On 9/7/2016 2:38 PM, Brian Stromberg wrote:
My point was only that applying an automated process nationwide without
any consideration for on-the-ground verification seems likely to make a
less accurate map.
For the ITT case, there is presumably a reference on the web site that
lists all
On 9/7/2016 10:13 AM, Brian Stromberg wrote:
Automated nationwide mapping seems like it would introduce more problems
than it would solve. If maps are intended to represent the truth on the
ground, then the only way to create a useful map is by reporting what is
actually there rather than making
On 9/7/2016 3:45 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Except those humans who could have used that outdated thing as a marker
to tell them that the map is dated.
Yes they could look at the last modification date of things or analyze
how many contributors the area has or myriad other OSM insider things.
But
On 9/6/2016 5:36 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Automatically editing away something
country-wide hides the fact that the map lacks attention in an area.
I'm not sure that hiding lack of attention is such a bad thing. In some
places I only update items of interest instead of taking the time to
On 9/1/2016 6:04 AM, Éric Gillet wrote:
You can see on taginfo that there are indeed around 104k ATM on OSM
: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=atm
Also 222000+ combined with amenity=bank as atm=yes , (a small % of those
are atm=no)
On 8/24/2016 9:14 PM, Jack Burke wrote:
Since I'm on e-mail tonight, I thought I'd bring folks up-to-date on
some ongoing road construction north and south of Atlanta that is
rendering some pretty important imagery out-of-date. So before you go
about trying to "fix" something that doesn't match
On 8/24/2016 6:19 PM, Jack Burke wrote:
The problem is, it's breaking the values instead. I found a section of
road that I'd added turn:lanes to in order to provide lane guidance at
an exit. My original value of "none|none|none|none|none;slight_right"
was replaced by "slight_right".
I
On 8/11/2016 10:53 AM, Dave F wrote:
Just because it's very similar to OSM doesn't means it isn't using to
some other database. You're arguing what I believe is called a 'false
cause fallacy'
Similarly, the Uber path could follow the OSM path but differ from
both Google and Aerial imagery,
On 7/10/2016 3:30 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:
It is just not that big of a problem. I am weirdly impressed by the odd combination of
"quite well-formed data tagging, yet I can still (nearly always) determine that the
node is spam." In other words, they are trying hard to fly in under our
On 6/20/2016 5:18 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
I really wonder how TriMet ultimately accomplished this, since that
would seem like a decent-ish starting point since that system is in
charge of a fairly multimodal system with above and below ground
stations, split-level stations, and transit centers
On 5/29/2016 7:13 PM, john whelan wrote:
I suspect an import of some type but more importantly is the problem of
cleaning up.
They have the same values for
addr:city
addr:housenumber
addr:street
Re: cleanup check - I have created many duplicates like this, but
they generally have different
On 5/14/2016 12:13 PM, Eric Ladner wrote:
I've converted a lot of "FIXME" single ways into dual one way highways,
but I've never converted one back the other way.
Before I embark on converting it to a single way, just wanted to get the
thoughts of other US mappers.
I ran into this also in
On 5/4/2016 4:18 AM, Greg Morgan wrote:
At one time there was a discussion on the list about moving exit_to
tags as destination tags on the ramp. I moved most of the exit_to tags
that I mapped to the ramps. Here you are proposing something different
by leaving some exit_to tags and adding
On 5/2/2016 11:41 AM, Elliott Plack wrote:
This got me thinking, is there any specific need to have the route
broken up by state? Unlike interstate highways, where maintenance
changes across state lines, at the border, the AT maintenance is handled
by a trifecta of federal agencies and a
This is just a new road configuration (to me). NC Onemap aerials
updated to show the latest road configuration after they expanded 10
miles of dual carriageway on US221 in NC. They used Median U-turn
configurations along the length rather than straight cross traffic for
the crossroads
On 2/22/2016 4:38 AM, Simone Cortesi wrote:
Looking at previous discussions about "yet another licence change" I
wonder if the real client of the exercise really isn't OpenStreetMap
US but some company whose name starts with Map*
Speaking as an OSM US participant and not affiliated with any
On 1/10/2016 12:54 AM, Greg Morgan wrote:
I am using the Android version of Maps.ME and there is a IOS version.
