Re: [Talk-us] Reference numbers to use for hiking trail route relations

On 10/11/20 6:42 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 6:09 PM Mark Brown > wrote: Just mapping some of the trails in the Cabinet Mountains in the Idaho panhandle, from the US Topo Maps. Noticed that the trails have numbers. What should I p

Re: [Talk-us] Trouble with getting Superior National Forest

I'm with Kevin, SteveA, etc,  here.   In the part of the world that I live, a map without national forest & BLM boundaries is very incomplete.   A useful OSM needs this.   The useful boundary would be the actual ownership boundary, not the outer potential ownership boundary.   Messy, I know.

Re: [Talk-us] Opinions on Devil's Slide Bunker (San Mateo, CA)

Agree, it seems pretty clear.   Even if the signs are universally ignored,  OSM shouldn't mislead everyone about the legality. On 8/30/20 12:01 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, "Devil's Slide Bunker" is a WW2 observation point near Pacifica in San Mateo County in California. OSM has the bunker li

Re: [Talk-us] Labeling forestry service roads/tracks

of a compacted road and create a ball bearing interface?   If they grade it after initial construction, do they subsequently compact it again too? On 7/19/20 9:27 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 9:29 PM brad <mailto:bradha...@fastmail.com>> wrote: Thanks for diving in.  

Re: [Talk-us] Labeling forestry service roads/tracks

map & it says FR or FS, they probably won't even notice. Keep this in mind when getting frustrated with the tiger data, I think we would have next to nothing if it didn't get imported. Brad On 7/19/20 5:50 PM, Dave Swarthout wrote: Mike, welcome to the real world. Tiger stree

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest boundaries

I've been struggling with this for roads.   Unfortunately on the ground survey is the best.   There are a few cases where property owners have put up illegal, or very misleading signs.  The motor vehicle use map (MVUM) is helpful, but usually not accurate outside NF boundary, but maybe good for

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest boundaries

On 6/20/20 6:19 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:45 PM stevea > wrote: > > I think we need both as well.  I've been doing this while watching the evolution of how we best do this as I participate in a "do our best, always better" efforts t

Re: [Talk-us] USFS Roads - name and ref

On 6/6/20 9:24 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 8:24 AM Mike Thompson > wrote: ref: The wiki states that these should be ref=FR + . In practice: * ref:usfs=FS + * ref=FS + Most of the changesets that added a "ref:usfs" tag include a

Re: [Talk-us] Off-highway vehicle recreation areas

Good question.   At first glance I don't think Leisure=park is wrong.  The wiki is characteristically narrow since it says that it is green.   leisure=sports_center or landuse=recreation_ground would be better.   leisure=pitch doesn't seem right even thought the sport=motocross wiki page refere

Re: [Talk-us] Taking a break and a call for help

How can I tell who is a one-edit-and-done spam, amazon logistics account, and who is a first edit noob? On 3/20/20 5:07 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: So, you all know at this point that I've been heavily invested in editing OSM and contributing to my maximum activity, less as a need to help a charit

Re: [Talk-us] Jefferson Notch Road and latest "GPS made me do it" in the news

Considering the keys pointed to by Zeke, I also like winter_service=no. There are a few US or state highways in CO which close, the tagging is not consistent. US 34, Independence pass https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/627645541#map=17/39.10849/-106.55914 "motor_vehicle"="conditional=no @ winte

Re: [Talk-us] Alaska Highway AK-2 tagging

I'm not expressing strong opposition because consistency with the adjacent highways is important, and also because I don't live up there, but the wiki makes sense, trunk is a divided highway. Both this: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Road_classification#Trunk and the US sect

Re: [Talk-us] Opinions on micro parks

At the rough level presented here, I think all of these could and probably should be validly tagged as leisure=park, particularly if a local mapper has tagged them as such.    I don't think it makes sense to limit the size, that seems to be micromanaging (no pun intended :)). Sometimes people

Re: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

I like this better than calling a state park a national park. Tagging them state parks with the national park tag is an abstract concept that will just result in confusion.   If the consensus is to tag them the same then I suggest depracting the national park tag and coming up with something el

Re: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

On 4/29/19 4:11 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: brad writes: It seems that plain language can be used here, and from the Oxford dictionary, a park is: No. Plain language cannot be used to define what tags mean. Each tag is actually a codepoint, not human language, and needs a definition. That is

