Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook mapping highways using AI in collaboration with OpenStreetMap

2019-07-24 Thread stevea
he red zone" when reading this, perhaps it should have. Something smells absolutely terrible about this and on many fronts. Please be cautious about everything having anything to do with it. Simply my opinion, SteveA ___ talk mailing lis

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping rail trails

2019-07-12 Thread stevea
n be slow. With less wordiness, I know. It's a big country, a big map, a big planet. Let's do our best, especially when talking with each other about how we agree things are built. It's been chaotic, it has always a little chaotic, nothing wrong with a little order understood amongst us. Ste

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping rail trails

2019-07-11 Thread stevea
I know a whole lot about right now, but I am curious for more real-world data to emerge about that. Here? Sure. In the map? (as in actual OSM cycle_network tagging)? Yes, that works, too. Try clicking that link above, then its "taginfo" link to get a f

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping rail trails

2019-07-11 Thread stevea
come to agreement about what it means to "promote to rcn" (and we clearly express those rules/methods of determination) in our wiki, with consensus, we'll continue to be doing the best job of this that we can. Sometimes things ARE fuzzy. Sometimes, with a little discussion, we c

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping rail trails

2019-07-11 Thread stevea
chard did) at the local (lcn) level. If network=rcn is actually a better value, this is likely to emerge with strong consensus at a more-local (state) level within OSM. Thanks for improving bicycle routes and especially rail trails in the USA! SteveA California ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [OSM-talk] Way to delete buildings added by specific user, or help reverting?

2019-07-08 Thread stevea
Excellent suggestions, Blake! SteveA > On Jul 8, 2019, at 1:25 PM, Blake Girardot wrote: > > You could convert them all to centroids, points are a valid and > correct building mapping object type as well. > > That would retain the key information, the location of the build

Re: [OSM-talk] Way to delete buildings added by specific user, or help reverting?

2019-07-08 Thread stevea
th improper rotation orientation. That's not a terrible error, and yes, correcting those would be a great deal of effort with relatively small benefit in correctness for the map (in my opinion). However, "better is better," so spend your time a

Re: [OSM-talk] Way to delete buildings added by specific user, or help reverting?

2019-07-08 Thread stevea
ment a bit. It looks like it's a pretty large (ahem) mess to clean up; good luck. Please be careful not to delete data which might actually be real (good data). For example, you might add a satellite imagery layer to your JOSM session, so you can see what's "really"

[Talk-us] WikiProject United States Public Lands

2019-06-19 Thread stevea
r disagree with the tagging schemes that are there, feel free to edit them if you disagree, they are sort of "wet ink." Thank you, SteveA California ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

2019-05-04 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
ght align perfectly with Joseph's suggestions (though he doesn't appear to advocate for deprecation of national_park), or they might not. I listen. Thanks, SteveA > (what Joseph Eisenberg wrote): >> I would recommend starting to use boundary=protected_area for State

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

2019-05-04 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
ar those.  Including deprecating the national_park tag, while I listen as you might suggest with what we might replace it, and how.  These might align perfectly with Joseph's suggestions (though he doesn't appear to advocate for deprecation of national_park), or they might not.  I listen.Thank

Re: [Talk-us] Ashuwillticook Rail Trail in Massachusetts

2019-05-03 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Thanks, Kevin. I believe it will be sorted in a month, but you never know. Great to have a dedicated mapper like you so willing to help, I will mention it if isn't sorted by then. Kerry Irons (ACA volunteer) believes the AASHTO ballot process will be around "month's end" so that sketches a

Re: [Talk-us] Ashuwillticook Rail Trail in Massachusetts

2019-05-03 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
I appreciate it! I'm now/soon scouring more aerial/satellite imagery before I MIGHT (with trepidation) enter this. I do think it would be better if locals who are more certain about this were to enter it. Though if MassDOT asserts a USBR 7 re-route through here, "it must exist.&quo

[Talk-us] Ashuwillticook Rail Trail in Massachusetts

2019-05-03 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Oops, USBR 7 (not 1) through the area. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

2019-04-30 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
nal_park anytime soon, as even though this shouldn't have mattered, it did: this was a tag that rendered, so people used it. (How rendering — presently, eventually, politically-within-OSM... — gets coupled to tagging is another chewy topic). SteveA _

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

2019-04-30 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
definition to many, especially in the USA, where American English is used and its word "park" shaped the lack of precision definition in our wiki for the first 15 years of OSM). Well, about there, anyway. I think most or even all of us know this, I wante

