Re: [Talk-us] Common names of highways do not match road signs.

[Greg Troxel]

Paul Johnson  writes:

> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Kevin Morgan 
> wrote:
>
>> It is confusing to use open street maps in my area(Central Ohio) for
>> driving directions since the "common names" of high ways do not match
>> road signs. The common names are used by open map chest for road names.
>> For example when turning on to State Route 315 with OpenMapChest loaded
>> on my GPS I am directed to turn on to Olentangy Freeway. However the
>> tiger name on open street maps is State route 315. Would it make more
>> sense to configure driving maps to use tiger names for driving
>> directions,  change commons names to include the state route number or
>> interstate number, or add state route number/ interstate number as a
>> different tag?
>>
>
> ref=* isn't name=*, don't tag for the renderer.  I'd go with the official
> name for name=*.  If you're inclined to do something like, name=State Route
> 315, you really want ref=OH 315.   Not all highways with refs will have
> names, not all highways with names have refs.  In particularly remote
> areas, it's not uncommon for a road to not have a name or a ref.
> Conversely, there's highways that might have eight or nine refs and
> multiple names.

I agree.   Around me, there are roads that have both a name and a ref.
Some of them are locally called by one, and some by the other, and there
is no real pattern.

When converting to garmin format with mkgmap, and I think with osmand, I
will tend to hear both the name and the ref.  That's a big lengthy, but
there's no real pattern on which to leave out.  Except perhaps if there
is a new tag that says whether locals call it by name or ref.  I made
garmin osm data for someone to upgrade them from old proprietary data,
and they commented out the dual name/ref was really helpful compared to
how the proprietary data only had one.

So I think Kevin should look at the mkgmap rules and end up with a name
in garmin format that is basically name+ref.  Or he can make it be just
ref, if that works for him.

But definitely don't adjust the OSM database for this.


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Re: [Talk-us] Cold Springs Fire

[Russell Deffner]

Local Disaster Declaration just made, as well as road network project:
http://tasks.openstreetmap.us/project/52 

 

Please consider mapping some this weekend, appreciated for OSM-CO in general
as well! More info/projects to come,

=Russ

 

From: Russell Deffner [mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org] 
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2016 4:51 PM
To: OSM US Talk
Cc: activat...@hotosm.org
Subject: [Talk-us] Cold Springs Fire

 

Hello all,

 

This is an informational message that I am monitoring/beginning size-up for
the Cold Springs Fire near Nederland, Colorado. Although relatively small at
the moment, it is hot and dry in Colorado, so the fire has the potential to
become a major incident. Also proximity to population, the local office of
emergency management has initiated mandatory evacuations (following them at
http://www.boulderoem.com/emergency-status/ and
https://twitter.com/BoulderOEM).

 

It is anticipated that as usual with US response, OSM probably won't be used
for firefighter response, but I'm actually part of the GIS Activity for the
local Red Cross chapter, so if I'm called to make maps for Disaster
Assessment planning, etc. I may leverage OSM and the community. Therefore,
stay tuned as I might go ahead and create a mapping project for buildings
and roads in the area (there are probably lots of 'untouched' TIGER roads,
so cleaning up geometry, etc.) - Nederland is pretty well mapped, but not
the area this fire is moving towards.

 

Thank you,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

russell.deff...@hotosm.org

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) 

http://hotosm.org  

 

russdeff...@gmail.com 

OSM-Colorado and Wyoming

http://www.meetup.com/OSM-Colorado/

http://www.meetup.com/OSM-Wyoming/

 

 

 

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[Talk-us] Cold Springs Fire

[Russell Deffner]

Hello all,

 

This is an informational message that I am monitoring/beginning size-up for
the Cold Springs Fire near Nederland, Colorado. Although relatively small at
the moment, it is hot and dry in Colorado, so the fire has the potential to
become a major incident. Also proximity to population, the local office of
emergency management has initiated mandatory evacuations (following them at
http://www.boulderoem.com/emergency-status/ and
https://twitter.com/BoulderOEM).

 

It is anticipated that as usual with US response, OSM probably won't be used
for firefighter response, but I'm actually part of the GIS Activity for the
local Red Cross chapter, so if I'm called to make maps for Disaster
Assessment planning, etc. I may leverage OSM and the community. Therefore,
stay tuned as I might go ahead and create a mapping project for buildings
and roads in the area (there are probably lots of 'untouched' TIGER roads,
so cleaning up geometry, etc.) - Nederland is pretty well mapped, but not
the area this fire is moving towards.

 

Thank you,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

russell.deff...@hotosm.org

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) 

http://hotosm.org  

 

russdeff...@gmail.com 

OSM-Colorado and Wyoming

http://www.meetup.com/OSM-Colorado/

http://www.meetup.com/OSM-Wyoming/

 

 

 

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