Re: [Talk-us] sidewalks and trails
On 05/03/2011 05:39 PM, PJ Houser wrote: > Sidewalks as separate ways. > > I am working on some multi-use paths that travel on sidewalks for some > portions, like the I-205 corridor in Portland, Oregon. Mapping sidewalks > as a separate way is now an approved practice, and I'd like to do this > for the parts of the trail that become a sidewalk for awhile. However, > the approved tagging is highway=footway, footway=sidewalk. The trails > I'm working on are multi-use, thus they should be highway=path, so would > I need to add path=sidewalk to indicate they are a sidewalk? Where is it a sidewalk? I could be wrong, but I swear I've been up and down this several times and can't recall a segment where it runs on the sidewalks. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Portland, Oregon & surrounding areas - OSM mappers
On 04/30/2011 04:58 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Sounds like a great idea. I won't be joining, but I wonder if there's > more initiatives like this one in the US? I tried to get stuff like this started with INCOG/Tulsa Transit/(City/County of Tulsa), but bureaucratic inertia and endless loops of fingerpointing more or less ensured I was no closer to getting something like this started there than I am now. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Portland, Oregon & surrounding areas - OSM mappers
On 04/29/2011 01:43 PM, PJ Houser wrote: > In case I missed any of the local mappers in my ITO World search, you're > invited to... > > TriMet, Portland's regional transportation agency, is holding a Meet > & Greet for local OSM Mappers: > > Friday May 13, 2011 > 4:00pm - 6:00pm PST > TriMet Center Street Administration Building > 4012 SE 17th Ave. > Portland, OR 97202 Looks like I might actually make it to that, after all, due to unforseen circumstances. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] US state extracts
Great, thanks for doing this, this will be a great help to myself and others! Virginia would of course be on the top of my list... Thanks again! -Josh On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > I've started making daily pbf extracts available for US states here: > > http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/north-america/us/ > > I don't have all the states yet, I'm adding them at a rate of one or two per > day (email me offlist if you're burning to have YOUR state added). > > As with all other Geofabrik extracts, these are true polygon extracts, which > means that I'm cutting right through cities that straddle a state border. > > As a technical detail, these extracts are cut out from the census areas that > can be downloaded too. The census areas themselves are cut out with the > "clipIncompleteEntities" option, i.e. ways that cross a census area boundary > are simply cut; whereas the individual states are cut out with > "completeWays", i.e. it should be possible to combine several states without > data loss *if* they are within the same census area. > > (I don't even know if census areas are somthing that you guys are used to > work with - I had been looking for some sort of not-completely-arbitrary > subdivision of the US and this was one of the first things I found on > Wikipedia...) > > In the long run, Ian Dees is planning to set up extracts on an OSMF-US > server and I'll probably just pass my scripts over to him when the time > comes. So you can view this as a sort of public beta for the coming OSMF-US > service. > > Bye > Frederik > > ___ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
