[Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2019-09-05
These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel free to ask. However, please do not send me private mail. The odds are, someone else will have the same questions, and by asking on the talk-us@ list, others can benefit. Downloads: http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2019-09-05 Map to visualize what each file contains: http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2019-09-05/kml/kml.html FAQ Why did you do this? I wrote scripts to joined them myself to lessen the impact of doing a large join on Lambertus's server. I've also cut them in large longitude swaths that should fit conveniently on removable media. http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2019-09-05 Can or should I seed the torrents? Yes!! If you use the .torrent files, please seed. That web server is in the UK, and it helps to have some peers on this side of the Atlantic. Why is my map missing small rectangular areas? There have been some missing tiles from Lambertus's map (the red rectangles), I don't see any at the moment, so you may want to update if you had issues with the last set. Why can I not copy the large files to my new SD card? If you buy a new card (especially SDHC), some are FAT16 from the factory. I had to reformat it to let me create a >2GB file. Does your map cover Mexico/Canada? Yes!! I have, for the purposes of this map, annexed Ontario in to the USA. Some areas of North America that are close to the US also just happen to get pulled in to these maps. This might not happen forever, and if you would like your non-US area to get included, let me know. -- Dave ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Oahu, Hawaii CDP boundaries
I agree; this sounds correct. I've lived in the USA for several decades (my entire life), though I do travel. Country, state, county, city (in the USA) rather neatly map onto admin_level= 2, 4, 6 and 8 (respectively). There are wider-area exceptions (like township=7) and in some places things like villages, wards or neighborhoods with real elected councils (sometimes 7, sometimes 8, sometimes 9 and/or 10) and various other "we do things like THIS" in particular states, but ZIP codes, as described are for routing mail (and by some companies, other deliveries), not for political administration (admin_level). SteveA > On Sep 6, 2019, at 11:59 PM, Joseph Eisenberg > wrote: > > ZIP Codes (US Postal Service codes) are not administrative boundaries. > They are widely used for addressing, for routing and for deliveries by > private companies in addition to the USPS, but they are not used for > any official administrative purposes, at least not in the States where > I have lived. > > On 9/7/19, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: >> >> >> >> 6 Sep 2019, 22:10 by stevea...@softworkers.com: >> >>> I slightly disagree with Mateusz that we "reflect local postal" >>> boundaries, as we don't do that in the USA with ZIP codes: they are >>> routing algorithms, not actual areas definable by a (multi)polygon. >>> >> Note that I was asking whatever it is >> actually administrative boundary >> (Postal codes are not forming >> administrative boundaries in Poland, >> not sure is it different in USA) ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Oahu, Hawaii CDP boundaries
ZIP Codes (US Postal Service codes) are not administrative boundaries. They are widely used for addressing, for routing and for deliveries by private companies in addition to the USPS, but they are not used for any official administrative purposes, at least not in the States where I have lived. On 9/7/19, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > > > 6 Sep 2019, 22:10 by stevea...@softworkers.com: > >> I slightly disagree with Mateusz that we "reflect local postal" >> boundaries, as we don't do that in the USA with ZIP codes: they are >> routing algorithms, not actual areas definable by a (multi)polygon. >> > Note that I was asking whatever it is > actually administrative boundary > (Postal codes are not forming > administrative boundaries in Poland, > not sure is it different in USA) ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
