[Talk-us] New York Times Article Mentions OSM

2012-07-30 Thread Mike Thompson
For those who may not have seen this: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/business/28map.html?_r=3 ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-30 Thread Apollinaris Schöll
great idea, have done it manually from time to time when I edit tiger data. just adding my support after reading pro/con for certain tags. Ideally you can come up with a default list and users can extend it. On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Toby Murray wrote: > Some people may not even be awar

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
So I transferred the attributes from the middlesex node to the relation and deleted the node, lets see how this works. If I was to complain about one thing nominatim related it would be the documentation. While I was able to find some pretty detailed info for installing it, but less about how

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > "Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)" writes: > >> So basically if we see nodes like that, get rid of them? > > No, I think it's: > > If there's a node for the place, it's progress to replace it with a > polygon. Correct. The answer is "If you see b

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
*constructively get rid of them For places that already have boundary relations (like Middlesex county) what is the best method to do that -Original Message- From: Greg Troxel [mailto:g...@ir.bbn.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 2:57 PM To: Metcalf, Calvin Cc: 'Serge Wroclawski'; talk-u

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Greg Troxel
"Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)" writes: > So basically if we see nodes like that, get rid of them? No, I think it's: If there's a node for the place, it's progress to replace it with a polygon. Not Just delete place nodes pgpaHaOu9jRqT.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
So basically if we see nodes like that, get rid of them? -Original Message- From: Serge Wroclawski [mailto:emac...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 12:06 PM To: Metcalf, Calvin Cc: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim On Mon, Jul

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: > So I'm somewhat confused about how nominatim actually works. A good example > is the building I work in (10 park plaza Boston ma) the version of nominitum > on the website gets the correct location on the first try (note mapquest ha

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Greg Troxel
10, Park Plaza, Central Square, Bay Village, Middlesex, Massachusetts, 02116, United States of America. http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=21777524 The "Central Square", "Bay Village" and "Middlesex" are what are confusing me as they look to be points and I'm not sur

Re: [Talk-us] NYC administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > On 07/29/2012 11:56 PM, Skye Book wrote: > >>> Do we have a source for NYC administrative boundaries? > > > http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/districtsmetadata.shtml I'm not sure of the license situation with any of the NYC.gov datasets.

[Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
So I'm somewhat confused about how nominatim actually works. A good example is the building I work in (10 park plaza Boston ma) the version of nominitum on the website gets the correct location on the first try (note mapquest has it as the 3rd result) but they have it as being 10, Park Plaza, Ce

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-30 Thread Phil! Gold
* Alan Mintz [2012-07-29 18:54 -0700]: > [1] When combining ways in JOSM (at least), values for tiger:* tags > are combined with ":" (colon) as a delimiter, instead of ";" > (semi-colon). Why, and should this be changed? I believe this behavior was intended to make tiger:tlid merging work a littl

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-30 Thread Mike N
On 7/30/2012 7:18 AM, David ``Smith'' wrote: Wasn't someone working on importing address data from TIGER? I was under the impression that may have depended on tiger:tlid tags on objects already in OSM, but wasn't sure… TIGER address data isn't nearly accurate enough to import into OSM. Addre

Re: [Talk-us] NYC administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Richard Welty
On 7/30/12 5:11 AM, Kevin Kenny wrote: On 07/29/2012 11:56 PM, Skye Book wrote: Do we have a source for NYC administrative boundaries? http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/districtsmetadata.shtml there also should be boundaries in TIGER. most of the problems i've seen with nominatim and b

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-30 Thread David ``Smith''
Wasn't someone working on importing address data from TIGER? I was under the impression that may have depended on tiger:tlid tags on objects already in OSM, but wasn't sure… On Jul 30, 2012 1:50 AM, "Alan" wrote: > On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 16:21 -0500, Toby Murray wrote: > > tiger:tlid - there seems

Re: [Talk-us] NYC administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Kevin Kenny
On 07/29/2012 11:56 PM, Skye Book wrote: Do we have a source for NYC administrative boundaries? http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/districtsmetadata.shtml And what are boroughs in terms of "place"? I'm thinking county- though that's not right. Certainly the populations should be added.