Which road attribute are you attempting to record?
Surface type
Width
Number of lanes
Type of vehicle
Access control (toll, etc.)
Type of user (farmer, commuter)
Type of destination (farm, village, city, woodlot)
Owner (state, logging company, village)
Seasonality (all weather, 4wd, dry season)
At 22-05-2015 06:39 Friday, Andreas Goss
wrote:
I see that the open, flexible
nature of the tag approach has its merits I suppose. The enduring
mystery for me is how is this information used in a query? But
maybe I am barking up the wrong tree here, perhaps this concept is
only used for
At 22-05-2015 01:06 Friday, cascafico wrote:
Springfield Harrison wrote As a 30+ year helicopter pilot, I did
have some concern with the very skimpy helipad instructions. In
high-altitude, rugged terrain there is much more to locating
helipads than finding a 30 m flat square of ground
/osm-extract
(feedback on my thematic layers is always welcome, we want to create the
most useful layers we can. Examples can be found in the wiki entry for
Vanuatu typhoon response)
cheers,
Blake
On 5/22/2015 8:26 AM, Springfield Harrison wrote:
Hello John,
Thanks for your patient explanation, I'm
,
Steve
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Springfield Harrison
stellar...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello Jon,
That would be good, there is some very good software available that
employees point cloud technology for high accuracy 3-D mapping that
ranges from $4-$10,000.
As always, good planning
and
disadvantages compared to existing datasets.
Please appreciate the uniqueness, value and potential of OSM database
before you try to make it a clone of something existing.
All the best,
- althio
On 19 May 2015 at 21:38, Springfield Harrison stellar...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Stefan Blake,
I concur
.
Please appreciate the uniqueness, value and potential of OSM
database
before you try to make it a clone of something existing.
All the best,
 - althio
On 19 May 2015 at 21:38, Springfield Harrison
stellar...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello Stefan Blake,
I concur with the comments about the tag soup
*potential* landing sites,
to prepare the groud for the experts).
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 06. Mai 2015 um 07:41 Uhr Von:
Springfield Harrison stellar...@gmail.com An:
Denis Carriere carriere.de...@gmail.com,
HOT@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org
Betreff: Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice
Hello
+02:00 Springfield Harrison stellar...@gmail.com:
Hello Stefan Blake,
I concur with the comments about the tag soup mess. As I have mentioned
before, I am new to this OSM environment but
have some years experience with
GPS and GIS mapping and database design.
To be honest, I was appalled
Hello Stefan Blake,
I concur with the comments about the tag soup
mess. As I have mentioned before, I am new to
this OSM environment but have some years
experience with GPS and GIS mapping and database design.
To be honest, I was appalled when I discovered
that the OSM database design
, Springfield Harrison
stellar...@gmail.com
wrote:
Good thoughts John,
This is well underway with much hardware and software having been
developed. As with everything, it has challenges. Googling should
turn up tons of info on presion agriculture and crop health.
The cameras, drones
to get the benefits.
I just float ideas sometimes.
Cheerio John
On 13 May 2015 at 19:22, Springfield Harrison
stellar...@gmail.com
wrote:
Good thoughts John,
This is well underway with much hardware and software having been
developed. As with everything, it has challenges. Googling should
know how
things look. It may not be right away as I am well behind on other
things now.
Thanks again to
all, Cheers . . . . . . . . Spring Harrison
At 10-05-2015 23:42 Sunday, Phil \(The Geek\) Wyatt wrote:
From: Springfield Harrison
[mailto
:stellar...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 11 May 2015 3:43
than happy to get the aeroway export for you. standby
Cheers - Phil,
On the road with his iPad
On 11 May 2015, at 7:04 pm, Springfield Harrison
stellar...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Phil,
Right,
thanks for the update. Introducing yet another data-entry method is
certainly not ideal but the perspective
that is
possible but just remember there may be many others using overpass turbo,
task manager, checking tags, validating and adding more areas all the
time. #1023 is now 92% complete
Cheers - Phil
From: Springfield Harrison
[
mailto:stellar...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 11 May 2015 5:39 PM
To: Phil (The Geek
://labs.geofabrik.de/nepal/
And if you can wait another two months then look for project
Osmaxx...
-S.
2015-05-11 9:38 GMT+02:00 Springfield Harrison
stellar...@gmail.com:
Hello Phil Michael,
Thanks for the quick
reply, my apologies for not seeing the KML file
you attached. It opens fine in Manifold
Hello John,
I'm not up on the intricacies of the OSM database but could probably
figure it out fairly easily if there is any documentation to be
had. Or even if not. I'm quite familiar with Manifold GIS,
used to work with ArcView and have recently acquired QGIS. Over the
years, I have done lots
I agree with the comments that I've formatted in bold below, Cheers . . .
. . . . . Spring
At 09-05-2015 15:34 Saturday, Suzan Reed wrote:
Validating: Validation button
only shows up for user with x number of edits/tiles completed and/or
passing a quick validation test. Survey: Survey to all
/QGIS#QGIS2_OpenStreetMap_Vectors
This is the quickest way to get OSM data into QGIS
From: Springfield Harrison
[
mailto:stellar...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, 10 May 2015 3:59 PM
To: john o'l; HOT
Subject: Re: [HOT] QGIS and OSM and..
