing this into the greater world.
I do think it is important for OSM to keep important in our minds and hearts
that we
AASHTO has completed it's "Autumn 2018 round" of national route numbering
approvals (almost) and there are new USBRs for OSM to map.
One is already completed (thank you, user:micahcochran!): USBR 15 was extended
from Georgia into Florida to connect to Florida's existing USBR 90.
In Kentucky, r
I attempted to contact at least some of the authors of "bicycle routes" in the
Fort Worth area (and waited the requisite two weeks), alas, to no avail.
So I'll say this here: when tagging for bicycles in OSM, there are two
"levels" at which this is appropriate: 1) is infrastructure tagging, 2)
Well, I'm no longer seeing the Lua errors I saw, so "caches cleared" (all the
way down) and the problem seems to be "fixed" now.
Steve
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What's up with OpenStreetMap's wiki? I've noticed in the last couple of days
that "more complex" wiki pages often generate Lua errors where they never have
before (and nothing has changed in the content), in particular
Lua internal error: the interpreter has terminated with signal "24"
Try, fo
No hijack seen as actual or intended: great idea, Martijn!
Trains, transit, our map: these really do keep getting better and better.
SteveA
> On Sep 18, 2018, at 12:01 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
>
> To branch out a little bit — sorry to hijack the thread Steve — it would be
> nice to do a
Yes, I've been beating the drums rather loudly about USA Rail recently, yet
there is so much that OSM can (and should, imo) do about this. OSM's actual
rail data (imported from TIGER a decade ago) do slowly improve, and for that I
am grateful, even as a lot of the work is both mine and many oth
In https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States_railways#Train_Routes
there are over 30 USA-based passenger rail routes (e.g. FrontRunner in Utah,
MVTA in Minnesota, BrightLine as part of Florida East Coast Railway..) which
suffer from very little (wiki) documentation as to how they fit i
Jay Johnson wrote:
> The authoritative source for railroad GIS data is usually considered to be
> BTS: https://www.bts.gov
Thank you, Jay! That's a very rich website, I'm now fumbling my way through it
and I think I can find the "platform/stop" locations I'm looking for, but it
may take some
On Sep 2, 2018, at 9:52 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea
wrote:
>
> I "found something rectangular" and sketched in
> http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Colorado/Railroads which we might agree (as a
> useful, communicative wiki) is "alpha-1" or so.
Following up to my own post
I "found something rectangular" and sketched in
http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Colorado/Railroads which we might agree (as a useful,
communicative wiki) is "alpha-1" or so.
Denver's FasTracks Lines grow, let's sync OSM and this wiki with another
up-to-date light_rail table. This strategy works: Por
So many conversations at once; this list-digest medium proves limiting at
times, even often.
Helpful old-fashioned aids here might be sketch boards where small-group (two,
three people?) sub-projects can spin out and a main thread group where someone
explains what s/he sees going on and how we
On Aug 24, 2018, at 11:41 AM, Evin Fairchild wrote:
> Hey, I totally agree that we need to fix the rendering so that the renderer
> will show ref tags on route relations. But until then, it's impractical to
> expect people to avoid putting the ref tags on the ways.
Evin, we agree to disagree ab
> Evin Fairchild wrote
> The only way you can get people to stop putting reg tags on ways and only put
> them on relations is if the renderer actually rendered reg tags from
> relations. Currently it doesn't do this, so
All good and correct so far...
> it's impractical for people to do what yo
Though I'm "old enough in this project" to celebrate my first decade coming up,
I haven't seen the English, German or ANY version in printed form — I'd now
almost consider it a historic document! And while I seldom snarl "don't print,
we need our trees" (I did co-develop PDF while at Adobe, so
I like Clifford's approach of "If you are curious and asking, I reply openly
and honestly with my real name and a card I'm handing you so you may
forthrightly know who I am and what I'm doing."
In the very, very limited number of times I have also had what I can only
characterize as "mild inqui
On Aug 17, 2018, at 2:59 AM, talk-us-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote:
When I come upon these, what's The Right Thing? 'railway=junction ref="CPF
499"' instead?
Hi Kevin: "Railroad place names" in the USA have a lore all their own.
