Re: [Imports] [OSM-dev] Polygon relationificator

2009-09-22 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Emilie Laffray wrote: > > > 2009/9/14 Frederik Ramm > > Ian, >> >> > This feature could be added, but could you draw a couple pictures to >> > explain what you mean? What happens with the graph edges inside the >> > multipolygon? Since they aren't really polygons,

Re: [Imports] Sorting changes

2009-10-15 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:02 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > Hi, > the other day I talked to Richard Weait on irc about upload utilities > and we thought it would be nice for big uploads, which need to be > split anyway, to be split "logically", so that the changes appear in a > similar order to h

Re: [Imports] Sorting changes

2009-10-15 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:18 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > 2009/10/15 Ian Dees : > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:02 PM, andrzej zaborowski > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> the other day I talked to Richard Weait on irc about upload utilities > >&

Re: [Imports] polyshp2osm.py

2009-10-20 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote: > Hi, > Can you give an example of a situation when you'd need to use multiple > source fields for 1 osm tag? > > Also, if your creating intersecting ways, double check to see that the > nodes are infact connected. (shp-to-osm doesnt connect the

Re: [Imports] what tool to upload osc-files?

2009-11-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Marcus Wolschon wrote: > > What tool can be used to upload change(osc)-files? > > If you're planning on plastering the planet with things like > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/282430 > > then please don't - OSM has en

Re: [Imports] canvec-to-osm 0.9.6 now available

2009-11-07 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Frank Steggink wrote: > Sam, can you give some additional clarification what your intentions are? > I'm afraid I'm not following them well. When you mentioning removing > duplicate nodes and relations, it looks as if you intend to create a script > which does some p

Re: [Imports] canvec-to-osm 0.9.6 now available

2009-11-07 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:48 AM, James A. Treacy wrote: > > There are cases where the same way exists in different data sets but > with different uses. A good example is that islands in the waterbody > data are often repeated in the wooded data (if the island happens to > be wooded, which happens

Re: [Imports] canvec-to-osm 0.9.6 now available

2009-11-07 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:59 AM, James A. Treacy wrote: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:14:58AM -0600, Ian Dees wrote: > > Tags appears on the inner ways because you have an "inner" rule in the > > rules.txt file. If you remove those lines from the rules.txt, you should >

Re: [Imports] canvec-to-osm 0.9.6 now available

2009-11-07 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Frank Steggink wrote: > I do have a "relationificator" plugin started for shp-to-osm that will >> attempt to solve this problem by converting exactly-overlapping edges into >> relations and delete duplicate primitives. If there's a strong need for it I >> can contin

Re: [Imports] FW: Bermuda Maps on Open Street Map

2009-11-11 Thread Ian Dees
. We look forward to hearing from you! -Ian Dees On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Andy Robinson (OSMF) wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: Atwood, David [mailto:datw...@gov.bm] > Sent: 06 November 2009 3:33 PM > To: offic...@osmfoundation.org > Cc: Hopkin, Peter > Sub

Re: [Imports] FW: City of Westminster, Colorado Street and Trails Data

2009-11-11 Thread Ian Dees
this data to, let me know. We look forward to hearing from you! -Ian Dees On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Andy Robinson (OSMF) wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: Murray, Dave [mailto:dmur...@cityofwestminster.us] > Sent: 07 October 2009 10:49 PM > To: don...@osmfoundatio

Re: [Imports] [Talk-ca] Shp2OSM : various questions

2009-11-17 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Emilie Laffray wrote: > Lennard wrote: > > Emilie Laffray wrote: > > > > [polyshp2osm.py] > > > >> Yup hence the reason why I modified it to be more current (not in SVN) > >> for the Corine import. > >> > > > > Did you get it to use shared nodes for touching polyg

Re: [Imports] [Talk-ca] Shp2OSM : various questions

2009-11-17 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Pieren wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Emilie Laffray > wrote: > > Ian Dees wrote: > >> Who wrote the Java program? I'd love to integrate that in to shp-to-osm. > > Pieren did. > > > > I'm sure it can

Re: [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:19 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com < jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Instead of importing lots of data, I have imported only one lake for > your review and approval. > > I have documented it here : > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/h4ck3rm1k3/diary/8927 > >

