Re: [Talk-us] USGS Orthoimagery

The project for the common imagery sources is here: https://github.com/osmlab/editor-imagery-index You could enter an issue there to include this source so that it will be available in the various OSM editors. Before including it in the index, they will want to ensure that the source is

Re: [Talk-us] NJ Orthoimagery

...but the upstream USGS server that used to host this imagery seems to be broken (it's throwing 500's). I'm working on finding someone to talk to about that, but until then we'll have to find something else. On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com wrote: The project

Re: [Talk-us] Beach routing

I say go ahead and add it, though `highway=track` (with appropriate access tag) might make more sense if vehicles drive along the beach. Here in NJ, people have also been mapping the paths that lead down to the beach from the boardwalks, but they generally aren’t connected. I’m a runner, so I

Re: [Talk-us] Beach routing

I thought about this, but not all beaches are navigable. Some really are pretty treacherous, and I don’t think this is always easy to tell from aerial imagery. I have also been to perfectly navigable beaches where you are specifically not allowed to use vehicles because turtles build their

Re: [Talk-us] 2014 Tiger Update

iD mostly uses https://github.com/osmlab/editor-imagery-index So if it is added as a layer there, it can be made available in iD very easily. So I think tiles need to be generated and the source needs to be added here:

Re: [Talk-us] Help with revert : Drag moved street in Denver

Because it was an iD 1.5.4 changeset, probably this bug: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2248 On Sep 23, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno 23/set/2014, alle ore 10:08, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com ha scritto: What might have

Re: [Talk-us] Beaver dam? Wrecked bridge? Hallucinatory roads in TIGER?

On Dec 20, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote: In at least one place (44.07447,-74.28335, says GPS) the trail crosses an unnamed tributary of Pine Brook on a beaver dam that is visible in aerial images. https://flic.kr/p/pFf3TV Hikers who don't quite believe that

Re: [Talk-us] Pennsylvania's quadrant routes

I’m from PA and I know exactly the little signs that you’re talking about. I agree with everything you suggested about moving the SR ref to a different key. It’s not significant enough to be a “ref”. I’m not sure who “owns” the Pennsylvania wiki page:

Re: [Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

Brand new anonymous users come to the map every day and are confused by what these hamlets are. proof: https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/163246 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/163246 I kind of doubt this person is going to stick around and improve the map. To them, it just looks like

Re: [Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

OK, I’ll revert the changeset if if bothers you that much.. On Mar 20, 2015, at 12:23 AM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com mailto:br...@7thposition.com wrote: I wouldn’t. The USPS doesn’t recognize it, so

Re: [Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

I wouldn’t. The USPS doesn’t recognize it, so mail can not be delivered there. There are no signs either. I did some googling to see if it is a historical name, but all the results are spam (“Best plumber in Benders Corner, NJ!”) Nobody around here knows what it is. I’m just going to remove

[Talk-us] New features in iD - looking for feedback and beta testers..

Hi Everyone… It’s been a busy few months for the iD team, and we have a handful of new features that will be launching soon. We’d love to get some mappers to beta test and provide feedback! These features are available now by using the latest development branch of iD hosted at

Re: [Talk-us] No Parallel/Resize or Copy/Paste in iD editor?

iD will use the modifier key Cmd on Mac and Ctrl on Windows/Linux. It adjusts the popup tooltips to say the correct thing too. I didn't put anything in the builtin help yet about Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V but I do intend to. I only added the copy buffer code in the latest release a month ago. Also

Re: [Talk-us] No Parallel/Resize or Copy/Paste in iD editor?