Thanks - I took a look at it and it worked for me, including the
voice turn by turn directions!
I have ended up with 13 apps in my "OSM Nav" folder, and they excel at
In the case where a county completely revamps its road network and
addressing scheme for E911 purposes, then authorizes its road and
address data to OSM, and it's properly imported, are there any
Smartphone apps for both Android and IOS that would search those
addresses? And have turn by
On 12/13/2015 6:47 PM, Jorge Gustavo Rocha wrote:
ii) Nominatim can search only within a bounding box. You can get the map
extent and append to the nominatim query (viewboxlbrt parameter).
Why does the default OSM search box include the world instead of the
viewport? Is it because no one
On 12/9/2015 9:58 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
Thanks for reporting Mike - I will pass this on to our dev right away so we can
look into it.
Any additional contextual information that may help reproduce is more than
welcome.
Martijn
I checked it again - the problem has cleared up on the
I ran into a small problem with the missing roads plugin in JOSM. When
I have it selected, it goes active when I first download something.
There is some sort of problem with the missing roads search web service at
http://missingroads.skobbler.net/missingGeoService
Wireshark shows that
On 12/7/2015 8:39 PM, Steve Friedl wrote:
Most of them are by bots – OSMF Redaction Account, woodpeck_fixbot – and
they appear to be spurious, but I’m not sure if they are there for a
reason.
Is there ever any benefit in a standalone node with no tags, especially
if it doesn’t appear to be in
I've never noticed this sort of oval railyard in the US before. At
first glance, I was thinking railway=racetrack, but of course it isn't.
It seems to be some sort of grain depot, but that's the fanciest rail
network I've ever seen for a grain depot.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/36.2834/-89.1455
It seems to be the Green Plains ethanol production plant in Obion, TN.
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On 10/20/2015 7:06 PM, Dave F. wrote:
Is there a way to view OSM Notes (right hand side of map) based on the
date created? It's a bit of a pain to remember which of the notes I've
already clicked on.
I've found the RSS feed very helpful for highlighting only new or
closed notes within a
On 10/14/2015 1:33 PM, Wolfgang Zenker wrote:
One idea would be to have a mapping party doing TIGER fixup for one
rural county, then contact the local newspaper, write an article what
has been done and ask for help regarding wrong/incomplete road names,
wrong data caused by outdated imagery,
On 10/4/2015 3:32 PM, Greg Morgan wrote:
3.) It would be helpful to put in a count of tiles in the red dot. I
was surprised to see some large red dots contain only three tiles
while others contained many. It did not feel like the intuitive dot
size matched the actual size of the effort.
On 9/30/2015 2:40 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
I do find two things remarkable about this plugin's
output:
1. It seems to have picked out an incomplete set based on the paths
relative to imagery.
2. I have no way of being able to survey the exact location of the GPS
output from the plugin
On 9/28/2015 1:33 AM, Tom Bloom wrote:
TIGER drew thousands of driveways that are often simply wrong. They are
tagged private and in my opinion spoil the map appearance with little
red squiggles all over the place. No other map I've found includes them.
Looking around the country, I notice some
On 9/12/2015 3:02 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
If I were trying to drum up support for OSM in the US,
I'd probably also welcome someone who maps abandoned railways, so that
I'm not alone at the monthly meetup
There's some truth to that in the US - one of the 3 regular mappers here
in a several
There have been analysis and strategy about fixing TIGER 'Deserts'[1],
but what is the best way to manage regions that have been thoroughly
updated to match TIGER, and possibly enhanced beyond that with local
knowledge?
Background - An essential task in keeping OSM updated and relevant in
On 8/23/2015 2:03 PM, Dave F. wrote:
Are you saying if a building gets demolished replaced with a new one,
you wouldn't remove the original outline from OSM?