Re: [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:29 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com < jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:22 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com > wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > > >> The current NHD eithe

Re: [Imports] [Talk-us] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:15 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com < jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > For the US, I found also a national name register, like the GNS database. > > This has been imported already. ___ Imports mailing list Imports@o

Re: [Imports] [Talk-us] [US] NHD04090004

2010-03-17 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Nakor wrote: >   Hello, > > I was importing NHD data in my area and found some issues in the data I > downloaded: The Rouge River in Detroit area > () is visible on the > NHD map (see attached screenshot) but is

Re: [Imports] Inserting OSM data

2010-03-22 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Nic Roets wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: > > On 22/03/10 15:00, Nic Roets wrote: > > > >> One solution is to add your own tag to the OSM files you generate e.g. > >> smartsoft_id=nnn. And publish the files for review somewhere. Then >

Re: [Imports] NHD data skipped by nhd2osm

2010-06-22 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Dylan Semler wrote: > I've patched the nhd2osm scripts to print details about the NHD > tag conversions[1]. I'm attaching the output of the scripts with my patch > applied if anyone is interested in what it does. > The shp-to-osm Java app I wrote has a more comp

Re: [Imports] Designated Wilderness area import

2010-07-02 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Erik G. Burrows wrote: > > (There is also a ton of other great information available for download at > this site.) > > Most of this data has very very low resolution (1:1M) and should probably not be imported. > > Many of these areas are already imported into the

Re: [Imports] Imports Digest, Vol 13, Issue 2

2010-07-06 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Reiser, John J. wrote: > Having it as an ArcToolbox function is even better, because I know most > people I've talked to want to download just a small area and were > unimpressed with the whole state snapshots provided by CloudMade. > > What does ArcToolbox functio

Re: [Imports] How to run Java shp-to-osm?

2010-07-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Alan Millar wrote: > I'm interested in importing NHD for my area. I came across this > message: > > > The shp-to-osm Java app I wrote has a more complete set of NHD > > conversion rules > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shp-to-osm.jar > > But I can't seem

Re: [Imports] simple osm-merge.sh updated for multiple files

2010-07-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Alan Millar wrote: > andrzej zaborowski wrote: > > > There's a dummy script at > > http://repo.or.cz/w/ump2osm.git/blob/HEAD:/osm-merge to do that (would > > need to be modified for >2 layers). > > Here is my updated version of osm-merge.sh > > If there's a need

Re: [Imports] importing NYC building shapes

2010-08-15 Thread Ian Dees
How do you plan on handling collisions (i.e. when someone already added the building you're importing?) On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Vaidila Kungys wrote: > I'd like to import the shapes of NYC buildings to OSM. The public data is > maintained by DoITT and available at NYC Datamine, data do

Re: [Imports] TIGER09 data in .osm format for California?

2010-09-16 Thread Ian Dees
I don't think anyone has converted the TIGER shapefiles en masse yet. Do you need the data right now? If not, let's start talking about how we can convert the 2010 TIGER data once it comes out. Tim Trainor (of the Census Bureau) has mentioned several times that the 2010 data is quite a bit better t

Re: [Imports] TIGER09 data in .osm format for California?

2010-09-16 Thread Ian Dees
> > > cheers, > sam > > On 9/16/10, Ian Dees wrote: > > I don't think anyone has converted the TIGER shapefiles en masse yet. Do > you > > need the data right now? If not, let's start talking about how we can > > convert the 2010 TIGER data once it com

Re: [Imports] MapQuest translation of Beijing - requesting feedback

2010-10-26 Thread Ian Dees
This looks good. Some suggestions: 1) Try to do it in geographically small regions. i.e. one city or smallish bounding box at a time 2) Use an obvious username 3) Make the turnaround time quick enough so as to reduce conflicts (this goes hand in hand with #1) On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Hard

Re: [Imports] MapQuest translation of Beijing - requesting feedback

2010-10-26 Thread Ian Dees
Sam, I think what Roman is suggesting here is very different than other imports and does not require the same amount of community interaction. If they were doing more than adding tags to existing primitives I would suggest something closer to what you want. As it stands, though, they aren't modifyi

