Re: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

2019-04-28 Thread Josh Lee
On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 12:10 PM OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: > Does OSM tag these leisure=park? "We" (the people, the Departments of > Parks...) do, yet should we in OSM? This IS talk-us; a major reason I > brought this up here is that USA park tagging drifts from elsewhere as "more >

Re: [Talk-us] Strange city boundary: Lee, Illinois

2018-11-14 Thread Josh Lee
I can think of at least six examples in Pennsylvania off the top of my head: Trafford, McDonald, Shippensburg, Seven Springs, Telford, Falls Creek. On Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 08:49 Hi, > > are there cities (admin level 8) in the USA which part of two counties? > > see:

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER place confusion

2018-09-27 Thread Josh Lee
Use border_type=* for this. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:border_type Usage is spotty at best but it looks fairly consistent to me. For example in Pennsylvania admin_level=8 can have a border_type of city, township, borough, municipality(?), or town (there's just one "town"). In New

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

2018-07-11 Thread Josh Lee
Some of the US boundary data gives "USGS DRG" as a source. This seems to stand for "Digital Raster Graphic" files. It is my suspicion that this raster was vectorized as part of an import process, but I have no documentation to support that. Still, I consider it a convenient explanation for why the

Re: [Talk-us] I-69 east west vs north south

2017-09-22 Thread Josh Lee
While it might be uncommon for two-digit Interstate highways to change their directions, it's quite common for three-digit ones to do so, and it shouldn't be treated any differently. Some examples of changing direction, all of which are mapped as a single relation for the state they're in, with

Re: [Talk-us] Territorial municipalities, Guam's villages

2017-07-18 Thread Josh Lee
TIGER Line gives these village boundaries in the "County Subdivisions" file. https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2016/COUSUB/tl_2016_66_cousub.zip The existing boundaries in Guam seem to be tagged as [boundary=census], since they're Census-Designated Places imported from an older version of