Re: [Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

[Richard Welty]

On 2/24/16 4:52 PM, stevea wrote:
> I don't know how to promote this any better than to say this here and
> hope it makes its way into local chapters' mind-space.  I'd like to
> begin a campaign to encourage OSM volunteers to:
>
> Map Your Train Ride!
>
i better get over to Huck Finn's Playland then and map my train ride:

http://www.hucksplayland.com/images/carousel/3.jpg


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Re: [Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

[Rihards]

On 2016.02.25. 03:41, stevea wrote:

Thank you to Rihards  who clarified that adding
highway=footway to a public_transport=platform only makes sense when it
is connected to another way containing a highway=* tag. Otherwise, this
doesn't make sense, as the platform acting as a footway "floats" and can
break some GPS routers.  (I have modified our public_transport:platform
wiki to clarify this, too).


huge thank you for changing the wiki - it should result in a much better 
data :)


i heard some rumour that this is a "thank you wednesday" or something, 
so - THANK YOU :)



So, tag platforms with:

public_transport=platform
and
railway=platform

and other tags that might apply, like rail=yes or light_rail=yes or
subway=yes or tram=yes depending on what sort of rail infrastructure
underlies the route relation.

But please DON'T add highway=footway to the platform node/polygon,
UNLESS it is connected to another way containing a highway=* tag.

Thanks,
SteveA
California

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Re: [Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

[stevea]

Thank you to Rihards  who clarified that adding 
highway=footway to a public_transport=platform only makes sense when 
it is connected to another way containing a highway=* tag. 
Otherwise, this doesn't make sense, as the platform acting as a 
footway "floats" and can break some GPS routers.  (I have modified 
our public_transport:platform wiki to clarify this, too).


So, tag platforms with:

public_transport=platform
and
railway=platform

and other tags that might apply, like rail=yes or light_rail=yes or 
subway=yes or tram=yes depending on what sort of rail infrastructure 
underlies the route relation.


But please DON'T add highway=footway to the platform node/polygon, 
UNLESS it is connected to another way containing a highway=* tag.


Thanks,
SteveA
California

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[Talk-us] New MapRoulette - UX ideas

[Martijn van Exel]

Hi all,

I am working on a new version of MapRoulette. The focus will be on making
MapRoulette more fun for newcomers, more effective for power users, and
more powerful for challenge owners.

Now would be a great time to let me know what you want to see in the new
version! :) Especially if you have used MapRoulette a lot, your feedback
would be very valuable to me.

I started adding some ideas to a piratepad here:
http://piratepad.net/Rof0ZoyX7y - feel free to add to that. Or just email
me.

happy mapping --
Martijn
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Re: [Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

[Rihards]

On 2016.02.24. 23:52, stevea wrote:

I don't know how to promote this any better than to say this here and
hope it makes its way into local chapters' mind-space.  I'd like to
begin a campaign to encourage OSM volunteers to:

Map Your Train Ride!

Add public_transport=platforms to the map and/or route=train relation of
your commute. It's easy: add a node or draw a small polygon representing
the location of the platform, tag with public_transport=platform,
railway=platform and highway=footway. You might also add it to the
proper route=train relation(s) which should be found around that
railway=station. For further guidance, see the diagram of a "simple
railway station" at
http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dstation#A_Simple_Railway_Station .


are you sure about the highway=footway tag ?
the wiki page does not seem to mention it, and having unconnected 
highway segments tends to break routing both for online routers and on 
gps devices.

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Re: [Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

[Martijn van Exel]

Steve --

Can MapRoulette help here? I already started a railroad crossing challenge
a while ago (http://maproulette.org/#t=fix-railway-crossings/262063C) which
a lot of people like (and have worked on).

If we can entice people to add railway station detail in places with known
train stations that may be interesting?

Let me know if you see something there.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 1:54 PM stevea  wrote:

> I don't know how to promote this any better than to say this here and
> hope it makes its way into local chapters' mind-space.  I'd like to
> begin a campaign to encourage OSM volunteers to:
>
> Map Your Train Ride!
>
> Add public_transport=platforms to the map and/or route=train relation
> of your commute. It's easy: add a node or draw a small polygon
> representing the location of the platform, tag with
> public_transport=platform, railway=platform and highway=footway. You
> might also add it to the proper route=train relation(s) which should
> be found around that railway=station. For further guidance, see the
> diagram of a "simple railway station" at
> http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dstation#A_Simple_Railway_Station
> .
>
> OSM shows the USA has a growing and better-tagged network of rail
> infrastructure:  our TIGER import got us started by depositing bare
> rail, some has been improved (see
> http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States_railways for how
> to do so) and infrastructure, route=railway and route=train relation
> improvements have been refined/added in many places.  When done
> correctly, this gets us to public_transport:version=1.  That's good,
> but public_transport:version=2 requires good station and platform
> data.  This is where crowdsourcing Map Your Train Ride can really
> help!
>
> Let's encourage our local chapters to unleash the power of "a few
> platforms here, a few platforms there" into OSM's train routes in the
> USA.  Our rail infrastructure and train routes are just getting
> better and better!
>
> SteveA
> California
>
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[Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

[stevea]

I don't know how to promote this any better than to say this here and 
hope it makes its way into local chapters' mind-space.  I'd like to 
begin a campaign to encourage OSM volunteers to:


Map Your Train Ride!

