[Talk-us] NC sidewalk data import

[Melanie Mazanec]

Hello,

I'm a front end dev for a city government working on a side project to fork
and add to AccessMap  for North Carolina cities.

In order to make this happen, I want to import North Carolina city sidewalk
data into OSM.  I have no prior OSM experience, so I'm following the
suggested wiki protocol and reaching out here before attempting an import.

Does anyone have advice about tutorials or where to start?  Are there any
NC OSM communities or enthusiasts I can connect with?  Also, it seems like
there are two competing sidewalk data formats.  Is there a preferred
standard now?

Thanks,
Melanie Mazanec
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[Talk-us] weeklyOSM #444 2019-01-15-2019-01-21

[weeklyteam]

The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 444,
is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things 
happening in the openstreetmap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/11389/

Enjoy!

weeklyOSM? 
who: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages 
where?: 
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/weeklyosm-is-currently-produced-in_56718#2/8.6/108.3
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Re: [Talk-us] The San Jose / Santa Clara border

[Andy Townsend]

Thanks to everyone who replied - I've reverted the change in 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/66672189 .


On 27/01/2019 01:50, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
Do the latest NGS topographical maps show the city limits properly? 
Those are public domain
On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 10:16 AM OSM Volunteer stevea 
mailto:stevea...@softworkers.com>> wrote:


On Jan 26, 2019, at 4:00 AM, Andy Townsend mailto:ajt1...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> A mapper has recently changed this to "cut the corner off" north
of the 880 between San Jose airport and Stevens Creek Mall /
Westfield Valley Fair.  You can see the change at

http://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=66619223&zoom=18&lat=37.33883&lon=-121.93327&layers=B0TTTFT
.
>
> Some of this mapper's previous changes have had to be undone, so
I did check the node change made here to see if it might be one of
them.  However, according to the node history

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/373647840/history#map=13/37.3600/-121.9066
the original source of this node was a changeset quite a while ago
with a description "adjust boundaries based on san jose city map,
bing, and common sense ".  It therefore would be great if a local
could check it if possible.

I'm fairly local (SJC is my "home airport") yet I'm not finding
easily-available San José City Limit boundaries in an
ODbL-compatible format which I could use to relatively quickly
repair the damage.  (The user mk408 has a history of "making it up
as he sees fit" OSM data entry which many have disputed or
redacted, for example, many years ago he made MANY roads in the
entire South Bay region — Campbell, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno,
southern San José —into highway=tertiary roads, and that remained
very questionable until it slowly but surely "healed itself,"
again, this took months-to-years).  There are some geo data at
http://csj-landzoning.appspot.com/index.html which indicate the
present OSM data are "largely correct," the exception being that
the area directly over the northern part of the airport do not
include the "leg" that "covers" runway 12L/30R and that the acute
angle over taxiways V, W and W1 is more like "aligned with these
taxiways, rather than cutting across them."  You really have to
see them rather than expect that I can describe them with text. 
They are, again, "mostly correct" but could use some rather minor
correction.

As I bumped into somebody on a plane on my way back from SOTM-US
Seattle (2016) who works in the San José City Hall and when she
met me was bowled over at the coincidence that I was the very
person sitting next to her drinking gin and tonic who entered into
OSM most of Santa Clara County's bikeways/bicycle infrastructure
and network=lcn routing (which the city office found "extremely
helpful" — her words), it's conceivable that I might be able to
use that to sway release of some data which could be forthcoming. 
While I don't know quite who to call, exactly, if somebody wants
to "release to me" ODbL-compatible data which need to be
harmonized with what are now in OSM, I'll volunteer to be the
"nexus of citizen entry" to assure they find their way into our
wonderful map.  Send me a pointer to the data, assure me they are
ODbL-OK and I'll "merge" these into OSM.

SteveA
California
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Re: [Talk-us] The San Jose / Santa Clara border

[Jack Burke]

Does anyone know someone who lives in the "disputed" area? If so, then one 
definitive information point is what local government elections he/she can vote 
in. 

-jack 
-- 
Typos courtesy of fancy auto spell technology

On January 26, 2019 8:50:39 PM EST, Joseph Eisenberg 
 wrote:
>Do the latest NGS topographical maps show the city limits properly?
>Those
>are public domain
>On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 10:16 AM OSM Volunteer stevea <
>stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 26, 2019, at 4:00 AM, Andy Townsend  wrote:
>> > A mapper has recently changed this to "cut the corner off" north of
>the
>> 880 between San Jose airport and Stevens Creek Mall / Westfield
>Valley
>> Fair.  You can see the change at
>>
>http://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=66619223&zoom=18&lat=37.33883&lon=-121.93327&layers=B0TTTFT
>> .
>> >
>> > Some of this mapper's previous changes have had to be undone, so I
>did
>> check the node change made here to see if it might be one of them.
>> However, according to the node history
>>
>https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/373647840/history#map=13/37.3600/-121.9066
>> the original source of this node was a changeset quite a while ago
>with a
>> description "adjust boundaries based on san jose city map, bing, and
>common
>> sense ".  It therefore would be great if a local could check it if
>possible.
>>
>> I'm fairly local (SJC is my "home airport") yet I'm not finding
>> easily-available San José City Limit boundaries in an ODbL-compatible
>> format which I could use to relatively quickly repair the damage. 
>(The
>> user mk408 has a history of "making it up as he sees fit" OSM data
>entry
>> which many have disputed or redacted, for example, many years ago he
>made
>> MANY roads in the entire South Bay region — Campbell, Los Gatos,
>Monte
>> Sereno, southern San José —into highway=tertiary roads, and that
>remained
>> very questionable until it slowly but surely "healed itself," again,
>this
>> took months-to-years).  There are some geo data at
>> http://csj-landzoning.appspot.com/index.html which indicate the
>present
>> OSM data are "largely correct," the exception being that the area
>directly
>> over the northern part of the airport do not include the "leg" that
>> "covers" runway 12L/30R and that the acute angle over taxiways V, W
>and W1
>> is more like "aligned with these taxiways, rather than cutting across
>> them."  You really have to see them rather than expect that I can
>describe
>> them with text.  They are, again, "mostly correct" but could use some
>> rather minor correction.
>>
>> As I bumped into somebody on a plane on my way back from SOTM-US
>Seattle
>> (2016) who works in the San José City Hall and when she met me was
>bowled
>> over at the coincidence that I was the very person sitting next to
>her
>> drinking gin and tonic who entered into OSM most of Santa Clara
>County's
>> bikeways/bicycle infrastructure and network=lcn routing (which the
>city
>> office found "extremely helpful" — her words), it's conceivable that
>I
>> might be able to use that to sway release of some data which could be
>> forthcoming.  While I don't know quite who to call, exactly, if
>somebody
>> wants to "release to me" ODbL-compatible data which need to be
>harmonized
>> with what are now in OSM, I'll volunteer to be the "nexus of citizen
>entry"
>> to assure they find their way into our wonderful map.  Send me a
>pointer to
>> the data, assure me they are ODbL-OK and I'll "merge" these into OSM.
>>
>> SteveA
>> California
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