Re: [Talk-us] Sidewalks as footpaths

2014-04-30 Thread Mike N
On 4/30/2014 11:38 AM, William Morris wrote: Is there a general OSM policy on marking sidewalks as highway=footway? User dolphinling appears to have gone crazy in downtown Burlington,VT tracing the sidewalks and calling them footways. It does add a great deal of clutter to those maps that

Re: [Talk-transit] GTFS and the like

2014-04-02 Thread Mike N
On 4/2/2014 12:29 PM, Florian Lohoff wrote: What file format is the defakto standard. Is GTFS the solution and one day all data consumers for public transport will use GTFS? GTFS is the most popular standard, and nearly a universal way to represent public transport route and timetable

[Talk-us] OSM Data Consumer

2014-02-23 Thread Mike N
It's always a shock to find anyone using OSM maps and I'm staring at some data I've worked on. A regional gas station chain uses OSM in its location maps: http://www.quiktrip.com/ (An example ZIP would be 29301 in Location if the map doesn't come up)

Re: [Talk-us] South Carolina State Highways - primary overload

2014-01-16 Thread Mike N
On 1/16/2014 12:16 AM, James Mast wrote: Anyways guys, post what you think should be done here so I can get back to the DWG on this subject. (I'm personally all for the reverting of the highway=xxx upgrades this user has done only and not a full scale revert of all his changesets as he did do

Re: [Talk-us] new geocoder

2014-01-12 Thread Mike N
On 1/12/2014 9:47 AM, Randy Meech wrote: so I've been experimenting with putting OSM data (US only for now) into Elasticsearch. Looks fantastic! One corner case that would be nice to handle is searching for a street with directional without the directional. Example: North Laurens

Re: [Talk-us] Importing addresses from TIGER

2013-12-12 Thread Mike N
On 12/12/2013 11:50 AM, Ian Dees wrote: Another option is to spend time to collect address data from local municipalities and work on methodically importing them. I started this process and have collected a couple hundred address datasets here: Are all those negotiated as OSM

Re: [Talk-transit] Stop according to new PT scheme not rendered?

2013-12-11 Thread Mike N
On 12/11/2013 11:07 AM, fly wrote: If you keep on adding both schemes simultaneously you will not notice the problem and there will be no reason for developers to adjust the software. One of the problems in this situation is the map rendering developers have not taken an interest in the new

Re: [Talk-us] Tags to use for chain stores in the United States

2013-12-11 Thread Mike N
On 12/11/2013 10:49 AM, Will Skora wrote: I know there's taginfo (including one for the US! taginfo.openstreetmap.us) but unfortunately, it doesn't let you find out what tag combinations are being used with a name=* (For example, finding what tag is used most often with name=Dollar-General).

Re: [Talk-transit] Stop according to new PT scheme not rendered?

2013-12-09 Thread Mike N
On 12/9/2013 6:52 AM, Gilles Baumgartner wrote: Is it ok to *add* the legacy tag highway https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway=bus_stop https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dbus_stop to be at the same time compliant with the new tags but still make the renderer show the

Re: [Talk-us] South Carolina State Highways - primary overload

2013-12-09 Thread Mike N
On 12/9/2013 12:42 AM, James Mast wrote: So, does anybody else agree with me on this subject of primary overload in South Carolina? If so, how do we go about fixing this with a reasonable approach? Looking at some of the history of some of the ways, it seems that only one user was doing the

Re: [Talk-us] Bing imagery update

2013-12-04 Thread Mike N
On 12/4/2013 9:07 PM, Kam, Kristen -(p) wrote: James, I located NAIP imagery for the state of North Carolina. That prompted my recall of an open NC state-run offleaf imagery source. It worked in JOSM back in 2010. I see that they have updated some coastal imagery in 2012; I'm not sure

Re: [Talk-transit] maintenance is very time consuming on public transport routes

2013-12-03 Thread Mike N
On 12/3/2013 6:34 PM, Jo wrote: Would it be useful to add all the starting times/ending times as well for a given route? This can be different depending on weekdays/Saturdays/Sundays/weekdays during short school holidays/weekdays during long school holidays. How would we indicate that

