Re: [Talk-us] Gravel roads and surface tags in the US

I think the road bed is compacted and built up to provide a crown so water runs off but the gravel itself is not compacted on the surface. So putting some numbers in here... there are only 5,700 surface=compacted ways in the US. On the other hand, there are 107,000 surface=gravel. And I am

[Talk-us] Gravel roads and surface tags in the US

I recently bought a gravel bicycle to ride on the many gravel roads in Kansas. Like this one: https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=nYO4JI46L0SWzNAQlLT4kA=photo First question: What would you call this road? Obviously I am calling it a "gravel road" but a couple of people have said they would call

Re: [Talk-us] Pokémon Go no officially using OpenStreetMap

On the flip side, this seems to be driving a second wave of pokemon players coming to OSM and mapping parks over their homes, changing things to footways and such nonsense. It is also driving beneficial edits though. Hopefully the helpful users will stick around longer than the trolls. Just keep

Re: [Talk-us] FBI using OSM on website... without attribution

I would usually advocate getting law enforcement involved in an OSM licensing misstep... but someone should call the FBI! It's not just the Denver field office. The map on the nation-wide field office locator page also lacks attribution: https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices I just send

Re: [Talk-us] Changesets under wrong user ID

Yeah, there isn't any way too fix it short of an admin manually changing the database and that isn't going to happen for something like this. Commenting on the changesets is probably reasonable. Toby On Jun 1, 2017 12:42 PM, "Steve Friedl" wrote: > Isn’t the easiest thing

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

As an ingress player, I can confirm use of ingress data for pokestops and gyms. Same location descriptions and images submitted by ingress players. Ingress saw a huge influx of new users when Pokemon Go launched. People created ingress accounts just so that they could use the ingress Intel map to

Re: [Talk-us] Beware Pokemon users

st learned about OSM through these posts and there are several posts about people seeing empty maps of their cities and getting the urge to fill them in, regardless of Pokemon activity! Toby On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote: > There was a video

[Talk-us] Beware Pokemon users

There was a video uploaded to YouTube a couple of days ago that claims to show some possible evidence that Pokemon Go uses data from OSM to determine good spawn locations for Pokemon. There are also several threads on reddit under /r/TheSilphRoad that have similar claims. It is amusing to see

Re: [Talk-us] North Dakota server issues

According to some traffic on IRC, there is currently some delay in replication between the master and slave databases. Since reads are served from the slaves, this can lead to this kind of inconsistency. The reason is still unknown. It will probably be a couple of hours before it gets fixed. But

Re: [Talk-us] Check your turn:lanes

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Jack Burke wrote: > So I take it that at least you and I are in agreement that the wiki is > deficient for branching exits like this one: > http://mapillary.com/map/im/7igAGXSa6EsUYlTIujXchw Why does this example even need any special lane

Re: [Talk-us] Check your turn:lanes

Mind sharing the link to the GitHub issue? Do they think that "none" is an invalid option and are replacing it with a blank globally? If so, this should be shut down immediately. "none" and blank are both valid values and while I wouldn't mind seeing it be consistent, any such edit would need to

Re: [Talk-us] Way to message a bunch of users at once?

Well there was already significant work done on a "groups" feature that would have let users opt in to location-specific groups. But it never got a final push to completion. The work and discussion surrounding it are in a GitHub pull request:

[Talk-us] User bumping all grade-separated intersections to motorway

I just discovered some misguided edits and the user in question seems to have made many of them over a wide area so I thought I would put people on notice to be aware of this. While on the Biking Across Kansas tour last week I saw some odd looking segments in OsmAnd along US 36 in Kansas. I got

Re: [Talk-us] How are US county boundaries legally defined?

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 11:09 PM, Jake wrote: > I've been mapping a small section of National Forest, which straddles two > counties; Boone and Callaway. > > On every map I can find - Boone Countys GIS dept., census.gov, US Forest > Service - the county border strictly follows

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Slack

I have set up a Slack bot using some software[1] that relays messages between a slack channel and an IRC channel. It is listening in #osm on OFTC and the #irc slack channel in Steve's team. I love my irssi+screen IRC setup however it kind of breaks down when it comes to a phone-friendly

Re: [Talk-us] Relations and boundaries

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 03/03/2016 08:02 PM, Steve Friedl wrote: >> I’ve been updating all the cities in Orange County California to have fully >> segmented relationalized boundaries, such that cities sharing a common >> border share

Re: [Talk-us] Why do city names display in the local language at osm.org?