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

Agreed, emphasis in Kevin's text is mine. It looks like some of this redefinition of the park tag is new?   ie the human sculpted part, and the attempt to restrict the usage. Perhaps clarity is needed, but more narrowly defined than the Oxford dictionary, or common usage, is not needed. On 4/

Re: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

It seems that plain language can be used here, and from the Oxford dictionary, a park is: " A large public garden or area of land used for recreation." It doesn't restrict, as the leisure:park wiki does, to smaller, urban human-sculpted parks. In CO the county, city (some very large parks), and

Re: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

Unless we're going to be clear that a national park is a park owned/operated by a nation,  I'd be on board with this. Associating it with size is too ambiguous On 4/29/19 5:24 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: OSM Volunteer stevea writes: How much consensus IS there for tagging national_park on "large

Re: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

Agreed. 'National Park' is very specific.   We have national parks and we have state, county, regional ... parks. National: *: *belonging to or maintained by the federal government https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/national On 4/27/19 8:06 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Apr 24,

Re: [Talk-us] trail tagging

r bridleway instead.   It would be nice if new mappers didn't get discouraged by the confusion. On 4/19/19 8:28 AM, brad wrote: Everywhere I've been in the US or Canada a dirt 'way' too narrow for a 4 wheel vehicle is called a trail, path, or single track. For the most part

[Talk-us] trail tagging

Everywhere I've been in the US or Canada a dirt 'way' too narrow for a 4 wheel vehicle is called a trail, path, or single track.   For the most part they are appropriately (IMO) tagged as path. Unfortunately the wiki says this for highway:path (the highlighting is mine): /A non-specific path.

Re: [Talk-us] Online mappy hour

I'll be traveling, but I'll try to dial in. On 3/18/19 12:20 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: On Mar 18, 2019, at 1:57 PM, Richard Welty wrote: [..] next thursday as in the 21st or the 28th? i'm going to be on my flight to IETF on the 21st but back on the 28th if the airlines cooperate. Sorry, I

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2019-02-10

Which style did you use? On 2/12/19 9:37 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel free to ask. However, please do not send me private mail. The odds are, someone

Re: [Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

I'm going to start close to home, extend that to the state of CO, & see how it goes. I've done quite a bit of recreating and boondock camping on BLM land and I've never come across any that are leased exclusively, altho I'm sure there are some.    It's more of a rarity, than 'most of'. Politic

Re: [Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

on, or a skinny polygon associated with those artifacts.  I'm guessing that there is BLM land in the adjacent state. Dave, Thanks for being a voice of reason! Brad On 1/6/19 3:36 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote: Ian Dees wrote: >"Those things shouldn't be in OSM either&quo

Re: [Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

n't use OSM for building footprints, we use it to find our way in the national forest, the BLM land and the national parks.   It's very useful to know what is public or private land. Brad On 1/5/19 8:19 PM, Ian Dees wrote: Hi Brad, thanks for proposing this import and posting it her

[Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

e({'operator':'BLM'})     tags.update({'ownership':'national'})     tags.update({'protect_class':'27'})     tags.update({'source':'US BLM'})     use the shapefile attribute 'Unit_Nm' as the name Import wi

Re: [Talk-us] Strange city boundary: Lee, Illinois

Minnesota has around 40 cross-county cities, most of which have just a small portion in the second county. St. Cloud is notable for being in three counties! https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/137238 On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 9:01 AM Clifford Snow wrote: > Yes - a city can cover more than one c

Re: [Talk-us] possible upgrade for residential roads in Detroit

Looked at your examples, and an upgrade makes sense to me. If I see roads like this, I tend to upgrade to a lower level tag (ie tertiary) unless I understand the road network pretty well. Locals can always bump up the level later if it seems justified. Cheers, Brad (neuhausr) On Wed, Aug 16

Re: [Talk-us] Differences with USA admin_level tagging

Frederik's description of colored polygons made me think of the French OSM instance, which can display admin level, ie http://layers.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=5&lat=39.9597&lon=-78.77311&layers=0B000FFFTFF Regarding Native American reservations, while there "is no consensus" there are

Re: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints

I think this is it? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Available_Building_Footprints On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Rihards wrote: > On 2017.03.22. 18:37, Clifford Snow wrote: > > I am happy to announce that Microsoft has made available approximately > > 9.8 million building footprints includ

Re: [Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

Also see "But is the Blue Ridge Parkway a National Park?" on the Blue Ridge FAQ: https://www.nps.gov/blri/planyourvisit/np-versus-nf.htm According to that it is a "National Park Service area" but not a park. The NPS makes this distinction on their nomenclature page ( https://www.nps.gov/parkhisto

Re: [Talk-us] Is USBR 11 in Maryland complete/correct in OSM?

