Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-05 Thread Mike N
On 5/5/2012 1:23 AM, Gregory Arenius wrote: The OSM model isn't everything in a separate layer, it is everything altogether. What makes plots unique in this regard? Why do we want them separate? If you compare land use to TIGER - the base road network from TIGER is continually

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-April/008032.html for the full discussion around the removal In summary: - The Fresno import has a number of issues - No one is opposed to removal if there are no easier options for cleaning up the data - No one has proposed an easier

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-April/008032.html for the full discussion around the removal In summary: - The Fresno import has a number of issues - No one is opposed to removal if there are no

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
From: Paul Johnson [mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-April/008032.htm l for the full discussion around the removal

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: From: Paul Johnson [mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: From: Paul Johnson [mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Do those individual polygons have any useful information on them (addresses, for example)? If so, we should generate addr points from their centroids. Why?

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Do those individual polygons have any useful information on them (addresses, for example)? If so, we should generate addr points from their centroids. Either way, we could save useful OSM information by creating a new polygon

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Do those individual polygons have any useful information on them (addresses, for

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Do those

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/4/2012 2:42 PM, Apollinaris Schöll wrote: any import should be treated like this. if it's not edited and the data isn't used then it should be removed after some time. That's a silly statement. If something isolated gets imported, e.g. a water political boundary, it probably won't be

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Because that information is useless in OSM. It was out of date the second someone ran the upload script and unless the city of Fresno decides to switch to OSM for their official tax plat information (which I'm pretty sure

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Brett Lord-Casitllo
Because that information is useless in OSM. It was out of date the second someone ran the upload script and unless the city of Fresno decides to switch to OSM for their official tax plat information (which I'm pretty sure would be illegal in most jurisdictions), no one in the community can improve

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Brett Lord-Casitllo marigol...@yahoo.comwrote: Because that information is useless in OSM. It was out of date the second someone ran the upload script and unless the city of Fresno decides to switch to OSM for their official tax plat information (which I'm

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Brett Lord-Casitllo marigol...@yahoo.com wrote: That keys you into everythingelse you might want: address, land value, building value, FIRM map, etc. But in this case that's kind of the point... the parcel ID would only be useful for you to go into the already

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: If parcel data is important to disaster response, I would expect the responder to go get the most up to date data from the source, not use stale data that was imported into OSM (potentially) some years ago Doesn't Haiti and

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Nathan Mills
On 5/4/2012 4:21 PM, Ian Dees wrote: To the contrary, this whole conversation started because we received multiple complaints about this area from mappers who wanted to create data in this area but couldn't because of too much data. In that sense, this data is already handicapping the

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: If parcel data is important to disaster response, I would expect the responder to go get the most up to date data from the source, not use stale data that

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-05-04 11:47, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: From: Paul Johnson [mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: More information

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: If parcel data is important to disaster response, I would expect the responder to go get the most up to date data from the source, not use stale data

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: If

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Brett Lord-Casitllo
OSM is not a giant collection bowl for data (oh look I've found a scrap of data on my city's web site, let's upload that to OSM so that it don't get lost!!!).  OSM is a giant *editor*. OSM is for *editing* data. I strongly disagree. OSM is for the user, not for the editor. OSM -is- a giant

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Brett Lord-Casitllo
Because the nature of cadastral data is that there is a data owner and it is very rarely OSM. That data owner has created the data out of thin air. There's absolutely no correlation between something on the ground and the information in the dataset. OSM is built upon the fact that anyone can

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-05-04 01:37, Paul Norman wrote: See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-April/008032.html for the full discussion around the removal In summary: - The Fresno import has a number of issues - No one is opposed to removal if there are no easier options for cleaning up the

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-05-04 15:52, Martijn van Exel wrote: ... I do agree that there's an opportunity for crowdsourcing in cadastral surveying, but we should be approaching that very carefully and in the right order. First examine the legal implications of letting the world at large have r/w access to

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On May 4, 2012 5:41 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: ...and we need to examine what our existing user tools and server processing and storage resources are and how they can handle the amount of data desired before just blindly throwing many times the existing data size at them.

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
From: Nathan Mills [mailto:nat...@nwacg.net] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports On 5/4/2012 4:21 PM, Ian Dees wrote: To the contrary, this whole conversation started because we received multiple complaints about this area from mappers who wanted to create data in this area

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
From: Paul Johnson [mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports On May 4, 2012 5:41 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: ...and we need to examine what our existing user tools and server processing and storage resources are and how they can

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
From: Alan Mintz [mailto:alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 3:06 PM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org; impo...@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports At 2012-05-04 01:37, Paul Norman wrote: See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Gregory Arenius
I think that this import was poorly done but overall I don't see the problem with having this type of data in OSM. In fact, I think it is really useful and don't entirely understand the backlash against it. I would really enjoy having that kind of base to work with. So, Thoughts on Plot and

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-04-27 Thread Nathan Mixter
Thanks for everyone's comments. I do take pride in making sure my imports are good. That said I realize there are issues with the Fresno import, one of my first imports. But I am not sure if we need to throw out the baby with the bath water just yet. If it comes to that, fine. I think the

[Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-04-26 Thread Paul Norman
I happened across an import of Fresno castradal data from mid-2010 in the Fresno area. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.77lon=-119.81zoom=15 is the general area but I haven't fully explored the extents. For a view of the data, see http://maps.paulnorman.ca/imports/review/fresno.png Based on

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-04-26 Thread Werner Poppele
Paul Norman wrote: I happened across an import of Fresno castradal data from mid-2010 in the Fresno area. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.77lon=-119.81zoom=15 is the general area but I haven't fully explored the extents. For a view of the data, see

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-04-26 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/26/2012 2:54 AM, Paul Norman wrote: I happened across an import of Fresno castradal data from mid-2010 in the Fresno area. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.77lon=-119.81zoom=15 is the general area but I haven't fully explored the extents. For a view of the data, see

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-04-26 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-04-26 07:59, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 4/26/2012 2:54 AM, Paul Norman wrote: I happened across an import of Fresno castradal data from mid-2010 in the Fresno area. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.77lon=-119.81zoom=15 is the general area but I haven't fully explored the extents.

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-04-26 Thread Dale Puch
Some of the problem my be a disconnect between county level mapping/import talk and the country level talk. I personally like imports that are done well, but also understand how poor imports can make things harder for everyone. It looks like you guys have done a lot of work and many