Does anyone know someone who lives in the "disputed" area? If so, then one definitive information point is what local government elections he/she can vote in.
-jack -- Typos courtesy of fancy auto spell technology On January 26, 2019 8:50:39 PM EST, Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >Do the latest NGS topographical maps show the city limits properly? >Those >are public domain >On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 10:16 AM OSM Volunteer stevea < >[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jan 26, 2019, at 4:00 AM, Andy Townsend <[email protected]> wrote: >> > A mapper has recently changed this to "cut the corner off" north of >the >> 880 between San Jose airport and Stevens Creek Mall / Westfield >Valley >> Fair. You can see the change at >> >http://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=66619223&zoom=18&lat=37.33883&lon=-121.93327&layers=B0TTTFT >> . >> > >> > Some of this mapper's previous changes have had to be undone, so I >did >> check the node change made here to see if it might be one of them. >> However, according to the node history >> >https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/373647840/history#map=13/37.3600/-121.9066 >> the original source of this node was a changeset quite a while ago >with a >> description "adjust boundaries based on san jose city map, bing, and >common >> sense ". It therefore would be great if a local could check it if >possible. >> >> I'm fairly local (SJC is my "home airport") yet I'm not finding >> easily-available San José City Limit boundaries in an ODbL-compatible >> format which I could use to relatively quickly repair the damage. >(The >> user mk408 has a history of "making it up as he sees fit" OSM data >entry >> which many have disputed or redacted, for example, many years ago he >made >> MANY roads in the entire South Bay region — Campbell, Los Gatos, >Monte >> Sereno, southern San José —into highway=tertiary roads, and that >remained >> very questionable until it slowly but surely "healed itself," again, >this >> took months-to-years). There are some geo data at >> http://csj-landzoning.appspot.com/index.html which indicate the >present >> OSM data are "largely correct," the exception being that the area >directly >> over the northern part of the airport do not include the "leg" that >> "covers" runway 12L/30R and that the acute angle over taxiways V, W >and W1 >> is more like "aligned with these taxiways, rather than cutting across >> them." You really have to see them rather than expect that I can >describe >> them with text. They are, again, "mostly correct" but could use some >> rather minor correction. >> >> As I bumped into somebody on a plane on my way back from SOTM-US >Seattle >> (2016) who works in the San José City Hall and when she met me was >bowled >> over at the coincidence that I was the very person sitting next to >her >> drinking gin and tonic who entered into OSM most of Santa Clara >County's >> bikeways/bicycle infrastructure and network=lcn routing (which the >city >> office found "extremely helpful" — her words), it's conceivable that >I >> might be able to use that to sway release of some data which could be >> forthcoming. While I don't know quite who to call, exactly, if >somebody >> wants to "release to me" ODbL-compatible data which need to be >harmonized >> with what are now in OSM, I'll volunteer to be the "nexus of citizen >entry" >> to assure they find their way into our wonderful map. Send me a >pointer to >> the data, assure me they are ODbL-OK and I'll "merge" these into OSM. >> >> SteveA >> California >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >>
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