[Talk-us] Bing imagery update

2013-12-03 Thread Mike N
In my part of SC, Bing imagery has updated! Seems to be from this year; within the last month or so. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-transit] maintenance is very time consuming on public transport routes

2013-12-01 Thread Mike N
On 12/1/2013 5:32 PM, Jo wrote: Hmm, I was thinking of staying more or less within the lines of what we have now, but take away the burden of 10, 20, 70 relations on the same piece of road. I'm just curious - what type of data consumer could use information from OSM which contains 70 routes

Re: [Talk-us] Separate relations for each direction of US State highways.

2013-11-17 Thread Mike N
On 11/17/2013 5:55 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: I don't think it's a good idea to automatically remove symbol=. +1 - as a manually added tag, removing the tag would be destroying hand-acquired data. And just because a known shield renderer doesn't use it today, doesn't mean future renderers

Re: [Talk-us] NC-SC Border survey

2013-11-13 Thread Mike N
On 10/29/2013 9:14 PM, Mike N wrote: The border between North Carolina and South Carolina has been re-surveyed. A number of businesses and households have suddenly found themselves on the 'other side' of the state line. I don't know if they'll modify the border for those cases

Re: [Talk-us] Admin borders in the US: proper construction of ways and relations

2013-11-03 Thread Mike N
On 11/3/2013 10:54 AM, Richard Welty wrote: i've determined that a lot of the NY/PA border heading west from the Delaware has issues where no one bothered to break up and share the ways. Or, in my case, since I have no access to the accurate and correct border, and I have no idea where the

Re: [Talk-us] Admin borders in the US

2013-11-03 Thread Mike N
On 11/3/2013 12:55 PM, Richard Welty wrote: what i favor is going to a multi layer approach where some layers of OSM are ground verifiable things and others may not be. a consumer could choose to use some layers, and the admin boundaries (which are a real problem) can be moved and we can

[Talk-us] NC-SC Border survey

2013-10-29 Thread Mike N
The border between North Carolina and South Carolina has been re-surveyed. A number of businesses and households have suddenly found themselves on the 'other side' of the state line. I don't know if they'll modify the border for those cases, or if it will be some sort of special

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [okgis] Some NAIP Imagery available.

2013-10-28 Thread Mike N
On 10/28/2013 12:36 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Looks like 2013 NAIP is in progress in Oklahoma right now. Does anyone have a setup for NAIP that works in JOSM? I tried my old direct link, as well as one that used to be available through OSM-US/Telescience, and none are working at the moment.

Re: [OSM-talk] Timezones

2013-10-19 Thread Mike N
On 10/19/2013 10:25 AM, Jason Remillard wrote: But, my number one rule is that if there is a individual or group that want to maintain a specific set of data in OSM (timezones, ancient rail roads, protected zones in the ocean, etc), we should give them as much latitude as possible to do it. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Timezones

2013-10-19 Thread Mike N
On 10/19/2013 12:20 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: Filters are your friend. That's why they exist. I hate seeing borders, so I filter them out. I don't delete them. Filters are our version of layering. With one exception: if nodes are shared, I can't see the damage I might be doing to another

[Talk-us] Las Vegas region administrative areas

2013-10-11 Thread Mike N
There was a good question posted in the forum that I can't quite come up with a solution or recommendation. Re: place = locality in Las Vegas http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=22876 ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US election status

2013-10-05 Thread Mike N
On 10/5/2013 1:51 PM, Michal Migurski wrote: Can I just point out that the breadth of candidates this year is a very pleasant surprise? Agreed! It turned the voting into a challenging process. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Outperforming TomTom

2013-09-12 Thread Mike N
On 9/12/2013 9:37 AM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: I don't know how open their data is, but have you heard of waze? I just stumbled onto it yesterday. http://www.waze.com/ Google recently bought Waze, so the data is definitely not open. I now see more local MapMaker activity, probably

