Thanks for trying to standardize on this. I've seen a few of these maximum
weight signs and was unsure of how to tag.
>From what I've seen in the United States, I've seen maximum weights listed
as both lbs (pounds) and tons (where 1 ton = 2000 pounds).
In Portland, Oregon, I've recently come
How do you distinguish between the tourism=hotel and tourism=motel tags?
The criteria that I was imagining is that a motel is a single story
building where you have the ability to park you car directly outside of
your room. A hotel would be other types of buildings such as multi-story
where most
It would be good to standardize on operator tags for the 4 major carriers
as you mentioned. The logos for DHL, FedEx, and UPS have those exact
letters in them, so if people map what they see, then they will end up with
those exact values. However, as mentioned, the USPS logo actually contains
Leif,
What's the next step in your process on this?
I prefer the "operator"="United States Postal Service". Not only does it
match the sticker on the side of many blue mail boxes (
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Post_office_drivethrough_lane.jpg
), it follows the general OSM guideline
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 5:28 AM Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> From: Albert Pundt
> Subject: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate
> X", etc.
> To: "talk-us@openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap" >
> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 22:06:50 -0400 (10 hours, 17 minutes, 15 seconds
>
The first thing that comes to mind is a barrier=toll_booth:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dtoll_booth
Perhaps also with a fee=no to indicate that you don't have to pay any money.
Peter
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:10 AM Kevin Kenny
wrote:
> The
, when seeing "24/7; Dec 25 off" on a Walmart, I clicked on
> that line, so it doesn't get overwritten on import. The line becomes
> highlighted, which means that's what will be in OSM after the import. See
> for an example this object:
>
> http://audit.osmz.ru/browse/walmart
like this don't get overwritten?"
>
> There's no need to make the claim that the import gets to have more weight
> (no one said it did) and there's no need to direct the message at Ilya. As
> has been discussed before, he's helping Brandify with tools.
>
> Happy holidays,
ng
> you add to the map is important. With this import, I believe it does not
> make the data worse. More attributes is not bad, even if some of these are
> redundant. The main thing is, until now there were zero mappers who care
> about keeping all the Walmart stores in OSM up-to-date, and
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Peter Dobratz <pe...@dobratz.us> wrote:
> > Ilya,
> >
> > Here's a Walmart that's been built in the last few years I recently
> added to
> >
Ilya,
Here's a Walmart that's been built in the last few years I recently added
to OSM:
http://audit.osmz.ru/browse/walmart/5935
What's currently in OSM represents my own mapping style, but I think it's
worth discussing the differences before you change them across the whole
country.
If I
I'm not sure how many active OSM contributors also play Pokémon Go, but the
game is now officially using OSM for the basemap that players see in the
game (previously was using Google Maps data for the base map). The in-game
about screen has text in the bottom of the License section correctly
I'm seeing a pattern of OSM Notes being added where a specific question is
being asked about missing information in OSM and I was wondering if anyone
knows what software is being used to generate these notes. See for example:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1054474
Thanks,
Peter
County wards and districts. I'm not sure how
the cities wards relate to the neighborhood boundaries.
Peter
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Peter Dobratz <pe...@dobratz.us> wrote:
> Boundaries below admin_level=8 are still being discussed. There was some
> discussion on this
Boundaries below admin_level=8 are still being discussed. There was some
discussion on this list as well as the OSM wiki
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:United_States_admin_level#Nine_state_improvement
Having lived in Pittsburgh, I remember that the neighborhood boundaries are
well
I've found that even active OSM contributors don't necessarily check the
email address associated with their OSM account. If that is the case, they
may have not yet seen any changeset comments you have made on their
changesets.
It's good to follow up with an OSM private message as these pop-up
I wanted to give a wider audience to this changeset discussion:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/46967476
Some Mapzen folks have been changing highway=residential to
highway=living_street for routes that are designated as "Greenways."
There's a related blog post too:
There's a bit of confusion around this and it took me quite a while playing
around with the relation editor in JOSM ("Select Next Gap") to understand
how the "forward" and "backward" roles work.
https://i.imgur.com/RGV2XOX.png
First, consider how you would create a road route relation for your
For mapping bus stops, I put a Node at the location of the bus stop sign
(next to, but not touching the road). The following three tags are used to
specify that this is a bus stop:
highway=bus_stop
public_transport=platform
bus=yes
For the "bus stop number", use the "ref" tag:
ref=1234
If
JOSM does automatically discard some TIGER:* tags. There's a list of keys
in the tags.discardable JOSM preference item. Among the list of tags that
JOSM automatically deletes are:
tiger:source
tiger:separated
tiger:tlid
tiger:upload_uuid
These tags are hidden from the editor so you don't
When putting locations of the Swedish furniture store in OSM, do you use
name=IKEA
or
name=Ikea
?
