Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Trunk VS primary

* Mateusz Konieczny > 21 Dec 2019, 12:00 by wolfg...@lyxys.ka.sub.org: >> I suggest to keep the road classification consistent at least within >> a country and try to solve the problem of roads in low-zoom maps at >> the rendering level, by modifying the list of displayed road classes >> until a

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Trunk VS primary

* Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > Above it was said that the highway=trunk vs highway=primary > distinction is mostly for routing applications. But allowing a proper > rendering is also a main goal of the road tagging system. > While it's true that road class is useful for routing when there are > two

Re: [Talk-us] Opinions on micro parks

Hi, I guess we have (as so often) a problem with unconscious cultural bias here. Property rights in Europe are generally much more limited than in the US, e.g. in all but one(?) German states all forests are by law public access, regardless of ownership. Also open farmland, meadows, etc.,

Re: [Talk-us] Historic 66 as highway=trunk in OK

* Paul Johnson [190829 14:09]: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 6:40 AM Joseph Eisenberg > wrote: >> That's probably not relevant for anywhere in the USA (even in Alaska >> the main highways between cities are paved... right?) but it's a >> reminder that we can certainly choose to do things in a way

Re: [Talk-us] Someone from Boston, MA?

Thanks, this was quite helpful. * Bill Ricker [190430 05:47]: > On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:12 PM Kevin Kenny wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:01 PM Kevin Kenny wrote: >>> I'm not a Bostonian, but I've been to Copley Place. >>> Copley Place is a named building: >>>

[Talk-us] Someone from Boston, MA?

Hi, I tried to add the German Consulate General in Boston, MA, but could not find the address "Three Copley Place, Boston, MA 02116" in our data. That place is apparently somewhere near Boston University. Anyone local who could check if this is a missing street name in our data? consulate

[Talk-us] Open Data track at SCaLE 17x

Hi, I just noticed that the Southern California Linux Expo 2019 in Pasadena will have an "Open Data" track. That looks like a good opportunity to raise awareness about OpenStreetMap, so if someone would like to do a presentation, the CfP is at https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/cfp

Re: [Talk-us] Drop the tiger:reviewed tag from roads

* Richard Welty [180511 20:16]: > On 5/11/18 2:00 PM, Doug Hembry wrote: >> So I cast a vote for keeping it. At least don't mechanically remove them >> all, everywhere. > i still use the reviewed tags for guidance as well, and would prefer > that they > stick around. i

Re: [Talk-us] Satus CDP

* Clifford Snow [180227 01:59]: > In the middle of the Yakama Nation Indian Reservation sits Satus [1] that > as far as I know only exists in some Census bureaucrat world. Asking around > here I haven't found anyone familiar with the area. Wikipedia [2] doesn't > help

Re: [Talk-us] Low-quality NHD imports

Hi, * Charlotte Wolter [171016 23:50]: > Clifford makes some very good points. In the West, particularly, > those little intermittent streams are important landmarks. Particularly > when hiking in a featureless area, such as pinyon-juniper forest, a > trail

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

Hi, it looks to me that this discussion is going in circles, not forward at the moment. IMHO it does not make a lot of sense to argue what might be the true meaning of "trunk". Instead, we should concentrate on what it should mean, document this meaning if we can agree on one and don't worry to

Re: [Talk-us] Low-quality NHD imports

Hi, * Frederik Ramm [171013 08:06]: >there's a LOT of NHD:* (and nhd:*) tags on OSM objects, see > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=NHD%3A > - 1.9 million NHD:FCode, but also 188k "NHD:Permanent_" (note the > underscore), 10k "NHD:WBAreaComI", or 1.5m

Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

* Carl Anderson [170930 17:21]: > ​A little history on GNIS data, and the Board of Geographic Names. > The US Board of Geographic Names manages names for places and features > shown on US govt maps. They have been using a database to manage the names > across maps and

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

* Richard Fairhurst [170612 20:55]: > Kevin Kenny wrote: >> Is there *anyone* that actually can speak to what *is* common >> practice in the US? When I've asked, I've always drawn a lot of >> replies and come away more confused than before. > I've been doing vast amounts

Re: [Talk-us] No updates on zoom level 12?

* Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> [170404 16:33]: > On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 1:52 AM, Wolfgang Zenker <wolfg...@lyxys.ka.sub.org> > wrote: >> is there a known problem with tile updates for zoom level 12? >> That zoom level is not updating for the area around

[Talk-us] No updates on zoom level 12?