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-21 Thread Mike N
On 8/21/2013 11:59 AM, Johan C wrote: + 1 as well. OSM is fortunate to have the Id developers on board. Here also - I was happy to see a new mapper pop up in this lonely corner of the map and make some quality contributions. The editor on the changesets? iD , so in that case the goal of

Re: [Talk-us] Update on highway shield rendering

2013-07-02 Thread Mike N
On 7/1/2013 10:19 PM, Toby Murray wrote: For those interested in highway shields: Thanks for the update and for everyone's efforts! ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] TorhamZed imports

2013-06-27 Thread Mike N
On 6/27/2013 8:16 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: But given buildings plopped onto roads: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16662943 I've been guilty of 'plopping buildings onto roads' myself, where the driveway goes under a carport style roof. And being too lazy to split the road at

Re: [Talk-us] Route relation pages

2013-06-22 Thread Mike N
On 6/21/2013 11:59 PM, Chris Lawrence wrote: Looks nice so far. However, the state pages probably should pick up subnetworks and the like (for example, Georgia's spurs/loops/connectors, and the various Texas FM/RM/Loop/Spur/etc.) like the US route one does(?). Very nice - thanks for this.

Re: [Talk-us] Hamlets!

2013-06-21 Thread Mike N
On 6/21/2013 9:17 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: I realized only after last week's discussion about neighborhoods that the hamlets (which are distinct from nehighborhoods) are the things messing up the geocoder. I would say not to touch any hamlets; let the locals fix them up appropriately.

Re: [Talk-us] what do we mean by geocoding?

2013-06-21 Thread Mike N
On 6/21/2013 1:42 PM, Richard Welty wrote: there is no single solution to both of these problems. the current handling of this in Nominatum is so far as i know focused on admin boundaries, and will not handle the postal address case properly. so what do we mean by geocoding? what do we want it

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

2013-06-18 Thread Mike N
On 6/18/2013 1:21 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: This look pretty well organized, but I know how wikis can be deceiving like that. Also, how is the situation on the state level? I notice that for some states, there are no State Route relation pages.

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS?

2013-06-17 Thread Mike N
On 6/16/2013 7:20 PM, Thomas Colson wrote: Is it preferable to keep the original GNIS tags if updating a GNIS object in OSM? It's fine to leave or delete all GNIS tags. If creating an object with an area, I just copy all GNIS tags and merge tags from duplicate objects. At one time,

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS?

2013-06-17 Thread Mike N
On 6/17/2013 10:56 AM, Clifford Snow wrote: At last years SOTM-US conference, USGS showed a pilot program using a modified version of Potlatch2 to update GNIS database with volunteers. If they use this plan, the id tag could be used to compare OSM with the new data. It would us to compare the

Re: [Talk-us] Removing US Bicycle Route tags

2013-06-14 Thread Mike N
On 6/14/2013 5:43 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: We do map proposed routes, we don't map for the renderer. earlier In which I would really prefer this be addressed as a rendering issue. I believe that's the reasonable compromise, to highlight a margin-of-error area defined by another tag

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

2013-06-12 Thread Mike N
On 6/12/2013 7:53 AM, Josh Doe wrote: I'm disappointed that the above recommendation didn't acknowledge that NE2 has done good work. I would say that on the whole his contributions in terms of data are definitely a net positive, including a great deal of geometry improvement, addition of new

Re: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

2013-06-11 Thread Mike N
On 6/11/2013 2:58 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: OSM has pretty poor neighborhood coverage in the US. We have around 1100 place=neighbo[u]rhood. Geonames has ten times that at 11,000 (feature class P.PPLX - not sure if all of those are neighborhoods) and Zillow has 7,000. The TIGER import

Re: [Talk-us] Removing US Bicycle Route tags

2013-06-08 Thread Mike N
On 6/8/2013 4:18 PM, KerryIrons wrote: Here’re just some of the comments from OSM members: I'll add my opinion that I don't see the need for route numbers to be assigned to proposed routes. Dashed lines suffice for the purposes of previewing a possible path. (In which case, like

