Re: [OSM-talk] RSS Feed for OSM API Changesets

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Steffen Vogel i...@steffenvogel.de wrote: I'm proud to announce my first version of a script to generate RSS 2.0 newsfeeds out of the new OSM changesets API. Detailed information could be found on my blog:

[OSM-talk] Canadian Triangle?

Unless aliens have started using Canada to teach their children geometry, this seems like someone uploaded something that they shouldn't have: http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/34892338 -- Jeff Ollie ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] 500 Errors When Uploading?

I'm getting 500 errors when trying to upload some changes (from Merkaartor). It just started a few minutes ago as I've been able to upload stuff previously. -- Jeff Ollie ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Changes in a bbox?

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Tomas Straupistomasstrau...@gmail.com wrote:  I remember seeing recently a link to an rss feed on dev server for changesets in defined bbox.  Is this feature already on prod?  I need this to identify strange disappearance of data... Here's the link I use to

Re: [OSM-talk] Explaining to NASA why the ASTER data should be freely licensed

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmasonava...@gmail.com wrote: # When presenting or publishing ASTER GDEM data, I agree to include ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA. That clause seems very similar to the BSD advertising clause (and is problematic for the same reasons):

Re: [OSM-talk] Explaining to NASA why the ASTER data should be freely licensed

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Ian Deesian.d...@gmail.com wrote: NASA = a US federal government organization. All data originated by US federal organizations (and especially when funded by tax payer dollars) is in the public domain. I would imagine that the licensing terms they give are

Re: [OSM-talk] keep right! and landuse=wood

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:26 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 20/7/09, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: Indeed, in most developed countries, I would suggest that it is very rare for trees to be naturally occurring or not managed in some way. I've no

Re: [OSM-talk] Explaining to NASA why the ASTER data should be freely licensed

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmasonava...@gmail.com wrote: NASA/METI have updated their distribution terms with a FAQ in response to my questions:    https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/lpdaac/about/news_archive/friday_july_24_2009 Unfortunately the new terms aren't new at all,

[OSM-talk] Picnic Shelters?

Hello, I'm just getting started with mapping, and have started with the trails and other objects in my local city parks. One thing that I haven't quite figured out is how one would tag a picnic shelter (http://images.google.com/images?q=Picnic+Shelter)? From reading the wiki, the closest I've

[OSM-talk] 501 Errors trying to use XApi?

I'm getting 501 Internal Server Error trying to download an extract (in my case the state of Iowa) using the XApi: http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/*[bbox=-96.723633,40.341797,-90.131836,43.549805] I've also tried going direct to the servers that informationfreeway.org redirects you to

Re: [OSM-talk] best GPS for trekking

2009/4/16 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es: I'd say Garmin eTrex or Garmin Colorado or Magellan Explorist. Runs ~8 hours on two AA batteries (just carry a couple of extra AAs in your pack). Rugged, check. Splash-proof, check. Waypoints, check. Heading/bearing indicator, check. From

Re: [OSM-talk] RSS Feed for OSM API Changesets

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Steffen Vogel i...@steffenvogel.de wrote: I'm proud to announce my first version of a script to generate RSS 2.0 newsfeeds out of the new OSM changesets API. Detailed information could be found on my blog:

Re: [OSM-talk] Extended GeoEye imagery now available for use on OSM

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: These are orthorectified 8-bit compresed GeoTiffs, who can help with turning these into something usable for OSM editors? I have no idea how the TIFF - WMS|Tiles process goes. MapServer should be able to take

Re: [OSM-talk] Properly georeferenced Haïti imag ery served by ERDAS

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote: SlashGeo mentioned http://www.erdas.com/HaitianRelief/tabid/327/Default.aspx Seeing all the problems had with the variously shifted images we have seen, this release by ERDAS looks interesting : We have updated our

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti PCodes

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:15 AM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: Any suggested tagging structure? maybe to cover the three admin levels: pcode:1 = 1 pcode:2 = 833 pcode:3 = 833-01 Or any other better suggestions? These are postal codes? If so I would recommend not

