[Talk-us] TIGER place confusion

2018-09-27 Thread Max Erickson
Many of the administrative boundaries imported from TIGER have a place= tag that reflects the legal type of incorporation of the municipality rather than a sensible value for the OSM place tag (which would give some hint about the relative prominence of the place). This confusion has gone under

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER place confusion

2018-09-27 Thread Josh Lee
Use border_type=* for this. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:border_type Usage is spotty at best but it looks fairly consistent to me. For example in Pennsylvania admin_level=8 can have a border_type of city, township, borough, municipality(?), or town (there's just one "town"). In New

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER place confusion

2018-09-27 Thread Clifford Snow
Max, Can you give an example or better yet a overpass query that we can use to view some in our back yard? Thanks, Clifford On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 4:48 AM Max Erickson wrote: > Many of the administrative boundaries imported from TIGER have a > place= tag that reflects the legal type of

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER place confusion

2018-09-27 Thread Max Erickson
Just comparing relations with place= tags to the corresponding nodes works: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/CjI Obviously not an OSM place=city there. Max ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] OSM map use w/o attribution at US News & World Report

2018-09-27 Thread Steve Friedl
[trying this again] Good morning, I've never done a use-without-attribution case before, would like to get some suggestions before I dive in. I'm pretty sure this is a "substantial" violation. It seems that US News & World Report is using OSM data/maps without attribution in their Health

Re: [Talk-us] OSM map use w/o attribution at US News & World Report

2018-09-27 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 11:51 AM Steve Friedl wrote: > So, I think I should be following the procedure here: > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lacking_proper_attribution > > with a polite note to them. > > Am I on the right track? > Yep! Feel free to shoot them a polite email asking to