Re: [Imports] new data available for albania

2010-10-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Mike Dupont wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Grant Slater > wrote: > > On 28 October 2010 14:59, Mike Dupont > wrote: > >> > >> I don't have an agenda, but I am a believer in share-alike. > >> > > > > ODbL _is_ a data share-alike license. > > See point

Re: [Imports] Import US County data

2010-12-08 Thread Ian Dees
With TIGER 2010 starting to roll out we need to think about how to offer some way of comparing OSM with arbitrary datasets. Here are my thoughts so far: 1) User uploads a shapefile 2) User selects attribute(s) in the shapefile to use for matching with OSM data (i.e. a road name or tiger identifier

Re: [Imports] Import US County data

2010-12-08 Thread Ian Dees
If there is a 3rd .shp file website out their, i'd be happy to hear of it. > > > cheers, > sam > > > p.s. on the new zealand mailing list, folks are wrattling their brains > to get something. > ... and for canvec it's the ommissions and remissions that can be done

Re: [Imports] [Talk-us] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 19:25 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > What I like most about it is that you have a forced visual feedback - > > there is no way you can copy something into OSM without seeing what is > > actually there before you do. > >

Re: [Imports] Importing Arkansas data

2011-03-21 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Al Pascual wrote: > Imports, > > > > The state of Arkansas provided the data in shapefiles to be uploaded to > OpenStreetMaps, we prepared the parcel data > I think that we (as a community) have decided that parcel data is not useful to us. Parcel boundaries are

Re: [Imports] Importing Arkansas data

2011-03-21 Thread Ian Dees
re about such policies in OSM. We had not found info on this on > the wiki or elsewhere. > > Would Thursday or Friday work for you? Say 11am eastern? > > > On Mar 21, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Ian Dees < > ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:29 PM,

Re: [Imports] Importing Arkansas data

2011-03-28 Thread Ian Dees
Hi Al et al, I noticed (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Al%20Pascual/edits) that have decided to go forward with your parcel import even though we expressed our wishes that you do not (or at least that we talk about it more). Can you at least answer the questions I posed earlier before continui

Re: [Imports] Importing Arkansas data

2011-03-28 Thread Ian Dees
to OSM. We also see various places around the world that have the > parcel boundaries loaded into OSM and some of those are featured as ‘best of > OSM’. We do not see it as a data dump. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Marten > > > > *From:* Ian Dees [mailt

Re: [Imports] Importing Arkansas data

2011-03-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Mike N wrote: > On 3/28/2011 3:29 PM, Josh Doe wrote: > >> Hmm, also is it just me or does it seem like everything that he's >> imported consists of nodes without any tags? I looked through a few of >> the changesets and didn't see any ways, >> > > This part is O

Re: [Imports] Importing Arkansas data

2011-03-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Michael Leibowitz < michael.leibow...@intel.com> wrote: > Here is a popular perspective from the OSM community, "If parcel data >> can't be measured, confirmed or improved by OSM editors, why import >> it?" Use it as an overlay somewhere, somehow. >> > > What make

Re: [Imports] Importing Arkansas data

2011-04-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Michael Leibowitz < michael.leibow...@intel.com> wrote: > On 03/28/2011 01:16 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Michael Leibowitz < >> michael.leibow...@intel.com <mailto:michael.leibow...@intel.com>> w

Re: [Imports] Importing Arkansas data

2011-04-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Michael Leibowitz < michael.leibow...@intel.com> wrote: > If one were to make a one-time import, not only would they probably stomp > on a lot of entries already existing, the data would become wrong > eventually. However, a continual import has value. Although s

Re: [Imports] "readonly" tag for imported data (ask "simple" editors to not modify)?

