[Talk-us] User cleared out a chunk of streets

a local SEO company in Gainesville. I'm not sure what to do about it, i.e. I'm not sure what the protocol is for this type of situation and I've never attempted a revert before. Can someone review this and revert it? http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/11624008 Thanks, Brian May aka

Re: [Talk-us] Remap-a-tron level 2 complete! Suggestions for level 3?

+1 Nick, maybe as a step before your suggestion. 1) New streets with no names. In Florida, there's a large number of new streets that contributors have added, but did not add a name. The TIGER 2012 overlay helps make quick work of adding these names. In many cases, streets will need to be

Re: [Talk-us] Remap-a-tron level 2 complete! Suggestions for level 3?

On 9/29/2012 5:33 PM, the Old Topo Depot wrote: Statements that we should fix all the unedited TIGER data express a Great Idea. They are, however, rather ambitious statements, and will require more than a few weeks to completely realize. As such, cleaning up US TIGER data is a Long Term

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OPC2012] Operation Cowboy - Mission statement

I agree, but I would suggest we start with larger metro areas that still require a lot of tiger cleanup. Not many people are going to notice tiger cleanup in rural West Virginia. In Florida, examples of populous counties that started out with horrible tiger with major work still required:

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER expansion bot

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 TIGER specific expansion code, and the selection process is quite

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER expansion bot

On 11/27/2012 11:33 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: 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 Main St SW to SW Main Street, but did not alter the tiger tags. Brian, Thank you

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

On 11/28/2012 6:35 PM, Ian Dees wrote: Hi folks, So SteveC's blog post sparked a bit of conversation today: http://stevecoast.com/2012/11/28/openstreetmap-addressable/ I'd love to see OSM US lead the way on collecting high quality addressing data from as many places as possible and throw it

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

On 11/28/2012 8:10 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote: Does anyone have any success stories of asking localities to open up previously copyrighted data? I'm going down the just ask nicely for *really* open data path here in Seattle, but have yet to hear back from the authorities. It seems that having a list

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

On 11/29/2012 1:11 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 11/29/12 1:03 PM, Steven Johnson wrote: The data are copyrighted and Arlington County owns all rights to the data and allows use ...as an acknowledged source to produce maps or analysis but you may not redistribute, resell, or copy the data

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

PM, Brian May b...@mapwise.com mailto:b...@mapwise.com wrote: On 11/29/2012 1:11 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 11/29/12 1:03 PM, Steven Johnson wrote: The data are copyrighted and Arlington County owns all rights to the data

Re: [Talk-us] Imports

On 11/29/2012 9:33 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 11/29/12 9:26 PM, Steven Johnson wrote: Several people have responded with examples of state/local address data to import into OSM. Are these address *points* or address *ranges*? my plan is to obtain permission to import, where available, the

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

On 11/29/2012 9:12 PM, Steven Johnson wrote: Secondly, about Census data... The Census Bureau publishes ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs, as polygons) but they are an approximation of US Postal Service data and used for downstream analytical purposes. But as far as USPS is concerned, the ZIP

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

On 11/29/2012 10:45 PM, Mike N wrote: On 11/29/2012 10:32 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Is there a compelling reason not to get parcels instead? As parcels change shape, the centroid can be easily interpolated. It's not really possible to extrapolate geometry from centroid, however. It would be

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

Here's an interesting exercise so you can see how google is doing address geocoding. In google maps, search for: 2109 Lisa Dare Dr, Leesburg, FL Make sure you have the map version turned on so you can see the parcel outlines. See the address location? Its the parcel centroid. Now look at

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

On 12/28/2012 4:47 PM, Phil! Gold wrote: * Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com [2012-12-28 16:16 -0500]: So the question is, what should the exact criteria be for including an open space parcel in OSM. Consider some of the various types of property. I've used parcel data as a layer in

Re: [Talk-us] parcel boundaries and associated data in OSM

On 2/14/2013 3:43 PM, Ian Dees wrote: Before this discussion moves forward we should define what parcel data is. In my mind it's mostly-abutting polygons representing land ownership. Usually it comes with metadata about tax information and ownership information, and sometimes it has address

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

On 2/21/2013 7:27 PM, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: Hey guys, In a previous thread on parcel data, some people expressed interest in participating in creating some sort of open repository for parcel data. I was imagining a conference call or something to discuss next steps, but I think we can advance

Re: [Talk-us] H. R. 1604 bill looking to force US government to contract out much of its mapping activity

public domain, unless other restrictions are applied, e.g. the census bureau doesn't release the individual address points they collected due to some kind of privacy law. USGS has been using contractors for years to update their mapping data, and all that data is public domain. Brian May

[Talk-us] Google maps source

I just ran into an area where someone tagged streets with source=google maps. Looks like an un-aware new user who only had 8 changesets over two days and that was it. What to do about this? http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Hercumike/edits Brian

Re: [Talk-us] what do we mean by geocoding?

