[Imports] Baltimore city buildings import

2013-04-11 Thread Elliott Plack
r overlaps Upload with special EP_Import account http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ElliottPlack -- Elliott Plack http://about.me/elliottp ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Proposed small import of UTA bus stops

2013-04-23 Thread Elliott Plack
red? > * If not, which steps should I revisit / add and how? > * Do you recommend using a separate account for uploading the external > data? > > Looking forward to your feedback. > Martijn > > [1] > http://gis.utah.gov/data/sgid-**transportation/transit/<http://gis.utah.gov/da

Re: [Imports] [Imports-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-04 Thread Elliott Plack
your doing addresses, perhaps I should remove some buildings I already brought in. Building type: you might be able to tell if its classified residential or commercial or whatever from the GIS data. Looks great overall! Elliott — Elliott Plack Sent from Mailbox on iPhone 5 about.me/elliottp On

Re: [Imports] GPX imports from Uber

2013-06-20 Thread Elliott Plack
volume of >> data that I hope can significantly improve the quality of OSM. >> >> Best, >> >> Jed Horne >> Uber Technologies >> >> _______ >> Imports mailing list >> Imports@openstreetmap.org &

Re: [Imports] SASA bus stops import

2013-09-27 Thread Elliott Plack
Bus mapping expert here :) bus stops, in my experience, are hard to map in OSM and can clutter urban centers. I like to see people add routes though. You can do a lot of cool stuff with the routes, like make better bus maps, or get a more detailed map of the route.  — Elliott Plack Sent from

Re: [Imports] NYC building + address import - to merge or not to merge?

2013-10-14 Thread Elliott Plack
; > e) It adds no explicit value without entrance tag > > Tagging entrances as values with an address is useful. Not only does > it have value on its own, but you can even add a tag to indicate that > the entrance is off a certain street (we don't have a tag for this > now, but it wouldn't be hard to add). > > But right now, we don't have the entrance tag, so we lose the benefits of > both. > > > I think both ways are suboptimal, but they both bear consideration. > > - Serge > > ___ > Imports mailing list > Imports@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > -- Elliott Plack http://about.me/elliottp ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

[Imports] Baltimore City GIS Data

2014-02-05 Thread Elliott Plack
I know at the city GIS department for license clarification. By the way, Google has their parcel data in Google Maps, which it charges for, so I have a feeling that using it for a free cause will not be and issue. What else? Thank you, -- Elliott Plack http://about.me/elliottp ___

[Imports] (no subject)

2014-04-18 Thread Elliott Plack
mport/tree/master/dataWGS84/DNR%20Lands%20and%20Conservation%20Easements Looking forward to any comments. Thanks, -- Elliott Plack http://about.me/elliottp ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] [Imports-us] (no subject)

2014-04-18 Thread Elliott Plack
Please ignore this mailing. I will resend with a proper subject. On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Elliott Plack wrote: > Greetings Import Community, > > After SOTMUS, I have decided to resurrect the import of Maryland Dept. of > Natural Resources land boundary data. This import will

[Imports] Maryland State Park & Nature Area Import

2014-04-18 Thread Elliott Plack
ent. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maryland_State_Parks https://github.com/talllguy/maryland-dnr-osm-import/tree/master/dataWGS84/DNR%20Lands%20and%20Conservation%20Easements Looking forward to any comments. Thanks, -- Elliott Plack http://about.me/elliottp _

Re: [Imports] Vermont Town boundaries from VCGI

2014-05-04 Thread Elliott Plack
; > But I'm not very familiar with the place=* usage in the US and if this > is the done thing over there, feel free to ignore me. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" >

Re: [Imports] Vermont Town boundaries from VCGI

2014-05-05 Thread Elliott Plack
t 12:11 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2014-05-04 20:59 GMT+02:00 Elliott Plack : > > In my experience, place=hamlet,village,town,city are *better placed as >> nodes* at the boundary centroid, rather than with ways representing the >> boundary. Mapnik and Mapbox use the no