On Apr 18, 2015, at 8:39 PM, David Wisbey yourvillagem...@yahoo.com wrote: don't see any way to create parallel features (or Copy and Paste as in JOSM). We don't have a way to create parallel features yet, but there is an open issue for it in github. It's something that a lot of people

Re: [Talk-us] cycle.travel US bike routing, and unreviewed rural TIGER

I’m considering whether it makes sense to remove the `tiger:reviewed=no` tag when a user performs certain edits in iD. Discuss here: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2697 On Jun 22, 2015, at 2:46 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: In other words, it won't route over a

Re: [Talk-us] Proper tagging for crosswalks

It’s ok to map them as either a single intersection node or a way. Here is my understanding from the various wiki pages the document these things, and it matches what I see people map in places with sidewalks and crosswalks. Keep in mind, the wiki does seem to change kind of frequently, and

Re: [Talk-us] Proper tagging for crosswalks

, but could make sense 2) I could also use highway=path, crossing=yes, bicycle=yes -- this seems better to me, but I don't know if it's acceptable to use crossing without connecting it to a value -- Jim On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com mailto:br

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

There is an open item in iD to display the date of the aerial imagery alongside the attribution message. We actually don’t get this from most tile providers, but we can get it from Bing in the response header. Would definitely welcome a pull request if someone wants to take a shot at

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] [OSM-talk] README tag with editor support

I’ll add my thoughts here.. Imagery: The issue of outdated imagery is complicated because: 1. In iD we don't really know the date range that the imagery was taken (Bing is the exception not the rule, and we can get from their API only a range not a hard date) 2. It depends on what zoom the

Re: [Talk-us] Things that are not buildings but are used as one

Yes, this is commonly done in OSM. Generally speaking, anything with a footprint and some kind of roof can get a `building=*` tag. In most cases people tag it as `building=yes` but you could really just make up anything for the tag value. `building=riverboat` or `building=train_car` would

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

Agree with everything you said about *why* groups are important, except that: now that it's 2015, Facebook groups is really a better place for this. > On Oct 15, 2015, at 3:43 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > Paul Norman wrote: >> The problem is that if you make a

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

that runs local meetups for this purpose. They currently seem to prefer Meeetup/Twitter, but I think a stronger presence on Facebook would do more to further their aims. > On Oct 15, 2015, at 9:33 AM, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > > > Bryan Housel <br...@7t

[Talk-us] iD 1.8.1 release candidate with IE11 & Edge support

Hey everyone, Just wanted to send a quick note that I’ve prepared a new version of iD that supports Internet Explorer 11 and Edge browsers (finally!). I have only tested these browsers through vmware, so I would really like to get some more mappers to try them out and let me know if there are

[Talk-us] iD news: v1.9.6 released

iD v1.9.6 was released June 7 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Embed interactive Mapillary JS viewer (worked on by Peter Neubauer and Kushan Joshi) - Add “grill” as search term for `amenity=bbq` preset (worked on by

[Talk-us] iD news: v1.9.5 released

iD v1.9.5 was released May 25 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Fix bug causing Russian track type translated strings to sneak into tag values - Change color of save button as user edits increase (built by tanerochris)

[Talk-us] iD news: v1.9.3 release and participation in Google Summer of Code

Hi, OSM! Just wanted to announce a few things about the iD editor project.. iD 1.9.3 was released Monday 4/25/16 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org . The release includes: - easy draggable imagery offset adjustment control (built by Kushan Joshi) -

[Talk-us] iD news: v1.9.4 released

iD v1.9.4 was released May 3 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Fix bug causing the Save button to remain disabled even when changeset comment entered - Support setting imagery offset via url parameter - New multiple

Re: [Talk-us] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

Meg this is excellent! Thank you for sharing your plans with `talk-us` and `talk-us-pugetsound`. I’m looking forward to seeing this public data source imported into OpenStreetMap. Given that your team is located in Seattle and is very involved with the local community there, I don’t see any

[Talk-us] iD news: v1.9.7 released

iD v1.9.7 was released Jul 16 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Features on `addr:interpolation` lines will be rendered as points with icon - Fix crash when selecting and moving multiple points - Fix bug determining

[Talk-us] iD news: v2.1.0 released

iD v2.1.0 was released Feb 4 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org Here are some of our favorite new features: - Disconnected endpoints now appear slightly larger, and iD will warn if a user creates a disconnected road - Improved save flow

Re: [Talk-us] Check your turn:lanes

This was discussed extensively on the tagging mailing list 2 months ago: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2016-June/029335.html The consensus at the time was that combinations including ‘none’ are not

[Talk-us] iD v2.0.0 beta - help test!