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti PCodes

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:15 AM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: Any suggested tagging structure? maybe to cover the three admin levels

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Mapping Radio and TV Stations _ Help needed!]]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Karl Guggisberg karl.guggisb...@guggis.ch wrote: Be careful with this list, we don't have the OK to import it into the OSM database yet. Sandra is currently investigating. In the case of radio TV stations, are we looking for the locations of the transmitters

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying Interstate Relations

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Chris Hunter chunter...@gmail.com wrote: Last night, user NE2 cleaned up the interstate system by merging all of the states with 2 relations per interstate back into 1 relation with direction-based roles.  I've already requested a roll-back on the area I was

Re: [OSM-talk] Post code areas

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:36 AM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: In the USA, postal-code (Zip code) boundaries don't necessarily correspond to other administrative boundaries, and are frequently adjusted by the Post Office to balance out the load on different local post offices.  

Re: [OSM-talk] Software goes on, brain goes off...

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/6/1 Anthony o...@inbox.org: The road should simply be marked as having no pavement/sidewalk. Something like pavement=yes/no is a start at least. It's best to avoid subject assessments like how dangerous a

Re: [OSM-talk] Software goes on, brain goes off...

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Looking more closely, there is a sidewalk, which turns into a cycleway (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/40967519), about 50 feet from the roadway, on the southbound side which is the same side she was walking on. And if

[OSM-talk] OpenCycleMap and Missing SRTM Data

There's a large oddity in the OpenCycleMap rendering in Iowa, likely due to missing SRTM data: http://www.opencyclemap.org/?zoom=9lat=41.45927lon=-93.91011layers=B00 I know that there's nothing that can be done with the SRTM data, but would it be possible for the OpenCycleMap to render the

Re: [OSM-talk] Build your own GPS receiver

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Andrew Gregory andrew.greg...@gmail.com wrote: It's all down to your application. What do you want to do that you can't do on a $50 smartphone? Well, the first thing that I'd be looking for is performance... The GPS on the phones that I've used have not had

Re: [OSM-talk] Extracting data from traffic sign recognition aboard modern cars ?

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote: Automotive environments are not known for their openness so I'm not holding my breath - but the potential for massive widely distributed automated data collection is worth starting to watch the topic. I don't know much

Re: [OSM-talk] POI collector

2010/8/14 Paweł Niechoda pawel.niech...@gmail.com: wikipage: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mobile_POI_collector#Mobile_POI_Collector Here you can download apk file for android versions (tested on android 2.1): http://code.google.com/p/osmmobilepoicollector/downloads/list Unfortunately, I

Re: [OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

Here's my modifications to the code... The original code will fail on lines like this: critical_address_file_us.csv:3424 Peachtree Rd, NE,US,GA,Atlanta,30326,3424,3424,33851200,-84363500 critical_address_file_us.csv:3424 Peachtree Road, NE,US,GA,Atlanta,30326,3424,3424,33851200,-84363500

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Antony Pegg anttheli...@gmail.com wrote: knowing the amazing diligence of this community, I'm sure you guys will find tags we've missed that should or could be used for bike/pedestrian.  If you feel its worth mentioning, please please please provide some point

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Thomas Davie tom.da...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 May 2011, at 11:18, Dave F. wrote: On 02/05/2011 05:53, Andrew Gregory wrote: I just had to comment on this because I could hardly believe what I was reading. In a global, world-wide-web, no matter what time is

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] State of the Map US 2015 is over - thank you!

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: (which were all recorded by the way, so you can watch them at your leisure if you want — http://stateofthemap.us/program/). Why are all of the videos unlisted on YouTube? I like to watch these sort of videos on my TV,

[Talk-us] Tools for importing National Hydrography Dataset?

Do any tools exist for importing data from the National Hydrography Dataset? It'd be nice to have creeks/rivers/lakes in OSM instead of blank spaces, especially when I generate maps for my Garmin GPS. -- Jeff Ollie ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Tools for importing National Hydrography Dataset?