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Kerry Irons wrote: > The NB route uses Keep Tryst Rd. west from the path to connect with US 340 > for about 1,500 ft. headed east and then onto the ramp to SR 67. The SB > route takes the right hand ramp from the southern end of SR 67 onto US 340 > for about 500

Re: [Talk-us] Per-State relations for the Appalachian Trail

What about just combining the relations for selected states where the AT crosses back and forth across the state border, like TN/NC and VA/WV? On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > > On May 2, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Mike N wrote: > > > > On 5/2/2016 11:41 AM, Elliott Plack wro

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal: Sunset ref=* on ways in, favor of relations

Some states have similar pages on the wiki. Many are linked from the list at the bottom of the US Numbered Highway Relations page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_Numbered_Highway_Relations#See_also One theoretical upside of the wiki lists is that people can leave comments about wh

Re: [Talk-us] Someone please check Beaver Lake, AR

I'm guessing that's the issue--all the tags should be on the relation (once), not duplicated on the individual outer ways that make up the relation. On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Mike Henson wrote: > I noticed Beaver Lake AR is no longer showing up as a lake on the map. > https://www.openstre

Re: [Talk-us] Cycle_greenway

All occurrences of cycleway=cycle_greenway seem to be in Seattle as of now: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/bI5 There are at least a few different accounts adding that tag, but STBrenden included the greenway tag in some changeset comments (ie http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/21347401). Have you

Re: [Talk-us] Question?

I think there's also this? http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/303225395 On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Richard Welty wrote: > On 6/29/15 3:58 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > > Is there any feature on the ground that can be surveyed? From the > > image it doesn't appear that the site has any historic

Re: [Talk-us] Proper tagging for crosswalks

Small detail, but if it's a bike trail, bicycle=designated is probably better than bicycle=yes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bicycle#Bicycle_Restrictions On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Jim McAndrew wrote: > Paul, Bryan, > > Thanks for your help with this! My issue was with bicycle trails

Re: [Talk-us] Paved Shoulder Tag for US Highways

cycleway=shoulder is used in the US too: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/9IE That seems to more accurately describe the situation, so I'd suggest using that tag. I wouldn't use cycleway=lane since I'd expect that to be marked as such. (basically +1 to Richard's follow up post on the forum http://forum

Re: [Talk-us] Removing a CDP

CDPs. > https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/gtc/gtc_place.html Actual local administrative entities tend to be Places and sometimes County Subdivisions, but it really varies by state. If you want to dig that deep, you can view info about each state's census geography here: https://www.census.gov/

Re: [Talk-us] NYC High Line is Wonky on OSM

Seems like it might be better to tag it as man_made=bridge rather than building=* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dbridge On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Elliott Plack wrote: > Friends, > > I was attempting to do some pedestrian routing on the High Line (the > elevated park i

Re: [Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap

ki/Demolished_Railway or the linked thread), it seems like most people have been OK in the end with keeping abandoned in OSM but not keen on the demolished/razed features. Brad > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gis.19

Re: [Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap

I understand keeping a feature in OSM if there is a remnant of the railroad, but there are areas where everything has been replatted, regraded and redeveloped, yet there is still a "razed" feature in OSM (for one small example, see https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?#map=16/38.8663/-94.7943). This

Re: [Talk-us] USA Rail: Calling all OSM railfans! (especially in California)

sing their railroads! :) Thanks, Brad [1] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/old_railway_operator [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key%3Aold_railway_operator [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railways [4] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States/Railways On Wed, Mar 18,

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Mike N wrote: > On 2/4/2015 11:25 PM, Greg Morgan wrote: > >> addr:housenumber contains both the number >> and the building letter in the same field. The map is useful because >> you can find the building. How have other people tried to handle these >> situation

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

> > > I punted. When Josm added a preset that included addr:flats, then I > > started using that tag. Right or wrong I figured most of the other > > tags are Euro-English coloured, so to speak, that it did not mater if > > I used addr:flats verses addr:unit. >

Re: [Talk-us] CDP tagging

+1 to not having statistical boundaries in OSM. Even actual legal administrative boundaries change as there are annexations, detachments, mergers, improved accuracy, etc., so what's in OSM (or from the Census) should be used with that in mind too. On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Harald Kliems wr