In my case, I've begun to do just that, adding a note to alert the 'Bing
tracers' that something has changed. But I would eventually
On 8/4/2015 4:59 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
Also, please even if you see the crossing rendered, do go in and
check, because I have seen more than once that the crossing node is
not a shared node between way and rail. (Hint, use 'j' to join node to
way and 'm' to merge nodes that are (almost) on
On 8/18/2015 10:27 AM, Tod Fitch wrote:
Some other mapper has updated the area to remove the old buildings and streets
and marked the area as under construction. All of that seems correct from what
I’ve read in the paper and what little I can see on the ground.
But it means the area differs
.
Is that something you're interested in?
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net
mailto:nice...@att.net wrote:
Does anyone know about current NAIP aerial imagery? SC 2015 imagery
has been acquired and can be viewed, but the page no longer lists
WMS as a format -
http
On 8/12/2015 5:51 PM, TC Haddad wrote:
Just to comment on this one point: As a federal agency, the USDA is
*required* to support the open standard option of the WMS service type,
so it *should* be available.
In looking at all the different state NAIP imagery sets listed in their
directory here:
Does anyone know about current NAIP aerial imagery? SC 2015 imagery has
been acquired and can be viewed, but the page no longer lists WMS as a
format -
http://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NAIP/South_Carolina_2015_1m/ImageServer
SC 2013 WMS imagery has already been removed. Does
On 8/4/2015 5:21 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
I didn't want to make the instructions too convoluted. We can always
go back in and manually check for these 'unjoined crossings'. I am
just mentioning
Yes - this should be relatively easy to detect afterwards: duplicate
node where one or more are
It was a pleasant dive into the latest MapRoulette challenge - my
impression now is that most road-rail intersections in the US have
previously been touched. The stats for the fix railway challenge seem
to confirm this: 75% are skipped or have been previously completed.
A far cry from the
Fantastic! One question - it recommends to skip the task if you can
see the X already. But doesn't this place that challenge back on the
queue where it will stay forever as long as people keep using 'skip'?
On 7/31/2015 6:42 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
Hi all,
Partly inspired by Google
2) There should be some cost in a routing engine for making a u-turn so
as to discourage such routes even if there was an extra set of signals.
Making a u-turn does take time (one can not go from the posted speed
limit in one direction to the posted speed limit in the other direction
On 7/8/2015 2:43 PM, Greg Morgan wrote:
I see the why Martijn would be hard pressed to exclude crossings that
are already in the OSM. He's using the Federal Railway Administration,
FRA, data as a punch list in this challenge. Perhaps you can add
additional features to a crossing in this
On 7/6/2015 10:46 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
Please share your corrections / feedback so I can improve this if necessary
before I push it live. (In particular I am never sure whether to use crossing
or level_crossing.)
Thanks for doing that challenge - it sounds like a great fit for
On 6/29/2015 11:12 AM, Michael Reichert wrote:
That's why I think that there should be no restriction on API side.
Either people realize that mechanical edits have to be disussed first
(after revert of their first undiscussed mechanical edit) or they get
blocked if they refuse contact with the
I couldn't make it to SOTM-US because of time constraints, but wanted to
thank the sponsors and all who made the great videos!
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On 6/11/2015 12:46 PM, Mike N wrote:
I've seen this problem also - an area marked for construction, all
roads bulldozed out, - the roads re-appear due to a TIGEROSM
comparison test because they're in Bing.
Speaking of which, one of those came back to life yesterday. I tried
the README
On 6/1/2015 10:34 AM, Jack Burke wrote:
I was wondering if it is appropriate to tag truck stops with
tourism=caravan_site. I've noticed a lot of them tagged this way,
presumably because many of the truck stop chains allow overnight parking
of RVs, some have dump stations, etc.
It may have
On 5/18/2015 7:13 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
At first glance it really looks as if the user did nothing more than
random deletions across the country. I wonder why it hasn't been noticed
before.
In the US, it's probably related to the number of regular mappers per
unit area. If no mappers
On 5/1/2015 11:07 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
That's a very computer person approach to take. In fact, the
McDonald's issue has already been tried by someone in the past with an
undiscussed mechanical edit, promptly falsifying a few non-chain
non-fastfood places that*really* were called McDonalds
On 4/8/2015 7:26 AM, maning sambale wrote:
Sad news that my friend and OSM contributor died from a vehicular accident.
