Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles
Thanks Ian, This in conjunctin with Bing imagery makes finding new neighbourhoods really easy. Of course at the same time I always clean up a few nearby decliner edits as well. And where a decliner has taken over a Tiger road it is now very easy to just blow it away and remap it from the new Tiger stuff. Nick ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:11:49PM -0600, Ian Dees wrote:
Hi all,
In order to assist with road name checking I've set up a Mapnik layer
rendering from TIGER 2011 ROADS data. It consists of a transparent tile
with a white line (of varying thickness for the different MTFCC's) for the
road and white text for the road's full name. I did this with JOSM in mind
(which will stack imagery layers). I haven't tested it in P2 but would be
happy to set up a different style for users of P2. It's designed for higher
zooms and I don't do anything particular for low zooms. In fact it looks
pretty noisy and slow, but it still works.
The JOSM TMS URL is http://{switch:a,b,c}.
tile.openstreetmap.us/tiger2011_roads/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png
I have grand plans to create vector layers as well (to allow for
spot-importing of TIGER data), but I don't have time to do that currently.
Let me know if you have any ideas to make it better.
I got it working in Potlatch 2 [*], but as someone else mentioned, the white
layer is invisible on Potlatch's default manilla background. The
black-outlined text labels are fine.
Otherwise, it looks awesome. Nice work!
* As http://tile.openstreetmap.us/tiger2011_roads/$z/$x/$y.png in the
Background menu.
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Re: [Talk-us] name expansion bot (Re: Imports information on the wiki)
On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 18:47 +0100, andrzej zaborowski wrote: Perhaps checking if either the name= tag or the direction_suffix tag has ever been edited by a human would be a good measure. The ways which have been edited might need to be manually reviewed if they contain an unexpanded N, E, W or S. In my area I know of two separate streets named E Avenue and an E Street. The first bot going through got two of these, but I contacted the owner before it got to the third. If another bot comes through and corrects these, it will probably do the same (wrong) thing. - Val - ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] What is a dual carriageway?
On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 10:45 -0700, Martijn van Exel wrote: I only map two separate ways when there's a median you can't cross, so the two directions are physically separate. By that rationale, it should be one way feature. I am curious if other mappers use the same convention. That's the way that I map it too. Except that reminds me of a section of road that I have to fix to follow the convention I've used elsewhere. - Val - ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Finding new roads
I believe that OSm's most usefull attribute is to be up to date. The only real way to do this is with a local mapper but bringing the USA up to Tiger 2011 up-to-datedness would be a great start. Are there tools to 1. Compare named OSM roads with Tiger 2011 roads and highlight just the new ones. 2.Compare Bing imagery with Tiger 2011 and highlight any apparent sealed roads that do not have Tiger 2011 ways. Roads currently traced but not named can already be targeted well using OSMI highways facility and could be fixed first. Nick ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Finding new roads
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that OSm's most usefull attribute is to be up to date. The only real way to do this is with a local mapper but bringing the USA up to Tiger 2011 up-to-datedness would be a great start. Are there tools to 1. Compare named OSM roads with Tiger 2011 roads and highlight just the new ones. I forget who originally posted this but the only thing along these lines that I've seen before is to convert new TIGER data to .osm and then load it up as a second layer in JOSM. Change the inactive color to something bright and then load current OSM data on top as the active layer. At an appropriate zoom level the bright colored, inactive background layer with new data will only show where there is not any existing OSM data to blot it out. But that is kind of cumbersome and will only work for relatively small areas. An ideal solution would be to come up with tiles that only render data from TIGER 2011 that doesn't already exist in OSM and then have a tool to facilitate importing missing areas. But that doesn't exactly strike me as easy. Alternatively, we could grow the community and not have to rely on TIGER. This also seems hard though :( Toby Toby ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
