[Talk-us] Completing the Appalachian Trail relation

2013-11-27 Thread Josh Doe
I recently hiked a very small section of the Appalachian Trail, and was shocked to see the section hadn't been mapped yet in OSM. Looking at what's in the relation, only 2689 km of the 3504 km trail are mapped. Granted, there's very likely some sections that have been mapped but not added to the

Re: [Talk-us] Completing the Appalachian Trail relation

2013-11-27 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: [...] the data appears pretty good, the segment in Orange County NY that i just filled in meets up appropriately with previously mapped sections (presumably the result of OSM hikers with GPS units and where i looked

Re: [Talk-us] Completing the Appalachian Trail relation

2013-11-27 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 11/27/13 10:59 AM, Richard Welty wrote: if we want club info, i'd suggest breaking up the relations where needed and adding the clubs to those rather to the ways. now that i've thought about it, i would like to

[OSM-talk] Carto stylesheet for parks/campgrounds

2013-09-28 Thread Josh Doe
Just curious if anyone else has created on OSM Carto stylesheet focused on parks or campgrounds. There are a lot of parks near me which have maps which haven't changed in ten, twenty, or thirty years. I've mapped several of them thoroughly, but now would like to see a rendering which is a bit more

Re: [OSM-talk] Double-clicking on OSM map does not centre the map

2013-07-30 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: I found the marker dragging feature mentioned by Peter Wendorff under Add a note to the map (currently last button on the right), but I can't use because I only need a private marker, I don't have anything to tell

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Releasing my data into Public Domain

2013-07-18 Thread Josh Doe
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Neither of those is public domain. I know for individuals there can be issues releasing data into the public domain, but if a government’s lawyers feel their data is public domain, I generally just take them at their word.

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Releasing my data into Public Domain

2013-07-18 Thread Josh Doe
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: There are cases where other levels of governments believe their data is public domain, depending on the laws they work under. We regularly take governments at their word when they say their data is public domain. Sure,

Re: [Talk-us] California geo data open

2013-07-10 Thread Josh Doe
Good to see common sense won out. Now we need volunteers (with lawyer friends) to take this up in other states. At least in Virginia there are some municipalities that charge exhorbitant rates for GIS data and require NDA's. On Wednesday, July 10, 2013, Alex Barth wrote: FYI:

Re: [Talk-us] Turn restriction dispute, NE2

2013-06-12 Thread Josh Doe
On Fri May 31 23:48:45 UTC 2013, Paul Norman penorman at mac.com wrote: The full text of the DWG recommendation to the board is available at http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/File:DWG_NE2_Turn_Restriction_dispute.pdf but the executive summary is as follows: I missed this thread until now, so

Re: [OSM-talk] Waze navigation

2013-05-07 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: Anybody heard of waze? http://www.waze.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Waze http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze Isn't this exactly what OSM is, only now as navigation as a startingpoint? Looking at the map in my area (the

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

2013-02-25 Thread Josh Doe
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:39 PM, SteveCoast st...@asklater.com wrote: Majority of what exactly? I think it's tough to put much credence in a couple of people on this mailing list vs. anyone who added data this month as statistically valid. If you haven't done so already, please try editing

Re: [OSM-talk] uMap Project 0.2.0

2013-02-21 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Yohan Boniface yohanbonif...@free.frwrote: Hi open mappers, A quick email to notify that I've frozen a 0.2.0 version of uMap. Demo still at http://umap.fluv.io. This is looking great, and will be very useful. Thank you! -Josh

Re: [OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

2013-02-13 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Hans Schmidt z0idb...@gmx.de wrote: Yes. Generally I think that non-Western map styles are completely neglected in OSM, but I have no idea to change that. How can we get in touch with the people who define the rendering styles? Somehow it seems to me (from the

Re: [Talk-us] Go Map!! is in the Apple app store

2013-01-25 Thread Josh Doe
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org wrote: I'd like to highly recommend a brand-new, native, and free* iOS OSM editor: Go Map!! https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=592990211mt=8 The author is a member of the Seattle OSM community, so

Re: [Talk-us] matching external data to OSM

2013-01-12 Thread Josh Doe
On Saturday, January 12, 2013, Jason Remillard wrote: There is another approach. We instead should focus on using weighted matching algorithms. [...] Has this been tried by anybody? Is there any code available? This is exactly what I was doing with the conflation plugin for JOSM.

