Re: [Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Eric Christensen e...@christensenplace.us wrote: I suspect the requester is looking specifically for something called Outer Banks on the map. As someone who grew up down in that area I can tell you that there is no such place. The Outer Banks, or OBX, is largely a marketing term and refers to much of the peninsula, Hatteras Island, and Ocracoke Island but isn't a town or county. So... how would one tag a marketing name for a region? There are lots. I'm headed up to a place called Summit Valley... but go ahead and try to find it on a map. A marketing name is verifiable and useful in way-finding, but not findable on the ground. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks
On Saturday, April 04, 2015 09:08:50 PM Richard Welty wrote: On 4/4/15 7:48 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Jeff Klein jeff.klein...@gmail.com mailto:jeff.klein...@gmail.com wrote: If I am correct, probably confused, the map sets only go as far east as -76 West, which excludes the Outer Banks of North Carolina. How do I get maps that go further east? Have you search for the Outer Banks in OSM? It returns http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/357813099, which looks like the outer banks to someone living in Washington State. i've done a bit of mapping on the Outer Banks when i've been there on vacation. it all looks fine to me. I suspect the requester is looking specifically for something called Outer Banks on the map. As someone who grew up down in that area I can tell you that there is no such place. The Outer Banks, or OBX, is largely a marketing term and refers to much of the peninsula, Hatteras Island, and Ocracoke Island but isn't a town or county. It would probably be better to search for the specific town you are looking for. Duck, Rodanthe, Manteo, Avon, Buxton, and Hatteras Village (to name a few) will get the map to you much better than trying to look for something specific within a region that is roughly 120 miles long (and at best a mile or so wide). --Eric ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Jeff Klein jeff.klein...@gmail.com wrote: If I am correct, probably confused, the map sets only go as far east as -76 West, which excludes the Outer Banks of North Carolina. How do I get maps that go further east? Dear Jeff, Are you asking about the garmin files that are found here? http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2015-03-29 They are extracted from OpenStreetMap data and converted to the format for those devices. If something is missing, like a swath East of some line, then it was likely left out deliberately, for some reason. (Or by mistake, like failing to recognize the awesomeness of Southern Shores, NC, and the Duck Woods Country Club. Sa-lute!!!) If you would like help with a specific CONSUMER of OpenStreetMap data, and there are many of them, please say which one you are referring to. If you are talking about Dave's wonderful garmin extracts, then you might try one of the larger file formats that span more than just the continental US. You also might send Dave an email and ask if he would consider moving his bounding boxes for you, to include the area that interests you. And, yeah, the outer banks are awesome. :-) ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks
The OpenStreetMap database covers the whole world. It's often too resource intensive to do processing on the whole world's dataset at once, so often third party applications will use extracts of data. It sounds like you are using an extract of data which doesn't fully cover the area you are interested in. Where are you getting your map datasets? Peter On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Jeff Klein jeff.klein...@gmail.com wrote: If I am correct, probably confused, the map sets only go as far east as -76 West, which excludes the Outer Banks of North Carolina. How do I get maps that go further east? ___ 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] North Carolina Outer Banks
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Jeff Klein jeff.klein...@gmail.com wrote: If I am correct, probably confused, the map sets only go as far east as -76 West, which excludes the Outer Banks of North Carolina. How do I get maps that go further east? Have you search for the Outer Banks in OSM? It returns http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/357813099, which looks like the outer banks to someone living in Washington State. -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
