Re: [Talk-us] New I.D Feature
Just wanted to throw this out there in case you guys have forgoten, but we also use the two letter abbreviation in almost all relations for highways in the USA (however, there are a few that do spell out the state). However, we use 'is_in:state=PA instead of the addr scheme of course. This also goes for the 'network' tag (network=US:FL) for state highways relations. -James ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] State highway refs (was Re: New I.D Feature)
On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 03:56 -0500, James Mast wrote: Just wanted to throw this out there in case you guys have forgoten, but we also use the two letter abbreviation in almost all relations for highways in the USA (however, there are a few that do spell out the state). There are still a few places that use a convention like SH 123, SR 123, or even (horrors) just 123 by itself to denote a state highway. Currently, I refrain from making changes of this sort if it appears most of a state uses this convention. So, a couple of questions: 1. What, exactly, is fair game to change to a state abbreviation reference? 2. Which states spell out the name in the ref? I know Kansas uses K-123, and Michigan uses M-123. Are there any others to be careful of? -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2015 in New York, NY, June 6-8
Good morning from Buenos Aires on the last day of the State of the Map! As a member of the NYC organizing committee, I want to invite everyone to save the dates for SotM-US at the United Nations on June 6-8, 2015. The conference will be very large and very international, with a lot of full travel scholarships in our proposal (and other ways to defray costs). We're getting started now, and will keep you up-to-date on deadlines. I would love to see everyone from SotM Buenos Aires there -- as well as everyone who couldn't make it here. New York really is nice in June... -Randy On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: The board of OpenStreetMap US is happy to announce that the State of the Map US conference will be held in New York, NY at the United Nations June 6-8, 2015. We had two other very strong proposals for events in St. Louis and Seattle. Thanks to the groups that pulled those proposals together! These aren't easy and the fact that we had three very strong proposals means our community is strong and growing quickly. I encourage everyone to reach out to the OSM US board if you're interested in participating in the planning for this event. We're always available via e-mail at bo...@openstreetmap.us. You can read more about the proposals and the upcoming event on our blog post: http://openstreetmap.us/2014/11/sotmus-2015-in-nyc/ Thanks, Ian and the OSM US board ___ talk mailing list t...@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] OSMF AGM election results
Hi all, Thank you to all of the candidates. Offering to spend your time and energy acting on behalf of the group is an act of generosity. The OpenStreetMap Foundation held the 2014 AGM yesterday including votes on several matters including the election to the board. The results are summarized on the wiki. Official results will be on the Foundation web site in future. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM14 I've added some background on STV (voting method) because it is the first time I have been involved in it. Learn along with me at my site http://weait.com in several recent articles and several more on the way. I hope that you have found some inspiration and motivation from the election cycle. if so, please act on that new energy and contribute to the project by: * mapping your neighbourhood. :-) * starting a regular local event for (new) mappers * writing and publishing some awesome code * writing and publishing some awesome documentation * joining a Foundation Working Group to act on behalf of groups of mappers None of these require standing for election or waiting for another election cycle to complete. Best regards and happy mapping, Richard ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] zip-city mappings
actually, it wouldn't be terribly hard for me to knock together a simple web page for looking up/entering zip code to city mappings, so i think i'll look into doing that. anyone who wants to save up shopping/credit card receipts so that they can enter the data should feel encouraged to do so. it may not happen right away because i'm pretty busy with other admin boundary stuff, but i'll try to have it in a week or two. if i include existing OSM zip-city mappings, it would need to be ODbL. some geocoder projects insist on public domain data (will CC0 do for these geocoders?) this is a detail that would need to be worked out. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] zip-city mappings
Just keep in mind that some ZIPs cover multiple cities. The one I'm standing in now is found in parts of at least 3 different cities that I know of. Others cover both (parts of) cities and unincorporated areas outside of the city whose name they are associated with. -Nathan On November 9, 2014 11:00:42 AM EST, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: actually, it wouldn't be terribly hard for me to knock together a simple web page for looking up/entering zip code to city mappings, so i think i'll look into doing that. anyone who wants to save up shopping/credit card receipts so that they can enter the data should feel encouraged to do so. it may not happen right away because i'm pretty busy with other admin boundary stuff, but i'll try to have it in a week or two. if i include existing OSM zip-city mappings, it would need to be ODbL. some geocoder projects insist on public domain data (will CC0 do for these geocoders?) this is a detail that would need to be worked out. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] zip-city mappings
