Re: [OSM-talk] fences, trees and houses

2012-11-20 Thread Greg Troxel
Robin Paulson writes: > i've done some quite detailed editing near where i live, i'd > appreciate anyone who is interested taking a look and responding. > > i'm not sure what to make of the result. for one, my partner, a > non-mapper, has told me she finds it very confusing, which potentially >

Re: [OSM-talk] fences, trees and houses

2012-11-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Robin Paulson wrote: > i've done some quite detailed editing near where i live, i'd appreciate > anyone who is interested taking a look and responding. > > i'm not sure what to make of the result. for one, my partner, a non-mapper, > has told me she finds it very c

[OSM-talk] fences, trees and houses

2012-11-20 Thread Robin Paulson
i've done some quite detailed editing near where i live, i'd appreciate anyone who is interested taking a look and responding. i'm not sure what to make of the result. for one, my partner, a non-mapper, has told me she finds it very confusing, which potentially raises questions http://www.op

Re: [OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

2012-11-20 Thread Phil! Gold
* Mike N [2012-11-20 13:58 -0500]: > I also remove reviewed when I have verified the geometry and general > road type, although others use the reviewed flag as a a sign that it has > been verified on the ground. Yeah, I only remove the tiger:reviewed tag once I've verified both the geometry and t

Re: [OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

2012-11-20 Thread Mike N
On 11/20/2012 11:04 AM, Paul Norman wrote: tiger:county tiger:zip_left tiger:zip_right These are the only ones I use regularly, although there are probably sources to derive them. I also remove reviewed when I have verified the geometry and general road type, although others use the rev

Re: [OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

2012-11-20 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Paul Norman wrote: > tiger:name_base > > tiger:name_direction_suffix > > tiger:name_direction_prefix > > tiger:name_type > > tiger:reviewed I don't have opinions on the other tags, but those listed above are important. - Serge _

Re: [OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

2012-11-20 Thread Paul Norman
Aside from the automatically dropped tags there are: tiger:cfcc tiger:county tiger:name_base tiger:name_direction_suffix tiger:name_direction_prefix tiger:name_type tiger:reviewed tiger:zip_left tiger:zip_right My practice is to drop county if the county relation exists and is valid

Re: [OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

2012-11-20 Thread Toby Murray
Yeah, in preparation for Operation Cowboy I have tried to get a few things done to make things easier on remote mappers. I sent a pull request to update the P2 imagery URL to point at a new set of TIGER road name tiles that have all the abbreviations expanded so there is less uncertainty for armch

Re: [OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

2012-11-20 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Brian DeRocher wrote: > I feel it's important to maintain at least some reference to the TIGER > edge it came from. The edge has details like lfromadd, ltoadd, rfromaddd > and rtoadd. These are the "house" numbers on the left and right sides of > the street. >

Re: [OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

2012-11-20 Thread Brian DeRocher
I feel it's important to maintain at least some reference to the TIGER edge it came from. The edge has details like lfromadd, ltoadd, rfromaddd and rtoadd. These are the "house" numbers on the left and right sides of the street. This was useful to me as i connected Nomintatim to TIGER edges in

Re: [OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

2012-11-20 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Henning Scholland wrote: > Hi Josh, > so if I understand you correct, all TIGER-tag could be removed, if the > geometry of the object is checked and object has a name-tag? > This is what I do. > Is this a general opinion in US-community? > I'd venture to say y

Re: [OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

2012-11-20 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Henning Scholland wrote: > [...] > Which of above tags are obsolete and should be removed after checking the > object against aerial image and gps-tracks? > JOSM and Potlatch are conservative with removing tags, which is good considering users can edit objects w

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Problem with an Etrex 20

2012-11-20 Thread Tim Waters
On 20 November 2012 00:03, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Has anyone compared the etrex20 to the gpsmap 60Csx regarding > positional accuracy? Recently got strange problems on my 60Csx (can > turn it on, but when turned off it won't switch on again unless I > remove the batteries for a second, and I

Re: [OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

2012-11-20 Thread Ed Loach
Henning asked: > Which of above tags are obsolete and should be removed after checking the object > against aerial image and gps-tracks? JOSM already discards (some) obsolete Tiger tags: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/7915 And a similar patch https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4552 wa

[OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

2012-11-20 Thread Henning Scholland
Hi, because of Operation Cowboy many users will become into contact with TIGER-tags and don't really now ho to deal with them. There are: tiger:cfcc tiger:county tiger:name_base tiger:name_direction_suffix tiger:name_direction_prefix tiger:name_type tiger:reviewed tiger:seperated tiger:source

Re: [OSM-talk] Question on undelete/restore

2012-11-20 Thread Michael Krämer
So thanks to everybody for the feedback. In the meanwhile the user of the changeset has agreed to revert all of his changesets for the area. But on the other hand user zors1843 has reverted the changeset affecting the coastline. So now I guess I'll simply leave things as they are - I think any fur

Re: [OSM-talk] Question on undelete/restore

2012-11-20 Thread Michael Krämer
Hi Martin, 2012/11/20 Martin Koppenhoefer > Had a similar problem, this is the ticket: > https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/8156 > Yes, I think that's exactly the problem I've experienced. Best regards, Michael ___ talk mailing list talk@openstre

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking papers down

2012-11-20 Thread Michal Migurski
Hi, I gave the Walking Papers database a kick and it's back. FYI, Field Papers was developed for a social science / crisis response client and is aimed at more general data collection needs vs. the Walking Papers focus on OSM exclusively. Both do multi-page atlases and both produce prints that