Re: [Imports] Vermont Town boundaries from VCGI

2014-05-05 Thread Elliott Plack
ist > Imports@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > -- Elliott Plack http://about.me/elliottp ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

[Imports] Baltimore County Maryland Building and Address Import

2014-08-08 Thread Elliott Plack
imorecounty/openstreetmap/ http://1drv.ms/XOQD9J I welcome all feedback, and while I've tried to get it right the first time, there may be room for improvement. Thanks, -- Elliott Plack http://about.me/elliottp ___ Imports mailing list I

Re: [Imports] Baltimore County Maryland Building and Address Import

2014-09-05 Thread Elliott Plack
diary post soon detailing some of the ins and outs of this. It was really fun. On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Elliott Plack wrote: > Greetings Fellow Mappers, > > As some of you may know, I am a GIS Specialist for Baltimore County, Md. > Since we released our data as public domain a

[Imports] Baltimore County Maryland Hydrology Import

2014-09-05 Thread Elliott Plack
217/-76.5440 This is will be a very manual process and as a steward of open data, I will take great care not to undo other mappers hard work. -- Elliott Plack http://about.me/elliottp ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Baltimore County Maryland Hydrology Import

2014-09-19 Thread Elliott Plack
t, and basin is the tag on the wiki. I've been manually changing the wet ones to pond when applicable. This will require more looking at. Kindly, Elliott On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Christoph Hormann wrote: > On Friday 05 September 2014, Elliott Plack wrote: > > 3. Here is the &

[Imports] Ottawa Bike Parking Import

2014-09-21 Thread Elliott Plack
Clark, This looks cool. One important step is to translate the types of bike parking in the document to the types that OSM uses. Here is a wiki page with pictures of each type. For instance, loop and post is probably "stands". http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:bicycle_parking Maybe add a col

Re: [Imports] Ottawa Bike Parking Import

2014-09-24 Thread Elliott Plack
Import/Guidelines>. Also, do you mind > if I use your ArcMap .png on our website as a teaser before all the data is > uploaded? > > > Cheers! > > > -- > *From:* Elliott Plack > > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 24, 2014 2:24 PM >

Re: [Imports] Ottawa Bike Parking Import

2014-09-25 Thread Elliott Plack
ki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page. Detail the source of the data, licenses, community support and how to tackle existing data. Kindly, Elliott On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Andy Allan wrote: > On 24 September 2014 22:31, Elliott Plack wrote: > > Clark, > > > > Quick ti

Re: [Imports] Ottawa Bike Parking Import

2014-09-25 Thread Elliott Plack
Thanks Andy. I should have said, "Pardon my unbridled enthusiasm." :) On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Andy Allan wrote: > > Please forgive my enthusiasm > > No worries, nothing wrong with a bit of enthusiasm and an desire to > help other people out! > > Thanks

Re: [Imports] [Imports-us] New Orleans: importing buildings and addresses

2014-10-23 Thread Elliott Plack
arate. Kindly, Elliott [1] = http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/39.37694/-76.60895 [2] = https://github.com/baltimorecounty/openstreetmap/wiki/Buildings-and-Addresses-Import#data-conflation [image: --] Elliott Plack [image: http://]about.me/elliottp <http://about.me/elliottp?promo=email_sig&g

Re: [Imports] Maryland State Park & Nature Area Import

2014-12-01 Thread Elliott Plack
maryland-dnr-osm-import/tree/master/dataWGS84/County%20Lands/byCounty Thoughts on the small county properties? Elliott On Fri Apr 18 2014 at 3:16:39 PM Elliott Plack wrote: > Greetings Import Community, > > *Firstly, pardon the duplicate message. The original was sent in error > without