2011-04-26 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Jaak Laineste wrote: > ... I've mapped for years and still have same user level as any newcomer :( > > This is a GOOD thing. We are all equals and should all be trying to map all areas equally well. I can be proud of my area (check out the buildings here! All hand

Re: [Imports] 21M SimpleGEO CC0 POIs

2011-08-10 Thread Ian Dees
I've been poking through the data and wrote a quick JOSM plugin a while back when SimpleGeo's API was free to query the view's bbox and discovered that there's a LOT of places but quite a few of them are old or misplaced. Basically, it won't be very helpful to import wholesale, but since it has ph

Re: [Imports] New module to merge-sort imports over time (osmfetch python)

2011-08-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > On 08/25/2011 03:27 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > >> Another problem which you don't seem to solve is the relationship of >> imported and already existing data; it seems that in your particular case >> you evaluated the situation by hand before

Re: [Imports] [Talk-us] Double Mapping - Point and Polygon

2011-08-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > ** > > Mike Thompson miketho16 at gmail.com > wrote: > > It seems that some things in OSM have been mapped twice, once as a > point and once as a polygon. Here is an example: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.42939&lon=-105.31262&zoo

Re: [Imports] Addition of building footprints in selected U.S. and Canadian cities

2012-03-22 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:39 PM, William Morris wrote: > Hello all, > > Some colleagues at the UVM Spatial Analysis Lab have offered to submit > features to OSM that are derived from their high-res (1 meter) LULC > analyses at locations throughout the U.S. and around Toronto > (locations here: htt

Re: [Imports] NYC street data

2012-04-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Vaidila Kungys wrote: > People, > I've requested NYC City Planning to allow OSM to upload the City's street > network data. Here's the letter I received after months of back/forth. It > doesn't seem good enough. Can I get some help for how we should respond? Two

Re: [Imports] [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > > From: Paul Johnson [mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org] > > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports > > > > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Paul Norman wrote: > > > See > > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-April/008032

Re: [Imports] [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > > > Do those individual polygons have any useful information on them > (addresses, > > for example)? If

Re: [Imports] [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Paul Johnson > wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > >> > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1

Re: [Imports] [Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import Start

2012-12-13 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote: > Agreed about having to deconflict after buildings are imported on top of > other buildings. I didn't see any suggestion of that in Jason's process. > > In Seattle, we're looking at doing a manual comparison of each building > way provided by t

[Imports] Chicago Buildings Redux

2013-02-20 Thread Ian Dees
Hi imports, Earlier last year I downloaded the Chicago building footprints shapefile [0] from the Chicago data portal, chopped it into manageable bits and started importing it into OSM. Halfway through the process of merging and uploading this data I read the data portal's license [1] closer, disc

Re: [Imports] Chicago Buildings Redux

2013-03-04 Thread Ian Dees
an On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > Hi imports, > > Earlier last year I downloaded the Chicago building footprints shapefile > [0] from the Chicago data portal, chopped it into manageable bits and > started importing it into OSM. Halfway through the process of

Re: [Imports] [Talk-us] Chicago Buildings Redux

2013-03-04 Thread Ian Dees
ngs it is time consuming but I'd rather it take time than do something automated. > Its very cool that the building data already has the addresses! > Yep, this is the main reason I'm importing the data. > > Thanks > Jason. > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Ian Dees

Re: [Imports] [Talk-us] Chicago Buildings Redux

2013-03-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Jason Remillard wrote: > Hi Ian, > > One more thing. I realize that this is a controversial area. On our > import MA building import we decided to not include the MassGIS > building id. The id was just a munged centroid position and MassGIS > indicated they don't in

Re: [Imports] NYC building and address import

2013-09-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Vaidila Satvika wrote: > That would take a very very long time. There are something like 65,000 > streets in NYC broken up into many more segments. Perhaps we could import > just the one-way streets? > The problem is that there are already streets in OSM. Someone

Re: [Imports] NYC streets - was Re: NYC building and address import

2013-09-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Alex Barth wrote: > Stopping the tangent, here's a new thread for the NYC streets guys :) > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Vaidila Satvika wrote: > >> Ian, >> The TileMill solution sounds good. Any way to set that up so that others >> can access that layer in J

Re: [Imports] NYC building and address import

2013-09-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Jason Remillard wrote: > Hi, > > NY city is so large (if it was a state, it would be 10th largest > state), any kind of manual work is going to be an big issue. Why not > just automated everything that is easy (say things that don't > conflict), or more aggressivel

Re: [Imports] NYC building and address import

2013-09-10 Thread Ian Dees
a big deal to spot check > million buildings, then go for it! I'm not helping either way. > > And, yes, given who is on this team ... its 30 minute job for you > guys. For me, 3 hours. > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at