Yeah, the tiles on osm.org just straight up render the name=* tag which is supposed to contain the name of an object in the primary language of the area that it is in. I know Wikipedia has done some work on localizing maps. I believe the way they do it is to render a map without any labels and

Re: [Talk-us] Maxweight in the USA

My view is that this isn't much different than speed limits. We don't tag maxspeed=96.5606, we tag maxspeed=60 mph. Tag what's on the sign. The complicating factor on this is of course that "ton" has at least 3 different meanings but I would generally assume that weight restrictions in the U.S.

Re: [Talk-us] Legislative districts, Land-use zoning, etc.

OSM is not the ideal tool to be a dumping ground for all GIS data. It excels at holding information that users can see, verify and update. Boundaries like this cannot be seen or verified by anyone except the government agency that originally made them. So the data gains no benefit from being in

Re: [Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

I run into this as well. If I don't see anything close to the way on imagery I definitely have very little problem deleting them. I also question the access=private tagging although not because of the rendering. I mean technically it is correct I suppose but if you are trying to route to an

Re: [Talk-us] Another road classification disagreement (this time with HFCS in Kansas)

ot; on the KDOT map so it kind of provided a secondary source to justify differing classifications. Thoughts? On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote: > My general rule of thumb for highway tagging in rural Kansas is as > follows. If I know nothing else ab

Re: [Talk-us] More strangeness in Baltimore

Agreed. The 7-Eleven shop this user added (twice - once as a node, once as a way) does not appear on the store locator on 7-eleven.com. While it wouldn't be entirely out of the question that OSM had a newer location than the chain's own store locator, the edits do seem very much the same as those

Re: [Talk-us] Another road classification disagreement (this time with HFCS in Kansas)

My general rule of thumb for highway tagging in rural Kansas is as follows. If I know nothing else about the road I start off with US highway = primary, Kansas highway = secondary and county roads = tertiary. Then adjust as needed. For example. K-10 between Lawrence and Olathe [1] is controlled

[Talk-us] Another road classification disagreement (this time with HFCS in Kansas)

Sorry to start another thread on this but I just had an exchange with another mapper here in Kansas that could use some more opinions. I recently reclassified US 24 west of Manhattan, KS from trunk down to primary. NE2 had bumped it up to trunk a long time ago and I never felt that this was right

Re: [Talk-us] understanding administrative boundary relations

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Ray Kiddy wrote: > > Strangely, I am finding that some of the cities in California _are_ in > the system, but as ways and not as relations. This seems odd, but we > will see. Well the primary reason to use relations in boundaries is to reduce

Re: [Talk-us] understanding administrative boundary relations

The area you linked to has no boundary data in OSM. You don't state this in your email but by pulling up the TIGER shapefile, it looks like you are wanting school district boundaries? I see one runs through the area you linked to, in the shapefile. School districts were not imported into OSM. The

Re: [Talk-us] A note about bags and security at SOTM-US

Well ok, I guess this is primarily targeted at anyone who was planning on bringing a backpack. I'm sure I can fit what I need for a day in a bag this size as well. But any normal backpack is going to be 16-18 inches tall and too large for the UN. This is what I have used at previous conferences

Re: [Talk-us] Mappy Hour - Next Monday

I was just wondering if there was a mappy hour tonight and found this email. Thought I'd send out a ping in case others weren't sure either. Hope to see some of you tonight :) Toby On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:26 AM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:48

Re: [Talk-us] Denver Area Relation Assistance

I did a quick fix for the hole in the Denver, Denver County and Adams county relations. I may take another look at the area tonight. I saw a few oddities although I don't think they are related to your edit. I don't think way 321010352 should have aeroway tags on it since it is a member of a

Re: [Talk-us] Another use of OpenStreetMap

Where did you find a link to that attribution page? I went looking and found a flight tracker on their website that is actually serving up tiles straight from osm.org. Not quite in line with tile usage policies I suppose but they DO have attribution on the map at least. To see it you have to find

Re: [Talk-us] Another use of OpenStreetMap

at the 2012 SOTM-US conference in Portland. Links to the presentation are on the wiki: http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_U.S._2012 Toby On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Where did you find a link to that attribution page? I went looking and found