Hello John,
I'm not up on the intricacies of the OSM database
Hello John,
With reference to your moving boulder, just
wondering if that could be in fact moving, i.e.,
not an image based coordinate shift as such. I'm
just thinking that with aftershocks and general
instability, many of these new features are still
sorting themselves out and traveling
Hello Steve,
Thanks for that clarification, I think I get the distinctions. Are
you saying that the image shift is not saved, it is only evident on the
local computer? So other users would not see that change, is that
correct?
However, there is an image shift database which implies that the
to display? I am new to QGIS, thanks,
Cheers . . . . . . . . Spring Harrison
At 09-05-2015 23:12 Saturday, Phil \(The Geek\) Wyatt wrote:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/QGIS#QGIS2_OpenStreetMap_Vectors
This is the quickest way to get OSM data into QGIS
From: Springfield Harrison
OK, thanks Kevin. So someone not paying attention to this level of
detail might not actually know if they're using a Bing or DG
image? However, the word is to use Bing as the positional
standard. This sounds like a potential procedural problem. Then in
JOSM, if the layer list says Bing,
Thanks Robert, for a 10-year-old organization, some things still seem to
be in the early stages (training?). I'm new here so maybe this
isn't entirely accurate.
Thanks, Cheers .
. . . . . . . Spring
At 07-05-2015 14:11 Thursday, Robert Banick wrote:
Hi All,
Excellent points and criticisms all
At 09-05-2015 00:15 Saturday, Paul Norman wrote:
On 5/8/2015 11:39 PM,
Springfield Harrison wrote:
...
The Google terms of service do
not permit the use of Google imagery to generate a map database*, which
prevents the use of Google Earth with default imagery. Did you add any
helipads based
Hello althio,
I did make quite a few additions to the shared document,
that is a good method for consolidating ideas in one place.
I am a bit nervous about the 1 min. concept. 1 min. is not
very long, most topics are going to require a bit more than
that. Surely, we can
This is a re-post from yesterday as it was too big and was rejected by
the list moderator (image?). I've deleted the image. My
apologies to those who did receive it already. Cheers . . . .
Spring Harrison . . . .
Hello Mappers,
Thanks for your comments and observations in reply to mine of
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Milo van der Linden
m...@dogodigi.net
wrote:
Hello Springfield Harrison,
As a 20 year GIS veteran I understand what you say. I do agree that in
communication with first responders it is important to have them clearly
understand that the accuracy of features can be off
Hello Suzan,
I am very new here and puzzled by some of the processes in
place. Not sure if I will even continue, there seems to be a fair
bit of turmoil not related to the earthquake. I received one e-mail
from someone who said this OSM initiative has only been going 10
years and
Hello Dave,
This is
amazing to see the vast number of invalid tags. This really calls
into question the integrity of the database. Do you have much luck
getting people to run the validator?
I am
baffled that the data validation does not take place right at the data
entry stage. This is very
Hello Steve,
Sorry to
rain on the parade yet again but I find this matter of image alignment to
be puzzling and concerning.
One of the
first things I learned when embarking upon GIS/GPS mapping was that
accurate georeferencing of all layers, but especially the base layers
(imagery in this case)
/05/2015 07:41, Springfield Harrison a écrit :
Hello Master Cpl.
Carriere,
OK, glad
to hear that. From the list of problems and concerns brought forward on
the twitter session earlier, it definitely sounded like accuracy and
consistency of the OSM editing might be suspect. Dragging their photos
that can be used to guide the volunteers to the more
critical areas? Being new, perhaps I do not have the whole
picture.
Thanks, Cheers .
. . . . . . . Spring
At 06-05-2015 01:33 Wednesday, Michael wrote:
Hi Spring,
2015-05-06 7:41 GMT+02:00 Springfield Harrison
stellar...@gmail.com
:
    Â
Hello Master Cpl. Carriere,
OK, glad
to hear that. From the list of problems and concerns brought
forward on the twitter session earlier, it definitely sounded like
accuracy and consistency of the OSM editing might be suspect.
Dragging their photos around to force the alignment of different
I couldn't find a thing on the IRC, I thought it was something to do with
the Intl Red Cross, silly me.
Information sources are hugely fragmented. I don't get a sense of
leadership, just random action.
I'm not sure if succesful GIS is a crowd activity.
I've asked but heard nothing about the
Wouldn't it be easier to just create a tool that draws a
box/rectangle? That is a common GIS drawing activity.
I'm new to this (but not to GIS/GPS mapping) but does this project really
need building footprints in every case? Points might suffice
initially in the interests of
here but
will help further if possible.
Thanks, Cheers . . . . . . . . Springfield Harrison, Canada
At 03-05-2015 23:56 Sunday, Michael Krämer wrote:
Hi,
for me the gold standard for image alignment
in OSM are gpx traces with high quality. If no
traces are available - which
Hello Kratzer,
Just signed on moments ago, background
in GIS, GPS mapping, helicopter pilot.
Just curious if there is any metadata
attached to the GPS field information as to the
map projection and datum in use? Is there any
documentation for GPS field workers to refer
Thanks Helen, very challenging. Are the underlying maps accurately
georeferenced? If so, georeferencing the new imagery should not be too
difficult but not likely possible online.
Non of these shifts would be linear, especially in areas of such high
relief. Are mappers just dragging the
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