On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote:
One question about what I saw on the wiki page. I can understand not
wanting the public to drive on administrative roads, but are those
roads closed to hikers as well as vehicular traffic? I can understand
keeping hikers
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote:
It'd be good to release Leaflet/OpenLayers plugins to do the attribution.
If
I were feeling Machiavellian I'd suggest we consider hosting them on our
servers (load permitting) so we get an automatic heads-up of
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
Are there any reservations on or near the I-5/I-405 between Canada and
Bellevue? I can divert on my way to Issaquah to attempt to ground truth
some
of this.
You'll drive next to the Tulalip Indian Reservation starting at
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
I wonder if someone would be willing to make a proper proposal for 3 and 5.
I'd be willing, but not after more research. I think we need to fully
understand the autonomy of tribes and how exactly they fit into the
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
I still maintain Scotland, North Ireland and Wales are analogous situations
You might then include Iraqi Kurdistan. I don't know how it is rendered,
but it sounds very similar.
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
As previously stated, admin levels 3 and 5 depending on status as a nation
or reservation, respectively.
Looking at the admin levels, I agree 3 and 5 would appear to fit. But
boundary=domestic_dependent_nation (not a
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
It's a little bit of a chicken/egg thing right now. As far as I'm aware,
rendering of tribal nations went offline in mapnik around the time I
pointed out the overly broad tagging and that having most of Oklahoma and
big
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
I can’t speak for the US, but tagging of them in BC was set back by people
pushing the view that they should be tagged as provinces. There were also
issues that someone imported a bunch without geometry or tag cleanup.
In
Looking at the wiki for help understanding why we don't have boundaries
reservations has left me confused. Can someone explain why they are not
there and if there is any plans to add them at some point in the future?
From personal experience, it is important to know when you are on tribal
lands.
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote:
Looking at the profiles of nearby mappers displayed on my profile page's
map, I am astonished to find that most of them have made zero edits.
Those people went through the effort of registering (some even added an
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:41 PM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.ukwrote:
I suspect that a totally automatic way of doing that might be frowned
upon, but a semi-automatic way would b to load something like
http://resultmaps.neis-one.**org/oooc?zoom=12lat=53.21292**
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:56 PM, yvecai yve...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm proud to announce a new website, for all winter sports :
http://www.opensnowmap.org
It's a bit more than an update of www.pistes-nordiques.org.
Tile server :From fresh data, every morning
Pistes informations with a single
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Stephan Knauss o...@stephans-server.dewrote:
How much of your mapping shall I tolerate? It's always the same answer.
Pay respect to other mappers. If the data is of use to other mappers,
respect it. Even if you would not map it this way.
I personally thing that
I'd first asked the person that created the polygon before deleting.
BTW - We don't have complete hi-res coverage from Bing. While many areas it
may not matter, I've mapped in areas where better imagery would have been
very helpful. Maybe we need to explore other avenues to obtain imagery in
I couldn't get it either on my t-mobile phone. Same 504 error code.
Location Seattle, WA
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.dewrote:
Dear all,
a user of the OSM readonly mirror Overpass API has complained about getting
always the HTTP error code 504
How do you tag roads that are out of service. We have a section of Widbey
Island that was wiped out by a landslide. It will be out of service for
some time.
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On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote:
Also, what's the best way to share this with non-OSM people? The
route is starting to be rendered on OpenCycleMap, except that it
doesn't show up at the scale I would need to show the whole route (and
might get confused
That's really odd. Looking at the NW corner, I couldn't find any nodes,
ways, or multipolygons. It appears to only be broken in Mapnik. The other
styles render fine. I'd suggest a bug report - trac.openstreetmap.org
Clifford
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Pavel Melnikov positro...@gmail.com
Recently I had the opportunity to visit Costa Rica. When attempting to add
detail to a hotel/hot springs I discovered that Bing didn't have images for
the area. The images were missing from Potlatch/JOSM as well as Bing Maps.
Bing personal confirmed with me that they had no images for the area.
I believe you want amenity=waste_disposal and waste=excrement
Look under the waste tag on the wiki.
I do believe we need a single amenity=sewage_dump_station instead of the
two tags, but...
