Re: [Talk-us] Google earth, Google maps

2020-06-13 Thread Eric Ladner
treetmap.org> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > > > ___ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Eric Ladner ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-19 Thread Eric Ladner
re apparently just because they are > the most important. > > ___ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Eric Ladner ___ T

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Trunk versus motorway

2018-11-29 Thread Eric Ladner
__ >> 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 > -- Eric Ladner ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] admin_level=8 boundaries in Parker County, TX

2018-07-11 Thread Eric Ladner
> one wobbly bit, is there maybe a waterway missing in OSM? > > > > Bye > > Frederik > > > > -- > > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > > > ___ > > Talk-us mailing list > > Talk-us@

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 3

2017-07-13 Thread Eric Ladner
oesn’t really exist. > > [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:turn > [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/change > > > On Jul 13, 2017, at 1:14 PM, Eric Ladner <eric.lad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just to play Devil's advocate: B is pro

Re: [Talk-us] Help needed, Babcock Ranch near Fort Myers, FL

2017-05-15 Thread Eric Ladner
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 2:59 AM Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > > Maybe someone in the area fancies a fact-finding mission ;) > > Some of it actually shows up in the Charlotte county GIS system[1] (the stuff south of Lake Timber), and construction on the round-a-bout is

Re: [Talk-us] Is this a bad import or an experiment?

2017-03-23 Thread Eric Ladner
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:25 AM andrzej zaborowski wrote: Hi, Unfortunately it looks like someone has started deleting the areas you found, I looked at a random neighborhood and they were still visible in the tiles but the map data shows only the small ones, now unconnected

Re: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints

2017-03-22 Thread Eric Ladner
Not to poo-poo somebody giving to OSM, but the quality of that data isn't much better than hand drawn (and by "hand drawn" I mean with a mouse and drawing lines only without using the building tool or the extrude function). Non-orthogonal lines, self-intersecting ways, non-simplified ways,

Re: [Talk-us] Is this a bad import or an experiment?

2017-03-22 Thread Eric Ladner
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 1:07 PM Mike N wrote: > On 3/22/2017 2:02 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > > Are small driveways offensive, or is it just the polygonal ones that > > don't connect to anything? > > To me, it's just the disconnected polygons. Small driveways don't hurt >

Re: [Talk-us] Is this a bad import or an experiment?

2017-03-22 Thread Eric Ladner
.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mar 22, 2017 7:49 AM, "Paul Johnson" <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Eric Ladner <eric.lad...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/33.74152/-116.29677 >

Re: [Talk-us] Is this a bad import or an experiment?

2017-03-22 Thread Eric Ladner
w building footprints correctly. On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:59 AM Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mar 22, 2017 7:49 AM, "Paul Johnson" <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Eric Ladner <eric.lad...@gmail.com> >

[Talk-us] Is this a bad import or an experiment?

2017-03-22 Thread Eric Ladner
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/33.74152/-116.29677 So much wrongness.. I don't even know where to start in describing it. Eric ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed import cleanup: NYSDEClands

2016-06-21 Thread Eric Ladner
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:08 PM Kevin Kenny wrote: > The only way that I can see the current tagging working is if there > is some hidden coupling where it is understood that tags that apply > to an outer way of a multipolygon relation actually belong to the relation

Re: [Talk-us] problematic import in san francisco state university

2016-06-18 Thread Eric Ladner
Well done! > > I admit that I haven't looked at the aerial photos too closely, but > overlapping trees aren't ordinarily of great concern to me. Tree > canopies overlap in nature, after all. > > On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Eric Ladner <eric.lad...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] problematic import in san francisco state university

2016-06-18 Thread Eric Ladner
university in one request in JOSM without OSM complaining about the request being too big. On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 12:13 PM Eric Ladner <eric.lad...@gmail.com> wrote: > I could fix it manually, if you like. Pretty straight forward, actually. > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 4:22 AM Rihards &l

Re: [Talk-us] problematic import in san francisco state university

2016-06-18 Thread Eric Ladner
I could fix it manually, if you like. Pretty straight forward, actually. On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 4:22 AM Rihards wrote: > see https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/338699618/history and other things > around there. > > looks like a ~ 1 year old import. doesn't seem to have

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for dealing with old TIGER tags?

2016-06-04 Thread Eric Ladner
On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 5:01 PM Kevin Kenny wrote: > I'm usually talking about mapping in much more remote areas, and I've > been using 'track' more to denote more road quality. In some of the > places I go, there are public rights-of-way that haven't been >

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for dealing with old TIGER tags?