On 11/9/14 3:10 PM, Nathan Mills wrote: Just keep in mind that some ZIPs cover multiple cities. The one I'm standing in now is found in parts of at least 3 different cities that I know of. Others cover both (parts of) cities and unincorporated areas outside of the city whose name they are associated with. this snippet, from my longer reply over in the new I.D. Feature thread, discusses this: as for that many to one mapping that isn't, basically, for each zip code there is a primary city and potentially a number of secondary cities. the primary city is the city name of the post office that serves the routes; the secondary cities are generally traditional place names within the delivery area; for example, for years i lived in the Lansingburgh neighborhood of Troy NY, and the post office would deliver mail for either city name. any effort to crowd source this data would need to take care of that detail. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] OSMF AGM election results
Richard, thanks for the great work you and the other election monitors did to make this election run so smoothly. And thanks particularly for your series of blog posts explaining how STV (the Single Transferable Vote) works. I’ve been a supporter of election reform for a long time (something acutely needed in the US, Canada, and the UK) and STV is by far the best and most practical system I’m aware of. It was a pleasure to get to use it in this OSMF election. I’m fascinated by the chart you posted [1] that shows how the votes transferred through each round of voting. It’s interesting to compare the candidates’ manifestos and look for “coalitions of voters who transferred their votes between candidates with similar platforms. One of the great things about STV is that similar candidates don’t have to worry about stealing votes from one another. STV also discourages negative campaigns, because candidates want to gain their competitors’ 2nd and 3rd votes (and so on). Therefore, candidates are less likely to make personal attacks against their competitors. Given all the other chaos and strife that was going on with the OSMF leading up to the election, and also because STV is a new addition to OSMF’s electoral process, it’s too hard to say if STV had any meaningful positive impact on the tone of this election. Maybe we can say more in future years. I would love it if we adopted STV for the OSM US elections. Has there been any discussion about that in the past? [1] http://weait.com/sites/default/files/board-2014.png http://weait.com/sites/default/files/board-2014.png Alan On Nov 9, 2014, at 6:42 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: The OpenStreetMap Foundation held the 2014 AGM yesterday including votes on several matters including the election to the board. The results are summarized on the wiki. Official results will be on the Foundation web site in future. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM14 I've added some background on STV (voting method) because it is the first time I have been involved in it. Learn along with me at my site http://weait.com in several recent articles and several more on the way. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Ghost Towns
Anyone know if we map ghost towns in osm? Couldn't find anything, not even a tag. *Regards,* *Hans* ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Ghost Towns
Is the abandoned prefix [1] something for you ? or abandoned=village [2] (in German) both tags are rendered on [3] regards m [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:abandoned [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Tag:abandoned%3Dvillage [3] http://geschichtskarten.openstreetmap.de/historische_objekte/translate/en/index-en.html On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Hans De Kryger hans.dekryge...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know if we map ghost towns in osm? Couldn't find anything, not even a tag. *Regards,* *Hans* ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] State highway refs (was Re: New I.D Feature)
I know of no place where the state name is spelled out in the ref=* tag on any way or relation. Only in the 'is_in:state' tag on RELATIONS have I seen the state name sometimes spelled out. As for states that have just '123' on the way ref tags. I know of only two that have that happening in masses. And that is Florida and Georgia. Most of this was done by NE2 to make the tags 'render' back when only a limited number of characters would render on the map (since changed). In those states, people have been starting to fix those 'tags' to add in the proper state abbreviation. So, if you see a tag like ref=US 17;25 in either of those states on a way, go for it and fix it for the better (ref=US 17;GA 25). Just don't do anything automated without talking about it here on [talk-us] first of course. -James From: skqu...@rushpost.com To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 03:10:19 -0600 Subject: [Talk-us] State highway refs (was Re: New I.D Feature) On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 03:56 -0500, James Mast wrote: Just wanted to throw this out there in case you guys have forgoten, but we also use the two letter abbreviation in almost all relations for highways in the USA (however, there are a few that do spell out the state). There are still a few places that use a convention like SH 123, SR 123, or even (horrors) just 123 by itself to denote a state highway. Currently, I refrain from making changes of this sort if it appears most of a state uses this convention. So, a couple of questions: 1. What, exactly, is fair game to change to a state abbreviation reference? 2. Which states spell out the name in the ref? I know Kansas uses K-123, and Michigan uses M-123. Are there any others to be careful of? -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