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Tony Toews t...@tonytoews.com wrote:
Folks
One object that is of
SteveA,
I'm out of the country right now but can wait to get my hands on the data
when I get back.( Internet is spotty everywhere I've stayed. )
I've been working on US National Parks on the wiki, see
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_US_National_Parks. My goal
is to see all of the
Can help me better understand the naming of junctions. Do junction names
have a direction attribute? How are they used to give directions with no
street names?
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:22 AM, Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:57:56 Hans Schmidt wrote:
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, what does strategic planning even mean in the context of OSMF?
OSMF currently operates under the strategy of keeping its influence pretty
much as minimal as somehow possible. It mostly limits it self to operating
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Strategic thinking is long-term thinking, and in our case requires to get
a lot of pepole on board in a suitable process, including those who think
that we shouldn't have a strategy (we can't just kick them out and say
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
The future SWG will face some of the same challenges as the previous
version. IMHO. Firstly, OSM can mean different things to different
people. We are a diverse bunch. SWG is unlikely to put every diverse
interest as
National Day of Civic Hacking is a national event that will take place June
1-2, 2013. According to the website, http://hackforchange.org/ this events
sounds like an opportunity for OSM-US to get involved.
I'm wondering what others think of this event and how we could take
advantage of it.
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Tanveer Singh tanveer1...@gmail.comwrote:
I was looking at some roads in the himalayas which pass through high
mountain passes(marked by signboard).
I want to select a point or node on the road, and then mark it as
mountain pass. In the left menu which opens,
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
For example, Wikipedia being as well known as it is has lead them to
create relevance criteria - you can't create an article on a living
person or a geographic feature, for example, unless that person or feature
fulfills
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Andrew Guertin andrew.guer...@uvm.eduwrote:
I plan to import VT town boundaries from that file at some point, but
was not planning on touching any of the state boundaries (except to
connect town boundaries to them). I'd be interested to know how well
that data
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
On the west coast the Canada/US border is defined as the line formed from
a bunch of survey points. These points can be surveyed or seen on imagery.
I used the IBC positions for the points which are far more accurate than
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Paweł Paprota ppa...@fastmail.fm wrote:
Sure, that's always good but note that another thread about OSM's future
ends in basically no conclusion. Or rather the conclusion seems to be
that all is fine and the future is secured with the current approach.
I've
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
I think that many suggestions would receive a much warmer welcome if they
were worded more like a call to action and less as a complaint.
Compare:
Hey folks, I've been thinking it would be great if there was a way to
There are less than 200 connectivity issues to go. Who will get the final
one?
Clifford
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I agree. We have so much good data, we just need to improve the map
interface so more people come to OSM first.
My friend Jeff Meyer just commented the other day that he wondered why we
don't have an easy way for businesses to add their establishments to OSM. I
know that Yahoo and Bing have it.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
Nope. It's just us. All of us. What do the Foundation (us) need to do
to make you (us) feel like it is okay for you (us) to build this vision and
act on it? Join the OSMF. Serve on a Working Group or two. Lend the
I've been a mapper for just a short while. A little over 1 and a half. I'm
surprised how much I like mapping in OSM. There is a real empowerment. For
example, at our last mapping party, I met the mayor of the town we held the
meetup. He was getting ready to kick of their Centennial celebration. I
Now that King County, WA has given us access to use their GIS data as Jeff
Meyer reported, I have converted their address data for the entire county
into smaller blocks. These are available on my Dropbox account if anyone
would like to review the data. Just send me an email with your request.
The
You might check out
nationalatlas.gov/maplayers.html?openChapters=chpbound#chpbound for
boundaries. They have Indian Lands listed. The data should be Public
Domain. The layer shows areas of 640 acres or larger administered by the
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:33 PM,
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:15 PM, nicholas ingalls
nicholas.inga...@gmail.com wrote:
In regards to this and previous imports, I have found that this is by no
means the law when it comes to imports. In Canada we have / and still are
in the lengthy process of importing canvec data for the whole
I've attempted to use the address merge script. However I'm getting an
error message when merging. I'm sure the error is due to the operator not
the script. The script hangs with an TypeError: must be string or read-only
buffer, not None.
Rather than pursue the problem, I'm going continue with
Jeff,
Have you had a chance to look at the data from King County yet? Do they
have more current addresses than Seattle? Seattle was as of 2009. Probably
not much as changed as Seattle is pretty much built out, but there may have
been some changes and additions. I remember the City Council
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
Jeff Meyer @
http://lists.osm.org/pipermail/imports/2012-December/001602.html
How will you handle object conflation?