Re: [Talk-us] New I.D Feature

On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: It is unfortunate that importers are dropping values like addr:city and addr:state during US imports. Especially when they appear to have clean data at the time of import. There are other users of the OSM data than

Re: [Talk-us] New I.D Feature

This thread seems like a storm in a teacup. From a data perspective addr:state is not really needed. Nominatim in particular and probably other geocoders as well assign it automatically based on state (admin_level=4) boundary relations. These relations are also tagged with ref=2 letter code which

[Talk-us] Presenting your new OSM-US board

Voting closed on the OSM-US board election last night. Michael Collinson and I acted as election observers and we are both satisfied that the election was carried out properly. So today I am happy to announce our new board members: Alyssa Wright Martijn van Exel Alex Barth Ian Dees Eleanor Tutt

Re: [Talk-us] Prima Facie Speed Limits

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-09-15 16:59 GMT+02:00 Ed Hillsman hills...@pobox.com: I agree there is a need to have a way to deal with this. Where I have checked a street, in both directions, for a posted speed limit and found

Re: [Talk-us] Road abbreviations

I would say the primary use of address data in OSM is geocoding, not mail delivery. There may be legitimate differences between a street name and the address of a house along that street but abbreviations are not a legitimate difference. The Census Bureau also has a list of 503 official

Re: [Talk-us] strange dead link in wiki.openstreetmap.org

I see it on admin level 6 not 5. The way that page is constructed makes it a little harder to track down. That table isn't in the page you linked to but is some kind of template included in the page. I'm still not quite sure how all that works but the table and its history can be viewed outside

Re: [Talk-us] Road abbreviations

I believe this was an import done in 2009. Here is an example changeset that is obviously an address import in the area: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/3407483 The import is documented on the import catalog page[1] on the wiki and mentioned on the California imports page[2] as well. It

[Talk-us] OSM mention in NPR's All Tech Considered

It isn't the best presentation of OSM ever but we were mentioned yesterday in All Tech Considered. We are seeing a bit of a spike in new users today because of it. So watch out for new users in your area!

Re: [Talk-us] Nominatim in CDP

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: I can not search for an address in part of unincorporated King County, WA when using the postal city. Fails - 7732 234th Place Northeast, Redmond, WA The search works when omitting the postal city. The search

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Attribution

Well it doesn't surprise me that google doesn't see any attribution, even if they had it. The only thing I can access without an account is the front page and their help site at squareup.com. And the only mention I see of maps in the help docs is definitely a google map (

Re: [Talk-us] Sidewalks as footpaths

Wait, what is the consensus method for tagging sidewalks? I haven't done a lot of them but I know I've added a few as footways myself. Toby On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.comwrote: Certainly your first move should be to contact the user, gently point

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways

As Richard pointed out, we need consistency. Here in Kansas state highways are generally referred to as K-xx however in OSM they are tagged with a ref of KS xx because I feel like being consistent is more important than how they look on osm.org. And speaking of renderers, you will notice that the

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways: Use of unique ISO/ANSI/USPS 2-letter state codes in RELATIONS as well as WAYS?

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote: On 3/11/14 7:04 PM, Peter Davies wrote: I thought I would make my proposal stand out a bit more by adding words to the title. :-O There are some weird things, like Nebraska's state law that requires NDOR to

Re: [Talk-us] importing zip codes

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com wrote: The USPS has a web site for giving ZIP and ZIP+4 values for specified addresses at https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action?mode=0refresh=true As near as I can tell from the TOS at

Re: [Talk-us] Merging a GNIS node with a TIGER way - for a town

Note that if you delete the node, the city name will no longer be rendered on osm.org or Mapquest Open. Not sure about other renderings but I'm guessing a lot of them do the same thing. Another way of fixing the nominatim problem is to create a boundary relation for the city. Move the tags from

Re: [Talk-us] Help needed with polygon/membership of admin area in Willits, CA

In Bing imagery I see what might be a disused sewage treatment tank just to the south of the area originally highlighted. Around here that is one common thing that ends up being a separate little section of city boundary. You can easily see the whole relation on osm.org:

Re: [Talk-us] Oklahoma relations spreadsheet

I've been maintaining a similar list of relations on the wiki for Kansas. It is a bit tedious to keep up to date though and doesn't have all the highways in the state listed yet. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kansas_state_highways#List_of_highways_and_their_status Toby On Mon, Jan 13,

Re: [Talk-us] Bing imagery update

You can view this information in JOSM as well. If Bing is the only imagery visible you can right click and choose Show Tile Info Toby On Dec 4, 2013 5:42 PM, Martijn van Exel mart...@openstreetmap.us wrote: The HTTP response header of the tile image contains something like:

Re: [Talk-us] Public Labs/balloon mapping?

