somewhat successful in their objective in data cleanup (I
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download an area. -- James
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 08:24:44 -0400
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On 4/1/2012 8:07 AM, James Mast wrote:
Hopefully I can finish the I-81 rebuild off-line before the database is
live so it can
Carolina and California. -- James
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:08:18 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Talk-us] We have less than a week left to remap!
Steve, I agree that if we could have another month at least, we
area.
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The 27th? Damn. I thought it was going to go read-only on the 1st... At least
that's what I've been telling people who I've been contacting to see if they
will accept the new CT (which is still being somewhat successful geting at
least 2-3 people a day to accept). Ugh. - James
Date: Wed
of importing data was to help fill in the areas
where there are no OSM mappers.
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If there were gates on the map, and the road marked as private, I
wouldn't have tried to use it as a shortcut to save myself a 20 mile
round about road trip.
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and used by those authorized.
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Add I-15 to that list as well as not being in Canada.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.3441lon=-111.9452zoom=13layers=M
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So, who here has a LinkedIn account that they wouldn't mind using to contact a
few people to help try to save some data? I don't have an account there (yet)
because I don't have any use for one and thought that if somebody already had
one, they might be able to help out and attempt to contact
Can somebody PLEASE kill this spam that's been showing up the last few days?
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people at the same time.
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Asking_users_to_accept_the_ODbL) - James
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 23:09:15 -0600
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Well, this has been
Yikes. I'll tweet them about that one.
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:49:41 -0500
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Subject: Re: [Talk-us] MapQuest Open Maps
Oops - bad pattern matching finding I in RI :)
that it will only render zooms 16-19
over the US.
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:54 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote:
I think it might have gone down. In the java console, it's just saying Read
timed out for any of the tiles
Just wanted to let you guys know and give kudos to MapQuest for doing something
that Google hasn't done with their maps EVER. MapQuest is either fully reading
the ref tag or using the tags from relations, but they are now properly
showing Business Interstates and Truck US Highways now on
rendering engine with a specific style sheet.
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:05 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote:
Have a look at how Freemap takes care of rendering multiple layers of
types of ways...
http://www.free-map.org.uk/freemap/about.html
Here's another site that caters to hiking and biking.
http://hikebikemap.de/?zoom=16lat
the
classification of the highway.
Obviously a 2 year closure is much longer than a couple weeks, but
until the government decides to abandon the roadway, it would still be
a primary highway.
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with taking it to mean that any uploads must be compatible with
both CC-BY-SA and ODbL+DbCL is that what it post-changeover. The same logic
would then say that anything uploaded must be compatible with CC-BY-SA,
which I would think is not what people want it to mean.
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reasons to merge areas like
wooded areas or lakes that are broken up?
Any reason NOT to merge them?
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Just was able to get JoePranevich
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JoePranevich (who was #606 on the prolific
contributor USA list) to agree today. Just sent him a PM via OSM this morning,
and less than 6 hours later, he's agreed and it saves several things in
Pittsburgh as well as around
traduccion y equivalente entre una terminalogia en ingles y la
terminalogia de otros idiomas. Esto no resolve la diferencia entre 'land
cover'' (natural), y 'land use'socio-economico.
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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 08:35:17 +0100
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Here's the link to the regulations about flying kites and markings...
http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/standards/general-recavi-exemption605_20-appa-2260.htm
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guessing about what impact it
will have. I don't think the issue is going to go away until we have some
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On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:33:09AM -0500, Andrew Allison wrote:
Hello:
I'm in the process of recreating non-ct data.
What areas need to be replaced?
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a link to the Canadian Air Regulations, specifically tether
balloons. Look at the index to find more specifics on the type of
flight you'd be running.
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-96-433/page-175.html#h-768
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and touches it, then it will need to be stripped out
again, and retraced... seems kind of silly that we can't simply
touch it again, and reclaim the proper license.
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and rest areas along the
major highways now, to gather information that isn't available in the
Canvec data. I can concentrate on adding detail, rather than having to
try and splash copious quantities of low quality data across the
province to try and get something on the map.
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to grab the segments that were left out and import them to
replace the poorly aligned ways copied from low resolution images
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On 30 November 2011 01:03, Jonathan Harley j...@spiffymap.net wrote:
On 28/11/11 23:59, James Livingston wrote:
Depending on the rendering, it may not be the same. The placements of
name text can depend on other data so it's not on top of something else, or
POIs can be hidden
on where the line
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probably be the TRACK, TRACKTYPE and SMOOTHNESS tags.
There's no ACCESS value for OHV (Off Highway Vehicles)
As with many tags, the use of the tags by the author may not be what
the intended us was...