Re: [Talk-us] Importing highway surface tags

2012-12-20 Thread Josh Doe
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Adam Franco adamfra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I'm pretty new to the OSM community and have gotten involved through a hobby project analyzing road geometrieshttps://github.com/adamfranco/curvature/wiki. I live in Vermont, a state where more than half of

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Mass Edits in the US

2012-12-17 Thread Josh Doe
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: [...] So I'm proposing a new committee, run by the US Chapter, to help guide imports and large edits. [...] What do folks think? Excellent idea and a good time to do it. Cleaning up the wiki around US-related

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing shorelines

2012-12-13 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Eric H. Christensen e...@christensenplace.us wrote: I just moved to the Deale, Maryland area and am working on cleaning up the Tiger data and mapping as many POI as I can. I found that the shoreline here, though, is very rough. Along the Chesapeake Bay the

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER expansion bot

2012-11-27 Thread Josh Doe
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: [...] The tiger.py file contains TIGER specific expansion code, and the selection process is quite simple. The selector looks for ways which have a highway key and a name key present in the tag. Just to be clear (and

Re: [OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

2012-11-20 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Henning Scholland o...@aighes.de 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

Re: [OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

2012-11-20 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Henning Scholland o...@aighes.de 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

Re: [OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

2012-11-20 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Brian DeRocher br...@derocher.org 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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] tesco store location data

2012-11-05 Thread Josh Doe
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:27 PM, David Prime da...@primefarm.co.uk wrote: [...] Now, my question is whether I should import this into OSM. Obviously the data is very useful (every store is categorised: metro, express, extra, etc) but the licencing situation is murky. Anyone want to weight in

Re: [OSM-talk] FYI - OpenTripPlanner instance

2012-10-31 Thread Josh Doe
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: FYI - I've finished the testing for my local instance of OpenTripPlanner [1] and it's ready to go live. Very cool, thanks for sharing. I've wanted to set this up for my area (greater Washington DC area), including all the various

Re: [OSM-talk] Submitting POI to OSM made easy

2012-07-11 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:48 AM, moenk moenk...@geo.hu-berlin.de wrote: Dear all, I'd like to introduce a tiny tool. It's purpose is to submit POI to the OSM database. The focus is not to replace things like Potlatch or JOSM, it was developed for Geocachers for easy POI submitting. But I'm

Re: [Talk-us] UVM-SAL Buildings

2012-05-31 Thread Josh Doe
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:25 PM, William Morris wboyk...@geosprocket.com wrote: Howdy Folks, Trying this again, after a hiatus, here is a sample of a few hundred buildings from a UVM-SAL land use classification. In this case it's for an area just west of D.C. in Montgomery County, MD. I offer

Re: [Talk-us] tagging cul-de-sacs

2012-05-18 Thread Josh Doe
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Dion Dock dion_d...@comcast.net wrote: I use mini-roundabout for turning circles with islands in the middle.  What can I say, maybe I'm just lazy.  It provides a bit more information than just turning circle without the work of drawing four ways. Note that

Re: [Talk-us] Parks, etc. Points or outlines

2012-04-25 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Gregory Arenius greg...@arenius.com wrote: If there is a point and an area I keep the area and delete the point.  If the point has data I'd like to keep, as is often the case when I trace a park on the map and want to use the name and other info from a GNIS

Re: [Talk-us] Parks, etc. Points or outlines

2012-04-24 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: Hi all, In doing the remap in LA, I've run across parks, some schools and other map features that are marked with both points and outlines.  For La Cienega Park, the park is outlined, coded park and named.