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

2019-04-30 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
_game_land, state_recreational_area, private_park...) might help us better characterize and improve USA park tagging, please take a look at the brief discussion initiated there. You are invited to participate. Thank you, SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing li

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

2019-04-29 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
ld love to see clarity emerge, yet it seems elusive. Though I'll say it again: talk, talk and more talk, while tedious and even exhausting sometimes, seems it's better than not talking, as sometimes a kernel of better understanding shakes out. I continue to h

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

2019-04-28 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
. I know: this gets chewy quickly. Park tagging is difficult when we put things into categories. We now use four tags to contain a vast universe of parks and park-like things, MANY of which are quite different from one another. Can we improve upon this or am I simply barking at a tree? SteveA _

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

2019-04-28 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Oops, I meant landuse=recreation_ground. (Not landuse=recreation_area). My apologies. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

2019-04-28 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Or maybe we don't need any new tags (maybe values?) and we simply need good "rules" (rough logical mappings, maybe tightened up over time, or state-by-state) to apply the Existing 4 or 5 that mappers in the USA agree are crystal-clear, if that's possible. SteveA

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

2019-04-28 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
s correct to use the Existing 4 INSTEAD of solely leisure=park when appropriate. Simultaneously, it is inevitable that many now-tagged-leisure=parks will have that tag changed to one of the other Existing 4. Yes? Onward, SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

2019-04-28 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
e as ten feet wide but go on for hundreds of feet, and this is called a "park." 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 dr

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

2019-04-26 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
On 4/25/2019 8:39 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: > A hazy sort-of-emerging along with this is wider recognition that a proto_park thingy exists. And on Fri Apr 26 22:44:56 UTC 2019, Jmapb replied: Sounds like a good case for some lifecycle prefixes -- proposed:leisure=p

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

2019-04-26 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
vor to be laser-focused. I seek clarity, and slowly we appear to be getting there. This won't get fixed overnight or soon, though, that is obvious, although I do believe that longer-term, things will heal towards better, more consistent tagging. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

2019-04-25 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
eisure=park tagging going away from where it doesn't belong), the more it feels like consensus. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

2019-04-24 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
r, as I thank you for your prodigious contributions to the discussion and my resulting (somewhat better) understanding. The conundrum continues, the fog is still there, though maybe it has lifted a bit with "Tag the land use," which I already know to do. And I am better untangling the

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

2019-04-24 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
n) park:type wiki, which seems that while it may live on as a "crutch" tagging style (there are thousands of examples in use), park:type should eventually move towards deprecation as better consensus emerges. Please at least read this brief wiki and think about how we might b

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

2019-04-23 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
sting on a lot of county_parks for some time (forever?), yet it seems OSM's worldwide view of "park" excludes them (and we tag boundary=national_park on state and national parks). This could get tedious, but it seems it has to be discussed. SteveA California

Re: [Talk-ca] Open Data for Airdrie AB

2019-04-22 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
nationwide building data to properly and further enter OSM.  Good luck with your efforts, I genuinely mean that.Best regards,SteveA ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import

2019-03-27 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
. One province at a time. Pretty soon, after a few revisions of data and back-and-forths between municipalities and province-wide data checking, you've got something. There, you go. SteveA > On Mar 27, 2019, at 8:23 PM, keith hartley wrote: > > The patchwork of municipalities is

Re: [Talk-us] Is there any value at all in tiger:MTFCC and tiger:FUNCSTAT tags? (Kevin Kenny)

2019-03-26 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
be doing so). Hence, my logic-outline instead. If they are essentially useless — and many seem to agree they are — I believe it is prudent to remove them. SteveA California ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetm

Re: [Talk-us] Rails-to-Trails data

2019-03-20 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
ly stopped arriving. Fingers crossed this request goes somewhere, these really are choice data and will help OSM in the USA be a map containing yet more excellent hiking and biking trails. SteveA California ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap

Re: [Talk-us] Online mappy hour

2019-03-19 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
let us know (here?) the zoom credentials and/or a conference call phone #.And, I look forward to the camaraderie of a mappy hour!  Fantastic this is cranking back up!SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

2019-03-08 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
an exception, for example), I believe that "caters to motorists" is the defining difference for motels. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Rails-to-Trails data

2019-03-06 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
While I'm not sure the email address from their website I used is exactly correct, I did make this request to RTC (and cc'd Richard). I'll let people know here if or how they reply. Cheers, SteveA California On Mar 6, 2019, at 4:00 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Hi all, > > I see t