Re: [Talk-us] AOL Patch and OpenStreetMap

2013-06-05 Thread Mike N
On 6/5/2013 10:27 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: Not so long ago the maps used on AOL's patch properties were OpenStreetMap based. It really worked out well since so much of the content was locally generated, wiki content matched the wiki maps. That changed... anyone know when or why? My local

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Mike N
On 5/25/2013 6:15 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Also osm is indexed by search engines To varying levels - I searched OSM for some unusual POI names from January 2013, and they aren't indexed. I did notice some content indexed from 2010. ___

Re: [Talk-us] New member

2013-05-16 Thread Mike N
On 5/16/2013 1:33 PM, amy.dani...@gvltec.edu wrote: I wanted to introduce myself – I am Amy Daniels and I am a GIS Instructor with Greenville Technical College in South Carolina. I am interested in keeping OpenStreetMap Data for our college campuses as up-to-date and complete as possible. I

Re: [Talk-us] H. R. 1604 bill looking to force US government to contract out much of its mapping activity

2013-05-09 Thread Mike N
On 5/8/2013 10:38 PM, Alex Barth wrote: OSM data and the OSM software ecosystem can play a huge role in this context. Open source and open data has proven its worth in tearing down institutional boundaries and making teams cooperate more efficiently many times over. That's the reason why we at

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed small import of UTA bus stops

2013-04-21 Thread Mike N
COUNTY -- is_in:county CITY -- is_in:city ACCESS -- wheelchair = yes|limited|no BENCH -- bench = yes|no LOCATIONID -- uta:stop_id This looks good - I'm also glad that you also included the shelter tag in the data because that's useful. Re: is_in*; it seems to be redundant because the

Re: [Talk-us] openstreetmap.us coming back up

2013-04-19 Thread Mike N
On 4/19/2013 1:34 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: After more than a day of downtime caused by uncooperative domain hosts, openstreetmap.us http://openstreetmap.us is coming back up - web site and services hosted on the domain, including the TIGER overlay tiles. The new DNS records may take a little

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger 2012 Data imagery layer

2013-04-17 Thread Mike N
On 4/17/2013 9:24 AM, James Mast wrote: Is anybody else having any problems right now accessing it in JOSM? I keep getting Error messages instead of the tiles. I'm also getting the error messages now. ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ?

2013-04-12 Thread Mike N
On 4/12/2013 8:00 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Looking at the profiles of nearby mappers displayed on my profile page's map, I am astonished to find that most of them have made zero edits. Those people went through the effort of registering (some even added an avatar picture) but then did not

Re: [Talk-us] RAGBRAI Mapping

2013-03-19 Thread Mike N
On 3/19/2013 1:48 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: I'll have some free time later this week, maybe I'll look into generating my own overlay tiles. You could also create your own overlay using OpenLayers or Leaflet; then the relation could use any tagging that describes it without showing as a

Re: [Talk-us] Updating unchanged TIGER imports to TIGER 2013

2013-03-16 Thread Mike N
On 3/16/2013 5:06 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: I'm surprised by how bad the NHD data is. I downloaded some of it in .OSM format, and my casual hand digitization off Bing maps is much better. If I say so myself, which I do. That's not surprising if they last updated the NHD data between 1990 and

Re: [Talk-us] Updating unchanged TIGER imports to TIGER 2013

2013-03-12 Thread Mike N
On 3/11/2013 10:10 PM, Eric Fischer wrote: I would like to update OpenStreetMap with as many of the corrections that have been made to TIGER as can be applied to Open StreetMap without altering anything that has been edited directly in OSM. Thanks for coming up with this; I've been hoping

[OSM-talk] The globe, mapped by you

2013-03-01 Thread Mike N
Congratulations to Simon Poole for this interview! http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/The_globe,_mapped_by_you.html?cid=35084414link=tdj A map of the world, by the world, for the world – that’s what Swiss-based Openstreetmap chairman Simon Poole and a global network of more than a million

Re: [Talk-us] Bus Route Relations

2013-02-28 Thread Mike N
On 2/25/2013 10:42 PM, Elliott Plack wrote: On the wiki for the public transport routes, it says not to use the roles, so that is what I'd been doing. Here is a link, 2nd paragraph under route direction: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Public_Transport#Route I suppose

Re: [Talk-us] Virtual Mappy Hour starting in 30 minutes

2013-02-25 Thread Mike N
On 2/25/2013 8:30 PM, Alex Barth wrote: Elliott Pack will talk about mapping bus routes in Baltimore. Swing by! Great presentation; I couldn't manage to get my video chat working, but have one comment. Re: Bus Route relations way members and the negative recommendation in the Wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Interesting cases of vandalism?