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-04 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: I stayed up way too late last night.  Try visiting those URLs again. (Once again, most of the map will rerender after you've looked at it so the way to see the changes in different areas is to look at them once then come back

Re: [Talk-us] Using TIGER to find missing road segments in OSM after license change

2012-03-29 Thread Josh Doe
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: [ ... ] I was thinking more about using TIGER 2011 to find roads that seem

Re: [Talk-us] Using TIGER to find missing road segments in OSM after license change

2012-03-29 Thread Josh Doe
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: After loading Cook County TIGER road features and OSM linear features into PostGIS, I ran a simple query to find how well the roads matched: SELECT a.name, b.fullname, ST_HausdorffDistance(a.geom, b.geom) as dist      FROM

[Talk-us] Using TIGER to find missing road segments in OSM after license change

2012-03-28 Thread Josh Doe
I initially just sent this to Ian Dees, but maybe there are others on this list that are thinking of doing this or could help. Considering the upcoming license change and it's impact (many roads that may become missing), I was thinking more about using TIGER 2011 to find roads that seem to be

Re: [Talk-us] Using TIGER to find missing road segments in OSM after license change

2012-03-28 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hi all, On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: Hardest part will then be scaling this up to all 3140 counties. I'd love

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Uploads to City of Salisbury, MD

2012-03-22 Thread Josh Doe
Importing data correctly is hard, especially the first time. I'm glad you've come to the list. I'd be curious to know if you didn't notice the warnings on the wiki to contact the community first; I've gone ahead and added the warning banner to the ogr2osm, shp2osm, shp-to-osm, and shape2osm pages

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Uploads to City of Salisbury, MD

2012-03-22 Thread Josh Doe
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: If there are duplicated ways and nodes, perhaps reverting is the best option? Unfortunately I'd agree that reverting these changesets will be the easiest

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Uploads to City of Salisbury, MD

2012-03-22 Thread Josh Doe
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Marc Zoss marcz...@gmail.com wrote: I briefly downloaded all sby:bldgtype-tagged ways and relation of Maryland through the overpass-api. Then removed the ones having only a sby:bldgtype tag, run the validator and deleted the duplicated nodes and ways. This

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Uploads to City of Salisbury, MD

2012-03-22 Thread Josh Doe
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Nick Chamberlain nchamberl...@ci.salisbury.md.us wrote: Mark, if you could commit the remove duplicates changeset, that'd be great.  I will do my best to check if the issues are resolved, and will gladly accept any guidance on the best ways to do so.  Thanks.

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Uploads to City of Salisbury, MD

2012-03-22 Thread Josh Doe
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Nick Chamberlain nchamberl...@ci.salisbury.md.us wrote: Mark, if you could commit the remove duplicates changeset, that'd be great.  I will do my best to check if the issues are resolved

Re: [OSM-talk] Database Rebuild scheduled to start on the 27th of March 2012

2012-03-21 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 21/03/12 08:26, Simon Poole wrote: See http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Rebuild_Plan I think that date is very unlikely to be met. Putting it a little differently, how confident is the Rebuild Team that all of

Re: [Talk-us] More TIGER importing

2012-03-14 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: [snip]  Just converting the TIGER shapefiles into OSM format is a challenge - I've uploaded a copy of Yuba county from 2011 - http://www.greenvilleopenmap.info/Yuba_CA.zip Alexander, I'd recommend you use this data for testing

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping from TIGER 2011

2012-03-11 Thread Josh Doe
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 3/11/2012 6:48 PM, Toby Murray wrote:  I just wrote up a quick blog post about it and would welcome any comments on the subject. Great, thanks for sharing! I've added a link to the wiki:

[OSM-talk] Wikipedia, vector overlays and KML

2012-02-29 Thread Josh Doe
I just came across efforts to embed KML in Wikipedia pages, which is then used for linking to Google and Bing, and overlaying the KML vector data on the WikiMiniAtlas (globe in upper right) [0][1] (began as Proposal 9[6]). There's a pending bot request to add this for all U.S. counties [2].