On the subject of RC and drones: I have been working on building myself a multirotor RC platform this year. One of the ideas behind it (besides just being fun) was to be able to go to some new construction, send it up, grab pictures and then map from them. So far I'm still stuck on the flying it

Re: [Talk-us] Question about incorrect data for an administrative area

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote: also, i would be remiss if i didn't point out that post office delivery addressing is only vaguely related to the actual administrative boundaries; the addressing situation for Enterprise is hardly unique, in fact

Re: [Talk-us] Current status with highway shields?

The tiles on the OSM-US server are up and running. The preview was on Phil's home server that had limited bandwidth. A better UI to the tile layer can be found here with standard map controls and a simple search feature to jump to locations: http://bl.ocks.org/ToeBee/raw/6119134/ I have talked

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2013 Places shapefile for PA?

That ITO map seems to be only looking at ways. If you include relations in the analysis things should actually be pretty good. There should be a (mostly) correct boundary relation for every county in the US. At one point I was the last user to have touched about 40% of them... There may very well

Re: [Talk-us] map data error page at gps.gov

This: when we update the page combined with This story was originally published in May 2011. We made minor text edits in November 2011. doesn't exactly make me want to hold my breath :) Toby On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013

Re: [Talk-us] Shields are up!

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Aug 8, 2013 9:42 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: [As an aside, the 'N' and 'E' on Douglas County roads do *not* stand for 'North' or 'East,'] Well, it does, since they're defining range and plat

Re: [Talk-us] Shields are up!

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Richie Kennedy richiekenned...@gmail.comwrote: Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but I'm having trouble getting county road shields in my area to render. Example: http://tile.openstreetmap.us/osmus_shields/preview.html#16/39.0031/-95.3842 I have made

[Talk-us] Shields are up!

We finally managed to get Phil's highway shield rendering up on the OSM-US server today! You can see the tiles here: http://tile.openstreetmap.us/osmus_shields/preview.html This is a pretty basic preview for now. I'll look at getting the tiles set up in a pretty leaflet UI or something. Toby

Re: [Talk-us] How did this weekend's editathon go? (was Re: Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US)

Not sure if this is all editathon related but I noticed a spike in Pascal's graphs of how many users closed notes in the US this weekend: http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-notes-country?c=United%20States Toby On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:02 AM, the Old Topo Depot oldto...@novacell.comwrote:

[Talk-us] JOSM plugin for notes

This last week Ian Dees and myself have been working on getting a JOSM plugin for the new notes feature up and running. We started off by copying the OpenStreetBugs plugin but ended up redoing a lot of the internals. The user interface is still fairly similar though. It is still a little rough

Re: [Talk-us] Update on highway shield rendering

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:44 AM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.comwrote: Well, I've found a bug in the rendering engine. What's up with these US 1-9 shields? http://elrond.aperiodic.net/shields/?zoom=16lat=35.52081lon=-79.18442layers=B This is a real thing. Welcome to the insane variety

Re: [Talk-us] Lake Powell

There was a gap in the two ways that now join at this node: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/599459023 Easy to spot in JOSM's relation editor after ordering the relation members correctly. Toby On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Elliott Plack elliott.pl...@gmail.comwrote: This

[Talk-us] Update on highway shield rendering

For those interested in highway shields: Phil, Ian and myself put some more time in on getting shields working on the OSM-US server last week. We actually got things mostly working but did run into a brick wall. Unfortunately postgres 8.4 doesn't support how the image data is being handled. The

Re: [Talk-us] Update on highway shield rendering

This actually came up when we were talking about the shields last week. The shields rendering is actually a full mapnik stylesheet, not just an overlay. Phil pointed out that this is the only way to avoid conflicts. So it is essentially a full osm.org mapnik stylesheet (from a few months ago but

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging a super-two highway (trunk or motorway?)