Re: [Talk-ca] Microsoft has released its building outlines for Canada

2019-03-02 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
hough I agree that achieving consensus on a nationwide import can be (and often is) quite difficult. I'm not trolling here, I wish to be encouraging and have decided to go crawl back under my rock for awhile to pursue other OSM endeavors (south of our border). C

Re: [Talk-ca] Microsoft has released its building outlines for Canada

2019-03-02 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
us results. Be heartened and courageous, be optimistic and visionary. If or as you don't, others will (and already have). Keep up the good work, everybody! SteveA (who usually doesn't like to be simply a cheerleader, though sometimes it helps) > On Mar 2, 2019, at 4:33 PM, John Whelan wrot

Re: [Talk-ca] Microsoft has released its building outlines for Canada

2019-03-02 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
ple "step up" like that, wider, open communication (here in talk-ca, the wiki page, the wiki's Discussion tab / talk page...) is also to be encouraged. In short, you can't cast the net too wide, so be broad in the reach to do so. De-centralize while developing both breadth and wid

Re: [Talk-ca] Microsoft has released its building outlines for Canada

2019-03-02 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
for letting us know here that the data are ODbL and therefore OSM-compatible. (One down, perhaps a bit more to go). SteveA > On Mar 2, 2019, at 2:40 PM, john whelan wrote: > > Why are you planning to import it? > > Cheerio John > > On Sat, Mar 2, 2019, 5:26 P

Re: [Talk-ca] Microsoft has released its building outlines for Canada

2019-03-02 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
A responsible complement to this would be a link to license information, a wiki page about these data, and perhaps an Import Plan should those data actually be asserted to be worthy of being responsibly imported into OSM. SteveA California > On Mar 2, 2019, at 2:17 PM, john whelan wr

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - elimination of old-style Wikipedia links in USA

2019-02-26 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
talk page and community communication. OSM has every reason to support such excellent suggestions/proposals. SteveA California ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-ca] Some feedback on import quality in Toronto

2019-02-03 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
hn, Danny, so many others here unnamed have shown leadership. Many Canadians seem on the road to "how" and "talk amongst yourselves." Good is not the enemy. Good are good enough as they are included with "how." Thumbs up from here

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import update

2019-02-03 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
I dislike sounding simply "like a cheerleader," here however, I am deeply encouraged by what I see as substantial progress. This sort of discussion bodes very well for the future of the import. Keep up the good work! SteveA On Feb 3, 2019, at 3:26 PM, john whelan wrote: > I

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import update

2019-02-03 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
John) peut offrir ce type de caractérisation. SteveA On Feb 3, 2019, at 11:42 AM, Pierre Béland via Talk-ca wrote: > De tes exemples sortis du chapeau ne font pas avancer la discussion. > > J'attends la démonstration de John que les données d'import pour Ottawa > représente

Re: [Talk-ca] Some feedback on import quality in Toronto

2019-02-03 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
r encouragement to this process, it does appear to continue here and can likely bear fruit in the near future. Keep going! Consensus is ahead! SteveA On Feb 3, 2019, at 10:55 AM, john whelan wrote: > So I suggest that you name yourself as the coordinator on the wiki page for > Toronto

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import update

2019-02-01 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
hey will (slowly, there are a LOT!) begin to be imported into OSM. Or not. It is a maxim of good project management which is often unstated, yet now is the time to say it: "Lead, follow or get out of the way." SteveA ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import update

2019-01-31 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
ort: "what's wrong with these data, how might they get fixed?" (Then they might get imported). It doesn't seem to me to be a whole lot more complicated a discussion than that. SteveA ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-us] The San Jose / Santa Clara border

2019-01-28 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
tinues to Newhall and Monroe, where as it follows the southern boundary of Santa Clara Mission Cemetery, it is correct (enough for now). The ways I changed have IDs 166659029 and 97341711 (recently reverted by Andy Townsend), part of the Santa Clara (city) municipal boundary relation. I believe

Re: [Talk-us] The San Jose / Santa Clara border

2019-01-26 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
ow quite who to call, exactly, if somebody wants to "release to me" ODbL-compatible data which need to be harmonized with what are now in OSM, I'll volunteer to be the "nexus of citizen entry" to assure they find their way into our wonderful map. Send me a pointer to the data, assur

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM Canada building import

2019-01-26 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
ab ("Talk page") of the link above seems more appropriate. (And, I'd prefer to "get out of the way" here, if anybody were to go so far as to feel "get lost, already, SteveA," I wouldn't be offended, though I remain watching this Import for that grea