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Chris Lawrence lordsu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: Do any tools exist for importing data from the National Hydrography Dataset?  It'd

Re: [Talk-us] Tools for importing National Hydrography Dataset?

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Theodore Book tb...@libero.it wrote: Sorry to be slow to the conversation.  I have been importing the NHD data for Georgia, and have scripts that do the conversion for all of the NHD Ftypes that I have found so far.  I have also prepared a version of

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed automated motorway_link mass edit

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Frederik Rammfrede...@remote.org wrote: Let me know what you think. I looked at a few of the ways near me and the changes looked good to me... -- Jeff Ollie ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] US Online Mapping Parties

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Tylertyler.ritc...@gmail.com wrote: You can check out the NAIP imagery to see if there're more recent data in your area http://www.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/naip03-08cov_maps.pdf which is downloadable at http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/GatewayHome.html it

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-newbies] Multiple gmapsupp.img files on Garmin

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:24 PM, swanilli swani...@gmail.com wrote: I have just accidentally discovered that it is possible to have multiple gmapsupp.img files on my Garmin Oregon 300. Since I have not seen this method mentioned anywhere else here it is. Actually, with the latest firmware

[Talk-us] 'Tis the season...

The wiki had no guidance, so how should one tag a Christmas Tree farm? The one I'd like to tag is a cut your own style out in the country, certainly the land could be tagged with landuse=farm but is there a shop= tag that could be added? -- Jeff Ollie

Re: [Talk-us] Ohio Statewide Imagery Program

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:44 PM, David ``Smith'' vidthe...@gmail.com wrote: I have recently noticed that Google Earth has incorporated OSIP (Ohio Statewide Imagery Program, http://ogrip.oit.ohio.gov/ProjectsInitiatives/StatewideImagery.aspx) imagery into their historical imagery feature.  

Re: [Talk-us] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying Interstate Relations

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Chris Hunter chunter...@gmail.com wrote: Last night, user NE2 cleaned up the interstate system by merging all of the states with 2 relations per interstate back into 1 relation with direction-based roles.  I've already requested a roll-back on the area I was

Re: [Talk-us] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying Interstate Relations

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Matthias Julius li...@julius-net.net wrote: Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us writes: What's more annoying is that he is changing the names/refs.   From what I understand the ref is supposed to be only the interstate/highway number (e.g. 90 or 80) and not I 90 (MN

Re: [Talk-us] FCC Antenna Structure Import

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote:    tag k=ele v=278.9/ By the way, what is the datum for the elevation figure? I don't believe that it is specified explicitly, but the latitude and longitude

[Talk-us] Higher Resolution Imagery for Wyandotte County, KS?

Does anyone know if there is a free source of higher resolution imagery for Wyandotte County, KS? I've gotten ahold of the NAIP imagery from 2008 and it isn't much better than the Yahoo imagery. Wyandotte County has imagery, but wants $$$. The Kansas Geospatial Commons doesn't appear to have

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest signs

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2010-03-03 15:35, Paul Johnson wrote: Alan Mintz wrote: How should one tag the name signs at the entrance to a national forest (e.g.

Re: [Talk-us] Terraserver Urban errors

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Nakor Osm nakor@gmail.com wrote: I have seen this too. Note that they moved there web site and using the new url http://msrmaps.com/ogcmap.ashx?version=1.1.1request=GetMapLayers=urbanareastyles=format=image/jpeg; is slightly better but still has issues.

[Talk-us] Google's Park Outlines?

Has anyone noticed that the park outlines in Google maps has been changing? They will either shrink and not cover parts of the park that it did before or they will expand and cover areas that are not part of the park. As an example:

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: good summary. and because of the rule fast food to be avoided I rarely map these. and interestingly I see more real restaurants and cafe in osm. are most mappers foodies? I tend to map whatever is on the ground,

[Talk-us] Civil Defense Sirens?

With the start of Tornado season in the Midwest upon us, I thought it would be interesting to map civil defense sirens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_defense_siren However, I can't find any existing examples and either I'm tired or coming down with something but I can't really think of a

Re: [Talk-us] Civil Defense Sirens?