I'm curious, what happens to an OSM user account if this happens?
Sorry to hear this.In the past with the license change, the
contributions were summarily deleted at
On 4/3/2015 5:32 PM, Eleanor Tutt wrote:
I'm interested in hearing more about how and why people contribute to
the map.
It's just a hobby for me, a way to get out and learn some obscure
facts about a place. Most contributions come from a GPS survey or
local observation. Although I
On 4/3/2015 9:17 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
i think the long term future of OSM will probably involve more
OHM like projects to supplement OSM. my question is how will
the core OSM community treat them? right now it seems very
mixed.
I think it's a great idea. There may be some definition
On 4/4/2015 1:04 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote:
I wonder if it was even about the resolution in some counties. It's as
if the data was traced off a cartogram, or maybe reconstructed from a
table of intersections.
Or recorded with a GPS back in the days when the signal was scrambled,
that is with the
Thank you for the addition of this valuable quality tool!
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I happened to be near one of these today, and I had to move it about 8
meters. REVERT! (not really, just kidding)
I think this was a useful dataset for import. And if there were
some variations on the actual position, I don't see how this is any
different from typical mapping errors,
Are there routers that do shortest-path routing across areas? I do
not have an example of an area without additional roads ready.
I'm not aware of any routers that routes across areas.
There's some prior work in OpenTripPlanner -
On 3/11/2015 6:37 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
nd common editor presets. In iD without expert mode / all tags the
only values for the building key are yes and unknown (which will not
set any key I believe), if other tags like amenity etc. are also set. No
way to enter free text then.
FWIW,
On 3/10/2015 12:56 PM, Volker Schmidt wrote:
If I understand correctly that you want routing to cross a park as long
as the way in and the way out are connected to the perimeter of the
park. This is only correct in parks where you are free to walk anywhere.
Most parks in continental Europe do
FYI - there's a general discussion on Why does the USA currently lag in
OSM map quality? over on a web forum:
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=30121
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On 2/17/2015 3:30 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
A pile of automatically imported or collected data is really not all
that interesting or complete.
I think in the USA the way forward involves finding user communities not
served by other maps (e.g. Bear Boxes, above).
I've found that after a quorum
On 2/11/2015 2:49 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
Read through the issue tracker: It's clear that issues reported are
pushed back on by the core iD developers. It's very tightly held.
I disagree (not a developer here). The interesting thing that came
out of this discussion is the realization that
On 2/4/2015 11:25 PM, Greg Morgan wrote:
addr:housenumber contains both the number
and the building letter in the same field. The map is useful because
you can find the building. How have other people tried to handle these
situations?
I haven't tried in any meaningful way. It's too early
On 2/3/2015 3:31 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
Is the new style backwards compatible with the old style?
The new Public Transport style is backward compatible and offers a more
uniform tagging style with some additional capabilities (in my opinion).
Especially in
regards to potentially having
On 1/8/2015 3:13 PM, Zontine, Chris -(p) wrote:
Thanks for the research. I will change the highway to trunk and leave as a
single carriageway.
I found this old photo http://www.bostonroads.com/roads/mid-cape/ ,
which seems to approximately match the recent Bing. If it's still in
this
On 1/8/2015 5:51 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
I found this old photo http://www.bostonroads.com/roads/mid-cape/ ,
which seems to approximately match the recent Bing. If it's still in
this configuration, a single carriageway is probably best. The double
double yellows would imply no turns and no
On 1/6/2015 4:23 AM, Andreas Goss wrote:
I have this with fitness centre/gym now again. A few replies and then
nobody cares.
I'm pretty sure that now I tag each fitness centre randomly
differently. I'd prefer a single convention, but I can see that there
will never be agreement.
On 1/6/2015 6:47 AM, Chris Hill wrote:
If the new scheme is adopted in staged way that would be better than a
single mass edit, though it can still break data use for people who
don't follow OSM's mailing lists.
I don't blame the proposer of the scheme; he's just following the daft
guidelines
On 12/23/2014 9:40 PM, Doug Hembry wrote:
I'm a relative newbie, and here's a question I've been puzzling over for
a while: What's the best practice for tagging a north American outdoor
shopping center?