We have been working really hard on iD the past few months and we’re releasing v2.0.0 in the next week or so. iD v2.0.0 will look and feel the same as v1.x but has significant changes to the code structure. It is written in a modular style, and uses new tools to build the code. This will

Re: [Talk-us] greenways tagging

I agree that that Tiffany Avenue is just a normal street, not a “living street”. Our driver even drove it a few times and you can see it pretty clearly on Mapillary. https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=Tt-musXAKC5Qpuo7OAjyQA=photo=37.74456457237605=-122.42159001944155=19.941223418815095

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

I agree that seems wrong.. If you’ve got a list of changesets, or the username who is doing it, I can help with the revert. Thanks, Bryan > On Apr 4, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Albert Pundt wrote: > > Recently somebody went around and bulk-"demoted" many northern NJ roads. >

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing Multipolygons

Jochen thanks for taking the lead on this issue! I just wanted to add for anyone working on this effort, old-style multipolygons will render a bit differently in iD soon. They will have little gaps along the edge, screenshot here:

Re: [Talk-us] [HOT] iD issues?

As far as I know, the issue is only with Chrome on Windows.. Firefox, IE, and Edge should be ok. We’re tracking it here: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/3805 It’s very similar to another issue that I fixed in December, so I think I

[Talk-us] iD news: v2.3.0 released

iD v2.3.0 was released July 7, 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org  A few highlights from the release: New: Toggle-able information panels can be used to expose more advanced features without cluttering the user interface. ⌘I: Show/Hide

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger Zip Data Removal Project (Update)

Hey Hans, We have a closed issue on the iD tracker for automatic removal of `tiger:reviewed`: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2697 We haven’t discussed automatic removal of any other tiger tags. (I don’t have a strong opinion for

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Sourcing Open Aerial Imagery

Thanks Kevin for the followup - sourcing imagery for use in editors is indeed a complicated topic! I think the key takeaways (TL;DR): - there are lots of public sources of aerial imagery available, especially at the us-state level, and we could use help collecting them. -

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Sourcing Open Aerial Imagery

Thanks for the correction Simon! Sorry I missed that announcement... I will update the editor-layer-index project docs to include some guidance on using the imagery waiver. Bryan > On Jul 27, 2017, at 1:29 PM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > > > > Am 27.07.2017 u

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

Hey this is a topic that I care about - It turns out, you are already chipping in some money for high resolution orthoimagery! OK state Geographic Information Council http://okmaps.onenet.net/index.html OK state GIS Portal:

[Talk-us] iD news: v2.2.0 released

iD v2.2.0 was released May 9 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org This is possibly our biggest release ever because it includes over 100 features and represents about 3 months of work by 13 contributors, and countless other translators and

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

2 months later and they’re still at it. I finally did reach out to the user with a changeset comment here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/46561481#map=12/40.7194/-74.4255 What’s an acceptable amount of time to

[Talk-us] iD news: v2.4.0 released

iD v2.4.0 was released August 25, 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org  A few highlights from the release: NEW Esri World Imagery layer: Esri has made their World Imagery Service available for OSM use! Read more here:

[Talk-us] iD news: v2.5.0, OpenStreetCam, and request for translation help..

Happy December! We have lots moving in the iD editor project.  OpenStreetCam Last month, I released iD v2.5.0 (November 10, 2017), which includes support for OpenStreetCam. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should really check out how easy it is to work with street level imagery in iD.

[Talk-us] iD news - v2.8.0, GSoC, OSM-US Hackathon 5/21-5/22 at Mapbox DC!