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: Only if you have very very good imagery and know what you are looking at.  In Google's higher resolution imagery you can see them if you know what

Re: [Talk-us] Civil Defense Sirens?

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Lord-Castillo, Brett blord-casti...@stlouisco.com wrote: Just wondering what would be the purpose of mapping civil defense sirens? Because they are there isn't a good enough reason? You have to make some significant decisions of what kind of information to

Re: [Talk-us] Civil Defense Sirens?

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Kansas just tested them this morning. There is one on the roof of the building I work in. But even looking at the high res (1m) photos available from the county GIS website, all I can see is there is something there but

Re: [Talk-us] Reply-to field in list messages

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:59 PM, David ``Smith'' vidthe...@gmail.com wrote: Why doesn't the talk-us list use the reply-to field so that simple replies go to the list, not just the original poster?  The newbies list does that.  Every other e-mail list I've ever been on does that. So why not

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I see they are rendering highway shields. Didn't I see a big discussion about that here recently? :) Wonder if they are using the route relations to render them... Not sure what they are doing, because I-80 near

Re: [Talk-us] How to get college students involved?

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: John, Paul and Stefan are all doing mapping on their campuses, and they haven't given us links. Please show us your good work, gentlemen! Here's what I've done for the community college that I work for:

Re: [Talk-us] How to get college students involved?

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: John, Paul and Stefan are all doing mapping on their campuses, and they haven't

Re: [Talk-us] What would you want done with TIGER 2010?

I'm pretty sure that personal information isn't released, at least not for a very long time. This comes up in genealogical contexts where past censuses are very valuable in tracing your ancestry. I forget the exact number but its many decades, perhaps as many as 75-100. On Aug 24, 2010 6:12 PM,

Re: [Talk-us] Venues for State of the Map US and International Conferences (Peter Batty)

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com wrote: (if not, maybe Havana? - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2011/Bid/Havana,_Cuba ) Not that I have anything personal against Cuba, but having SOTM in Cuba would severely limit the participation by U.S.

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2010 Imports

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I really don't want to run into the situation we currently have with NHD where everyone is doing the conversion with different tools using different sets of mapping files and uploading in different ways. Let's have a

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2010 Imports

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: I'd start with getting a wiki page set up with the types of information

Re: [Talk-us] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Antony Pegg anttheli...@gmail.com wrote: knowing the amazing diligence of this community, I'm sure you guys will find tags we've missed that should or could be used for bike/pedestrian.  If you feel its worth mentioning, please please please provide some point

Re: [Talk-us] Civil War sites

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: Anyone interested in mapping civil war sites, maybe with a mapping party? I mention because the anniversaries are all coming up. Coincidentally I heard a segment on The Story last night about Garrett Silliman, an

Re: [Talk-us] Civil War sites

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: i'm debating whether or not i want to set up a parallel database, using the OSM design, to contain historical data that can be used in a mashup with OSM, and opening it up for historically minded mappers to use as a

Re: [Talk-us] Which county next?

On Jun 6, 2011 2:10 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: http://readwriteworld.cloudapp.net/?p=243 Right now it's going through King County, WA. Anyone have a preference for what order to go through the US? I'd love to see Polk County, Iowa...

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 09-06-2011

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 08:50 -0700, Clifford Snow wrote: I'm trying to download the 4G version, but it looks like the server may not be able to handle the load.  I'm wondering if anyone can put these up as a torrent feed? The

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 09-06-2011

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 12:29 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: Not that I've done this stuff before, but I'd look at opentracker, mktorrent, and using HTTP seeding: http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/ http

Re: [Talk-us] highway=cycleway or highway=path

From: David Turner nova...@novalis.org Like any router, OTP requires clear rules for whether a cyclist or a pedestrian may use a way.  But OTP does not restrict what tags are used to define these rules.  That is configurable on a per-install basis. So, if Portland are OSM editors decide that

