Re: [Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Eric Christensen 
wrote:

> I suspect the requester is looking specifically for something called "Outer
> Banks" on the map.  As someone who grew up down in that area I can tell you
> that there is no such place.  The Outer Banks, or OBX, is largely a
> marketing
> term and refers to much of the peninsula, Hatteras Island, and Ocracoke
> Island
> but isn't a town or county.
>

So... how would one tag a marketing name for a region?  There are lots.
I'm headed up
to a place called "Summit Valley"... but go ahead and try to find it on a
map.

A marketing name is verifiable and useful in way-finding, but not findable
on the ground.
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Re: [Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks

[Richard Weait]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Jeff Klein  wrote:
> If I am correct, probably confused, the map sets only go as far east as -76 
> West, which excludes the Outer Banks of North Carolina. How do I get maps 
> that go further east?

Dear Jeff,

Are you asking about the garmin files that are found here?
http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2015-03-29

They are extracted from OpenStreetMap data and converted to the format
for those devices.  If something is missing, like a swath East of some
line, then it was likely left out deliberately, for some reason. (Or
by mistake, like failing to recognize the awesomeness of Southern
Shores, NC, and the Duck Woods Country Club. "Sa-lute!!!")

If you would like help with a specific CONSUMER of OpenStreetMap data,
and there are many of them, please say which one you are referring to.
If you are talking about Dave's wonderful garmin extracts, then you
might try one of the larger file formats that span more than just the
continental US.  You also might send Dave an email and ask if he would
consider moving his bounding boxes for you, to include the area that
interests you.

And, yeah, the outer banks are awesome.  :-)

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Re: [Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks

[Eric Christensen]

On Saturday, April 04, 2015 09:08:50 PM Richard Welty wrote:
> On 4/4/15 7:48 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Jeff Klein  > 
> > > wrote:
> > If I am correct, probably confused, the map sets only go as far
> > east as -76 West, which excludes the Outer Banks of North
> > Carolina. How do I get maps that go further east?
> > 
> > Have you search for the Outer Banks in OSM? It
> > returns http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/357813099, which looks like
> > the outer banks to someone living in Washington State.
> 
> i've done a bit of mapping on the Outer Banks when i've
> been there on vacation. it all looks fine to me.
> 

I suspect the requester is looking specifically for something called "Outer 
Banks" on the map.  As someone who grew up down in that area I can tell you 
that there is no such place.  The Outer Banks, or OBX, is largely a marketing 
term and refers to much of the peninsula, Hatteras Island, and Ocracoke Island 
but isn't a town or county.

It would probably be better to search for the specific town you are looking 
for.  Duck, Rodanthe, Manteo, Avon, Buxton, and Hatteras Village (to name a 
few) will get the map to you much better than trying to look for something 
specific within a region that is roughly 120 miles long (and at best a mile or 
so wide).

--Eric

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Re: [Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks

[Peter Dobratz]

The OpenStreetMap database covers the whole world.  It's often too resource
intensive to do processing on the whole world's dataset at once, so often
third party applications will use extracts of data.  It sounds like you are
using an extract of data which doesn't fully cover the area you are
interested in.  Where are you getting your map datasets?

Peter

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Jeff Klein  wrote:

> If I am correct, probably confused, the map sets only go as far east as
> -76 West, which excludes the Outer Banks of North Carolina. How do I get
> maps that go further east?
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Re: [Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks

[Richard Welty]

On 4/4/15 7:48 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Jeff Klein  > wrote:
>
> If I am correct, probably confused, the map sets only go as far
> east as -76 West, which excludes the Outer Banks of North
> Carolina. How do I get maps that go further east?
>
>
> Have you search for the Outer Banks in OSM? It
> returns http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/357813099, which looks like
> the outer banks to someone living in Washington State.
i've done a bit of mapping on the Outer Banks when i've
been there on vacation. it all looks fine to me.

richard

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Re: [Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks

[Clifford Snow]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Jeff Klein  wrote:

> If I am correct, probably confused, the map sets only go as far east as
> -76 West, which excludes the Outer Banks of North Carolina. How do I get
> maps that go further east?


Have you search for the Outer Banks in OSM? It returns
http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/357813099, which looks like the outer
banks to someone living in Washington State.


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[Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks

[Jeff Klein]

If I am correct, probably confused, the map sets only go as far east as -76 
West, which excludes the Outer Banks of North Carolina. How do I get maps that 
go further east?
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