[Talk-us] admin level for US states

I can't speak to the other countries you mention, but Japan's prefectures are the equivalent of US states, and both are admin_level 4. The Japanese "states" (doshusei) listed for admin_level 3 on the wiki page seem to be some sort of experiment in regional administration. More info in English here:

Re: [Talk-us] Who controls data: Google Maps, others erasing Hollywood sign, but it's in OSM

Could you include the new node in the relation as role=label? That's at least somewhat documented... On Thursday, November 27, 2014, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2014-11-26 18:30 GMT+01:00 Andrew Wiseman >: > >> That was me -- but I would argue it's an unusual way to tag it -- it's >> not the

Re: [Talk-us] admin level for US states

Here is the most recent thread on the tagging list about Indian reservations: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-November/020160.html Neither of the proposals mentioned in the thread advocates using admin_level On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Richard Welty wrote: > On 11/25

Re: [Talk-us] admin level for US states

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Jack Burke wrote: > I would point out that the legal status of U.S. States is slightly > different than that of provinces (and likely of states in other countries). > For one thing, U.S. States exist in their own right and do not drive their > existence from a hi

Re: [Talk-us] Second thoughts

It's in pretty wide use (35K uses), so I created a page in the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:unsigned_ref But I don't really know the details of usage or best practice, so I hope others can fix and add to what's there... On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Jack Burke wrote: > OSM h

Re: [Talk-us] Vandalism

Since you asked, I think that's an overreaction. It's one small edit, seems likely it was a mistake by a new user, and the user responded when contacted. I don't know why we should demonize someone because they tried to add their business to OSM and messed up. On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Greg

Re: [Talk-us] User going around adding '-' to ref tags in Michigan

This has probably come up in the past, but Michigan's state highways are signed and referred to as "M ##" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Michigan_Highways It's also mentioned on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Michigan/Highway_Relations, which differentiates between the network abbreviatio

Re: [Talk-us] Merging NYC buildings

think is best. The theory (borne out in practice thus far) is that over time the data quality line keeps trending upwards. Best, Brad On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Reilly, Colin wrote: > " All that a particular data source can be authoritative for is what that > data source says

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2014 update

> > you will need to figure out your state's FIPS code to figure out the > state files of interest. > > You'll probably also want to find out the county FIPS code, so you can get the data for a particular area of interest--statewide files can get a little large! You can find the state and county co

Re: [Talk-us] Taxiways and runways in mapnik?

>From osm-talk: On 7 September 2014 13:51, Gorm E. Johnsen wrote: > Any changes to runways and taxiways? > These seem to have an issue at the moment. Hard to tell at a glance due to > cached tiles and rendering ques. > But at least they were not rendered at zoom 15 at one recent point in time. T

Re: [Talk-us] routing tags used by actual routing applications

to provide additional data on such > tracks, which I realize is a universally agreed solution, but it's the best > one I've found to date; I'd be open to further suggestions. > > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer < > dieterdre...@gmail.com&g

Re: [Talk-us] routing tags used by actual routing applications

Just trying to process this: wouldn't a tracktype 1 be tagged as unclassified or residential anyway? Or to ask a different way, assuming that roads with houses should be tagged as residential, when should one tag a sub-tertiary road as track vs. using unclassified? On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:21 AM

Re: [Talk-us] Creating a multipolygon of a body of water across state boundaries

name. Sometimes I also see them tagged with landcover (ie natural=forest, etc) Cheers, Brad On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Will Skora wrote: > I noticed that some islands within Pymatuning Reservoir > ttps://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/41.6074/-80.5203 , a large reservoir > that

Re: [Talk-us] Sidewalks as footpaths

b would be physically separate enough :) Brad On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > I do that too - but only when the sidewalk is really physically separate > from the main roadway. > > So I would add a separate highway=footway here: http://binged.it/1fttMse > But n

Re: [Talk-us] Burning Man old data, publicity opportunity

You might want to check out this thread from last year: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-August/011641.html Cheers, Brad On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:16 PM, robmorgan78 wrote: > Hello everyone, I am doing a project in my GIS class that involves working > with a shap

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways

That's totally where my mind went! :) On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hah. This should be an interesting one then, for trekkies at least: > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/187922/7-9.png > > Create your own at http://shields.aaroads.com/generator.php > > Mart

Re: [Talk-us] Rural Montana - can we find local mappers?