Re: [Imports] [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal

2013-09-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Andrew Buck wrote: > The idea of doing a mass edit has been discussed but we decided > against it (at least for now). We don't want to bloat the history of > millions of objects to with an edit just to remove the tags. Putting > them on the discard list means the

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

2013-10-14 Thread Ian Dees
I would tend to agree with you to keep address nodes separate from buildings. It makes mapping POI easier, makes geocoders more accurate, and is generally easier to work with as a dataset. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Alex Barth wrote: > (This is BCC to tagg...@osm.org, conversation to happ

Re: [Imports] Belgium address import

2013-11-23 Thread Ian Dees
Two questions: 1) The screenshots on the wiki page mention the use of associatedStreet relation, but your e-mail mentions that you will remove it. In the end, the data will only have nodes with addr:* tags? 2) I'm not familiar with the addr.openstreetmap.fr tool, but it sounds like it duplicates

Re: [Imports] Belgium address import

2013-11-23 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Ben Abelshausen wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > >> >> 2) I'm not familiar with the addr.openstreetmap.fr tool, but it sounds >> like it duplicates functionality of the OSM Tasking Manager. H

Re: [Imports] Belgium address import

2013-11-24 Thread Ian Dees
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi > > On 24.11.2013 19:26, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > >> What's the benefit of tying the address to the structure? I've seen this > >> spoken about quite a bit. > > > > 3. Almost always, the points are either wrong or meaningless > > I'd li

Re: [Imports] [Imports-us] Address Data Import for Fulton County, Georgia

2014-01-09 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > > 1. The license issue is still unresolved > > I looked at the pdf you mentioned. The distribution statement appears > to be for the document itself, the "Standards and Definitions for the > Driveway / Access Point Address File", rather tha

Re: [Imports] [osm-pl] Fwd: Re: Import of addresses in Poland

2014-02-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Alex Barth wrote > >> And all of these imports while the contributor base continues to grow. >> > > Do you have data to show the rate of contributors against an area with > imports vs without? > > I think

Re: [Imports] [osm-pl] Fwd: Re: Import of addresses in Poland

2014-02-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > >> >> But your statement does remind me of a good point: those that claim >> imports harm community have not shown any data supporting that viewpoint. >&

Re: [Imports] [osm-pl] Fwd: Re: Import of addresses in Poland

2014-02-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > > My anecdotal evidence shows the opposite: people are more excited about >> OSM in Chicago with the buildings import from last year. >> > > I am not talking about excitment, I'm talking about how many objects are > actually updated. > I

[Imports] Spam and New Moderator

2014-02-05 Thread Ian Dees
Hi all, A couple updates about imports@: 1) You just received a bunch of e-mails from imports@ because the moderator queue was cleared. 2) I am now the moderator for imports@. a) As with other lists I moderate, I will sign messages with "The imports@ moderating team". b) As usual: be dir

Re: [Imports] Wow!

2014-02-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: > Did the list just come unstuck or is my gmail messed up? > > > https://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/sh/926e3fc7-e16a-4042-9801-a014da2919a0/aaab8c0c994d4b57a72a7a3b4657a440 > > These are all old messages that are just now showing up. Some from

Re: [Imports] Wow!

2014-02-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Johan C wrote: > a lid on things ;)> > > + 1, there should be more humor like this on this list :-) > > Hey let's keep it on topic. Obviously there's no humor on this list. ;-) ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstre

Re: [Imports] [osm-pl] Import adresów Gmina Wieprz

2014-02-20 Thread Ian Dees
Pieren, Please refrain from posting personal attacks and remain positive and civil in your discourse. You've been moderated for 24 hours. -Your imports@ moderating team On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Pieren wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Serge Wroclawski > wrote: > > >> Should

Re: [Imports] [Imports-us] Address Data Import for Fulton County, Georgia

2014-03-03 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Saikrishna Arcot wrote: > Regarding the addr:city, based on two addresses located in Sandy Springs > (as defined by OSM), the USPS accepts both Atlanta and Sandy Springs as the > address, and gives the same ZIP+4 value for both. If it's preferred, I can > have the

Re: [Imports] [Tagging] [osm_sk] Re: Aktualizace: Tags for Czech/Slovak address system

2014-03-19 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:41 AM, "Petr Morávek [Xificurk]" wrote: > This discussion can be constructive, if and only if the participants > understand at least the basic terms that are used in CR subdivision and > address system. If you (or anyone else) is not clear on something, then > ask a spec

Re: [Imports] Buildings & Address in Washington, DC, USA.