2016-06-04 Thread Eric Ladner
On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 5:58 AM Greg Troxel wrote: > > Kevin Kenny writes: > > > OK, 'residential' if it looks like 'subdivision', 'unclassified' > > otherwise (as long as it's drivable in, say, my daughter's car rather > > than my 4-wheeler). Got

Re: [Talk-us] How are US county boundaries legally defined?

2016-05-31 Thread Eric Ladner
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 8:48 AM Jake wrote: > ... > On every map I can find - Boone Countys GIS dept., census.gov, US Forest > Service - the county border strictly follows a river, Cedar Creek. However, > on OSM, the boundary is shaped exactly like the river, but is shifted

Re: [Talk-us] Dual carriage way?

2016-05-14 Thread Eric Ladner
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 4:25 PM Mike N wrote: > >I ran into this also in one local region where I converted many miles > of dual carriageway TIGER into a single way because there was no > divider, but mostly just had a center turning lane. > > Thanks for all the replies. I

[Talk-us] Dual carriage way?

2016-05-14 Thread Eric Ladner
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/30.0752/-90.5123 This section of West Airline Hwy was probably imported from Tiger as a dual carriage way. This section is two lanes in either direction with a center turning lane for quite a few miles through town (no center divider). I've converted a lot

Re: [Talk-us] OSM attribution on website store locator pages

2016-04-25 Thread Eric Ladner
I'm glad to see that things are progressing through normal, friendly discourse rather than the "talk to the hand" or "talk to our lawyers" that some companies hide behind. Great job, MapBox, and thanks for all the work you do! Sincerely, Eric Ladner non-professional map ju

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: State Park Boundary shp file

2016-01-21 Thread Eric Ladner
That seems unusual. Most states have a GIS or Geospatial portal where most of that information is easily downloadable. E On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:58 AM Paul Johnson wrote: > Would it be possible to get some advice on how to best submit this form > for the outlines

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Buildings and Addresses for Austin, Texas

2015-11-09 Thread Eric Ladner
;wilson.andre...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 12:59 PM Martin Koppenhoefer < > dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> sent from a phone >> >> > Am 09.11.2015 um 18:07 schrieb Eric Ladner <eric.lad...@gmail.com>: >> > >>

Re: [Talk-us] Importing Buildings and Addresses for Austin, Texas

2015-11-09 Thread Eric Ladner
Were steps taken to remove pre-existing buildings in OSM from the imported data set? As an example, see [1]. Looking at the data in the area, this seems the case, but I didn't exhaustively search through all the files. Replacing existing hand drawn buildings with imports from the city's GIS

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Find missing roads

2015-10-13 Thread Eric Ladner
I see some just north of Utica. dozens of dots over all of New York if I zoom out. On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 3:52 AM Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 11:47 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: > >> Martijn van Exel writes: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > Our OSM

Re: [Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

2015-09-28 Thread Eric Ladner
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:37 PM Mike Thompson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Tom Bloom > wrote: > >> TIGER drew thousands of driveways that are often simply wrong. >> > I believe TIGER only includes driveways over a certain length. >

Re: [Talk-us] Another road classification disagreement (this time with HFCS in Kansas)

2015-09-23 Thread Eric Ladner
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 6:59 AM Greg Troxel wrote: > > "Richie Kennedy" writes: > > > To me, "unpaved" includes gravel surfaced roads (which is the > > predominant surface type of non-state highways in rural Kansas). I'm > > not inclined to mark every

Re: [Talk-us] Long way in Lake County, CA no tags - broken boundary or other relation?

2015-09-17 Thread Eric Ladner
There are places where it roughly corresponds to the border of Boggs Mountain State Forest. It fairly well follows the outline on the USGS map in certain places, but about 80-90 percent of the way wanders away significantly (miles) from that border. Agree that it's most likely not useful. On

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-18 Thread Eric Ladner
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 9:02 AM Torsten Karzig torsten.kar...@web.de wrote: As mentioned earlier part of the problem is a confusion between tagging what is there (landcover) and what it is used for (landuse). In the wiki we actually have a consistent approach (Approach 1) to make this

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-18 Thread Eric Ladner
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:18 PM Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: The common meaning of forest is a large tract of land covered with trees and underbrush; woodland[1] However, many parts of US National Forests do not have trees, and either will never have trees, or will not have them