e a few fairly regular OSM users in Montana/Idaho who you might contact. Brad On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Russell Deffner wrote: > Wolfgang, > > Lots of rural United States, as well as many places do not currently have a > local mapping community. We are working on it, and a goo

Re: [Talk-us] Tags to use for chain stores in the United States

That'd probably be something to take to the tagging list... Brad On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2013/12/11 Brad Neuhauser > >> Personally, I tag "big box" stores like Target, KMart, WalMart etc with >> shop=department_store

Re: [Talk-us] Tags to use for chain stores in the United States

in Chicago, and found Targets tagged department_store, supermarket, and hypermarket(!) Brad On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Russell Deffner wrote: > Seems the stores you listed are going to have different tags, example the > 'dollar' stores are probably best tagged shop=variety_store, the w

Re: [Talk-us] Freeway directions

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System#Primary_.28one-_and_two-digit.29_routes_.28contiguous_U.S..29: "In the numbering scheme, east-west highways are assigned even numbers and north-south highways are assigned odd numbers. Odd route numbers increase from west to east, and eve

Re: [Talk-us] Question about incorrect data for an administrative area

are some issues. However, I think they're more with how Nominatim uses the data than the data itself. One way around it, which I mentioned in an earlier response, may be to use the zip code instead of city name in a search. Cheers, Brad On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Jay Boyer wrote: &

Re: [Talk-us] Las Vegas region administrative areas

ten do not match in the US. If you omit the city (and even state) and just search for "Summers Ranch Ct, 89139", it returns the correct result. Brad On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2013/10/11 Mike N > >> There was a good question pos

Re: [Talk-us] Cemeteries in OSM?

Regarding the Congressional Cemetery example, it seems a bit odd to me to tag graves "tourism=attraction". The other tags seem to make sense and are basically in line with info on the wiki. Am wondering if it's just tagging for the renderer? Brad On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:

Re: [Talk-us] Lake Powell

tion=370015 The relationship looks good to me, but there must be something wrong still. Unless someone else figures it out in the meantime, I'll try to look at it OSM Inspector once it refreshes and identify what the remaining issue is. Cheers, Brad (aka neuhausr) ps--really fun topography to

Re: [Talk-us] what do we mean by geocoding?

One more point of good news/bad news to add: the Census did do its best to collect GPS coords for most structures during the 2010 Census, but will not be sharing that anytime soon: https://www.census.gov/privacy/data_protection/gps_coordinates.html On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Steven Johnson

[Talk-us] Removing US Bicycle Route tags

Kerry, NE2 has been indefinitely banned (see http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-May/010867.html ) so if you want these changed, have at it. Cheers, Brad On Wednesday, June 5, 2013, KerryIrons wrote: > Nathan, > > 3 months ago we discussed the existence of US Bicy

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping Party

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch_2/Shortcuts Happy mapping! Brad On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > That's great to hear! > Putting CalU on the map sounds like a good objective; except for one > building there is no trace of CalU on OSM as yet...

Re: [Talk-us] Possible coping from Google Maps

ed on other sources. Regardless, the idea I just gave, like the original post, is speculation. If you're concerned, contact the user directly FIRST, as suggested here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FAQ#I_think_someone.27s_been_entering_copyrighted_data_-_how_do_we_deal_with_that.3F Cheers

Re: [Talk-us] Is there a great geo event that we don't have on our calendar yet? Let me know!

How about the 2013 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial North America (FOSS4G-NA) conference? It'll be May 22-24 in Minneapolis, MN http://foss4g-na.org/ On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Alex Barth wrote: > > http://www.openstreetmap.us/calendar/ > > Alex Barth > http://twitter.com/lxb

Re: [Talk-us] Tags for Emergency Interstate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_route#Emergency_detour_routes On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:19 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > > What is an "emergency Interstate"? I don't think I have ever heard that > phrase before. Is it a detour to be used while the Interstate highway is > under repair? > > -

Re: [Talk-us] National Map Corps Revived - And Using the OSM Stack

I watched it after Ian sent the link. According to the video, it uses Potlatch 2 to gather a very limited set of POIs in the initial pilot area of Colorado. I was kind of curious if there was going to be any interaction with OSM other than using the tool stack. Brad On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4

Re: [Talk-us] More things that are no longer there: schools.