2013-02-23 Thread Mike N
On 2/23/2013 8:19 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: and eventually with the public_transport-scheme you'd also need an explicit relation for what can be easily accomplished by software (projecting the bus stop to the stop position on the road). It depends on the eventual use - if it's only to

Re: [Talk-us] Possible coping from Google Maps

2013-02-21 Thread Mike N
On 2/21/2013 5:05 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Curious why someone would keep this information to themselves rather than aiding others in improving the map. In my case, it's sheer laziness. I would also prefer to block out sections around my immediate home base, but have not found an easy way

Re: [Talk-us] Turn restriction dispute

2013-02-10 Thread Mike N
On 2/10/2013 6:12 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: So he's conveniently ignoring the left turn only arrow there preventing a straight-on movement? I would just observe that the red line can be seen as a large version of the white left turn arrow above it.(Other than that, no opinion).

Re: [Talk-us] US Shields Development Server

2013-01-18 Thread Mike N
On 1/18/2013 3:32 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: This sounds interesting, what is it? I think he's referring to: http://elrond.aperiodic.net/shields/ https://code.launchpad.net/~asciiphil/osm-shields/trunk By the way, any thoughts on what it'd take to port this stuff to Carto? [1] [1]

Re: [Talk-us] paying a debt and making connections

2013-01-17 Thread Mike N
On 1/17/2013 10:10 AM, Richard Weait wrote: I did ask, what it would take to get you to hold a local Mappy Hour in your town? That was never answered. So, I ask again, What would it take? More mappers. I've tried everything I could think of to get others interested, but have given up

Re: [Talk-us] Bus Route Mapping in Baltimore

2013-01-08 Thread Mike N
On 1/8/2013 4:18 PM, Elliott Plack wrote: Just an FYI/general info announcement. I'm working with fellow mapper MDroadshttp://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mdroads(and any other OSM editors of course) to map bus routes of Maryland Transit Administration bus lines throughout the Baltimore region

Re: [Talk-us] identifying TIGER deserts

2013-01-07 Thread Mike N
On 1/6/2013 7:30 AM, Alex Barth wrote: This could be achieved e. g. by overlaying a light, opaque OSM highway layer with a contrasting TIGER layer, only exposing TIGER 12 geometry where it differs from OSM. Here is a TIGER 12 vs OSM comparison. They cyan inner arc exists in TIGER 12 but

Re: [Talk-us] identifying TIGER deserts

2013-01-07 Thread Mike N
On 1/6/2013 7:30 AM, Alex Barth wrote: This could be achieved e. g. by overlaying a light, opaque OSM highway layer with a contrasting TIGER layer, only exposing TIGER 12 geometry where it differs from OSM. Oops, forgot the link: http://greenvilleopenmap.info/TIGER12vsOSM.jpg Here is a

Re: [Talk-us] identifying TIGER deserts

2013-01-06 Thread Mike N
On 1/6/2013 7:30 AM, Alex Barth wrote: This could be achieved e. g. by overlaying a light, opaque OSM highway layer with a contrasting TIGER layer, only exposing TIGER 12 geometry where it differs from OSM. I like the idea of a TIGER 07 vs 12 comparison only being used as a trigger. If

Re: [Talk-us] identifying TIGER deserts

2013-01-06 Thread Mike N
On 1/6/2013 11:37 AM, Mike N wrote: I like the idea of a TIGER 07 vs 12 comparison only being used as a trigger. If you compare TIGER 12 vs OSM, it will highlight all the TIGER 07 artifact roads that were removed because they were in error or no longer exist, but are still often in TIGER 12