Yeah, to me the wiki reads that to be a motorway it should be dual carriageway except in exceedingly rare circumstances. That's how I've been tagging. So then we come back to the question of what exactly is trunk if it isn't used for these kinds of roads? Toby On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 1:58 AM,

Re: [Talk-us] Hamlets!

Around here they seem to just be somewhat random areas of town. Not formal neighborhoods or anything. Examples: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/151609519 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/151882535 I've already deleted a couple of others because they didn't make much sense and

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

Yeah, I'm guessing interstates and US routes are mostly done. The things that might be missing is bannered routes (truck, business, etc). I suspect that state highways are going to be a patchwork. I'm pretty sure I've got most of the major and a good number of minor Kansas highways done. This wiki

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.comwrote: Yeah, I'm guessing interstates and US routes are mostly done. The things that might be missing is bannered routes (truck, business, etc). I suspect that state highways are going to be a patchwork. I'm pretty sure I've got most of the major and a good

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

I did spend some time trying to set up Phil's code myself for eventual deployment to the osm-us server. I got a good chunk of the way there but ran into some problems. I'll see if I can put some more time into it now that I'm home again. Toby On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Richard Weait

Re: [Talk-us] Take another look at notes!

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote: ok, i found report a problem on the map view for housing units in an area. i'll have to go find a map problem and report it via the GUI so

[Talk-us] Take another look at notes!

As I'm sure a lot of you are aware, osm.org has a new notes [1] feature (new as of a month ago) that allows anonymous users to submit random comments about our maps. Some of them will of course be unhelpful or silly but there have been many useful ones submitted since the feature went live. We

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER Expansion Bot Complete

changesets 4,156,347 objects modified Serge - how do you explain the west-east difference in edits? Did you change the number of objects modified per changeset at some point? https://tiles.mapbox.com/ruben/map/map-13xkjfwx#5.00/37.861/-79.517 On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Toby Murray

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER Expansion Bot Complete

Great news and thank you for all the work you put in on it. Note that there may still be a few abbreviated street names around. The bot was not a general purpose name expander. It looked at specific TIGER tags and only changed ways where those tags matched what was in the name tag. But it did

Re: [Talk-us] Chicago Hack Weekend

I booked my flight last night. You should too! Toby On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list-goers, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews and myself are hosting a hack weekend April 27th and 28th in the heart of downtown Chicago. These sorts of hack weekends are a

Re: [Talk-us] key source:maxspeed

Part of the issue here is how some countries in Europe sign speed limits. For example when you cross the border into Austria, there is a huge sign that lists what all the default speed limits are for various types of roads. They expect you to remember this. Local speed limit signs are only posted

Re: [Talk-us] RAGBRAI Mapping

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: I know that in the past there has been some interest in RAGBRAI among OpenStreetMappers (if you're not familiar with RAGBRAI it's best described as a week-long moving party where to have to ride your bicycle from party

Re: [Talk-us] RAGBRAI Mapping

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm... I might look at doing something similar for Biking Across Kansas. Not sure if these event routes really belong in OSM as a route relation

Re: [Talk-us] RAGBRAI Mapping

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Toby Murray writes: Hmm... I might look at doing something similar for Biking Across Kansas. Not sure if these event routes really belong in OSM as a route relation though. They do not indicate a route that should

[Talk-us] Last call for Riley county, Kansas address import

So I've mentioned this import a couple of times now. I have been taking my time with it and working with the new US imports committee that Serge started to go through the import process. But after the meeting tonight I think I am now ready to actually hit the upload button. I plan on uploading in

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: I always find it boggling that open data projects are willing to use google docs and google hangouts. It would be really nice to at least have the data in a free software/free culture compatible place like an OSM foundation

Re: [Talk-us] Possible coping from Google Maps

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Rick Marshall rick.marsh...@verticalgeo.com wrote: I mistakenly sent this to Greg and not the entire list. So, I'll retry it again: Hello all. I am still fairly new to OSM, so I don't know all the ins and outs. But I have to ask a question. Other than

Re: [Talk-us] Topeka,KS Address Import

See the Shawnee County related threads on the imports list in December: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2012-December/thread.html Although he only sent that message *after* doing at least some of the import. I sent a message with specific problems I saw and he fixed some of