Re: [Talk-us] MapQuest Open Maps

2012-02-29 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:15 AM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [Talk-us] Adding Tiger 2011 Data

2012-02-29 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: Please don't any more for a bit. Share with the list your recent changesets

Re: [Talk-us] Adding Tiger 2011 Data

2012-02-29 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: I pulled up this area in JOSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.31342lon=-111.02699zoom=15layers=M Something definitely went wrong here that you need to figure out and fix. ... Additional issues include tags that

Re: [Talk-us] Adding Tiger 2011 Data

2012-02-29 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: I pulled up this area in JOSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.31342lon=-111.02699zoom=15layers=M Something definitely went wrong here that you

Re: [OSM-talk] Tile Drawer now plays nicely with TileMill

2012-02-26 Thread Josh Doe
Excellent, I look forward to trying this out! Josh ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] Analysis of US road network and TIGER status

2012-02-16 Thread Josh Doe
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hi, I did an state-by-state and county-by-county analysis of the road network in the US. I focused particularly on TIGER and user-related metrics. Results (with maps of course) are here:

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Finding untagged dead-ends

2012-02-15 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way (in JOSM or otherwise) to find all dead-ends (nodes contained in only one highway way) without highway=turning_circle or noexit=yes in an area? There's a ticket that would help accomplish this [0]. You

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding untagged dead-ends

2012-02-15 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:48 AM, John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com wrote: Something I'd like to have a way of highlighting, as I've been doing quite a bit of electricity distribution mapping, is power lines / minor_lines that end in something other than a transformer or pole. (In fact, any

Re: [Talk-us] National Bridge Inventory

2012-02-14 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/14/2012 6:37 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: Hi, Has anyone ever looked into using the National Bridge Inventory (NBI)[1] for adding missing bridges to OSM in the US? I'm pretty sure TIGER does not have (most)

Re: [Talk-us] Planning to import NHD data for VT's White River (Subbasin 01080105). Seeking advice on making import community friendly.

2012-02-11 Thread Josh Doe
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Scott probiscu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I have been working on preparing the Natonal Hydrography Dataset (NHD - There's an OSM wiki page for this source) data for the White River (http

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: OSM tracker beta

2012-02-09 Thread Josh Doe
Glad to see more OSM development on Android, but it seems these capabilities are all a subset of OSMTracker. I'll try it out later though. I would like to see improvements to OSMTracker, like offline maps, tappable/editable waypoints, and export to OSM.XML instead of just GPX. Or perhaps combine

Re: [Talk-us] Contacting high-impact undecided users in the US

2012-02-09 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: For starters I tried to find one of the users, David Speakman, and after a bit of searching have found his LinkedIn page, two domains registered to him, from which I got his email, phone number, and address. Anyone familiar

[Talk-us] Contacting high-impact undecided users in the US

2012-02-07 Thread Josh Doe
I've been looking through the list of undecided users for the US [0], and have noticed that many at the top of the list haven't been contacted, at least according to the wiki [1]. How about we make a concerted effort to work our way down the list, exhausting search engines and social networking

Re: [Talk-us] Finding new roads

2012-02-05 Thread Josh Doe
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that OSm's most usefull attribute is to be up to date. The only real way to do this is with a local mapper but bringing the USA up to Tiger 2011 up-to-datedness would be a great start. Are there tools

Re: [OSM-talk] Subscribe to feeds of changes in your area with Changepipe

2012-02-02 Thread Josh Doe
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Michal Migurski m...@stamen.com wrote: Hi, I'm experimenting with minutely diffs and I made this:        http://migurski.github.com/Changepipe/ Want me to bake you a feed of fresh OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] problem with measurement plugin in JOSM

2012-01-30 Thread Josh Doe
I haven't checked it out, but the appropriate place to report possible bugs is the Trac system for JOSM. Create a new ticket here specifying the component as Plugin measurement: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/newticket -Josh On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Hendrik Oesterlin