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 09-06-2011

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: I'm regenerating a new set now.  How did you coax transmission in to giving you such nice debugging output? It's called Wireshark :) -- Jeff Ollie ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] amenity:fuel and fuel types for the US

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: So just tag it as fuel:octane_87, fuel:octane_89, etc. Not Sure about the kerosene. fuel:kerosene=yes would seem logical but I'm not sure what the non-taxable use has to do with things. I believe that this has to do

Re: [Talk-us] What should a US map of OSM data look like

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: A few of us were just asking on irc what a US-style tile theme would look like? Naturally, I think highway shields should be included. Lars Ahlzen suggested elevation in feet rather than metres. Ian Dees liked the idea

Re: [Talk-us] Brainstorm: What should a US map of OSM data look like

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Let's keep this more brainstormy and less discuss-y and debate-y for now, okay? Trim and add your ideas to the list for your reply.  We'll come back around for discussion later. ;-) A few of us were just asking on irc

Re: [Talk-us] What should a US map of OSM data look like

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 18:41 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Render shields at lower resolutions, since the US is not as dense as the UK. I'm curious how we'll handle this given the sheer number of route shields. A table

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2011-09-30

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: These are based off of Lambertus's work here:        http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl I wrote scripts to joined them myself to lessen the impact of doing a large join on Lambertus's server.  I've also cut them in large longitude

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2011-09-30

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 09:48 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: Also, it looks like the Oct 9th files are truncated as the 4000MB file is only 2.1G (usually they are around 3G). It says 3GB for me at the moment. [ ]4000MB-lon_

[Talk-us] Combining State/County Borders Physical Features?

I noticed in the past few days that user Alexander Roalter has been converting administrative boundaries in the Midwest to relations (which I think is good) but in some cases he's combined state and county boundaries with physical features, especially rivers. A prime example is the eastern border

Re: [Talk-us] One click quality printed maps (as an OSM advantage)

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Maposmatic - pretty one page map with street index. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maposmatic Appears idle http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ImgAtlas Perhaps this one for multipage?

Re: [Talk-us] One click quality printed maps (as an OSM advantage)

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: On 12/05/2011 09:48 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: I've tried a number of these options as well as Walking Papers as Brad mentioned but (when they worked) they failed for what I needed because they all used tiles downloaded

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2012-02-25

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: These are based off of Lambertus's work here:        http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl I wrote scripts to joined them myself to lessen the impact of doing a large join on Lambertus's server.  I've also cut them in large longitude

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: The problem with conflicts is if someone is splitting ways that are members of the US border relation down in Arizona while you are doing the same up in Washington. But in general I don't think this will be a huge

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. inland waterways

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone familiar with the regulations governing the U.S. inland waterways (such as the Mississippi River and the Intracoastal Waterway)? It's been a long time since I've done any boating, so I'm not an expert or

Re: [Talk-us] National Park boundaries

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: boundary=national_historic_site boundary=national_historic_park boundary=national_forest[1] There are 37 classes in total, most of them with only a few instances. What do y'all think of that idea? Perhaps add a

Re: [Talk-us] Fw: [CrisisMappers] RE: Need maps of the Jersey shore

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: Some mapping requests starting to come in on Crisis Mappers. The Jersey shore is particular is going to need remapping (destroyed beach front structures) Is there anyone supplying post-Sandy imagery that armchair mappers

Re: [Talk-us] Fw: [CrisisMappers] RE: Need maps of the Jersey shore

I see that they have added quite a bit more imagery, is there a way to view the imagery as one merged layer, rather than having to add each separate flight as a layer? On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Chris Lawrence lordsu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: The Iowa DNR has an ongoing project to provide statewide geocoding data. As of this summer they had about 50% of the state covered: http

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Jeffrey Ollie wrote: It looks pretty good from what I saw, with the obvious exception that newer homes aren't tagged. I'm going to clean up my code a bit and stick it up on github somewhere. If you chaps are all