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org wrote: All of the rules about observability and verifiability apply to country and state borders, as well, as Mike states, but we include them and somehow improve them. Have we improved them? Being the last user to touch about 35% of

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

The only real tag that is well and truly deprecated is created_by. Both JOSM and Potlatch automatically and silently delete this tag from any object you modify if it is present. So it is actually impossible to create a new object with a created_by tag on it in the two most popular editors. Toby

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

The amenity tag is way too overloaded to the point where it is pretty useless. It might as well be thing instead of amenity. Do not use it for new things. Why not just make a new tag like adopt_a_highway=name of organization - it only requires one tag to encode to encode the information and is

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org wrote: Why does imports mean not crowdsourced, if the crowd determines which imports are source-able? Crowdsourced means that we survey the data indivdually.

Re: [Talk-us] Where is this way in the DB ?

Are you running a snapshot schema, imported with osmosis? If so then you just discovered the same thing I did a couple of months ago. Osmosis silently drops ways with less than 2 nodes during import. (yes, ways with zero nodes exist too) This is because they create an invalid linestring which can

Re: [Talk-us] shawnee county landuse

While we didn't discuss it in terms of this specific law, this does match my conversation with the Riley county GIS department. As long as names aren't used, they do not have any problems with their information being used in OSM. Toby On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Mike Dupont

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] shawnee county landuse

Just saw some of this going in and decided to take a look. Specifically this node: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2078174875 - I think there is pretty good consensus that we don't need addr:state and addr:country tags - The addr:street tag has odd capitalization - The building=* tag

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Imports in Riley county, KS

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: Based on reaction to the mass buildings import (perceived as way too fast, and I agree), I would suggest that you have a 2 week review period From the latest time that there is either - a change in the processing script -

[Talk-us] Imports in Riley county, KS

As mentioned previously on talk-us, I made contact with the Riley county GIS department and got access to their data. Since then I have been analyzing and working with the data. I believe I am nearing a point at which I can proceed with some imports based on this data. There are a few different

Re: [Talk-us] Shoreline Updates

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:05 PM, the Old Topo Depot oldto...@novacell.com wrote: Hello All, Anyone on the US list happen to know how often the shoreline shapefile used to render openstreemap tiles is updated ? Whenever one of the admins gets around to updating it. You can see how old the

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MassGIS Building Import Start

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org wrote: IMO, the process by which blocks are placed, who does the asking of the user to follow the guidelines, and those with authority to block users needs to be documented and reviewed. If it already is, please provide a pointer.

Re: [Talk-us] MapQuest Open Maps now has proper state shields

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 9:37 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I was just looking at their tiles tonight and they've updated them to include state shields!! Saw shields for PA, SC, MD, VA, WV, CA, and NY for starters. Maybe now we should all agree to use the proper state

Re: [Talk-us] Wrangell, AK streets

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 8:59 PM, David E. Nelson denelso...@yahoo.ca wrote: I've run into a bit of a wrinkle plotting the routes of the Alaska Marine Highway System. The street data for Wrangell, AK seems to have been horribly mangled. When pointing out a place on the mailing lists, it is

Re: [Talk-us] Visualizing TIGER expansion bot impact

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Serge - Have you thought of simple ways of visualizing the bot changes? Would be awesome to have a map of that, no? How would we go about this? Will the bot produce a list of way id's that have been changed? Or would we

Re: [Talk-us] Visualizing TIGER expansion bot impact

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Serge - Have you thought of simple ways of visualizing the bot changes? Would be awesome to have a map of that, no? How would we go about

Re: [Talk-us] Address push part deux: tracking licenses, notifications, etc.

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Jeff Meyer wrote: Ok... this is sort of an import question, but how do we / should we credit each imported item with a link or tie to the appropriate use statement / contributor? source= is just for showing your

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

Well this thread rekindled a conversation I had started with my county GIS office over a year ago. At that time they gave me a copy of their 6 imagery which I have used extensively. Within the last 24 hours I have reestablished contact and been given permission to use their data in OSM as well as

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER expansion bot

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Brian May b...@mapwise.com wrote: On 11/27/2012 7:06 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: [...] The tiger.py file contains

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER expansion bot

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: * Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com [2012-11-27 11:33 -0500]: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Brian May b...@mapwise.com wrote: Another clarification for this use case: A user changes the original highway name tag from

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