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset Comments

2013-01-05 Thread Mike N
On 1/5/2013 1:37 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: I try not to bother putting in the placename or the thing I modified. Both of those things they can figure out from using the changeset browser. Instead, I try to say why I made the change. Conversely, I do try to include the place name if it is new or

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-02 Thread Mike N
On 1/2/2013 2:16 PM, Richard Welty wrote: in my experience, deprecated is a pretty official declaration that something shouldn't be done/used anymore. java developers like me are quite accustomed to seeing APIs we use suddenly coming up deprecated, leading us to scramble to the docs to see what

Re: [Talk-us] Obtaining local govt GIS data (was: King County, Washington authorization)

2012-12-11 Thread Mike N
On 12/11/2012 1:49 PM, Steven Johnson wrote: Interested to hear what experiences other mappers have had in other parts of the country. My county has virtually the same copyright, and sells a GIS DVD for $500. For the time being, I have given up the idea of any import - the biggest gain

Re: [Talk-us] Dual Carriageway?

2012-11-29 Thread Mike N
On 11/29/2012 2:18 PM, Jim McAndrew wrote: From looking around on OSM, it doesn't seem like people are marking roads with a garden in the middle of the road as a dual carriageway, maybe they should be? I do this is if there is a 'significant impact' on routing (subjective, I know). Some

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-29 Thread Mike N
We certainly need to take our time before importing addresses. I considered the problem of manually collecting the city and concluded that it is not possible short of opening mailboxes and reading the address on any mail (highly illegal), or knocking on every door to confirm the mailing

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-29 Thread Mike N
On 11/29/2012 10:32 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Is there a compelling reason not to get parcels instead? As parcels change shape, the centroid can be easily interpolated. It's not really possible to extrapolate geometry from centroid, however. It would be useful to navigate to address points -

Re: [Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Preaparing Thank you gift

2012-11-28 Thread Mike N
A big thanks to Matthias and anyone else involved in setting things up - this was a big result for the US. I chose that weekend to pay attention to the 'Red headed stepchild' of the next county, and imported newly constructed roads from TIGER, and got to some long-needed routing fixes.

Re: [Talk-us] street name expansion thoughts

2012-11-25 Thread Mike N
On 11/25/2012 8:20 PM, Richard Welty wrote: however, should we perhaps also run expansion over the addr:street tags at the same time? No objection here - we can expand the addr:street tag based on its proximity to the actual street, and therefore the root TIGER tags that ensure a quality

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

[Talk-us] US State Shield rendering - Modifiers

2012-11-13 Thread Mike N
WOOT! We may have hooked a new US mapper because of the shield rendering on the test shield development server! That leads to a related question - what is the best way to tag for modified state routes. For example in South Carolina: State route 49 - US:SC , ref = 49(That is

Re: [Talk-us] 'creative' mapping

2012-11-13 Thread Mike N
On 11/13/2012 10:15 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: Looks like someone mapped a haymaze. In some cases there is large scale crop art, designed for aerial viewing only: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_art ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] How to improve addressing?

2012-11-12 Thread Mike N
On 11/12/2012 8:56 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: What if the Presets/Annotation/Addresses dialog box wasn't modal (like the relations editor, where it lets you continue to edit), and had a Apply and Increment button? Then you could go down a row of houses (once you've verified that they're

Re: [Talk-us] Reminder: Virtual Mappy Hour is tonight

2012-11-12 Thread Mike N
On 11/12/2012 1:05 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: The hangout / youtube links will be posted on the Google+ event page shortly before we start. I won't be able to attend, but if I could make it, I'd ask if there was anything to do as a volunteer to help set up the server with US Shield

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

2012-11-05 Thread Mike N
On 11/5/2012 8:15 AM, Floris Looijesteijn wrote: If they can find views (maybe even searches) for 1 or multiple areas and correlate those with 1 or multiple changesets on OSM they have the proof they want. And Google could always use Photoshop to plant a few 'Easter eggs' with fake names in