2014-06-06 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Katie Filbert wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Alex Barth wrote: > >> - Make sure expectations of all involved are clear. This is something I >> could have done a better job of. For instance, that we at Mapbox were going >> to engage very directly in the u

Re: [Imports] DWG

2014-06-06 Thread Ian Dees
Hi. I don't know what list the rest of the DWG conversation belongs on, but it isn't imports@. Let's stop this thread here. Thanks, Ian Your friendly (on vacation) imports@ moderator. ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.open

Re: [Imports] NYC building + address import (was Re: Buildings & Address in Washington, DC, USA.)

2014-06-07 Thread Ian Dees
Ok folks. Now that I'm off a train and can more properly respond to this thread: We're going to stop discussion about DWG on this list. These are important questions to ask, but this topic should be moved over to legal-talk@ or talk@ or something. Unless you have something to say about the DC bui

Re: [Imports] cleanup broken import "fix"

2014-06-12 Thread Ian Dees
Hey folks, I feel like this discussion has strayed away from an Imports discussion and more towards a tagging discussion. Let's bring it back on topic and continue the tagging thread on the tagging mailing list please. -Ian (your friendly imports@ admin) On Jun 12, 2014 4:19 PM, "Eric Ladner" wr

Re: [Imports] Fwd: Import Plan for Buildings & Address in Washington, DC, USA

2014-07-14 Thread Ian Dees
David, it would help to include links to the areas in question so we can check them out. On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:01 PM, David Jackson (OCTO) wrote: > As part of the DC Addresses/ Buildings Project Import Plan, today two > test areas were imported into OSM: > > * 110010078082 bounded 58th St

Re: [Imports] [MappingDC] DC Buildings & Addresses Import

2014-07-18 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Christoph Hormann wrote: > On Friday 18 July 2014, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > > > > The OpenStreetMap community > > > has been trying to make a perfect import for years. It hasn't > > > happened yet.m > > > > If I recall right, the Antarctica import didn't

Re: [Imports] Importing fuel stations in UK and future similar imports

2017-05-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Ilya Zverev wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Together with the NavAds company, we plan to import a thousand Shell fuel > stations to the United Kingdom. The source is official, which means, Shell > company specifically shared the dataset to put them on maps. Do you have

Re: [Imports] Walmart import

2017-12-15 Thread Ian Dees
Hi Damian, This looks really great. Thanks for taking the time to do this the right way. I'm looking through the browse link you give and it seems like it would be a vast improvement over what we have now for Wal Mart. I hope we get to see more of this in the future! -Ian On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at

Re: [Imports] Walmart import

2017-12-15 Thread Ian Dees
Hi Frederik, On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/15/2017 11:31 PM, Damian Rollison wrote: > > We ask that you please take a look at the data at the following site and > > check the tagging and locations: > > I have little knowledge of Walmart and therefore shoul

Re: [Imports] Stadiums on OSM part 1

2018-07-21 Thread Ian Dees
Hi all, I've asked this person to not send multiple messages. Please keep the thread attached to this one message for now. -Ian (as moderator of imports@) On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 3:54 PM Bas Mooz wrote: > Hi, I found some stadium errors on OpenStreetMap through > www.worldofstadiums.com, do I

Re: [Imports] Important update

2018-07-24 Thread Ian Dees
Hi Bas, You are trying to post to the "imports" mailing list for OpenStreetMap, and this is an off-topic message. If you'd like to make a change to the map, you can do it yourself using the "Edit" button at the top of the map. -Ian On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 4:27 PM Bas Mooz wrote: > Can anyone p

Re: [Imports] Importing Kerala, India road network from Facebook's ML generated data

2018-09-09 Thread Ian Dees
Hi all, This discussion is no longer on topic for this thread (or mailing list) or constructive feedback. Please limit your comments to the import at hand. -Ian On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 2:34 PM Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 09/09/2018 08:52 PM, Stephen V. Mather wrote: > > FYI, this is gasli