I agree with all the previous advice, and have also run into some
minor quirks when
On 12/19/2014 3:47 PM, Dave F. wrote:
From memory the original claim was all 'contacts' could be filtered out
in one go, but it was pointed out that post filtering would still need
to be performed, and I'm no programming expert, but I was led to believe
parsing a string like 'contact:email' is
I don't remember seeing this mentioned here...
http://monochome.com/
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On 12/1/2014 12:55 AM, Elliott Plack wrote:
When you say that most people don't refer to it as such, that can
definitely pose a challenge to cartographers. My opinion is to use the
full name with the post directional and let map data users (or humans)
choose what to ignore.
I also feel that
On 11/27/2014 3:08 PM, Saikrishna Arcot wrote:
Not sure if this is the right list or the tagging list is better, but I see
some bus and subway routes in the Atlanta area that use the older version of
tagging public transport routes. Should these be updated to use the newer
version of tagging?
On 10/13/2014 6:48 AM, Dave F. wrote:
This, other similar types of software is being misused to insert
errors into the OSM database.
Without local knowledge there is no way users can be sure of the
accuracy of there edits. They should stick to what they know. I believe
this type of validation
Just out of curiosity, I did a dumb road name comparison between TIGER
2013 and TIGER 2014 for the surrounding dozen counties. I was
surprised to find that my local county had a bunch of new roads added.
So the TIGER data can get a major update for a reason other than the
census workers
On 9/8/2014 3:30 PM, stevea wrote:
What happened to taxiways (and runways?) in mapnik recently? Take a
look at any airport with taxiways near you and see if it isn't
re-rendering in a oops, something is missing kind of way.
Issues are being worked on -
There is indeed an issue with
On 9/1/2014 11:27 PM, Nick Hocking wrote:
I think thrse ways can easily be identified by...
1) They are original TIGER data import
2) They have not been edited since import
3) They are higway=residential
4) They are unnamed
Another way to select roads having suspicious routing would be:
On 9/1/2014 7:53 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
I think the other half of the equation, however, is actually getting this
fixed across the country. At present it appears to be just a small number of
mappers doing it in their areas;
To be honest, I don't really get the problem with excessive
On 9/1/2014 9:59 AM, Wolfgang Zenker wrote:
I guess you haven't done much in the rural parts of the US yet. Have a
look at Lincoln County MT: You will find A LOT of tracks. Most of these
had been tagged as residential highway in the TIGER import (with horrible
distorted geometry of course), and
On 9/1/2014 11:27 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Except I don't know if they're at all cyclable, or if I need to take the
bike with knobbly tyres, or even if they exist at all. OSM in the US just
isn't reliable to that level, whereas it is in Western Europe, and the
Australians are also working on
On 8/30/2014 4:33 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Seriously, OSM in the US, outside a few cities, is still way beyond broken.
You can open it at any random location and the map is just fictional. (I
did, just now:http://www.osm.org/edit#map=13/36.1938/-103.6446 .
Landing on the high plains
On 8/24/2014 10:48 AM, Russ Nelson wrote:
I do wish I could tell it Only show me things in New York State,
because screw everybody else, this is a competition and I'm here to
win. Go NY! Go NY!
Your wish has been granted. At the top of the Select a different
challenge dialog, press I want
On 8/23/2014 5:20 AM, Lester Caine wrote:
http://openstreetmap.us/iD/release/#background=Bingmap=17.00/-83.15249/36.43657
is the one I'm currently on and leaving as it's impossible to see any
detail in iD ... how do people cope with the dark images?
In iD, select the imagery layer New
On 7/18/2014 9:49 PM, Tod Fitch wrote:
I thought I'd read up on all the stuff I needed to tag lanes=*,
lanes:forward=*, lanes:backward=*, turn:lanes=*,
turn:lanes:forward=*, turn:lanes:backward=*, etc. But I totally missed
the existence of placement:*=*
I totally missed *placement: also -
On 7/19/2014 3:37 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
What's the node number at the intersection?