Hello all! I’ve got a bunch of exciting items to share about iD - please check out the news and share..  iD 2.8.0 released, including Community Index We've changed how things look on the post-upload screen. Now after saving your edits, you will see a list of OpenStreetMap communities that

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

I agree it would be great to get rid of `tiger:reviewed`. I proposed this for iD 3 years ago but received some pushback: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2697 I would be ok if it were removed via a mechanical edit. As an aside, I

Re: [Talk-us] Prospect Mountain Interchange Reconfiguration, Binghamton NY

Thanks for the heads up Andy! Of the top of my head, I consider Russ Nelson, Kevin Kenny, Richard Welty are all power users in NY State (though maybe not the Binghamton area) and would be great for this. I will share your message on Slack too. Bryan > On May 18, 2018, at 6:57 AM, Andy

Re: [Talk-us] Slack: Do we need an Alternative (was Planning an import in Price George...)

> I'm also interested in how others feel about Slack. Is it good for the > community or should we look elsewhere? Glad you asked! I think Slack has changed the way I work for the better. Here are some advantages.. * lower barrier to entry for less technical folks * great mobile experience *

[Talk-us] iD news - v2.9.0 now with Bing Streetside support

Happy Summer!  I just released iD v2.9.0 this week and it’s now available on openstreetmap.org for editing. If you use street level imagery you will like this...  Bing Streetside now supported iD now includes a layer for Bing Streetside! This new layer provides

[Talk-us] iD news - v2.10.0 with OSM Notes and more

We released iD v2.10.0 last week!  OSM Notes You can now create, comment on, and resolve OpenStreetMap notes from within iD! This work was done as part of Thomas Hervey's 2018 Google Summer of Code project, and you can read about it in his diary here:

[Talk-us] State of the Map US Early Bird tickets end tomorrow!

A few quick reminders about... State of the Map US  Detroit, MI · October 5-7th  The reduced-price tickets will be available until midnight tomorrow on Friday, August 17th. Sign up today before the price doubles… https://2018.stateofthemap.us/ By the

Re: [Talk-us] State Open Data

Hey Clifford, this is a great idea and thanks for volunteering to collect these open data sources.. Also make sure to check out Telenav’s mapping repo for a really impressive list of public sources of centerline data. https://github.com/TelenavMapping/mapping-projects/issues Bryan > On Aug

Re: [Talk-us] Senseless Germans, again.

Do you live in Austin, TX? If not, why do you care whether the students want to map sidewalks there? Since you seem confused about “what the purpose of this is”, and can’t even be bothered to look up any of the “long-ish discussions”, I’ve done a Google search for you to find this:

Re: [Talk-us] Senseless Germans, again.

AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > Hi, > > On 25.07.2018 12:33, Bryan Housel wrote: >> Do you live in Austin, TX? >> If not, why do you care whether the students want to map sidewalks there? > > What does this have to do with my nationality? > > Bye > Frederik

Re: [Talk-us] Senseless Germans, again.

> Let's concentrate on the concerns Frederik raised and discuss them based > on their own merit. I’m focused on this part of the email. This is not an ok way to talk about teams of mappers working in the US: It’s obviously a work in progress. He can’t just threaten to “delete them all once

Re: [Talk-us] Hostility towards US mappers

Hey Christoph, you make a good point, and I apologize for the flippant subject line. I realize that changing “Senseless sidewalks” to “Senseless Germans” distracts from the overall point that I was trying to make. In truth, most sidewalks are fine and most Germans are sensible people. That

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Post Boxes

Can we please leave it as USPS? Other shippers UPS, FedEx, and DHL are also abbreviated. The “expand abbreviations” rule is really for street addresses, not everything in OSM. Taginfo can show you what values are currently stored in the `operator` tag:

[Talk-us] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

Happy 2018! I just released iD v2.6.0 yesterday..  Release Highlights -  You can now adjust imagery brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness. (Not currently available in Internet Explorer or Edge) Try enhancing the background imagery by opening the Background pane (shortcut “B")

Re: [Talk-us] DigitalGlobe Premium Imagery: Invalid Token?