Although we expand abbreviations on things like street names in OSM,
company names are typically left as abbreviations (for example, "St. Mary's
Bank" or "Einstein Bros. Bagels").
Often, store
I like to confirm street names by checking for POIs along the street.
There's a Great Clips hair salon near there with the following address (see
http://www.greatclips.com/ ):
906 E 900 S
Salt Lake City, UT 84105
I would put the following addr:* tags on that business:
addr:housenumber=906
and there. I can fix
these fairly easily though.
Thanks,
Peter
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Greg Morgan <dr.kludge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Peter Dobratz <pe...@dobratz.us> wrote:
> > Luckily, I saved a link to all of these bus routes o
ify's response:
> Hi Peter,
> Thanks for reaching out and thanks for the work you do! We love our maps.
> Re: your message below, I wanted to let you know that we have an
> enterprise subscription to mapbox that allows us to whitelabel the maps.
>
> Have a great weekend,
> Melissa
> Regards,
>>> Greg
>>>
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>>>
>>>> To my mind it’s on Mapbox to enforce attribution, I assume having this
>>>> present on the map is in the terms they present to their customers?
>&g
I'm seeing OSM data used more and more for generating the basemap onto
which things like store location data is displayed on store websites.
However, it's not always easy to find links to OSM attribution on such maps.
Has anyone seen this?
http://locations.pieology.com/
There's a link to
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Steve Friedl wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I’ve been updating all the cities in Orange County California to have fully
> segmented relationalized boundaries, such that cities sharing a common
> border share a single way in each of their relations; this
In the past, I've used shop=florist for the Edible Arrangements shops that
I have mapped. I guess I was drawn to the word "Arrangements" in their
business name. They sell fruit cut and put on sticks to look like bouquets
of flowers. I just got a yellow pages the other day, and there is an
Steve,
For most of my data collection, I find that the built in photos app is
actually all I use. Each photo is geotagged, which comes in handy if I
forget exactly where I was when I took the photo. I end up picking up
details when looking at the pictures later that I didn't originally see
No, but if you just want offline GPS navigation based on OSM data, get
Maps.me
Peter
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Greg Morgan wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > These are based off of Lambertus's work here:
> >
> >
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Tom Bloom wrote:
>
> -Living Streets. This is a distinct entity and not something decided by OSM.
> They are decided by local administration, and OSM should tag them only after
> that. Paul suggests that there could be townhouses at the
The OpenStreetMap database covers the whole world. It's often too resource
intensive to do processing on the whole world's dataset at once, so often
third party applications will use extracts of data. It sounds like you are
using an extract of data which doesn't fully cover the area you are
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Darrell,
On 04/03/2015 08:39 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
Ignore the haters, we’re doing fine.
I don't know if that thing about haters is just a generic figure of
speech but if you should indeed believe that I have
Hi SteveA,
I see that you have summarized the a lot of the same information from your
email on the United States Railways wiki page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States_railways
Looking through Paul's comments and yours, I don't see any specific
information about
, and
pull things like putting the line of the service running on the tracks as
ref=*. God help you if you actually try to point it out, Grant Humphries
or Peter Dobratz will get bitchy about it...
For those following along from home, please see the following note in
Portland, Oregon:
http
I've given up the dedicated GPS and/or pen and paper for data collection
and I do everything using the camera and notes application on my smartphone.
All the pictures I take are geotagged. I transfer the photos to a computer
via the USB port and then load them into JOSM with a marker showing
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us
wrote:
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote:
I agree with the sentiment in this wiki page that I quoted here. I think
that if there is only 1 POI that occupies the building
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote:
This seems to be tagging for the renderer which is not a good idea. If
the only thing occupying the building is a single POI, then put the POI
tags on the closed Way for the building outline. By adding a new object
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote:
I'd like to start with California and Arizona (70 nodes),
and add notes where on-site survey is needed to exactly align to the OSM
base layer.
What's different about this import is that armchair mappers can get only
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote:
...
In a note tag I added a reference to your import page. That would be
useful for other mappers to know why and how.
Seems like this note would be better suited for the changeset comment
instead of the OSM
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
...
The addr:housenumber doesn't render anyway if the
building has also been tagged as another POI that renders.
I've solved this problem by putting
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com wrote:
I am more likely to use your option 1: Each shopping center a separate
landuse=retail, name=* covering the entire area including parking but not
the land associated with the roadway right of way. As an example there are
The company providing the service is Where 2 Get It (
http://www.where2getit.com/ ). They provide maps for store locator
functions for a number of companies. For example: Moe's Southwest Grill,
Safeway, Trader Joe's, Jo-Ann Fabric, Michael's. OSM is used for the base
map with the store location
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Mike Henson mikehen...@hotmail.com wrote:
I am also having an issue with Walmart, should it be a Marketplace,
Supermarket, Department store??? All 3 are used in OSM in Oklahoma.
Generally, Walmart is tagged as shop=department_store.
However, there are a few
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Eric Kidd emk.li...@randomhacks.net
wrote:
Thank you for your response!
I've made two test edits:
- I imported TIGER County Subdivision files for four town boundaries.
- I modified an existing TIGER Place outline to be admin_level=9,
because it's a
Hi,
I noticed the following changeset which touches UPS Store objects across
the whole contiguous United States:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/25081346
I have contacted user andrewpmk inquiring about communications prior to
making this change and I have not received a response.
After
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Eric H. Christensen
e...@christensenplace.us wrote:
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 09:33:08AM -0700, Peter Dobratz wrote:
After checking a few of the objects, it looks like this change removed
shop=copyshop and added amenity=post_office. I don't necessarily
I've never been to a Tim Hortons, but it looks like it's very similar to
the Dunkin' Donuts we have around here. I tag this as amenity=cafe as they
are primarily a place that sells coffee-like beverages.
name=Dunkin' Donuts
amenity=cafe
cuisine=doughnut
drive_through=yes
On Wed, May 29, 2013
I've never been to a Tim Hortons, but it looks like it's very similar to
the Dunkin' Donuts we have around here. I tag this as amenity=cafe as they
are primarily a place that sells coffee-like beverages.
name=Dunkin' Donuts
amenity=cafe
cuisine=doughnut
drive_through=yes
On Wed, May 29, 2013
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/29696644
What gives? Looks like an undesired / undesirable side effect of a
MassGIS import.
Requires further investigation? Doesn't look like it's rendered, but
it looks like it
I'm trying to help along a newer local mapper, and I'm looking for any good
tutorials or references to help show how to create Ways without
overlapping/self-intersecting.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/206875817
These are the kind of things that MapRoulette picks up and other users fix,
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:37 AM, william skora skorasau...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
I was curious us to hear what others have been using to tag music venues.
There's numerous places in my city that hold upwards of 1,000 people for
music concerts (also called 'shows'). In the US, they're
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:20 AM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote:
**
...
Marsland Street (way 12700863) has many extraneous tags which are nonsense
and can/should be removed: access, area, bridge, cutting, embankment,
junction, oneway and tunnel, if not more. ...
I believe the
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
I wish there was a way to see locations of mappers beyond the first N
closest and perhaps a way to filter by date of last activity.
Have you seen this map?
I noticed recently that all of the facebook tags that I had been adding to
local businesses, have been changed to link:facebook by user
Shmiashttp://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Shmias.
The facebook tag is something that I was using often in addition to, but
sometimes in place of, the website tag.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:
the rule we frequently follow is to use the format of the name on the sign
as
the guideline for what to put in the name tag for a way.
there's a neighborhood in Rotterdam, NY where the signs for the side
streets
Please consider also using abbreviated names that already exist in the data,
perhaps in a tag like abbr_name, when such data is present.
I prefer to use the key short_name instead of the key abbr_name.
short_name is documented on the wiki, abbr_name is not.
A relatively new user has created a bunch of duplicate Ways around here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.732lon=-71.49769zoom=17layers=M
So far I've had good email exchanges with this new user, and I was about to
send him a message about this area, but I'm not sure where to begin.
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Sidetracking a bit, but is there a way to select overlaping items in JOSM?
Yes, in JOSM, you can use the middle mouse button to choose between
selecting multiple things that are either close to or even on top of each
other.
I contacted a new mapper in my area and asked if he had any questions about
editing the map. He asked about adding swamps to the map using the
in-browser editor. I was about to respond that he could use
natural=wetland for such things, but I wanted to make sure that I gave him
instructions that
Personally, I think it's easier to work from smallest to largest. I've
been trying to keep track of the boundaries relations that have been
created here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Massachusetts/Boundary_Relations
It seems to be easiest to go town by town and then once you have all the
I'm updating parts of the map in my local area (Derry and Londonderry, NH)
and it looks like there was definitely a railroad of some kind here before.
There's a dirt path here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/89361695
This connects to a road called Trolley Car Lane:
On 7/23/12, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:
Increasingly, I also explain the use of apps
(OSMTracker, Vespucci) as most people bring a smartphone. iPhones are
not so useful as there are not too many OSM specific data collection
apps available (I remember iLOE but don't know if that's
On 7/19/12, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote:
So, now, what can be done to fix it? Are there tools?
As previously mentioned, the best way is to actually visit these
places, take notes, and then use your favorite map editor to update
the map.
If you can't do that, or don't
I'm trying to get a better understanding of the railway=abandoned tag
and see what the community thinks about it.
It seems that there are a handful of railroad enthusiast users that
are systematically adding current and former railways into OSM, and in
some cases re-adding railways that I have
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
I am of course one mapper who's been mapping former railways. (Russ Nelson
is another.) There is certainly value in seeing how the current
disconnected bits of railway infrastructure used to connect. I've also
mapped
I'm experimenting with the Java code from Traveling Salesman
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Traveling_salesman
I'm making library calls to the routing code and it seems that the
router does not understand cul-de-sacs mapped as a single
self-intersecting way. This got me thinking about
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Martijn van Exel mve...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/10/2012 7:46 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote:
I'm experimenting with the Java code from Traveling Salesman
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Traveling_salesman
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/158307363
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
There are a significant number of cities in BC and Washington which have
borders that in practice[1] coincide with the Canada/US border. Currently in
OSM these are represented with many nearly-overlapping ways.
...
I am
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
On 1/13/2012 10:49 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
* Remap data that remains at risk of being removed, following the
guidelines on the wiki (see links below).
Assuming that the April 1 delete is a smart delete, is it better to
So you've got a git repository with OSM data that you eventually plan
on uploading to replace data that is already in the official OSM
database? But you've already demonstrated that your method of
uploading results in lots of duplicate Ways, so I'm not sure this is a
good plan at all. Is there
Thanks for uploading these borders.
Building on my recently added relations for Tyngsborough and
Dunstable, I decided to create a relation for Chelmsford. On the
Chelmsford/Westford border you created 7 overlapping Ways, so I
deleted 6 of them and then added the remaining one to the relation.
if anything already there corresponds to the border (river
etc)
Would that be helpful or am I missing the source of duplicate ways/need for
splitting?
-Original Message-
From: peter.dobr...@gmail.com [mailto:peter.dobr...@gmail.com]
On Behalf Of Peter Dobratz
Sent: Wednesday, October 19
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 boundary remains in the prior
location, then the map
I had been tagging them highway=service, but with access=private.
It sounds like access=official is used in places like Germany to
denote access to a bicycle path where bicycles and only bicycles can
travel on it. Typically in this situation, there is a parallel path
that pedestrians and only
For secondary house numbers, I use addr:flats as this appears to be at
least semi-documented on the wiki. I also use addr:full in this case
to write the whole address so it's clear what's going on. We have a
number of buildings around here that use Sutie/Apartment/Lot/Unit
numbers along with the
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
1) What would you like to see the US local chapter do?
Come up with a consistent way to tag roads for the country. Somehow
get a consensus from current mappers about how tag
US/state/county/whatever highways. Update this
. That would
have the Chapter claim a mandate that it was never given and would
only serve to divide the community rather than strengthening it.
Martijn
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
1
Do you think it makes more sense to tag the apartment complexes as
access=destination or access=private? The complexes are not usually private.
I'd even consider not putting access restrictions on them at all,
unless there is some rule that you shouldn't be using them as a
through street. What
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
calvin.metc...@state.ma.us wrote:
Trying to figure out how to tag certain things in Massachusetts and was
looking for some clarification on appropriate tagging.
1. The things on the Mass Pike that people tend to call rest areas should be
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Henk Hoff toffeh...@gmail.com wrote:
To my understanding our tagging-standard for State Highways is [STATE]
[NUMBER]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#State_Highways
I agree that we should use the standard 2-letter state
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:
On 8/18/11 6:30 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote:
Does anyone know how to translate the US octane measurements to the
European ones used
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