Manually and methodically.
The JOSM plugin Conflation, seems to work well in identifying node
I applaude your effort to update the addresses. I'm guessing the size of
the change set would make the current MapRoulette connection task seem
trivial.
I did look at your tiger.py script. I think br might also stand for branch
as well as bridge. Also, I've seen mtn for Mountain.
Clifford
On
It might be because this road seems to have two type suffixes: Branch
and Road. But the TIGER data model only allows for one so they shoved
the first one into the name field. Ideally (IMO) they should have put
Branch in its unabbreviated form into the name field. But I guess
that would have
I've been cleaning up are area of Jackson County, NC and found roads where
the name expansion algorithm failed to expand all of the abbreviations .
For example Yellow Bird Br Road.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.36564lon=-83.24253zoom=17layers=M(not
fixed yet)
I didn't write down the
to capture other abbreviations.
I'm not sure we ready to run a bot to expand names without first
understanding the impact it would have on roads that have been manually
fixed.
Clifford
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote:
I've been cleaning up are area
I like my eTrex 20 but it hasn't been error free. Most of the time it
provides good tracks. However at times it is off more than what I expect.
(the tracks to and from the same location should be close. At times they
differ more than 10m.) I have lost one long hike. It recorded just the last
half,
Steve,
I suggest you start your proposal with a problem statement and then explain
how your solution solves the problem. Otherwise it looks to me to be a
solution looking for a problem. Do we have any data to suggest that the
current street addresses do not work? Why is it just a US problem?
If
If you haven't used Weather Spark, www.weatherspark.com, give it a try.
They offer really great graphics and data for your current weather. However
they use google for their base maps. I've submitted a feature request to
get them to switch to OSM.
Please go to
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
Background: I'm working on converting NHD to .osm format
NHD is an extremely large data set. It's about 25G of zipfiles and all of
this converted to .osm would total about 3 TB. This is about 10x-15x times
the size of
I saw bsupnik's wiki page, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bsupnik, on
importing of NHD into OSM. I'm working on National Parks in Washington
State. After spending countless hours tracing in streams and rivers into
OSM, I've finally decided that importing makes more sense. I'm wondering
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 5:13 PM, David ``Smith'' vidthe...@gmail.comwrote:
Past NHD imports have made vast multipolygons which can be difficult to
interpret without a view of the whole thing. This made particular problems
for tiles@home/osmarender, which tried to render the multipolygons
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
On 10/27/2012 7:28 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
Before I bring this up on the imports list, I thought I'd ask the US
community about their opinion about importing the data.
I agree that it is a good idea to import NHD
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote:
Mike N writes:
For your case, since you are comparing it against existing data and
Bing imagery and possible consultation with Topo maps, it is entirely
appropriate to use NHD data. In effect, because of your
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps some real world examples would help more people with understanding
this. What are some clear acceptable uses, unaccepted and what is still
grey areas. Perhaps there should be two answers for the grey area
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Maury Markowitz
maury.markow...@gmail.comwrote:
Newb here, so I hope this is the right place to ask. I also posted on one
of the wiki talk pages, but I didn't know if anyone goes there.
I have noticed that vectors imported from the CanVec database are split at
On Sep 29, 2012 10:05 AM, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote:
****I also think it would be great, if we could focus on unedited
TIGER. That would clean up the map a lot. There may be some technical
challenges, but overal it would be a good thing.
****I know someone
I'm doing some work in the Washington State and noticed some problems along
the border between BC and Washington State. I asked for help on the talk-us
mailing list.
I originally though the border was incorrect. However, because the border
doesn't track exactly along the 49th parallel there
I've been doing some work in the North Cascades National Park. It appears
that the border between the US and Canada is wrong. Look at
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.9841lon=-121.743zoom=13layers=M
It appears that the boarder sags to the south. I see tags man_made =
survey_point which would
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote:
A relatively new user has created a bunch of duplicate Ways around here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.732lon=-71.49769zoom=17layers=M
The US Forest Service offers geotiff images for the US. These topo images
contain creeks, rivers, Forest Services Road and other features desirable
in OSM The images are a better quality than the ones available in josm.