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import update

2019-01-26 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
positively drive forward this import. SteveA ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM Canada building import

2019-01-26 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
rt wiki, part community building, mostly discussion, agreement and therefore, consensus. > California Steve has put forward some proposals in the 2020 page of the wiki > which to me amount to minor variations on what we were doing. The intent > always was to involve local mappe

[Talk-ca] Building Import update

2019-01-25 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Hold" or "Stopped" status. Nice going, Canada! See you later, SteveA California ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Place Tagging

2019-01-24 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
ide" is something to consider. This isn't alway black-and-white, nor easy. As we "do our best," things eventually emerge as correct, though it usually takes some time and effort to get there. (Consensus does). SteveA ___ Talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Place Tagging

2019-01-24 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
ken scheme is to tag Harriston and Palmerston as place=suburb, and > create a place=town node for Minto. In addition to me posting this, I'd simply say "read existing wiki documentation," as well as "keep talking about it" (whether in private emails, the Discussion tab on

Re: [Talk-ca] Canada Building imports wiki page

2019-01-24 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
t;don't do this in talk-ca" I am saying "there are often more-appropriate (vs. less-appropriate) places to have a discussion to achieve consensus." Sometimes, it makes sense to have an off-list email conversation in a one-on-one or one-on-many fashion. Thanks. SteveA California > On

Re: [Talk-ca] 2020 building import wiki comment by Nate Wessel

2019-01-19 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
with memory options > (Xms, Xmx), or it will crap out at 3.5GB > > On Sat., Jan. 19, 2019, 5:13 p.m. OSM Volunteer stevea > On Jan 19, 2019, at 2:01 PM, James wrote: > > Is there no one that will analyse the data I've posted here? > > https://drive.google.com/file/d

Re: [Talk-ca] 2020 building import wiki comment by Nate Wessel

2019-01-19 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
s monster. Maybe some of ARE email thread warriors, but I am not "just" an email thread warrior. SteveA California ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] 2020 building import

2019-01-19 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
On Jan 19, 2019, at 1:22 PM, john whelan wrote: > As a point of information the 2020 web page I think was started by Julia and > very heavily edited by Stevea. Sure I did, because it seriously lacked in the technical direction anybody would need to "map going forward" in the pr

Re: [Talk-ca] (no subject)

2019-01-19 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
w these to the provincial level with good communication coordinating (wiki, Discussion pages within them, Task Manager, and talk-ca if necessary). Especially as the data are now "in the wild," the snowball is starting to roll downhill, gathering mass and speed. Course-correct when necessary and GROW this process as and how it is successful. Voila, a successful, nationwide massive import (project). It will be messy, it always is, but "deal with it" and you can get there. Good luck, Canada. Many believe in this and want to see it succeed (me included, despite what some might think is a sour or exasperated tone). SteveA California ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Ongoing Canadian building import needs to be stopped, possibly reverted

2019-01-17 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
f it as "a solid B" which might be "passes the class for now" without failing. And it's good we develop a "meanwhile strategy" to take it to 99% and then 100% in the (near- or at most mid-term) future. This isn't outrageously difficult, though it does take patience and

Re: [Talk-ca] Ongoing Canadian building import needs to be stopped, possibly reverted

2019-01-17 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
The thread link is: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2019-January/005878.html SteveA ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Ongoing Canadian building import needs to be stopped, possibly reverted

2019-01-17 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
(Again). This starts with good, open communication. Nothing less will do, or you consign your project to a whispered hope upon the wind, and that won't do it. SteveA California ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

2019-01-06 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
_reserve and related areas. Denoting where these are with recent federally published data is in complete harmony with other sorts of boundaries in OSM. But there is wishing or agreeing that the data belong, then there is doing a high quality job of importing and maintaining them.

