Thanks Drew! I don't have any legs to stand on anymore so i'm also going to bow out of the conversation :)
Anything you decide to do is fine with me Frederik. Sincerely, Vivek Bansal On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 10:07 AM Drew Dara-Abrams <d...@dara-abrams.com> wrote: > Hi Vivek, Interline's OSM Extracts service generates extracts for all of > those California metro regions that you list -- all extracts are updated > daily. See https://www.interline.io/osm/extracts/ and > https://github.com/interline-io/osm-extracts/blob/master/cities.json > > Hi Frederik, we see the Interline OSM Extracts service as complementary to > Geofabrik, rather than trying to compete. Our own interest is in city/metro > extracts, as our clients use these to power routing engines and other > transportation analysis applications at the regional scale. It's great to > have the comprehensive country and state coverage provided by Geofabrik. > Feel free to drop me a line anytime at d...@interline.io. > > I'm a native Californian and know how contentious the intra-state divides > can be... so I'll now leave this thread :) > > Drew > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 10:12 PM Vivek Bansal <3viv...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I told you Californians loved attention! >> >> I picked 6 Californias because I thought it was the nicest way to divide >> up the state into equally sized shapes with some reference to political >> boundaries. I also "detest" the politics of breaking up California but I >> like the geospatial organization. >> >> I don't have an opinion where a north south line would go. >> >> That being said, (I think i'm repeating myself in a slightly different >> way i'm sorry for that) alternatively would you consider adding a few of >> the most populous regions and cities to the sub of California like you do >> for Germany? Just as you have an extract for Brandenberg (mit Berlin) as >> well as Berlin, could you do the San Francisco Bay area as well as San >> Francisco? To make it easy, perhaps just use similar boundaries that >> existed for Metro Extracts - >> https://github.com/mapzen/metro-extracts/blob/master/cities.json namely: >> - san-francisco-bay_california >> - san-francisco_california >> - san-jose_california >> - los-angeles_california >> - san-diego_california >> >> There must have been a demand for those regions to be added to that list >> and I think the vast majority of analyses would take place at these levels. >> >> Thanks so much! >> >> -Vivek >> >> On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 8:11 PM Tod Fitch <t...@fitchdesign.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> > On Nov 6, 2018, at 1:58 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea < >>> stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > Taken "straight across the state" (west to east), following the >>> political boundaries of "the northern edges of three counties" >>> (admin_level=6) to break up a state (admin_level=4), it's both easy >>> (technically, simply "10 counties out of 58" or "northern edges of three >>> counties"), agreeable by many, a political reality right now, mostly >>> straight along a similar latitude line and already somewhat harmonious >>> among the relatively small sample of people here on this list who have >>> something to say about it. (Not that we're definitive, nor am I, >>> personally). But, look, we did come to a rough consensus on a relatively >>> simple solution rather quickly and easily. >>> > >>> > I say "we've thrown it against the wall, and it seems to stick." >>> (Though of course, more discussion is welcome). >>> > >>> > SteveA >>> > California >>> >>> +1 to this. Seems like a reasonable place to make a division to me. >>> >>> Tod >>> also in California >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-us mailing list >>> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> >
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