Re: [Talk-us] Problem with an Armchair user

2012-01-17 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Sam Iacullo sjiacu...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I am having a problem with the user NE2 ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/NE2/edits). Since the beginning of the year, he has been making massive, broad spectrum changes in Texas. The edits he's done have

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-01-15 Thread Josh Doe
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, In order to assist with road name checking I've set up a Mapnik layer rendering from TIGER 2011 ROADS data. It consists of a transparent tile with a white line (of varying thickness for the different MTFCC's) for the

Re: [Talk-us] Getting ready for the license change

2012-01-13 Thread Josh Doe
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: There are several things we can do together to minimize the data loss and ensure a smooth changeover to the new license: * Contact mappers who have declined or not agreed yet. I've heard this theme over and over again,

Re: [OSM-talk] user diaries not included in blog feed?

2012-01-12 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Michael Krämer ohr...@googlemail.com wrote: recently I have wondered, why people don't use the user diaries in OSM anymore - simply because I didn't notice these messages in the feed I'm monitoring. Today I re-checked and to me it looks like the entries from

Re: [OSM-talk] user diaries not included in blog feed?

2012-01-12 Thread Josh Doe
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 12/01/12 12:56, Josh Doe wrote: It seems to me that the user diary RSS feed is broken: http://www.openstreetmap.org/diary/rss The last update is from December 17, 2011. I find this hard to believe that no one has noticed

[Talk-us] User adding many Safeway grocery stores, with ref number in name

2012-01-08 Thread Josh Doe
Seems all recent edits have been just adding Safeway stores: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Brian@Brea The edits seem good (adding building outlines), though I'm not sure about putting the store number in the name, I've always put that in the ref tag. What do you think, should we ask the user

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] US Golf Courses from GNIS

2011-12-22 Thread Josh Doe
I've noticed in my area golf course nodes added that already exist: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1556625188 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1556629688 and others I support reverting this changeset ASAP. Golf Geek, Let's instead take the work you've done and split it up into

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] US Golf Courses from GNIS

2011-12-22 Thread Josh Doe
now). -Josh On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: I've noticed in my area golf course nodes added that already exist: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1556625188 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1556629688 and others I support reverting

Re: [OSM-talk] tools for the transition (was: Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st)

2011-12-14 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: Am 14.12.2011 14:08, schrieb Hillsman, Edward: Two requests to help us prioritize our work: . Right now we are remapping and contacting in the dark. Bad customer service is We are changing things, you deal

Re: [OSM-talk] GNIS quality improvement, was: USGS Topo maps

2011-11-28 Thread Josh Doe
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:  On that matter -- I've been working on an idea for a GNIS microtasking  platform. What it would do is:  * Show a random non-improved GNIS point in your neighborhood - name +    map  * Allow you to 1) drag the point to the

[Talk-us] 12-/6-/3-inch orthimagery of metro areas in Virginia

2011-10-18 Thread Josh Doe
I've obtained portions of 2009 leaf-off orthoimagery of Virginia from the USGS as GeoTIFFs, and would like to know if anyone can host some of it, or if anyone would like a selected region of it. Total size is 752GB. This is newer and better than anything else I know of for these regions, but these

Re: [OSM-talk] Helping mappers feel comfortable about their contributions / quality control

2011-09-20 Thread Josh Doe
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: Hi! On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 08:57:22AM -0500, Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote: [snip] One of the first things that came out was a request to have some sort of edit review system for anyone who doesn't feel super comfortable

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US Chapter elections and

2011-09-16 Thread Josh Doe
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Sorry the issue was we did not have quorum and did not announce the meeting.  So it could not count as the annual meeting.  The Treasurer's report is finished (a big part of these sorts of things) and we can have an annual

Re: [OSM-talk] Unclosed Mapnik bugs

2011-09-15 Thread Josh Doe
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Jonathan Waller jonathanmarkwal...@googlemail.com wrote: This clearly shows that we don't have enough people working on the mapnik component, which since it is the primary rendering for openstreetmap.org is a bad situation.  It is also off-putting for bug