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Hey guys, I'm curious, but how have you guys been tagging them when you add
them? I've been tagging them as highway=service ; access=official. I was
wondering if I was using the correct access tag so that routers wouldn't
route you onto them by accident. -- James
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into Saskatchewan some day? It gets pretty bleak on that side of the
border in a hurry!
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.091lon=-109.473zoom=9layers=O
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On Friday, September 30, 2011 07:51:39 AM Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote:
I'm actually in the process of doing this for MA and was trying to figure
out the correct tagging, I take it in the US we don't use the local
regional national bike route scheme?
As far as I can tell, there seems to be a
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States_Long_Distance_Trails
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On Friday, September 30, 2011 07:51:39 AM
disagreeing with the CTs to agreeing with them,
since data.gov.au things (especially the parks data) were the last of the
datasets with issues for me :)
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, no matter how
minor. The map rendering engine needs to be smart enough to reduce the
number of shields or labels to a sane number.
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beats *nobody* editting in an
area.
My edits only touched the westernmost part of Lake Ontario, where Lake
Erie flows into it, and the easternmost part, where it flows into the
St. Lawrence River. I intentionally stayed clear of the lake as I knew
Michael was working on it.
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Hi Ben (and others),
Sorry I haven't commented on the conversion until now. Life intervened. In
general the conversion looks good. One slightly important thing I noticed is
that there are no names on any of the objects.
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On Friday, August 26, 2011 12:14:44 AM Ben Supnik wrote:
Hi Ben
uploading ODbL-licensed data; for example something that they
have downloaded and then edited.
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importing CanVec tiles around Bonnyville, but never
merged the edges as I didn't know how. I also ran into a problem with
Merkaartor not being able to handle more than 5000 nodes at a time.
Perhaps I can get things working with JOSM.
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up,
which isn't all that desirable. The only other way to reduce the
number of data points would be to reduce the precision level of the
depiction of the feature, which also is not desirable.
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will start
that when I'm done with Lake Erie.
(*) It is very fast as there are few islands. I spend 8 times longer
making fixes to the roads uncovered by the validator than I do on
the coastline. On the other hand Lake Huron had 1 islands and
took over a month.
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the definition of the shoreline as defined by some
official governmental body, if such a thing exists.
Any suggestions? Even an answer of 'just do what is convenient' would
be helpful.
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of 40k for
associatedStreet. Unfortunately the tools don't seem to understand it
yet, e.g. searching for 19 third avenue, york, nominatum gets the
wrong house:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=1021672
Cheers
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2. the role=house should also work with closed ways and relations
On 11/07/2011, at 8:47 PM, John Smith wrote:
Then why was there such a big fuss made over Haiti edits should be PD
so that the UN could mix the data with other datasets...
Because they were mixing the datasets. If you do something like render tiles
within the .au boundaries from one database,
are choosing to leave the community having seen
their voices ignored. Arguably this is worse than how you started with
organisations not giving you data, since it's people that change
organisations.
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in general. From
their point of view, what does OSM offer them that they can't do with
a PSMA license that they probably already have?
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directly rather than letting even more agile citizens do it for them.
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have
any concerns over the switch?
Are you going to stop contributing data altogether? Or are you putting you
efforts on hold at the moment.
I've not been mapping very much recently, mostly waiting to see how the
whole things plays out (apart from a few posts here and on legal-talk).
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that CC-BY-SA
isn't suitable. I think about all we can say is that not everyone agrees,
and people also have different opinions on how many people are in each camp.
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happy with my country's laws, which don't include database
right, and don't want to promote such a concept.
What do you mean by throw everything away? Who is throwing what away?
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On 29/06/2011, at 4:25 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
On 06/29/11 05:21, James Livingston wrote:
I don't think it would be treated differently, because I believe that an
in-memory data structure would still be a database (in the ODbL and
database right sense of database). I don't see how the storage
On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 03:05:26 PM Nathan Edgars II wrote:
On 6/29/2011 2:49 PM, Nathan Mills wrote:
My personal preference is to use directional roles so that they match
what is written on signage. It also avoids the inevitable which way is
forward and which is backward question.
be a database (in the ODbL and database
right sense of database). I don't see how the storage mechanism makes a
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. The scary part is that when finished less than 1/4
of one Great Lake shoreline will be done.
After that, I'll see if I have the time/energy to continue working up
towards the French River (a nice place for canoeing!).
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in the Parry Sound
area. Somebody has already put a rough alignment of it in OSM, but
it's way off in a few places since I know it's missing an exit along
it from research on another highway related project I'm working on.