They are easily imported into josm for tracing. However, they are not
I just found out that I can overlay the latest TIGER data (2011) on JOSM
and Potlatch. Apparently the feature has been there for a while, but I just
ran into it and wanted to make sure everyone else was aware. It is much
better than running TIGER data through org2osm and overlaying it in JOSM.
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
You’re asking two separate questions, one is on creating a PDF map, the
other is a style sheet that shows something other than what osm.xml (the
standard style on osm.org) does.
** **
I wrote mapbook
Can someone point me to an easy to use resource to create a map in a pdf
file? For example, Discovery Park in Seattle is a great resource. It has
Puget Sound on the west side, great trails, hidden ponds, a cultural
center, a veteran's cemetery, playgrounds, a some of the best views of the
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote:
I can only speak for myself, but I'm happy that TIGER was imported. I
grumble about its quality problems and quirks all the time, usually while
I'm fixing them, but I think the US is much better off with that import
than it
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Renato renn...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I'm very new to OSM and not sure if this is the best place to
ask, so sorry if I'm off topic.
I'd like to view pubblic gps traces on my android phone, and possibly
record some new ones with its gps... is it possible?
So
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:
One thing I do not understand is why the script catches the false
positive node 560176247 [1] (just an example, there are more like this
one).
Anyone with some SQL savvy care to look into that?
I looked at those in
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/**edit?editor=potlatch2lat=45.**
78lon=-84.73zoom=16http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch2lat=45.78lon=-84.73zoom=16
For some reason, the city is blacked out, but the black only
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:
Hi all,
We (the OSM US Chapter Board) are extremely excited to officially
announce SOTM US 2012! We told you a while ago that it was going to be
Portland, Ore., but we finally ironed out all the details. So here it
is:
I think it was added a while back. I mostly use josm. I like the license
check plugin. It seems easier to use than potlatch which seems to
highlight every possible license issue. With josm you just click on an
item on the list, right click to zoom to problem on the node. Then I
usually clean
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:27 AM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com
wrote:
I don't know who's doing that work in Columbia on the Interstates, but
they are doing it wrong unfortunately. While the ways aren't tainted
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Martijn van Exel mve...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Remapping in CA, I come across some weird stuff.
Here's some NHD 'data':
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?**lat=35.17764lon=-119.12641**zoom=16http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.17764lon=-119.12641zoom=16
Either
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
I have completed another coastline generation and it has uploaded. This
version respects odbl=clean.
The shapefiles are in their normal place at
http://pnorman.dev.openstreetmap.org/coastlines/
Included is a .osm file
I am working on remapping parts of Seattle. Road data is available, but
there are a number of parks that will be lost with the license change. I'm
not sure where to get the data for the park boundaries. I have enough
local knowledge to get the names of the parks but not the boundaries. Any
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote:
Please don't any more for a bit. Share with the list your recent
changesets, and the scripts you are using to convert the files. Also see
the manual conflation article on the wiki for my process. I can send a link
when I'm at a
I have attempted to contact user Sunny using the OSM messaging system.
Sunny was an active user about 4 years ago. Since I haven't heard back,
how do I know if their email address is still valid? Does OSM give a
reject message if the message bounces?
One other question. Sunny added streets
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:07 AM, jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.comwrote:
hello list, ive just got my 3rd debian machine up and running. i went
to go edit some of the openstreetmap, to my surprise it was barely
usable.
CRAZY long lag in moving the mouse, keyboard shortcuts not working
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote:
Has anyone looked at the NOAA Composite Shoreline? It seems to have much
better accuracy (as in orders of magnitude better) than the PGS shoreline
that was imported, at least for the small portion I checked in Virginia.
Unless
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote:
Clifford,
I'm afraid I didn't entirely understand the question, but will try to
give it a shot anyway.
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us
wrote:
I have been asked by a friend
I have been asked by a friend involved with Washington State nonprofit
organizations with OSM could be used for a searchable gis database like the
one in Colorado. You can find the Colorado database at
http://www.coloradononprofits.org/gisportal.cfm. Are there similar OSM
applications available?
It appears to be working now. I'll live mine torrent up a week or so.
Thanks,
Clifford
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote:
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 19:06 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote:
mktorrent +
I'm a newbie and I've come across similar problems. However, maybe the
solution isn't so much in tags, but a need to normalize *if that's the right
word the data. Your example of Sears is good. If I populate a store with
Sears, why can't I get a potlatch pull down that gives me all the correct
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