Re: [Talk-us] Rail Easterly

2018-12-31 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
On Dec 21, 2018, at 4:17 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: > (Hawai'i, our national page says light_rail is "westerly portion is under > construction." Updates?) OK, I updated our Hawaii wiki so it has a Railroads section and table. A dedicated Hawaii/Railroads wiki seemed a

[Talk-us] Rail Easterly

2018-12-21 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
r their wiki (should those get written or not). Almost a decade in OSM, chugging along, workin' on the railroads, maybe a third of states roughed out, we're doin' fine, volunteers are welcome, maybe you'll help make it three years instead of five or ten, SteveA California ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Trunk versus motorway

2018-11-29 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
nd where 17 ends at signalized Ocean Street (highway=primary). At first I was nonplussed about this being so tagged in OSM, but as I remembered where the regulatory (therefore, by law) "End Freeway" sign is (confirming it today), it actually is tagged correctly. So, Eric is correct on b

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

2018-11-14 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
.) and one fine day we will drive the last wooden stake into its heart. TIGER data were and are helpful, yet they continue to need tender, loving mapping from our awesome community, likely for years to come. A fresh cat box is a beautiful thing, ask any cat. SteveA California > On Nov 14,

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

2018-11-14 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
o verbose, however, the consensus such wiki express is not easily conjured. Where I agree with Martijn is "I guess we have some work to do." "Clean the catbox" indeed! SteveA California ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

2018-11-14 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
endly wiki. Thank you to all of them. I know my OSM experience would not be anywhere near as rich if I didn't have so much excellent wiki to read. SteveA California ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] California is too big ;)

2018-11-07 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
all helpful towards that goal, but nobody wins or loses here. SteveA California ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] California is too big ;)

2018-11-06 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
s"), agreeable by many, a political reality right now, mostly straight along a similar latitude line and already somewhat harmonious among the relatively small sample of people here on this list who have something to say about it. (Not that we're definitive, nor am I, personally). But, l

Re: [Talk-ca] Exit with name on node *and* destination

2018-11-06 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
c, je choisis de partager un "lien de partage OT:" http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/DrG Good luck / bonne chance, SteveA California > As Overpass Turbo allows named area geocoding, try this: > Comme Overpass Turbo permet le géocodage de zone nommée, essayez ceci: > > [out:x

Re: [Talk-ca] Exit with name on node *and* destination

2018-11-06 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
codeArea:Quebec}}->.searchArea; ( way["service"="emergency_access"](area.searchArea); ); out meta; >; out meta qt; You can modify what is inside the "way" part of the query any way you like. Vous pouvez modifier le contenu de la partie "way" de la req

Re: [Talk-us] California is too big ;)

2018-11-06 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
edges of San Luis Obispo, Kern and San Bernardino counties. SteveA California ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] California is too big ;)

2018-11-06 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
line rather neatly divides California into two, a northern and southern, and simply with the designation of "those ten counties" as the method to do so. It isn't "perfectly straight" but it is "perfectly suited" to do this division of California, in my opinion. I hop

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 129, Issue 15

2018-11-05 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
yes, I do know that "you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar." (No, that isn't a slight at calling anybody "flies," rather a saying that means "positive encouragement works much better than throwing rocks"). SteveA California __

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
dataset, to do so would be overwhelming) which overlap with the "official datasets" will be conflated. That is a critical step. SteveA California ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
chiers de formes de construction sont déjà téléchargées vers OSM, à quelques rares exceptions près ou lorsqu'un très faible pourcentage de les bâtiments existants ne diffèrent que d'un mètre ou deux. Tout plan d'importation doit tenir compte de la manière dont ces données seront regroupées. Cordialement

Re: [Talk-ca] Enablers and Barriers for Voluntary Participation in Crowdsourcing Platforms

2018-11-02 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
dicated and high-skills leadership within the crowd and directly supporting these (usually quite few) people, enabling them with the ability to slightly modify rules, offer seminars/educational curricula or even direct towards them carefully-identified financial support

Re: [Talk-ca] Nova Scotia imports, and boundary=land_area

2018-11-01 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
ibes the project in general or stands on its own as a separate wiki. But it is required. SteveA California ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Open Database of Buildings / Base de données ouvertes sur les immeubles

2018-11-01 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Additionally, the greater OSM community looks forward to your Import Plan that follows our Import Guidelines ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines ). Regards, SteveA California > On Nov 1, 2018, at 11:22 AM, John Whelan wrote: > > I think on the OSM side we prob

Re: [Talk-ca] Dartmouthmapmaker

2018-11-01 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
and many other sources of advice/documentation/help are available, too. Regards. SteveA California > On Nov 1, 2018, at 9:40 AM, john whelan wrote: > I've discussed the Open Data side with them but I think they could do with a > bit of guidence on the tagging side. Could someone ideally m

Re: [Talk-us] New United States Bicycle Routes!

2018-10-27 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
"triple-check" of these data, or even a comprehensive effort at statewide TIGER Review with state- and county-level road naming/numbering authorities. Thank you in advance! SteveA California > On Oct 27, 2018, at 2:30 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea > wrote: > > Thanks, Greg,

Re: [Talk-us] New United States Bicycle Routes!

