[Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
ok, I got a question tagging admin area / populated centers / labels in USA seems to come down to two main tags: admin_level and place http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level#10_admin_level_values_for_specific_countries plus http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Place I've ran into a

Re: [Talk-us] Do City Labels look funny to you?

2010-10-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On 10/19/2010 05:09 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Ian Dees ian.dees-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote: - Support for route relations Why should this be US-specific? Canada certainly has the same sort of route system as the US, That was an

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Tagging Consensus to Improve OSM (and address some of 41 latitude's concerns)

2010-10-19 Thread Mike N.
That's not what I'm trying to do, because I don't see the point in trying to do that. There are much better places for me to get maps in the present. OSM, to me at least, is about the data, and how it can be used in the future. Especially in the United States. Keep in mind that there are

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-19 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Antony Pegg anttheli...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is that currently we dont have a discrete tag for place=township and all admin_level= are =8 so, half a question, half a statement of intent, unless someone argues me down from the ledge... I'm going to

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Tagging Consensus to Improve OSM (and address some of 41 latitude's concerns)

2010-10-19 Thread Mike N.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote: Keep in mind that there are already people using US OSM data in real applications. Where? Cloudmade developers, who sell smartphone apps that use Cloudmade tiles and routing data, and can provide turn by turn directions. For

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-19 Thread Brad Neuhauser
Aren't admin_level and place getting at slightly different things? admin_level is to mark official political/legal boundaries. place is to mark a...well...place that has a name, and the place=city|town|village|hamlet does not necessarily align with the type of government (if any) of the place.

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