I updated the tokens, per DG request, in this commit: https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index/commit/034ac3910fc2fe118394bc953d3ca4ca2212b71c I don’t know how to update the imagery that JOSM

Re: [Talk-us] iD news - v2.7.0, new imagery, upgraded turn restriction editor

> Thank you, thank you! > > I'd just recently cleared the use of New York State Orthos Online (which has > 30-cm 'leaves down' imagery!) - and now I can see it for casual edits in iD > as well as serious editing sessions in JOSM. > > Is there a way that I can make it the default? For just

Re: [Talk-us] Thoughts on a standard "ref" abbreviation for PA Turnpike?

Sounds good to me - I think the PATP abbreviation is easy to understand. Thanks, Bryan Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 10, 2018, at 7:50 PM, Albert Pundt wrote: > > Does anyone object to the use of "PATP" as the ref equivalent for the PA > Turnpike? Particularly for destination:ref tags, as

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Post Boxes

I agree that adding `wikipedia` or `wikidata` to each location is wrong.. But using `operator:wikidata`/`operator:wikipedia` (and or `brand:wikidata`/`brand:wikipedia`) should be ok, even preferred.. This is the approach I’m taking with https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index

[Talk-us] Reminder: Please vote in the OSMF board election!

Hey Talk-US! If you’ve joined the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) and your membership is in good standing you should have received a ballot to vote in the OSMF Board Election. The ballot would arrive in your email from opavote, and the deadline to cast your ballot is Saturday 15th December,

Re: [Talk-us] Reminder: Please vote in the OSMF board election!

Oh one other thing I forgot to mention... When you cast your vote, you will need JavaScript enabled in your browser, and you may need to disable your ad blocker in order to view the candidates in the voting panel. > On Dec 10, 2018, at 3:20 PM, Bryan Housel wrote: > > He

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk versus motorway

Can’t a motorway begin or end at an at-grade intersection though? What you did by classifying it “trunk” back to the Apache Street interchange just looks weird. Sorry, but I have to disagree, and would leave it as a motorway up to Gilcrease, then trunk beyond that point. For comparison, our

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk versus motorway

> On Dec 2, 2018, at 12:42 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 8:37 PM Bryan Housel <mailto:bhou...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Can’t a motorway begin or end at an at-grade intersection though? > > No, I don't think so. It's at least not a freeway tra

[Talk-us] iD news - 2.12.0 released 

Last week, after several months of work, we released iD v2.12.0 for editing OpenStreetMap. I hope you like it! Here are some of the highlights from the release: ✌️ 2-finger pan and zoom gestures Mac users can now use 2 finger trackpad gestures to pan and zoom the map. Try swiping with 2

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - elimination of old-style Wikipedia links in USA

Replacing the deprecated `wikipedia:en` tags with newer `wikipedia` tags sounds like a great idea. As mentioned on Slack, I agree that if you can add `wikidata` tags at the same time, even better. Thank you for your work on this! Bryan > On Feb 26, 2019, at 7:51 AM, Mateusz Konieczny >

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing intersection OSMAnd treats as roundabout?

Thanks for asking, I.AM.. The Northeast Parkway here should really be split at the intersection. It is currently mapped as a single long road. I’ll fix this now. If you are interested in more reading about mapping best practices, Mapbox has made their team mapping guides available here:

Re: [Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

Good question! As others have said - hotels have rooms that open indoors, motels have rooms that open outdoors. That’s the only difference. I did a bit of research on this last year for https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index because

Re: [Talk-us] Alt_names on counties

They could all have `operator:wikidata=Q7414497`, then there is no confusion. A dataset of all operators in OSM linked to wikidata QIDs will be coming soon, I promise!  We already have this for brands, and it’s pretty rad: https://nsi.guide Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 30, 2019, at 6:01