2018-10-27 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Thanks, Greg, I'm now "double-check reviewing" USBR 23 in Kentucky. Thanks for your reciprocity on 21 (when/as you get your 'net back, of course). SteveA California > On Oct 27, 2018, at 11:38 AM, Greg Morgan wrote: > > I will be happy to review your implementation of

Re: [Talk-us] New United States Bicycle Routes!

2018-10-26 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Sorry, I should use the abbreviation of KYTC as Kerry does, not KDOT. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] New United States Bicycle Routes!

2018-10-26 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
will say that. I'm not laying blame or pointing fingers, simply observing that entering route data from a state DOT was frequently perplexing given the need to match highway infrastructure of current TIGER data there. SteveA California > On Oct 26, 2018, at 3:48 PM, Kerry Irons wrot

Re: [Talk-us] New United States Bicycle Routes!

2018-10-26 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
f course; email one or both of us if you are interested in helping. SteveA California > On Oct 26, 2018, at 10:51 AM, OSM Volunteer stevea > wrote: > > Wow, Greg, you are quick. Thank you! > > Additionally, (a major reason I'm including Kerry in this missive), I removed > from O

[Talk-us] OSM "motto"

2018-10-24 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
our minds and hearts that we are a data project, and that it is out of our data (first and foremost) that we enjoy so many wonderful "creative, productive, or unexpected" derivations from them. SteveA California ___ Talk-us mailing list T

[Talk-us] New United States Bicycle Routes!

2018-10-24 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
latforms in the world. Like "E pluribus, unum" in the USA, "Ex data, multum" in OSM: "From data, much." (Yes, I did just make that up!) SteveA California ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Fort Worth, Texas bicycle routes

2018-10-24 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
ple" bicycle relations from which proper route structure can be learned are found in nearby Plano and Dallas, Texas. Thank you for making OSM (and its OpenCycleMap renderer) one of the most comprehensive (and widely used) bicycle route mapping platforms in the world. SteveA California ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-ca] Hydro Network (inland water) question

2018-09-27 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
et better. It takes time, it takes dedication, it takes good communication, it takes people working well together. Largely speaking (and Canada isn't large, it's HUGE!), so far, so good. Encouragingly, SteveA California > On Sep 27, 2018, at 4:42 PM, john whelan wrote: > Besides bus

Re: [Talk-us] More-complex wiki pages are spitting up Lua errors

2018-09-24 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Well, I'm no longer seeing the Lua errors I saw, so "caches cleared" (all the way down) and the problem seems to be "fixed" now. Steve ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] More-complex wiki pages are spitting up Lua errors

2018-09-21 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
y addressed to our OSM Operations Team, I don't really know how to do that (and it isn't clear, so perhaps we want a "more clear" way to report minor errors like this). Thanks for directing this to the right people if anybody reading this can do so, SteveA

Re: [Talk-us] Yet more about USA Rail: now, wiki

2018-09-18 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
No hijack seen as actual or intended: great idea, Martijn! Trains, transit, our map: these really do keep getting better and better. SteveA > On Sep 18, 2018, at 12:01 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > To branch out a little bit — sorry to hijack the thread Steve — it would be >

[Talk-us] USA (non-Amtrak) passenger rail

2018-09-17 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
the importance of rail travel almost exploding across our country as new light_rail and suburban train routes are being added almost faster than our mapping speed (and certainly faster than our wiki-writing speed), we have some work to do to catch up! Happy mapping (and wiki-do

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: BC2020i - update Sept 2018

2018-09-17 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
like that." Like learning to walk, it is a process, it isn't that hard, and it does come naturally. SteveA On Sep 17, 2018, at 12:16 PM, john whelan wrote: > Just a comment Alessandro is not a dedicated project manager but rather the > person that the project manager reports to. Currently in a

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: BC2020i - update Sept 2018

2018-09-17 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
and should continue this dialog. Please, let's do our best to keep it civil. SteveA > On Sep 17, 2018, at 8:31 AM, Alasia, Alessandro (STATCAN) > wrote: (a reply to my missive) ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: BC2020i - update Sept 2018

2018-09-16 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Matthew, I personally thank you for sharing Alessandro's missive with talk-ca (an OSM-based list).However, Alessandro mentions "BC2020i" (and even "BC2020i-2"), initiatives which "used" (or proposed to "use") OSM as a data repository.  Not wishing to rehash history about this yet again, the

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