[Talk-us] OSM US Chapter elections and

2011-09-15 Thread Josh Doe
I'm having trouble finding any information about the elections for the OSM US chapter, though people have already started to add nominees: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States#Elections_for_2011-2012_Board When is the election? bylaws say At the first

[Talk-us] US Chapter wiki page refresh (was Re: OSM US Chapter elections and)

2011-09-15 Thread Josh Doe
Taking some of the comments from the previous thread, as well as some browsing through the list archives, I've made an attempt at reorganizing the Chapter page to hopefully be clearer and communicate more information: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States I

[OSM-legal-talk] How to modify data provider license (WMATA)

2011-09-12 Thread Josh Doe
I've been asked by the GIS manager at WMATA (the transit authority for the Metro DC, USA) how we would like their license changed so their data can be used in OSM. I suggested they adopt something like the ODbL or CC0, but they said that's highly unlikely and far better to modify the existing

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM streaming!

2011-09-09 Thread Josh Doe
I was hoping there would be streaming, or at least videos uploaded later. Thanks for doing this, please keep it up! -Josh On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: So I brought a webcam to SOTM. I am broadcasting on ustream. Unfortunately my poor netbook doesn't

Re: [Talk-us] access=destination vs access=private

2011-09-09 Thread Josh Doe
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:36 PM, PJ Houser stephanie.jean.hou...@gmail.com wrote: Do you think it makes more sense to tag the apartment complexes as access=destination or access=private? Shouldn't they generally be

Re: [OSM-talk] Has JOSM become clunkier?

2011-09-08 Thread Josh Doe
I've noticed a similar slowdown, but haven't gotten a chance to see what's causing it. -Josh On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Since I updated to the last tested version, JOSM has been slower to respond. For example, after I download from the XAPI

Re: [OSM-talk] twitter handling

2011-09-08 Thread Josh Doe
On Sep 8, 2011, at 1:40, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: On 09/08/11 01:20, SteveC wrote: There are a bunch of people asking things on twitter about OSM that we miss. I don't think that we should encourage that. Call me old-fashioned but to me this is as if you were saying:

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-20 Thread Josh Doe
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 07:52 -0400, Peter Dobratz wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Henk Hoff toffeh...@gmail.com wrote: To my understanding our tagging-standard for State Highways is [STATE] [NUMBER]

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-20 Thread Josh Doe
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Henk Hoff toffeh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com wrote: And once we set our standard here in the US, how do we get it adopted world-wide? - Val - We're not here to dictate what the rest of the world

Re: [Talk-us] Safe Routes to School Mapping Toolkit concept

2011-08-15 Thread Josh Doe
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: This will require objective criteria for grading a route. Does SRTS ignore complications, such as badly-designed bike lanes and especially sidepaths decreasing safety, and kids choosing the sidewalk over even

Re: [Talk-us] Patch online

2011-08-15 Thread Josh Doe
I've followed my local Patch site, and for some of their feature articles I'll improve the map of the relevant area. I've also been meaning to do an interview, something I think others should consider. They'll also accept editorials, so take a look! -Josh On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Mike N

[OSM-talk] Safe Routes to School Mapping Toolkit concept

2011-08-13 Thread Josh Doe
Hello all, I've mentioned Safe Routes to School (SRTS) before, but I've now got an idea for a mapping toolkit. I'll just paste what I wrote on the wiki below. Safe Routes to School Mapping Toolkit is the concept for a tool to be used by schools or communities to generate maps for applications to

[Talk-us] Safe Routes to School Mapping Toolkit concept

2011-08-13 Thread Josh Doe
Hello all, I've mentioned Safe Routes to School (SRTS) before, but I've now got an idea for a mapping toolkit. I'll just paste what I wrote on the wiki below. Safe Routes to School Mapping Toolkit is the concept for a tool to be used by schools or communities to generate maps for applications to