[Imports] Baltimore Buildings and Addresses Import Proposal

2015-03-25 Thread Elliott Plack
Dear Imports and Imports-US communities, Today a dedicated team of Baltimore area OpenStreetMap supporters and mappers are proposing an import of Baltimore buildings and addresses. The import background and procedures are documented on the OSM wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Baltimore_Bu

Re: [Imports] [Imports-us] Baltimore Buildings and Addresses Import Proposal

2015-04-06 Thread Elliott Plack
ithub.com/jremillard/osm-import-toolkit > [2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mpetroff-imports/history > [3] http://tasks.openstreetmap.us/job/59 > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Elliott Plack > wrote: > >> Dear Imports and Imports-US communities, >> >> Today

Re: [Imports] Using shp2osm

2015-04-08 Thread Elliott Plack
Greetings, I too am a GIS professional and have worked on several imports of some government data lately. Since you're a GIS guy, I suggest looking at the wiki [1] for my Baltimore County import under spatial workflow. I used a ModelBuilder model in ArcGIS to chunk, simplify and project certain fe

Re: [Imports] OSM Import Question

2015-08-27 Thread Elliott Plack
Sounds great to me, POI data is hard to crowd source. Assuming the licensing and existing data issues are taken care of, I vote yes. Elliott Plack On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:59 AM Jim Stob wrote: > Hello OSM Community, > > > My name is Jim Stob and I am with Position Techn

Re: [Imports] Looking for POI datasets

2015-10-21 Thread Elliott Plack
Sander, Cool idea! I have a number of datasets in mind, but the two most foremost are ones created by local governments to inventory all their facilities (schools, police stations, fire depts). A lot of that gets added to the map already, so it could provide for some good QC. The other is a gov't

Re: [Imports] Hydrological/hydraulic model data import

2015-10-21 Thread Elliott Plack
Courtney, Are we talking merely the geometry of the hydrology? I think that would be suitable if the ways are connected properly. Elliott On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 2:20 PM Pavel Machek wrote: > On Mon 2015-10-19 15:40:22, Rieger, Courtney wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Is it possible to upload/impor

Re: [Imports] Need advice: Import wheelchair accessible places?

2016-03-13 Thread Elliott Plack
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[Imports] Proposal to replace inaccurate Everglades Agricultural Area data

2016-03-20 Thread Elliott Plack
available on the wiki for review, with links to the data and other requisite items. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Florida/Everglades_Agricultural_Area Let me know if you have any feedback. Thanks, Elliott -- Elliott Plack http://elliottplack.me

Re: [Imports] bicycle parking in Madrid manual import

2016-04-03 Thread Elliott Plack
f 50 nodes and the data seems good. > > BTW, this is my first import. > > Thank you, > Santiago Crespo > > ___ > Imports mailing list > Imports@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > -- Elli

Re: [Imports] [Talk-us] Dakota County Mn Bulk Building and Address Import

2016-04-07 Thread Elliott Plack
. As you refine your process and get good > feedback, then you can move to other lists for the final import plans. > > I hope this helps get you started, > Greg Morgan > > [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/396603853/history > > http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/whodidit/?zoom=16&a

Re: [Imports] [Talk-us] Potential data source: New York City watershed recreation lands

2016-05-24 Thread Elliott Plack
;d rather stay on good terms with the > officials involved, so I prefer to proceed by less formal means. The > 'web scraping' outlined above at least works, although I expect that > it will be a brittle process in the long run. I'll keep casting about > for a more robust w

Re: [Imports] Facebook's AI-Assisted Road Tracing for OSM

2017-03-16 Thread Elliott Plack
eir process or open the data as a whole for > us to evaluate before the import - as i already explained in my initial > reply. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > ___ > Imports mailing list > Imports@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > -- Elliott Plack http://elliottplack.me ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Bing Building Import

2018-07-03 Thread Elliott Plack
> Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > ___________ > Imports mailing list > Imports@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > -- Elliott Plack http://elliottplack.me ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports