Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-03 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 1/3/2012 5:04 AM, Pieren wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Nathan Edgars II If someone does this in my area, I'll revert the deletion as vandalism. Funny. I also consider adding non-existing stuff as vandalism. I hope we will never contribute on the same areas... Live and let live

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-03 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 1/3/2012 7:08 AM, Pieren wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: So don't remove legitimate data (which includes historic features) in the name of reverting vandalism, or you too will eventually get burned. Then many, many people will be burned.

Re: [OSM-talk] Things People Say

2011-12-31 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/31/2011 1:48 AM, Michal Migurski wrote: In the bottom-right corner is the wiki Image Of The Week, which is so often the home of solid gold output from the OSM community, whether it's new renders or photos of mappers. I beg to differ. Pulling a few examples:

Re: [OSM-talk] New rules for OSMI license change view

2011-12-26 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/26/2011 6:50 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, I've updated the license change view on OSMI with new rules. It will now * treat untagged nodes as clean if moved by an agreeing mapper * treat any tags contributed by a non-agreeing mapper as harmless if these tags are not present any more in

Re: [OSM-talk] New rules for OSMI license change view

2011-12-26 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/26/2011 9:09 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Dear unknown person using the pseudonym Nathan Edgars II, Does this mean that the OSMF has decided that these cases will not be reverted, or do we still have no idea? I will not cave in to your childish refusal to read osmf-talk by repeating what

Re: [OSM-talk] New rules for OSMI license change view

2011-12-26 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/26/2011 9:21 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 12/27/2011 03:09 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: I will not cave in to your childish refusal to read osmf-talk Or legal-talk, rather. I do read legal-talk, and have seen no such decision by the OSMF.

Re: [OSM-talk] Splitting a way may completely hide a taint

2011-12-21 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/21/2011 8:01 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Sounds like a policy decision to me - you can either be too cautious or too careful but probably never do it exactly right. And we really need to know how the OSMF is treating these common cases before we start the process of minimizing damage.

Re: [Talk-us] Medians and reverts

2011-12-21 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/21/2011 5:11 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: Also, if a vehicle with enough passengers is allowed to move into/out of the HOV lanes at any point, I would not classify the markings as a median, but only as a lane separator. The line can only be crossed at certain points, much like a double

Re: [OSM-talk] Relations and the license change

2011-12-18 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/18/2011 8:45 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 12/18/2011 04:34 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Has there been any information as to how the OSMF will handle relations when deleting or reverting tainted objects? No. I'll write something on legal-talk. I'll reply here because (a) I'm

[OSM-talk] Relations and the license change

2011-12-17 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
Has there been any information as to how the OSMF will handle relations when deleting or reverting tainted objects? It is much easier for a relation to be tainted than a way; all that needs to be done is the splitting of a single member to ruin the entire relation. For example, 31 of the

Re: [OSM-talk] An example of the complications inherent in determining tainted ways

2011-12-15 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/15/2011 8:21 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: Please continue any detailed discussion of this topic to legal-talk ... that's what it's for. The question is not what's legally true, but what conditions the OSMF will require an object to satisfy to not be reverted. So it actually belongs on

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

2011-12-14 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
The other thing that's needed is a way to mark an object as clean. For example, if a red mapper added name=Citgo to an existing gas station, and I verify that it's Citgo (and maybe add other tags such as address), how do I prevent the OSMF from reverting it?

[OSM-talk] JOSM error in downloading?

2011-12-14 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
I recently updated JOSM to the latest tested (though it still has the sluggishness issues I reported a few months ago) and can no longer download from the Overpass API. When I try to download

Re: [OSM-talk] Transition to CC-4 instead of destroying data

2011-12-14 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/14/2011 4:13 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: Could you point on the wiki which problems will arise by not changing at all - or posing a future transition to a next version of the Creative Commons license? I've read through many discussions, and the only reasons I've seen for changing the

[OSM-talk] An example of the complications inherent in determining tainted ways

2011-12-14 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
I will look at a single suburban roadway: Westwood Boulevard in the International Drive tourist area south of Orlando. This started out as a TIGER way: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/11197961/history 80n (orange) and kyrbyboy (red) have made some improvements to alignment, but have

Re: [OSM-talk] An example of the complications inherent in determining tainted ways

2011-12-14 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/14/2011 9:45 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: It has been explained already but I'll repeat it - OSMF/LWG has not yet decided what they will do with regards to the finer points of complex object relicensing. This means that none of your questions above has an answer. And OSMF is not going to

Re: [OSM-talk] Harming the community

2011-12-14 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/14/2011 11:56 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: 3. The list moderators need to step up and do their jobs. This nonsense is disruptive and it needs to end. Discussion is fine, but inflammatory language and lies are not. Could you have made a more inflammatory post? (Well, sure, you could have,

Re: [Talk-us] Now you can see how much vandalism the OSMF will carry out on April Fools

2011-12-14 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/14/2011 3:48 PM, Humphries, Grant wrote: It was mentioned balrog-kun’s automated edits are exempted from being reverted. Can anyone expand on that or point me in the direction to find more information about this? Does anyone have an idea of what percentage of edits done from that account

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
What will happen to buildings that were drawn by a CT-agreeing mapper but with tags copied from a red node? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/13/2011 11:57 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: What will happen to buildings that were drawn by a CT-agreeing mapper but with tags copied from a red node? Presumably nothing will happen, since there is no easy way of identifying these. So this is an easy loophole - if you see any red nodes

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st

2011-12-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/13/2011 2:02 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: People are increasingly deleting such content and replacing with new content, often using the new sources which were not available when the content was first input (e.g. Bing imagery and OS OpenData) and that's good. Disagree. It's only good if

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/13/2011 2:30 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 12/13/2011 08:02 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Presumably nothing will happen, since there is no easy way of identifying these. So this is an easy loophole - if you see any red nodes that represent points of interest, replace them with building

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/13/2011 2:57 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 12/13/2011 08:47 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: I have done many edits of this sort over the years. It has been standard practice for a long time. Any tainting has already happened. I am not talking about any tainting that has happened

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
It would be useful to have an idea of how many objects have been edited by a red user *and then edited by someone else*. These are the biggest problem in terms of damage. It's also important to keep in mind that relations are the most vulnerable of all, and do not show up on this view.

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/13/2011 4:03 PM, Graham Jones wrote: I see there are three potential reasons for someone neither accepting nor declining the terms: * They really do not agree with them, but for some reason that I can not think of they decide not to click the 'decline' button - These are an

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
How does the OSMF plan to handle split or combined ways? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/13/2011 4:25 PM, john whelan wrote: The intentions don't matter here, its to be able to defend the new licensing / copyright in court you need to show all the content has come from people who have accepted the new license. Which is impossible because of the common practice of copying

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/13/2011 4:46 PM, Peter Wendorff wrote: Even in law exists the distinction between crimes done willingly and those done unwillingly or without knowledge. You don't get necessarily out of the case without any harm if you didn't know or didn't want it, but often you have to do/pay/be

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/13/2011 5:03 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: No. The only thing I was talking about was that if you should have the audacity to publicly proclaim loopholes in the process and that you intend to use them, I will block your account. I have already used them many times as part of normal editing,

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st

2011-12-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
How about before we start attempting to rescue anything from the OSMF, we make sure we know what we're doing? What is the proper way to edit an object that has been modified by a decliner? What is the proper way to do this to a relation, especially one with many members and many revisions? How

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st

2011-12-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/13/2011 6:38 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Because we gain nothing from major contributors holding out until the very last day and then, smilingly, tell us you know what, I've decided to disagree after all. That's four winter months wasted when they could have been perfectly well used for

[Talk-us] Now you can see how much vandalism the OSMF will carry out on April Fools

2011-12-12 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
And it's not pretty: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfelon=-81.36373lat=28.52264zoom=10 ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Now you can see how much vandalism the OSMF will carry out on April Fools

2011-12-12 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/12/2011 7:57 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 13:23 -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: And it's not pretty: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfelon=-81.36373lat=28.52264zoom=10 OK, I'm confused...what am I looking at? Everything red or orange has at least one editor who

Re: [Talk-us] Now you can see how much vandalism the OSMF will carry out on April Fools

2011-12-12 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/12/2011 10:43 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com mailto:nerou...@gmail.com wrote: remember reading that balrog-kun's automated edits will be exempted, I wonder if there are other automated edits and imports from public

Re: [Talk-us] Now you can see how much vandalism the OSMF will carry out on April Fools

2011-12-12 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/12/2011 11:33 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: This was split from http://www.openstreetmap.org/__browse/way/8814701/history http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/8814701/history by bemasc. ahh. So colored falsely as red, revert will undue all later changes but leave the

Re: [OSM-talk] Moderating / Quality checking OSM contributions -- was: Re: OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

2011-12-07 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/7/2011 6:47 PM, Kate Chapman wrote: There are a lot of road classifications already in the wiki for example here is the one for the US: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_Road_Classification This has a number of problems:

Re: [OSM-talk] Moderating / Quality checking OSM contributions -- was: Re: OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

2011-12-07 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/7/2011 7:42 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 12/7/2011 6:47 PM, Kate Chapman wrote: There are a lot of road classifications already in the wiki for example here is the one for the US: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_Road_Classification This has a number of problems: http

Re: [OSM-talk] Moderating / Quality checking OSM contributions -- was: Re: OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

2011-12-07 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/7/2011 7:31 PM, Kate Chapman wrote: But if the road classification matches to the actual utility of the road why not use it. It doesn't in the U.S. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Moderating / Quality checking OSM contributions -- was: Re: OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

2011-12-07 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 12/7/2011 7:08 PM, Andrew Errington wrote: I don't know for sure, but I expect that the initial list of road classifications were derived from UK Ordnance Survey classifications: Motorway - motorway A road - primary B road - secondary 'yellow' road - tertiary 'white' road - unclassified

Re: [Talk-us] Editing Party In Chattanooga December 4th 2011

2011-11-29 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 11/29/2011 1:45 PM, Randal Hale wrote: * We're (OC) also trying to verify if roads need sidewalks for pedestrian traffic. I'm not sure what you mean by this. As far as I know, it's legal to walk (against vehicle traffic) on the majority of roads without improved sidewalks in every

Re: [Talk-us] Editing Party In Chattanooga December 4th 2011

2011-11-29 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
by need you mean wrt routing software. Gotcha. On 11/29/2011 2:06 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 11/29/2011 1:45 PM, Randal Hale wrote: * We're (OC) also trying to verify if roads need sidewalks for pedestrian traffic. I'm not sure what you mean by this. As far as I know, it's legal to walk

Re: [Talk-us] Editing Party In Chattanooga December 4th 2011

2011-11-29 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 11/29/2011 5:46 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: I suspect they mean is it safe to walk in the street Good luck defining this. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Tile layer in JOSM

2011-11-28 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 11/28/2011 1:10 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: I am not a tiled map service wizard but I sure thought I could get this done. What I have: a Shapefile with roads in Utah[1]. What I want: to get a background layer for JOSM / Potlatch that highlights the named highways (federal, state and local

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging names of interchanges

2011-11-25 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 11/25/2011 12:48 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: http://www.newson6.com/story/16113798/clear-lanes-ahead-through-notorious-tulsa-traffic-bottleneck How does one tag an interchange *name* anyway? Same way you tag a ceremonial name given to something else. I use the official_name tag.

Re: [OSM-talk] Truck route rendering

2011-11-05 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 11/5/2011 10:03 PM, Paul Norman wrote: Is anyone aware of any renderings that show truck routes? Ideally, showing hgv=yes/no/designated and hazmat=yes/no/designated I’ve been surveying them lately. Unfortunately, as the most of the city truck route lists are not available under an open

Re: [OSM-talk] Here's what they do in Korea

2011-11-05 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 11/6/2011 12:38 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote: John Harveyj...@johnharveyphoto.com wrote: One of the problems I think we have is road widths. Mapnik currently renders all highways of the same type the same width - it ignores lanes and width: This is also the case on every

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

2011-11-02 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.908002lon=-78.91749zoom=18layers=M One example of what not to do :) ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

2011-11-02 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
I'd be interested in a way of auto-tagging blocks in a grid like most newer cities have. Set the zero point and intermediate points and it interpolates for you. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Google: pay for map and API

2011-10-28 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/28/2011 6:34 PM, malenki wrote: Google demands (with several exceptions payment for using map and API: http://code.google.com/intl/uk-UK/apis/maps/faq.html#tos_pricing A press release from OSM would be a good idea. Saying what? That we have stricter policies?

[Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

2011-10-23 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/17161384/history Alte Eisenbahn is German for old railway, which is a correct description of the way. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

2011-10-23 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/23/2011 2:24 PM, Mike N wrote: On 10/23/2011 2:07 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Alte Eisenbahn is German for old railway, which is a correct description of the way I don't have any reference, but locals do seem to use the German designation as the name: http://www.fuzzyworld3.com/3um

Re: [Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

2011-10-23 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/23/2011 2:59 PM, Richard Welty wrote: from Mike's comment, the name appears to likely be correct local usage. Mike's link is from Wisconsin; the way is in Connecticut. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Signed shared roadway

2011-10-22 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/22/2011 5:23 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: Hi, Mapping bike lanes here in Salt Lake I get confused by the different types of bike lanes and how to map them. There's regular bike lanes, which I tag cycleway=lane, but then there's also green shared lanes[1] and signed shared roadways[2] which

Re: [Talk-us] Signed shared roadway

2011-10-22 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/22/2011 9:13 PM, Richard Welty wrote: if there's just a black on yellow sign saying share the road then cyclists should stay to the right. Not at all. http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/on-the-road/sharing-the-road/

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
I see I have some new enemies, and the old ones are coming back to slander me. threatened to remove whole cities from the map, stomping local knowledge in Oklahoma, reverting a bunch of relation fixup because you don't like one particular element - what a crock of shit. And Toby, what the hell

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/19/2011 9:31 PM, Paul Norman wrote: He has a history in Canada of deleting data in the same manner http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/50623496/history Are you sure you're not talking about yourself? ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/20/2011 10:56 AM, Paul Norman wrote: From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:nerou...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings On 10/19/2011 9:31 PM, Paul Norman wrote: He has a history in Canada of deleting data in the same manner http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/20/2011 10:57 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: I see I have some new enemies, and the old ones are coming back to slander me. threatened to remove whole cities from the map, stomping local knowledge in Oklahoma,

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/20/2011 10:40 AM, Toby Murray wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2011-March/005466.html I might add that trying to revert such a large changeset without even waiting for a reply is also

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/20/2011 12:25 PM, Toby Murray wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/20/2011 10:40 AM, Toby Murray wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] County borders vs. State borders

2011-10-18 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/18/2011 8:44 AM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: the Census has county boundaries going to the state border with WI/MI, and I'm assuming they did their homework. Don't assume anything when it comes to TIGER. Anyway, Cook County was defined in 1874 to include the water to the state line:

Re: [Talk-us] Combining State/County Borders Physical Features?

2011-10-15 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/15/2011 1:16 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: I noticed in the past few days that user Alexander Roalter has been converting administrative boundaries in the Midwest to relations (which I think is good) but in some cases he's combined state and county boundaries with physical features, especially

Re: [Talk-us] Combining State/County Borders Physical Features?

2011-10-15 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/15/2011 1:57 PM, Peter Dobratz wrote: I too agree that the same Way should be used for waterway=river and boundary=administrative whenever the boundary is defined by the river. That Way should also be added to a relation for the boundary. If the river has changed course, but the

Re: [Talk-us] FYI - user Justinb in western GA

2011-10-08 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/8/2011 9:49 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote: It sounds like the proposed causeway tag would be the best way to mark this section of road. What's wrong with embankment=yes? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] FYI - user Justinb in western GA

2011-10-08 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
I reverted all of his edits after verifying that nothing of value would be lost. (By the way, it's been two days since I contacted him, and he has not replied.) ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming dispute over Jerusalem - OSM failure

2011-10-05 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/5/2011 1:50 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 10/05/2011 11:14 AM, Lambert Carsten wrote: If Hebrew is the (official) local language Israel has two official local languages, Hebrew and Arabic. This is a fact and upheld by Israel's supreme court. And apparently a third de facto

Re: [Talk-us] Announcement: Address Improvement project

2011-10-05 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/5/2011 7:51 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: ZIP codes, which in America are not copy righted [sic] Are you sure about this? and (at least in MA) widely available. Are these precise or TIGER's horrible approximations? ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Announcement: Address Improvement project

2011-10-05 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/5/2011 9:15 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: In MA they are good in they are precise How have you tested this? don't know about the rest of the country but say wht you will about the census they tend to get the areas right in the sense of getting all the houses. In Florida, they omit

Re: [Talk-us] Announcement: Address Improvement project

2011-10-05 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/5/2011 10:08 PM, Carl Anderson wrote: Although there is only 1 edge on the TIGER 2010 edges dataset having zipl = '32830' or zipr = '32830' (TLID = 94368893) there are 539 faces in the TIGER 2010 faces dataset having ZCTA5CE10 = '32830' or ZCTA5CE00 = '32830' Are these based on roads or

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming dispute over Jerusalem - OSM failure

2011-10-04 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/4/2011 7:00 PM, dimka israeli wrote: Anxious to have it back, we proposed during the meeting to have two separate nodes, tagged respectively in Hebrew and Arabic. However, the other side would agree on nothing less than equal rendering (they are explicitly interested in rendering only) of

Re: [Talk-us] OSM inspector routing layer now also available in the US

2011-10-04 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/4/2011 2:09 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 10/04/2011 03:14 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Ah, the county line dupe problem. It would be nice if http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/5867 were fixed. Personally I think OSM suffers too much from automated edits already. I am a big fan

Re: [Talk-us] OSM inspector routing layer now also available in the US

2011-10-04 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/4/2011 4:21 PM, Richard Weait wrote: Try selecting both nodes and using m to merge them. drag-select, m. One mouse gesture, one keypress. Easy. Holy shit. It would still be nice to be able to do it en masse (given that the problem was caused in the first place by an import) but this

Re: [Talk-us] OSM inspector routing layer now also available in the US

2011-10-04 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/4/2011 4:27 PM, Ian Dees wrote: A lot of times these overlapping ways are on county boundaries and share nodes with the border ways, making it very difficult to only select the nodes that belong to the highway=* ways. I usually use a filter to hide any boundaries. Of course you have to

Re: [Talk-us] OSM inspector routing layer now also available in the US

2011-10-04 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/4/2011 4:42 PM, Richard Weait wrote: Not in the case I looked at. Yes, undoing a duplicate import and dupe-ways is a pain. This is not that. ;-) The problem comes when there's a road along the county line. This is especially common in the Midwest.

Re: [Talk-us] OSM inspector routing layer now also available in the US

2011-10-04 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/4/2011 9:44 PM, Dion Dock wrote: On 10/4/2011 2:09 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Try selecting both nodes and using m to merge them. drag-select, m. One mouse gesture, one keypress. Easy. No! If you have two different items with a duplicate node, for example, a street and a landuse=,

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixme: A proposal

2011-10-03 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
Would it make more sense to categorize by the tag? For example: *FIXME:name=yes *FIXME:maxspeed=verify that the entire road is 55 mph ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] seeking advice on running a mapping party

2011-10-03 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/3/2011 1:34 PM, Hillsman, Edward wrote: a number of new apartment complexes (some, unfortunately, gated which restricts access, and some have demolished prior buildings and roads) I've had luck entering gated communities through the unlocked pedestrian entrance. In my experience, only

Re: [Talk-us] OSM inspector routing layer now also available in the US

2011-10-03 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/3/2011 9:06 PM, Kai Krueger wrote: Hi everyone, I have just seen on the blog of Geofabrik ( http://blog.geofabrik.de/?p=96 ) that the awesome OSM-Inspector routing debug layer is now available for the US as well. It can be found at

Re: [Talk-us] East Coast Greenway

2011-10-02 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/1/2011 7:53 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 10/1/2011 6:22 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Isn't this NCN 1? No. They're pretty close in NH-Maine, but differ in several places (the ECG uses unpaved trails while USBR 1 sticks with paved roads). The bike rendering has (mostly) updated, so you

Re: [Talk-us] East Coast Greenway

2011-10-01 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 10/1/2011 6:22 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Isn't this NCN 1? No. They're pretty close in NH-Maine, but differ in several places (the ECG uses unpaved trails while USBR 1 sticks with paved roads). The routings are very different in Virginia and North Carolina (compare the cycle map rendering

Re: [Talk-us] East Coast Greenway

2011-09-30 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/30/2011 7:51 AM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: I'm actually in the process of doing this for MA and was trying to figure out the correct tagging, I take it in the US we don't use the local regional national bike route scheme? We do, but I don't know if I'd say that the ECG fits into it.

Re: [Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

2011-09-30 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/30/2011 7:37 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: What if anything can we learn from Wikipedia? That consensus is very hard to reach :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:State_route_naming_conventions_poll/Account ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] East Coast Greenway

2011-09-29 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/29/2011 11:20 PM, Peter Dobratz wrote: Has anyone attempted to start mapping the East Coast Greenway as a cycle route? http://www.greenway.org/ This is a project to create a bicycle route along the east coast from Florida to Maine. I think the goal is to get everything off-road, but

Re: [OSM-talk] Using photographed evacuation plans for indoor modeling?

2011-09-28 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/28/2011 10:56 AM, Michael Peter wrote: Is it only usable, when there is no copyright sign written on the plan? Almost everything is copyrighted by default. So the question is whether the information contained within can still be used (as with a road sign or the sign on the front of a

[OSM-talk] Overpass API problem with underscores

2011-09-22 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
When I open http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?*[highway=trunk_link][@meta][bbox=-77,38.9,-76.9,39] in JOSM I get a bunch of extraneous relations. This does not happen for highway=trunk, so the problem is with the underscore. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] OpenMetaMap

2011-09-22 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/22/2011 4:11 PM, Dale Puch wrote: land use admin boundaries These two will generally share nodes (if mapped properly, e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.6015lon=-81.419zoom=16layers=M rather than TIGER's horrible approximations) and so should be combined. Most of the others you

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-17 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/16/2011 9:07 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: The disney employee discussion points out that while access_permission=customer is a relatively straightforward concept, access_permission=private conveys only If you don't have some special agreement, you can't go here. but doesn't encode the set of

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-16 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/15/2011 10:19 PM, Anthony wrote: Also, I couldn't find any such sign going in the other direction. Even if this were access=destination, it would be a unidirectional access=destination. If you go the other direction you have to either pass through the main gate on World Drive or pass one

Re: [OSM-talk] Barriers of Entry

2011-09-15 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/15/2011 2:07 AM, Ian Sergeant wrote: [snip] Is there a reason you send messages with font size=2? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-15 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/14/2011 10:50 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: And the sweep of Victory makes it not a useful shortcut to anywhere. I assume you mean Vista? Anyway, it could be used as a shortcut, but not much shorter than CR 535: http://g.co/maps/6uzx9 ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-15 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/15/2011 8:25 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: Right, from almost everywhere to almost everywhere, 535 would be better than Vista. As long as the marked cast-member-only section of World Blvd is access=private, routing should avoid it. Is this still marked cast only? I haven't been on World Drive

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-15 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/15/2011 9:50 AM, Anthony wrote: The sign does not say you may use the road so long as you need it to get to your destination (access=destination). That would preclude cast members as using it as a cut-through alternative to World Drive. And it would permit its use by solicitors,

Re: [Talk-us] Brainstorm: What should a US map of OSM data look like

2011-09-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/12/2011 10:04 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: - more road colors just because its a state highway tthat could mean something unpaved or divided limited acces If it's divided limited access it should be trunk or motorway. If it's unpaved it should probably be tertiary unless unpaved is

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/13/2011 8:34 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/12/2011 7:17 PM, Anthony wrote: The fact that the land is owned by Walt Disney Parks does not preclude the fact that they have granted a right of way through it. According to

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/13/2011 8:58 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: The thru-roads across WDW property might or might not be registered as Public Right of Way against the deeds, but have been open to the public for up to 40 years. Not this one. There was a guard booth on Vista Boulevard near the present location of the

Re: [Talk-us] Brainstorm: What should a US map of OSM data look like

2011-09-13 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/13/2011 12:47 PM, Toby Murray wrote: Hmm I think that page on the wiki has changed since I last looked at it. The county seat bit is probably a good idea. But even then, there have been a couple of previous discussions about place name renderings in the US so I think we can still leave it

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

2011-09-12 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/11/2011 6:12 PM, Anthony wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: (As opposed to

Re: [Talk-us] What should a US map of OSM data look like

2011-09-12 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/12/2011 5:57 PM, Richard Weait wrote: A few of us were just asking on irc what a US-style tile theme would look like? Many printed US maps emphasize divided highways (often including undivided multilane highways). Perhaps a thicker line style at low zooms where lanes=4 or oneway=yes

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

2011-09-11 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/11/2011 3:26 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 02:12 -0500, Toby Murray wrote: Re: Kansas Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle ... Interesting...where

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

2011-09-11 Diskussionsfäden Nathan Edgars II
On 9/11/2011 4:25 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: Beaverton, Oregon, in all their wisdom, likes to post roads as DEAD END or NO OUTLET when it clearly does have an outlet, just not for motor vehicles. I'm not sure what this has to do with access tags, since these are advisory (yellow) signs. Only a

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