Sometimes and even often in remote/rural areas, simple junctio
I'll refrain from whether adding (or not) "of America" to the end has anything
to do with cabals or sovereignty. I agree with Kevin (and others) that adding
"it is never incorrect to add it" (can't hurt), usually helps and distinguishes
Mexican states from the fifty north of the Rio Grande (in
Hi Nic:
Several years ago I developed a ten-step process for importing USFS data
(boundaries) into OSM using our JOSM editor (more difficult to use than
web-based iD, but more powerful, too). These are pretty technical steps,
suitable for an intermediate or advanced OSM volunteer, but they are
Again, one of the most important things that might be said (in talk-us) about
"State Open Data" is that there are at least fifty different sets of rules.
"Check your state laws and county practices" remains excellent advice. Yes, it
can be complex, but if in a state like California, we're in p
he that public records could not be copyrighted
> or sold at exorbitant prices in Florida for "cost recovery". At that time the
> Attorney General's office had an open records advocate that would help
> educate, communicate, and mediate with local governments about public
I'm not an attorney, though were I to attempt to sharpen focus on these two
replies, I'd say that in California, it's more like this: data produced by
state agencies (by our state government personnel "on the clock") publishing
them as "produced by the state of California" cannot have onerous c
In California, we are quite fortunate to have not only a great deal of open
data, but an explicit (two, actually) state Supreme Court cases which
unambiguously assert that data created by the state in the name of the People
belong to, yup, We, the People. In other words, if the data are public,
There is an interesting discussion initiated by Skybunny on whether townships
and cities/villages subordinate to them are (or are not) "inclusive" for
purposes of geocoding.
https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Talk:United_States_admin_level#Minor_Civil_Divisions.2C_distinguished_by_inclusiveness
I believ
Hello Volker, old friend:
Thank you for the Garmin history, thank you for the additional links! (I knew
one, didn't know two).
SteveA
> On July 7, 2018 at 6:23:52 AM, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> In fact Garmin started using OSM maps aleady in summer 2013 on the edge
> Touring. This map goes by v
Yes, indeed! If Garmin wanted to make its loyal hardware customers a bit
happier, it could firmware-update how it draws various zoom levels and how much
detail it those include. On an "old-school" device like my GPS 60 CSx, it may
be prudent to trim and prune here and there when using OSM maps
I frequently download Dave's Garmin images for my (fairly ancient, yet still
trusty!) Garmin GPS 60 CSx. (The fact that it runs on two AA NiMH rechargeable
cells I can rotate into a pocket-sized solar charger while I'm in the
wilderness has something to do with this). Yes, I have noticed that
While I don't have "a dog in this fight," I also read our wiki which says "Link
roads NORMALLY do not have names." (Emphasis mine). In the unusual
(abnormal?) cases where they do (and I trust Paul wouldn't have added them
unless they do), there is no contradiction with our wiki, rather an unus
> Clifford Snow wrote:
> I must admit I like Slack better than some other forms of communications.
Truly, I think that's great. And again, the many forms of communication OSM
uses, including new ones, are a natural part of a project as large and diverse
as OSM is. There ARE a great many, some
> Clifford Snow wrote:
> If you haven't already joined our US Slack community, please sign up at
> https://osmus-slack.herokuapp.com/. The community can help you with build
> your import plan.
Having met Clifford two summers ago, I admired, marveled at (and congratulated
him upon!) his awesome
I realize that distinctions between railway=rail + usage=* tags is subjective
(even as OpenRailwayMap — ORM — renders main orange and branch yellow). Full
disclosure: I have tried to sharpen focus in contributing to
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenRailwayMap/Tagging and related wiki re
The legacy of TIGER-tagging will persist in OSM for a long, long time. That is
the reality of the import we did, rough/sloppy data and all. This legacy
serves as many lessons to be learned regarding the practice(s) of wide-scale
imports. If it sounds like I'm saying "we made this bed, so now
It's a busy time for new national bicycle routes in the USA's USBRS! To help
OSM "get ahead of the curve" of May's AASHTO ballot, several USBR applications
by state DOTs have been made available, allowing OSM to enter these
state-at-a-time national bicycle route data. Currently
a USBR 35 real
The Spring, 2018 AASHTO ballots for new USBRs are now becoming available. If
you wish to enter data into OSM for USBR 66 in Missouri,
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/46ztv3epkgj5kv9/AABiIcGZILoUnSckJqzD0uNda?dl=0
downloads route data, including turn-by-turns and 30+ pages of rather nice,
clear-enou
Project_United_States_railways if you wish to
participate.