Add public_transport=platforms to the map and/or route=train relation 
of your commute. It's easy: add a node or draw a small polygon 
representing the location of the platform, tag with 
public_transport=platform, railway=platform and highway=footway. You 
might also add it to the proper route=train relation(s) which should 
be found around that railway=station. For further guidance, see the 
diagram of a "simple railway station" at 
http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dstation#A_Simple_Railway_Station 
.


OSM shows the USA has a growing and better-tagged network of rail 
infrastructure:  our TIGER import got us started by depositing bare 
rail, some has been improved (see 
http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States_railways for how 
to do so) and infrastructure, route=railway and route=train relation 
improvements have been refined/added in many places.  When done 
correctly, this gets us to public_transport:version=1.  That's good, 
but public_transport:version=2 requires good station and platform 
data.  This is where crowdsourcing Map Your Train Ride can really 
help!


Let's encourage our local chapters to unleash the power of "a few 
platforms here, a few platforms there" into OSM's train routes in the 
USA.  Our rail infrastructure and train routes are just getting 
better and better!


SteveA
California

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Re: [Talk-us] USGS Topo Map Tiles

[Mike Thompson]

Ian,

Thanks for the reply, and thanks for running this server.  Having those
tiles is very helpful!

The interesting thing is that even areas that I just visited are slow to
load (which is doubly strange since JOSM itself should be caching locally
too).

Mike

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Ian Dees  wrote:

> These tiles are run by me via OSM US. I recently cleared out a bunch of
> cached tiles, so the server has to go request them from the USGS server
> again in new areas. This will take a bit longer than instant, so JOSM might
> be timing out.
>
> Once you visit these areas once, the tiles should stick around and be
> fast, though.
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Mike Thompson 
> wrote:
>
>> Who runs the service that serves the USGS Topo Map tiles?  The address is
>> tile.openstreetmap.us...
>>
>> I reported a JOSM issue: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/12562
>> But the behavior may in part be due to the tile server (see the comment
>> in the ticket).
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help,
>>
>> Mike
>>
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Re: [Talk-us] USGS Topo Map Tiles

[Ian Dees]

These tiles are run by me via OSM US. I recently cleared out a bunch of
cached tiles, so the server has to go request them from the USGS server
again in new areas. This will take a bit longer than instant, so JOSM might
be timing out.

Once you visit these areas once, the tiles should stick around and be fast,
though.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Mike Thompson  wrote:

> Who runs the service that serves the USGS Topo Map tiles?  The address is
> tile.openstreetmap.us...
>
> I reported a JOSM issue: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/12562
> But the behavior may in part be due to the tile server (see the comment in
> the ticket).
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> Mike
>
>
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[Talk-us] USGS Topo Map Tiles

[Mike Thompson]

Who runs the service that serves the USGS Topo Map tiles?  The address is
tile.openstreetmap.us...

I reported a JOSM issue: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/12562
But the behavior may in part be due to the tile server (see the comment in
the ticket).

Thanks in advance for your help,

Mike
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Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

[Paul Johnson]

Send me a OSM shirt or something and I'll be happy to throw it on over my
fursuit for publicity purposes.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Greg Morgan  wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Paul Johnson  wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 4:58 PM, alyssa wright 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> We're also accepting nominations for next year's OSM US pet mascot.
>>
>>
>> I nominate me !
>>
>
> Paul, I can see that.  However, you'd need to replace the logo with some
> sort of mappy thing and then run the image through an emoji process.  You
> get plus point because the base image is not a cat or dog!
>
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Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

[alyssa wright]

There definitely has to be an emoji process!
On Feb 24, 2016 4:08 PM, "Greg Morgan"  wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Paul Johnson  wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 4:58 PM, alyssa wright 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> We're also accepting nominations for next year's OSM US pet mascot.
>>
>>
>> I nominate me !
>>
>
> Paul, I can see that.  However, you'd need to replace the logo with some
> sort of mappy thing and then run the image through an emoji process.  You
> get plus point because the base image is not a cat or dog!
>
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Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

[Greg Morgan]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Paul Johnson  wrote:

>
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 4:58 PM, alyssa wright 
> wrote:
>
>> We're also accepting nominations for next year's OSM US pet mascot.
>
>
> I nominate me !
>

Paul, I can see that.  However, you'd need to replace the logo with some
sort of mappy thing and then run the image through an emoji process.  You
get plus point because the base image is not a cat or dog!
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Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

[Paul Johnson]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 4:58 PM, alyssa wright 
wrote:

> We're also accepting nominations for next year's OSM US pet mascot.


I nominate me !
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