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AM Nathan Edgars II wrote:
On 6/10/2011 10:46 PM, James Umbanhowar wrote:
The website says all data is free for use
(http://www.nconemap.com/Default.aspx?tabid=286) and any queries will not
be answered. A close reading leaves some slight ambiguity Geospatial
content provided directly from
.
As of today, contributions to OSM are ODbL+CT only.
Guess that's you gone, then. Bye.
Ah, that welcoming OSM spirit.
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On 15 June 2011 11:56, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote:
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 10:39 +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
On 15 June 2011 09:36, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote:
Hi all
As promised
will be purged from the database in Phase 5.
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contributors who have declined CT/ODbL will not be
able to edit.
How many contributors have neither accepted nor declined the CT/ODbL?
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On 15 June 2011 11:56, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote:
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 10:39 +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
On 15 June 2011 09:36, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote:
Hi all
As promised
The state of North Carolina has released 6 inch resolution orthoimagery for
the entire state that was taken during leaf off time in 2010. These are great
quality for all types of mapping. The information about the service is at:
On Friday, June 10, 2011 10:16:22 PM Nathan Edgars II wrote:
On 6/10/2011 5:31 PM, James Umbanhowar wrote:
The state of North Carolina has released 6 inch resolution orthoimagery
for the entire state that was taken during leaf off time in 2010. These
are great quality for all types
coastlines (river between two great lakes).
So, is it ok to have wetland outside a coastline?
Does the canvec to osm conversion need to be changed?
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 03:29:43PM -0400, Bégin, Daniel wrote:
Bonjour James,
A wetland outside of land is allowed in Canvec and in Osm...
See http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.63532lon=-73.4594zoom=15layers=M
The wetland spreads each side of the coastline feature
Thanks
Ol_icon_blue_example.png24,24 0,-24
[the coordinates in the above are not correct]
There are some issue, though, which I can go into if people like this idea.
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the
licence isn't quite the same.
I for example have had to say No, because you now have to give an answer
to edit, but would almost certainly change that to a Yes at the last minute
(subject to figure out how to split incompatible data into it's own
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. It might give
people a proper reason to tag these posted Future Interstate correctly
instead of without the Future tag. I've noticed a lot of I-73/I-74 that is
posted as Future in the field tagged as normal Interstates would shouldn't be
the case..
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with also bannered US/State highways.
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Also, are you going to try to add proper Future Interstate
know if I get a
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for everyone to use.
CanVec and GeoBase are shortcuts that we have permission to use, but
we should still do our due diligence and ensure the information that
we are importing is accurate by verifying the information with real
world boots on the ground verification.
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Hi James,
I did some more corrections on the rules files and I think that it
covers all the left over points I saw (including adding
waterway:stream to one of FCODE for Connectors that wasn't working).
Just to confirm, these changes are the ones I see on the wiki, right?
Yes
On Thursday 28 April 2011 08:53:56 Ben Supnik wrote:
Hi Ian,
I should be able to convert the NHD data sometime in the next week or
so. Also, if/when you want the original data, let me know.
For the conversion, do we want medium or high resolution?
Re: the import status map, I don't
On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 12:18:28 am Dale Puch wrote:
With the talk of NHD imports there is one question I have. What is the
best way to get the current data to compare/merge in JOSM? The sub-
basins
are fairly large areas, and I have always had a bad time trying to open
that much in
On Tuesday 26 April 2011 12:50:41 Ben Supnik wrote:
Hi Y'all,
From what I can tell:
- Every water body does get a reach ID. I've seen nulls in this file
but haven't yet figured out what they are...in local sample areas, all
water bodies have reach IDs.
- If there is linkeage between
accurate but the canvec coastline matches
much better with the land features.
Should the existing coastline be left alone or should it be switched
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:29 PM, James A. Treacy tre...@debian.org wrote:
Hello,
I have been adding canvec data for the last part of the Bruce
Peninsula and noticed that the existing shoreline is quite different
than
On 14/04/2011, at 6:57 PM, Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote:
This method seems a much more satisfactory way of doing things to me
-- assuming it could work legally (IANAL). We would still have the
flexibility to re-license if we needed to without individual mappers
being able to hold their data
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* If so, how do we know what data must be removed in a switch to ODbL?
That clause doesn't appear to put any obligation on you to remove
data. All it requires of you
anywhere?
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I just thought I would throw this out there so this can be settled once and for
all. Which ref tag setup do you think should be used for State Highways on
ways (not relations)? PA-44 or 44. The reason I'm asking is because I've
seen several people put the state abbreviation in the ref field
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