The USPS site referenced below has zipcode polygons and postal delivery routes overlaid on an interactive map along with the number of residences and business each route serves. Search for a zipcode or an address to get started. https://eddm.usps.com/eddm/customer/routeSearch.action It looks

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

On 3/15/2015 8:53 AM, Clifford Snow wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com mailto:a...@mapbox.com wrote: Here's a map showing where TIGER is better than OSM:

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

and licensing has to be vetted, but it just simply does not make sense to replicate all that work. Especially since we have proven methods for importing that data without damaging existing data. Brian May aka grouper ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

[Talk-us] US Government Accountability Report on GIS Data

of stuff. Brian May aka grouper [1] GEOSPATIAL DATA: Progress Needed on Identifying Expenditures, Building and Utilizing a Data Infrastructure, and Reducing Duplicative Efforts http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/668494.pdf ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

On 8/18/2015 10:01 AM, Torsten Karzig wrote: As mentioned earlier part of the problem is a confusion between tagging what is there (landcover) and what it is used for (landuse). In the wiki we actually have a consistent approach (Approach 1) to make this distinction. Using natural=wood as a

Re: [Talk-us] SPAM-LOW: Re: mapRe: (Second attempt) Potential data source: Adirondack Park Freshwater Wetlands

I agree with the pro-import comments and say go for it. After re-reading your original post, I feel you are very well suited to the task and are obviously very contentious about the process. Don't let one strong negative comment get you down. OSM needs people like you to help make the map

Re: [Talk-us] reporting Pokemon Go related vandalism

Been following the thread - my two cents on what I'm seeing around Florida. 1) Seems like a major increase in new mappers and edits in just the past two weeks, and before that an increase overall since the pokemon / osm connection was publicized. 2) Many /most of the influx of new mappers are

Re: [Talk-us] .... finding areas that are underserved

A couple ideas: Start with small rural towns near you. Check to make sure the streets are aligned properly to Bing. Check road names against recent tiger, county GIS, and of course the best is on the verifying with your own eyes. Then clean up tracks (dirt roads, 4wd trails, non-existent

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Decline in accuracy of capture date metadata in Bing imagery

On 7/26/2017 4:05 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Bryan Housel wrote: 2. contact state GIS agencies for permission, if the website does not make license clear I have contact information, which I'm not going to share here. A template for the

Re: [Talk-us] Help needed, Babcock Ranch near Fort Myers, FL

On 5/15/2017 7:37 AM, Eric Ladner wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 2:59 AM Frederik Ramm > wrote: Hi, Maybe someone in the area fancies a fact-finding mission ;) Some of it actually shows up in the Charlotte county GIS system[1] (the

Re: [Talk-us] Use without Attribution

I used that MapBox form a couple months ago to notify missing OSM attribution for the WunderMap at wunderground.com, e.g. https://www.wunderground.com/wundermap?lat=27.17=-80.29=1 Just checked and no changes. I'm pretty sure its an OSM basemap due to checking features I have added that aren't

Re: [Talk-us] Use without Attribution

...@charter.net wrote: If you close the All Layers window it appears in the lower right, just like on the other implementations on their site. Is this what you are looking for? Joe *From: *Brian May <mailto:b...@mapwise.com> *Sent: *Monday, June 12, 2017 9:38 AM *To: *t

Re: [Talk-us] Dakota County, MN

Joe, Try whodidit. http://simon04.dev.openstreetmap.org/whodidit/ It shows who edited areas by tile and when. Default is a week, but you can set different times, filter users, etc. I have a bookmark set to start at my home town location like:

Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

On 9/30/2017 3:19 AM, Mark Wagner wrote: Second, many entries have their coordinates specified using the old NAD 27 datum, but somewhere along the line, that fact was lost and the coordinates were assumed to be in either NAD 83 or WGS 84. This results in an offset that increases the further you

Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

On 9/29/2017 11:06 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Mark Bradley > wrote: In the course of my mapping in the American Midwest, I have come across several small country churches of GNIS origin that

[Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

Calling all TIGER fixup junkies. I've been poking around the coastal areas of Texas where Hurricane Harvey is expected to make landfall and seeing a lot of TIGER fixup needed. More and more websites depend on OSM so it would be nice to provide more accurate and updated info than what is there

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

:56 PM, Brian May <b...@mapwise.com <mailto:b...@mapwise.com>> wrote: Calling all TIGER fixup junkies. I've been poking around the coastal areas of Texas where Hurricane Harvey is expected to make landfall and seeing a lot of TIGER fixup needed. More and more websites d

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Brian May <b...@mapwise.com <mailto:b...@mapwise.com>> wrote: There is now a task in the OSM Task Manager to help coordinate the effort at http://tasks.openstreetmap.us/project/104 <http://tasks.openstreetmap.us/project/104> There i

Re: [Talk-us] SPAM-LOW: Post-Harvey Event Imagery

Hi Andrew, Are you on the OSM US slack channel? Tasks are being discussed there among other things. https://osmus-slack.herokuapp.com/ Thanks for helping with the tasks, too! Brian On 8/31/2017 11:09 AM, Andrew Matheny wrote: NOAA has released some post-Harvey event imagery [1] in Rockport

[Talk-us] Hurricane Harvey Dickinson, Texas Buildings

@kevinbullock and I have started a new OSM US Task to help add buildings to the areas around Houston hit hard by flooding. Dickinson is SE of Houston. #105 - Hurricane Harvey Dickinson Texas Buildings at http://tasks.openstreetmap.us/project/105 The idea is to have some level of

Re: [Talk-us] Integrating our open source data into OSM

Its critical to know where the lat/longs came from. For example, if they came from Google Maps - then its a no go, because Google's licensing is incompatible with OSM. Their geocodes are not public domain, etc. Same thing applies to many / most other commercial geocoding services. If you don't

[Talk-us] Apalachicola National Forest rendering problem

I fixed up some boundaries for the Apalachicola National Forest southwest of Tallahassee and seem to have broken the rendering of the forest boundary and I'm not sure why. I didn't change tags, just moved ways around, created new nodes, etc. But I did break some multi-polygon ways and put them

Re: [Talk-us] Apalachicola National Forest rendering problem

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 6:24 AM Brian May <b...@mapwise.com <mailto:b...@mapwise.com>> wrote: I fixed up some boundaries for the Apalachicola National Forest southwest of Tallahassee and seem to have broken the rendering of the forest boundary and I'm not sure why. I didn't

Re: [Talk-us] SPAM-LOW: Re: Rural US: Correcting Original TIGER Imported Ways

I have spent a very large amount of time cleaning up TIGER in rural areas of Florida. I agree with others that the vast majority of untouched TIGER ways in un-populated rural areas classified as residential are forest roads for logging trucks at best and pure fantasy at worst, with tons of

Re: [Talk-us] State Open Data

On 8/15/2018 1:47 AM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: Again, one of the most important things that might be said (in talk-us) about "State Open Data" is that there are at least fifty different sets of rules. "Check your state laws and county practices" remains excellent advice. Yes, it can be

Re: [Talk-us] State Open Data

On 8/12/2018 4:26 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 1:05 PM OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: I'm not an attorney, though were I to attempt to sharpen focus on these two replies, I'd say that in California, it's more like this: data produced by state agencies (by our state government

Re: [Talk-us] NYC Name Vandalism

Alan, Your phrase "The name tag of New York City should be an obvious example - what would  cause it to change" - That makes a lot of sense. To further expand on this thought, identify and prioritize features in OSM that theoretically should not change much at all over long periods of time.

Re: [Talk-us] Address data for Miami Florida United States

I would like to help as well. I've been mapping in Florida for many moons, live in SE FL, and would like to get involved in imports. I think we should consider merging the addresses with the Microsoft buildings. As Leif mentioned, buildings from Miami-Dade county have been imported, but they

Re: [Talk-us] Recent Trunk road edits

I'm Florida based, have seen Floridaeditor's changes and noticed an eagerness to change a lot of road classifications. I didn't pay a lot of attention until now. Of course, trunk can be a tricky one, but if you got one lone guy on a mission who is arguing with everyone along the path,