Hi, is there a known problem with tile updates for zoom level 12? That zoom level is not updating for the area around Harlowton MT for about two months now, despite marking tiles dirty several times in the last 8 weeks. Wolfgang (lyx @ osm) ___

Re: [Talk-us] USGS Large-Scale Imagery degraded this month :(

Hi, * Russ Nelson [161221 00:21]: > Paul Johnson writes: >> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Ian Dees wrote: >>> I will try to contact a couple of the folks I know at USGS (maybe they're >>> still on this list and could respond?), but it might be the case

Re: [Talk-us] Western TIGER Roads

* Alan Bragg [160603 21:30]: > [..] > Is there any other resource? Maybe some links to well tagged areas. I have almost finished reviewing the part of Stillwater County, MT south of the Yellowstone River (residential roads in Absarokee are not finished yet, and also a

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

* OSM Volunteer stevea [160509 20:23]: > This might sound glib, but I believe that setting landuse=forest on a > (multi)polygon which is land use forest is correct. [..] I guess everyone would agree with that. The problem is that we (as in "the mappers of

Re: [Talk-us] Old Aerodromes

* Andrew Wiseman [160412 23:27]: > [..] > Or maybe there should be some tag difference between a proper airport with > scheduled flights, a civil aviation airport, and just a field where a > farmer might land? Actually there is a tag, or rather there are two: The wiki page

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Old Aerodromes

* Paul Norman [160412 17:27]: > On 4/12/2016 2:40 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote: >> On Tuesday 12 April 2016, Martijn van Exel wrote: I was mapping some rural area in the U.S. and noticed, not for the first time, an aerodrome node in the middle of a field where there is

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Old Aerodromes

Hi, * Martijn van Exel [160412 16:29]: > Thanks for the feedback. I understand that the existence of an small airfield > can be hard to verify from imagery - [..] one more thing to check: If the node was imported from GNIS, check the GNIS website searching for the feature id.

[Talk-us] Groups of lakes (was: Strategy for Naming Parts of a Large Park)

* Kevin Kenny [160411 02:22]: > [..] > Will the same idea work with waterways? There are a lot of places near > me where there's a collective name: "Preston Ponds", "Essex Chain of > Lakes" ... with individual waterbodies having the unimaginative names > "Upper Pond,"

Re: [Talk-us] Where to find airport information?

* Clifford Snow [160306 16:14]: > The first example you provided is located in Stillwater County, Montana. > Stillwater has gis data available, but unfortunately for me requires > Microsoft Silverlight browser plugin which I am not able to run. I would > check the county

[Talk-us] Where to find airport information?

Hello everyone, I have recently come across a few runways in Montana that I could not find any information about except the imagery. I tried to search for these airfields on the FAA website, but without success (maybe I did it wrong). Any idea where to find out more? Two examples would be here:

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap US elections: October 12 townhall with candidates

* Steve Coast [151014 17:21]: > [..] > A more interesting question is what should OSMFUS try to do to build editors > in the US, and what metric should we use (presumably active editor headcount)? > What we’ve tried so far: > [..] > It feels like we should try some different

[Talk-us] TIGER layer usage limit?

Hi, currently I get error messages like Skipping job http://c.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/enf.e0b8291e/17/26552/45850.png?access_token=pk.eyJ1Ijoib3BlbnN0cmVldG1hcCIsImEiOiJhNVlHd29ZIn0.ti6wATGDWOmCnCYen-Ip7Q because host limit reached in JOSM while editing and trying to show the TIGER 2015 overlay.

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

* stevea stevea...@softworkers.com [150817 20:08]: I am disappointed to see landuse=forest removed from the very quintessence of what our wiki defines as forest: our USDA's National Forests. [..] [..] It does not appear that a consensus is reached about this, as Martijn (and what appear

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Tesla Superchargers

* Charles Samuels o...@charles.derkarl.org [150412 22:21]: On Sunday, April 12, 2015 01:12:12 AM Andy Allan wrote: Right now, if a tag doesn't match with supercharge.info, I overwrite OSM's. Could you explain this a bit further? For example, if supercharge.info has capacity 6, and I correct

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

* Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us [150128 09:12]: [..] It doesn't sound like Paul was proposing to systematically eliminate place=hamlet POIs. It sounds like he was evaluating each one on its merits. I do delete GNIS POIs fairly regularly, but not just because they're tagged

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

* Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net [150113 19:50]: Minh Nguyen wrote: I think we should consider a mechanical edit to update these tags While you're thinking about GNIS mechanical edits, could I suggest one for GNIS-sourced POIs with (historical) in the name? There are several

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

Hi, * Mike N nice...@att.net [140901 14:45]: On 9/1/2014 7:53 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: I think the other half of the equation, however, is actually getting this fixed across the country. At present it appears to be just a small number of mappers doing it in their areas; To be honest,

Re: [Talk-us] Sidewalks as footpaths

* Mike N nice...@att.net [140430 18:21]: On 4/30/2014 11:38 AM, William Morris wrote: Is there a general OSM policy on marking sidewalks as highway=footway? User dolphinling appears to have gone crazy in downtown Burlington,VT tracing the sidewalks and calling them footways. It does add a

[Talk-us] Rural Montana - can we find local mappers?

Hi, for the last two years I have been cleaning up TIGER data and adding named waterways in Lincoln County, Montana. This work is now finished. This doesn't mean our map there is now in any way complete, just that the data that we DO have is no longer obviously horribly wrong. While there are

Re: [Talk-us] Separate relations for each direction of US State highways.

Hi, * Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org [131218 20:46]: I am having second thoughts on the colon separator for role=north:unsigned. The colon separator seems to be more common in keys, like lanes:forward=2, lanes:backward=2 etc. while the semicolon or pipe seem to be more prevalent to separate