Re: [Talk-us] MapRoulette new challenge: connectivity

2012-11-01 Thread Mike N
Overall I like what I see in the MapRoulette. The challenge is that it becomes difficult to monitor the local area. Most changes that appear in the history have 5-15 pages of ways listed, scattered across the country or world. I reviewed several in my area and found one that Bing imagery

Re: [OSM-talk] FYI - OpenTripPlanner instance

2012-10-31 Thread Mike N
On 10/31/2012 10:22 AM, Tiziano D'Angelo wrote: Quite cool. I saw the note on the left bar. So, did you set it up as an alternative to the official bus service information? I may do the same in my city, Padova, Italy, where the bus company provides quite a lame service concerning information on

Re: [OSM-talk] FYI - OpenTripPlanner instance

2012-10-31 Thread Mike N
On 10/31/2012 11:24 AM, Peter Wendorff wrote: Is it possible to add one of the public transport maps as a layer? I did not have much time now to test, but obviously I missed useful locations and got no trips planned because my end points aren't safe (only connected to highway or sth. like that).

[OSM-talk] FYI - OpenTripPlanner instance

2012-10-29 Thread Mike N
FYI - I've finished the testing for my local instance of OpenTripPlanner [1] and it's ready to go live. The code I used to create the GTFS from OSM data is in SVN: http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/export/OSM2GTFS/ - still very fragile, and not very informative when it doesn't

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Imports

2012-10-27 Thread Mike N
On 10/27/2012 7:28 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: Before I bring this up on the imports list, I thought I'd ask the US community about their opinion about importing the data. I agree that it is a good idea to import NHD. It is an asset when doing surveys and updates: you can review it for any

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Imports

2012-10-27 Thread Mike N
On 10/27/2012 8:35 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: On the other hand, I believe NHD should not be imported into US OSM Edit deserts. It's best to wait until there is a community who wants an NHD import. In the meantime, the NHD for that area may be updated and when it is finally

Re: [Talk-us] Night of the Living Maps

2012-10-25 Thread Mike N
On 10/25/2012 12:34 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: We're talking about promoting a US project like fixing TIGER deserts / Ghost towns[1] for the next NOTLM (date to be set). Good idea? I would say that this is a good idea. If a curious person (non-OSM contributor) were to look at a garbled

Re: [Talk-us] press from SOTM US

2012-10-20 Thread Mike N
On 10/19/2012 11:48 PM, Richard Welty wrote: we got some. Carl Frantzen of Talking Points Memo asked me about coming to SOTM US and i urged him to do so. he did and here we are: That was fantastic coverage; looking forward to the next 2 parts. I wonder how far the series will reach into

Re: [Talk-us] my lighting talk from SOTM US

2012-10-20 Thread Mike N
On 10/20/2012 5:55 PM, Richard Welty wrote: i've just written this up in a blog posting. The lightning talk was entitled Maps for First Responders. Great post! The politics are the hardest part of the process - the Trimet-Portland program is a great way to use OSM, and I hope it can find

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-fr] Continued aggression against French contributors (cadastre integration)

2012-10-18 Thread Mike N
On 10/18/2012 3:57 PM, Frank Steggink wrote: Does nobody know about the -Djosm.home=dir parameter you can pass to JOSM when starting up? It can be put easily in a shortcut. The difficulty is that any JOSM customization (styles, plugins, preferences) becomes spread among multiple accounts

Re: [Talk-us] Burlington, Vermont road classification

2012-10-18 Thread Mike N
On 10/18/2012 4:48 PM, Andrew Guertin wrote: The most notable example of this is North Willard Street[2]. It is part of US Route 7, but as can be seen with Bing Imagery, it is narrow, made narrower by street parking on both sides, and is controlled by stop signs. Similarly, Main Street is part

Re: [OSM-talk] Obscure African dirt tracks in Google Maps - how does Google records them ? Automated tracing ?

2012-10-16 Thread Mike N
On 10/16/2012 7:34 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Maybe they just have an army of tracers, but automation seems more like how Google solves problems. Is there any Smartphone coverage for those areas? Google can track via their Smartphone apps. By generating tracks from the owner's

Re: [Talk-us] Remap-a-tron level 2 complete! Suggestions for level 3?