Did you "play with trains" when you were younger? Please help improve OSM's
"national train set" in the US: it's actually rather fun!
SteveA
California
> On Apr 3, 2018, at 11:08 AM, OSM Volunteer stev
I remain listening as to what OSM might best do with the network= tag on Amtrak
routes. Some additional research (Wikipedia) reveals that "Amtrak services
fall into three groups: short-haul service on the Northeast Corridor,
state-supported short haul service outside the Northeast Corridor, an
On Mar 25, 2018, at 11:09 PM, Greg Morgan wrote:
> I wonder what to do with some of the routes. For example, additional tracks
> were added in the Tucson area. If we add a route, say, us 60 then an east and
> west relation is created along with a master route. Do we do the same with
> rail rou
You're quite welcome.
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I should have included:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States_railways
as that is a better starting place (for your flavor of question) than our "at
the top" Amtrak wiki.
There's a lot to grok to become a good OSM rail editor (and don't forget
updating wiki), yet, many
Hi Greg:
Great questions. If you are a rail public_transport:version=2 super-jockey,
hey, polish them up to a firm buff and we'll marvel at their brilliant shine!
However (and this is pedestrian me), I make "better" progress (higher quality
data, at the expense of being slower) following rough
Gee, what a lot of good chatter here on this list! However, neither this list
(nor this requestor) have heard a peep about changing a couple dozen Amtrak
route network=* tags so all have value Amtrak. Too easy? I might simply ask
forgiveness rather than permission or for feedback, though cons
Per our Amtrak wiki, https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Amtrak , I'd
appreciate some feedback on conflating all Amtrak route=train relations to be
tagged network=Amtrak. Currently, some have this tag, some have network=Amtrak
Intercity. I find the latter to be superfluous and confusing and wo
So many good things being said by so many good people here. This is OSM at its
best: organically growing goodness and correct actions by right-thinking
people. Be bold, we might say out loud, as in "I delete spam and even just
plain bad mapping when and as I see it." (Whether front door, bac
Even as I knew my "contact one SEO/Marketing firm, see what happens" approach
was quite pedestrian in the grand scheme of "fighting advertising," I still
though it valuable to share with the talk-us list so others could experience it
too, put on their thinking caps and offer additional approache
Sent to Bright Valley Marketing via their website Contact text box:
How can you help me? More like how can YOU help Bright Valley Marketing?!
OK: you can stop putting advertising into your clients' OpenStreetMap (OSM)
nodes. Phone, website, opening_hours, addr: fields: those are all OK. The
I phoned a local business owner from Frederik's list and learned he used
"Bright Valley Marketing" (https://www.brightvalleymarketing.com) out of
Sacramento, California: it was they who apparently are the culprit. The
business owner was happy to recognize and vaguely seemed to understand the h
Thank you Frederik, thank you Ian. Yes! To both of you.
I am glad to see Frederik encourages me to do what I (somewhat timidly, at
first) already now do in earnest: sweep up when I see some poop in our map.
It took me many years to grow my confidence as an OSM volunteer as "somebody
who kno
Albert Pundt writes
> Many towns and suburbs in my area are only CDPs, and having proper boundaries
> for them seems like it'd be useful, especially in more densely populated
> areas. It's not like there's any fuzziness with them either, since they're
> defined by the Census Bureau and could o
Brian Stromberg writes:
> As someone who does research with Census data, it would be helpful to keep
> all Census geographies in place (at least until Census decides to get rid of
> them). Someone will use them at some point. Additionally, they're an official
> component of Census geographies,
Chiming in my +1 that county-at-at-time is a good, workable approach for TIGER
cleanup. I review the Ito! map's red highways/freeways first, then red major
roads, then get to orange. Joe Larson in San Luis Obispo (part of the
firefighters there) spent a couple of years coordinating this effort
On Feb 12, 2018, at 1:07 PM, Tod Fitch wrote:
> Thank you Steve for that ITO link. I was unaware of that and it really is a
> nice tool to see the overall status of the TIGER fixup in an area.
You are welcome, Tod; I'm happy to share what I know.
> I used to simply delete the the tiger:reviewed
Clifford Snow wrote
> How many of the TIGER imported streets are still untouched?
Thanks for rallying us with this great thrust forward, Clifford, with excellent
Challenges, resources and direction. I'd like to add one more tool I use for
TIGER cleanup, the Ito! map at:
http://product.itowor
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