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2013-01-11

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: Downloads: http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2013-01-11 These appear to be incomplete - all of the files are only 3.5K each! -- Jeff Ollie ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: I always find it boggling that open data projects are willing to use google docs and google hangouts. It would be really nice to at least have the data in a free software/free culture compatible place like an OSM foundation

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Brian Cavagnolo bcavagn...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding the data gathering, the main objective is to gather recent raw data, licensing terms, and meta data from jurisdictions in whatever form they make it available, organize it in a dumb directory structure. I

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: +1 on this, one step at a time. Lets just get the data first. I don't think we should worry about importing or standardizing into anything yet. That step should happen once we have a pretty good size sample of

[Talk-us] RAGBRAI Mapping

I know that in the past there has been some interest in RAGBRAI among OpenStreetMappers (if you're not familiar with RAGBRAI it's best described as a week-long moving party where to have to ride your bicycle from party location to party location). The detailed route was announced last week, so I

Re: [Talk-us] RAGBRAI Mapping

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: Also, what's the best way to share this with non-OSM people? The route is starting to be rendered on OpenCycleMap, except that it doesn't show

Re: [Talk-us] RAGBRAI Mapping

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:35 AM, KerryIrons irons54vor...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I hope you are aware that the RAGBRAI route changes every year. And that is not just adjustments to the route but rather completely different routes each year. While routes may repeat after a few years, if you did

Re: [Talk-us] RAGBRAI Mapping

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm... I might look at doing something similar for Biking Across Kansas. Not sure if these event routes really belong in OSM as a route relation though. They do not indicate a route that should be generally preferred

Re: [Talk-us] RAGBRAI Mapping

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Again, I wasn't saying it shouldn't be in OSM at all. I was saying that it shouldn't be tagged as a regional cycle network. Because it isn't. I'm flexible on the tagging, as long as I can figure out a reasonable way to

Re: [Talk-us] Airport Tagging

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Rick Marshall rick.marsh...@verticalgeo.com wrote: 2. Who decides the geographical limits of an aerodrome? If you don't have parcel data from a government GIS department, I would go with the fence that surrounds most airports if it's visible in the Bing

Re: [Talk-us] Update for Great Smoky Mountains National Park

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.gov wrote: Great Smoky Mountains National Park is planning to update its core base data. We have identified many inconsistencies in online location-based data which often results in hazardous navigation scenarios for park visitors

Re: [Talk-us] Update for Great Smoky Mountains National Park

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.gov wrote: A Linux conference in east TN?!! Nah, in Charleston, SC actually, but since I'd probably be driving from Iowa the park wouldn't be far out of the way. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flock If I do it, I'd like to make

Re: [Talk-us] Oklahoma disaster mapping

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: HOT is engaged, but right now as http://mapmill.hotosm.org/sort/ok/ Very nice, but the text of the instructions refers to Hurricane Sandy. Is there an official announcement that I could re-share on FB or G+ to get some

Re: [Talk-us] Cemeteries in OSM?

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.gov wrote: Are there any examples of detailed cemetery mapping in OSM? E.g. individual head-stones are mapped with interred information. Is this even an appropriate use of OSM? I have a cemetery mapping project with LOTS of good

Re: [Talk-us] scanned USGS Topo Layer?

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.org wrote: Yes, exactly. I know we're all obsessed with computers and stuff, but those guys were damn good at what they did, and shouldn't be underestimated. (Whether the maps are at an appropriate scale is a different

Re: [Talk-us] State of the Map US 2015 is over - thank you!

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: (which were all recorded by the way, so you can watch them at your leisure if you want — http://stateofthemap.us/program/). Why are all of the videos unlisted on YouTube? I like to watch these sort of videos on my TV,

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:16 PM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote: Me collecting firewood makes this a forest producing timber. Full stop. So my backyard is a forest now? My backyard has trees, and I collect all of the downed branches and use them when I build fires in my fire pit.

Re: [Talk-us] Timezones in USA?

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > I don't know how time zones are defined "at the source" but it is very > unlikely that someone puts up signs. > In the US, they do put up signs, at least along major roads. -- Jeff Ollie

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