2012-10-02 Thread Mike N
On 10/2/2012 11:15 AM, the Old Topo Depot wrote: Regarding TIGER county connectivity; since the last OSMI update GA, AL and northern MS have had county boundary issues cleaned. What's left is KY, LA, AR, southeastern TX, and portions of VA, TN, and KS. States such as ME and southeastern MA

Re: [Talk-us] Remap-a-tron level 2 complete! Suggestions for level 3?

2012-09-30 Thread Mike N
On 9/30/2012 12:10 AM, Brian May wrote: And maybe have different remapatron modes, e.g. crazy tiger mode, streets with no name mode, and empty hoods mode. Yes - The empty hoods mode lends itself to importing the empty hood directly from the TIGER data. We all complain about TIGER errors,

Re: [Talk-us] Remap-a-tron level 2 complete! Suggestions for level 3?

2012-09-28 Thread Mike N
On 9/28/2012 11:28 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: That would be a pretty complex query, for the following reasons: * Similar naming may be obvious to a human observer, but can be really hard to detect algorithmically. * Similar geometry can be hard to detect because of split / combined ways so you

Re: [OSM-talk] [possibly OT] Apples IOS 6 Maps and the response

2012-09-21 Thread Mike N
On 9/21/2012 3:12 AM, Lester Caine wrote: Begs the question - are any of the OSM routing options iPhone friendly? GPS Nav/2 from Skobbler ($): Can do offline routing OpenTripPlanner for transit on the iPhone - I'm guessing about 2 months yet until a release

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-19 Thread Mike N
On 9/19/2012 6:29 PM, Michael Kugelmann wrote: Or to be more precise: you need to use a lot of effort and check all versions of an object (this means: the whole planet) whether it once had the source=cadastre tag. But thats a lot of work to do. Much (!) more easy to identify all the object is if

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Mike N
On 9/18/2012 7:51 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: well, not sure where this comes from and if it makes sense: I don't see a real obstacle as email addresses are not a scarse ressource (you get as many as you like for free), but I agree that it seems to be better to allow the same email address

[OSM-talk] JOSM - recovery from failed uploads

2012-09-18 Thread Mike N
On 9/18/2012 1:56 PM, Pieren wrote: The uploads we are talking are normally done with JOSM after the integration with the existing data and validation. How do you recover from a failed JOSM upload when working with large datasets? ___ talk

Re: [Talk-us] Consensus on SR for state route versus state abbreviation?

2012-09-13 Thread Mike N
On 9/12/2012 11:19 PM, Richard Welty wrote: what i recall is that NE2 likes the appearance of bare route numbers and most of his ref tags have no prefix at all (see FL, PA, NJ among other states where he did a lot of this.) I've seen a number of people who put the bare number in the ref tag

Re: [Talk-us] Consensus on SR for state route versus state abbreviation?

2012-09-13 Thread Mike N
On 9/13/2012 1:15 PM, Toby Murray wrote: Most of the ones in Kansas are actually KS XX - might have something to do with me having done most of them and I consider national consistency to be of value I would agree with national consistency. There will always be contention - in SC, the DOT

[Talk-us] Remap-a-tron observation

2012-09-11 Thread Mike N
Just a note to those participating with the awesome Remap-a-tron tool - please take time to look up or verify the road name from TIGER. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_2011 Use the URLs in the section Tiles in Potlatch or JOSM.You can also substitute the 2012 for 2011 in the

Re: [Talk-us] The Remap-A-Tron, Second Wave

2012-09-10 Thread Mike N
On 9/10/2012 9:44 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: What is your browser? Can you inspect the network activity on the page? Arehttp://lima.schaaltreinen.nl/remappingservice/ and http://lima.schaaltreinen.nl/remappingservice/count called and do they return valid (geo)JSON? I'll summarize the trace

Re: [Talk-us] The Remap-A-Tron, Second Wave

2012-09-10 Thread Mike N
On 9/10/2012 4:50 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: Mweh. I suck at apache configuration. Try again, please? Success here! ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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