So far, I started on just one of the ways - it's at
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/292617988 . I found my problem: the
JOSM Land and Road Attributes style was correct. I had used a colon
instead
On 7/19/2014 2:38 PM, Dale Puch wrote:
I say retest the script detection and use it regularly for the start/end
abbreviations. Expand it to other detection if it can be shown to be
reliable.
I think the idea of some additional automated expansion is a good
idea. Let's circulate the idea
On 7/19/2014 6:06 PM, Paul Norman wrote:
On 2014-07-19 2:46 PM, Mike N wrote:
I suspect that most of the unusual cases would be too complicated for
MapRoulette because of the need to consult with a governmental reference.
Or actually survey them. Aside from first-hand knowledge being superior
On 6/23/2014 3:15 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
We launched Scout for iOS powered by OpenStreetMap a little over a
month ago now, followed by the Android version in early June. While
the feedback in general has been overwhelmingly positive, I am really
curious to hear about your experiences. Have
On 7/10/2014 2:58 PM, Jim McAndrew wrote:
I would make sure that you add tags like bicycle=no, even though
bicycles are probably not forbidden, bicycles and sand generally do not mix.
The key word being generally
On 7/1/2014 7:18 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
With that said I agree fully that having a resource that*is*
trustworthy (containing references to which router supports certain
conventions) is becoming increasingly important
I would also find this very helpful - not to tag for a particular
On 6/23/2014 6:58 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
While motorway_junction= + exit_to= is much more common here in the US
than destination= for freeway exit tagging, we seem to be the
exception globally.
I have no objection to changing to a system that is more informative
and adaptable. exit_to
On 6/23/2014 7:16 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
Most of this could be automatically converted to 'destination=', except
that there is a growing dislike of any botlike edits.
We should approach automated edits with a great deal
On 6/3/2014 5:34 AM, Simon Poole wrote:
Route USBR 10 nicely illustrates my point about GIGO. It starts of in
untouched TIGER country and continues. Implying that nothing has been
surveyed along the route, clearly requiring large amounts of clean up
before even thinking about adding the roads to
On 6/2/2014 3:27 PM, Simon Poole wrote:
To put it differently: if the import was combined with systematic
surveying of the routes by OSM contributors instead of them just sitting
at their desk then it would be a lot more palatable.
I think the appeal to local mappers to pitch in with the new
On 6/1/2014 12:32 AM, Russ Nelson wrote:
Why would that necessarily be
imported? And how do you import a route, anyway?
Similarly, there have been projects to add route relations to state
and county routes. Depending on the availability of sources from the
state, the mapper may end up
On 5/31/2014 6:43 PM, stevea wrote:
It really does seem as important as Interstate highways, but for
bicyclists.
For my input: I agree - in the US, having a reliable source of bike
routes is as important as Interstate highways. If anything, OSM
suffers from too few data consumers and a
Congratulations on the switch - I'm looking forward to this.
On 5/20/2014 2:30 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
We have done a good chunk of work improving OSM to be ready for this,
mostly in the very same way everyone here improves the map: by opening
up our favorite editors and manually editing
On 5/20/2014 2:13 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
Makes me wonder, how many of you use Mapdust? What types of things do
you end up fixing most?
I did use Mapdust back in the day - there isn't much new showing up,
so I only monitor Notes these days.
For regional fixes, I would schedule a
On 5/2/2014 7:29 AM, Hans De Kryger wrote:
Has anyone ever thought of developing a program to compare street names
from tiger to street names in osm? I know I've come across plenty of
errors in which the street name is misspelled or completely wrong.
http://maproulette.org/battlegrid/
I'm
On 5/2/2014 11:32 AM, Murry McEntire wrote:
Are you assuming the Tiger values are more accurate than what is in OSM?
If so, rethink that.
For armchair mapping, the only thing that might be safe is that new
TIGER is more accurate than old TIGER. But any such TIGER comparison
must not
On 4/30/2014 11:59 PM, David K wrote:
If a street has name=Elm Street but a house has addr:street=S Elm St, I
consider this perfectly valid (in a city that in fact has only one Elm
Street). (Sidebar: I use USPS abbreviations in addr:street values
because that's how USPS prefers mail to be
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