If the building is still there, but not used as a school, I'd tag the building with old_name=[school_name]. Sometimes the name is still chiseled on the side somewhere. Brad On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > As I've mentioned in the past, I have some per

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

Also: -Export images using the Export tab -Walking Papers http://walking-papers.org/ (my favorite quick printed map solution) On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Richard Weait wrote: > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Bryce Nesbitt > wrote: > > > > There's something OSM could do well, that Google

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

just an FYI--some states have laws limiting who can access voter data and/or what purposes the data can be used for (usually related to elections/campaigning) On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Anthony wrote: > Voter records are a good idea. And business registration records / > business tax reco

Re: [Talk-us] County borders vs. State borders

OK, "hoping" would be more accurate than "assuming" :) Thanks for finding the general statutes online, Nathan! On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 10/18/2011 8:44 AM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: > >> the Census has county boundaries goin

Re: [Talk-us] County borders vs. State borders

About Minnesota's counties on Lake Superior, the Census has county boundaries going to the state border with WI/MI, and I'm assuming they did their homework. Still, I'll try to double check the legal definitions today. Brad On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Greg Troxel wrot

Re: [Talk-us] Announcement: Address Improvement project

Calvin, getting back to your original comment, what exactly do you mean "use ZIP codes"? They are currently tagged with the key addr:postcode. Are you proposing an import or some other way to use the Census ZCTA data? Brad On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) <

Re: [Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

nt to continue that discussion... Brad [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Functional_Classification_System <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Functional_Classification_System> [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:United_States_roads_tagging On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:4

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

regardless of population: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Place I started "upgrading" some county seats in NW MN to "town", which helps fill things in, I think: http://osm.org/go/WprNC4--<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.299&lon=-96.132&zoom=9&layers=M> <http:/

Re: [Talk-us] [KS] anyone familiar with this area?

Wow, what would one tag the "Acid Disposal" ponds? Much of the TIGER data comes from USGS topos, including this: > http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=38.92299,-95.01328&z=15&t=T ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/li

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

I do my best to avoid anything to do with highway relations, but FWIW I recently did just this in Potlatch 2--split a way that's part of relations to add a bridge and totally ignored the relations--and it all worked out fine as far as I can tell: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/126659318

Re: [Talk-us] Do we want overlaps to be rendered? Or do we want to wait for relation support that may never come?

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 5/4/2011 10:59 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > >> Nathan, >> >> >> If you want to solve >> this problem then submit a patch for the Mapnik style -- perhaps using >> rweait's examples as a starting point. >> > > Yawn. I don't have the skills to do

Re: [Talk-us] place=city name=Tri-Cities

egion, residents may use "Twin Cities" fairly interchangably with Minneapolis and St Paul. Another example is the Quad Cities in Illinois/Iowa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad_Cities <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad_Cities>Brad On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Toby Murr

Re: [Talk-us] Sevier Lake Anomaly

You're both right :) Check it out Toby: http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/instr.htm On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Toby Murray wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Phil! Gold wrote: > > The OpenCycleMap elevation data comes from the SRTM dataset, which was > > obtained by taking stereoscop

Re: [Talk-us] NY: replacing county borders

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Richard Welty wrote: > On 1/4/11 11:53 AM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: > >> Here's the release schedule for 2010 TIGER shapefiles: >> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/release_schedule.html >> >> Looks like New York

Re: [Talk-us] NY: replacing county borders

Here's the release schedule for 2010 TIGER shapefiles: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/release_schedule.html Looks like New York is only available right now via FTP (there's a link at the above address). An FYI r

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

te... On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: > On 10/20/2010 04:07 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: > >> Only in those states, of course. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey (and >>> apparently the Dakotas?) it should remain admin_level=8. >>> >>> &g

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

To save you some work, you might look at this report, Government Organization, published in 2002 by the Census: http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/gc021x1.pdf On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Anthony wrote: > > At the very least it would be nic

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: > > On 10/20/2010 03:01 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: > >> > >> Townships are at the same level as cities/towns/villages/other > >> municipalities[1], [2]. I’m sure someone correct me if I’m wron

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Brad Neuhauser > wrote: > > From the place page: > > "In most Western countries, the status of a location (whether it is a > > city/town/etc.), is decided by the governm

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Peter Budny wrote: > "Andrew S. J. Sawyer" writes: > > > My thoughts are mixed in below. > > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:17, Peter Budny wrote: > > > > Antony Pegg writes: > > > > > tagging admin area / populated centers / labels in USA seems to > >

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:02 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/10/20 Brad Neuhauser : > > Aren't admin_level and place getting at slightly different things? > > admin_level is to mark official political/legal boundaries. place is to > > mark a...well...plac

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