Re: [OSM-talk] Where Did You Edit

2011-08-03 Thread Josh Doe
Very cool, thanks for sharing! Perhaps you could allow for customizing the bounding box. For example I've hardly edited anything outside of my state in the US, so I just have a tiny blob. Perhaps you could have country/state presets as well. Thanks, -Josh On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Stephan

Re: [OSM-talk] Where Did You Edit

2011-08-03 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Stephan Knauss o...@stephans-server.dewrote: What would be the coolest way to zoom? I thought of a slippy map with transparency above the regular tiles. Others mentioned presets like continent/country. I could also imagine to let you set an arbitrary bounding

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapweaver renderer

2011-07-28 Thread Josh Doe
Are the renderings identical to mapgen.pl? If not, it might be nice to include some example images. -Josh On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Gary68 g...@gary68.de wrote: Hi, to all of you interested in custom rendering - especially large printable maps with map key: Have a look at Mapweaver.

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering Server Outage - Static Tiles

2011-07-26 Thread Josh Doe
Guess yevaud is having troubles again, at least for rendering fresh tiles: http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/yevaud.openstreetmap/mod_tile_fresh.html -Josh On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote: All clear. Tile rendering is enabled again.

Re: [OSM-talk] Orphaned Relations

2011-07-18 Thread Josh Doe
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:51 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/7/18 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: If you really care about empty relations, you are welcome to submit a patch to P2 that automatically deletes relations when they're set to 0 members (and

Re: [Talk-us] NOAA Composite Shoreline

2011-07-14 Thread Josh Doe
Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: Has anyone looked at the NOAA Composite Shoreline? It seems to have much better accuracy (as in orders of magnitude better) than the PGS shoreline that was imported, at least for the small

Re: [Talk-us] NOAA Composite Shoreline

2011-07-14 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:07 PM, TC Haddad tchad...@gmail.com wrote: As with everything, proceed with caution. The metadata for that layer states: These data were automated to provide a suitable geographic information system (GIS) data layer depicting the historical shoreline for the United

Re: [Talk-us] NOAA Composite Shoreline

2011-07-14 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: Josh, As the person that imported the NHD shoreline for most of the southern east coast, I can tell you that I mainly tried to fix directional errors and obvious missing features. Correcting to imagery was beyond the

Re: [OSM-talk] Commenting and thumbs up/down feature for changesets

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: No, I was thinking that people should vote up/down what was *done* in the changeset. +1 This is simply communicating the community's opinion about a changeset. It might be nice (but much more complicated) to weight

[Talk-us] NOAA Composite Shoreline

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Doe
Has anyone looked at the NOAA Composite Shoreline? It seems to have much better accuracy (as in orders of magnitude better) than the PGS shoreline that was imported, at least for the small portion I checked in Virginia. Unless there are better sources, I'll probably use this to fixup Virginia's

Re: [Talk-us] NOAA Composite Shoreline

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: Has anyone looked at the NOAA Composite Shoreline? It seems to have much better accuracy (as in orders of magnitude better) than the PGS shoreline

Re: [Talk-us] How to get more publicity?

2011-07-07 Thread Josh Doe
I think Patch.com sites would be a good place to get a story out there for very localized areas. I've been in contact with my local Patch.com editor, and though I haven't gotten a chance to do an interview with her yet, she and other Patch.com editors seem to be very receptive to doing stories

[OSM-talk] Featured mapping, parks

2011-07-03 Thread Josh Doe
Has anyone considered creating Featured mapping of the week, similar to Best of OSM [1]? Or featured/example mapping for key/tag pages? These would pick out certain areas that are very well mapped, to be used as examples for others to follow. What I'm thinking about at the moment is mapping of

Re: [OSM-talk] Featured mapping, parks

2011-07-03 Thread Josh Doe
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: There has also been a Project of the Week for parks, and various flavours of pitch. ;-) This is completely different from PotW, however it's certainly related. It would be nice for each PotW to point to 3-5 examples of

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