Maybe stretching, but what about Google driving cars around constantly to
capture Street View images and road/POI data? Ideally, a lot of OSM data is
gathered by people who are already in the area.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 1:25 PM Philip Barnes wrote:
> OSM includes walking and cycling
Minnesota has around 40 cross-county cities, most of which have just a
small portion in the second county. St. Cloud is notable for being in three
counties! https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/137238
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 9:01 AM Clifford Snow
wrote:
> Yes - a city can cover more than one
Looked at your examples, and an upgrade makes sense to me. If I see roads
like this, I tend to upgrade to a lower level tag (ie tertiary) unless I
understand the road network pretty well. Locals can always bump up the
level later if it seems justified.
Cheers,
Brad (neuhausr)
On Wed, Aug 16,
Frederik's description of colored polygons made me think of the French OSM
instance, which can display admin level, ie
http://layers.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=5=39.9597=-78.77311=0B000FFFTFF
Regarding Native American reservations, while there "is no consensus" there
are a couple
I think this is it?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Available_Building_Footprints
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Rihards wrote:
> On 2017.03.22. 18:37, Clifford Snow wrote:
> > I am happy to announce that Microsoft has made available approximately
> > 9.8 million
Also see "But is the Blue Ridge Parkway a National Park?" on the Blue Ridge
FAQ: https://www.nps.gov/blri/planyourvisit/np-versus-nf.htm According to
that it is a "National Park Service area" but not a park.
The NPS makes this distinction on their nomenclature page (
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Kerry Irons
wrote:
> The NB route uses Keep Tryst Rd. west from the path to connect with US 340
> for about 1,500 ft. headed east and then onto the ramp to SR 67. The SB
> route takes the right hand ramp from the southern end of SR 67
What about just combining the relations for selected states where the AT
crosses back and forth across the state border, like TN/NC and VA/WV?
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
>
> > On May 2, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Mike N wrote:
> >
> > On
I'm guessing that's the issue--all the tags should be on the relation
(once), not duplicated on the individual outer ways that make up the
relation.
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Mike Henson wrote:
> I noticed Beaver Lake AR is no longer showing up as a lake on the
All occurrences of cycleway=cycle_greenway seem to be in Seattle as of now:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/bI5
There are at least a few different accounts adding that tag, but STBrenden
included the greenway tag in some changeset comments (ie
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/21347401). Have
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Max abonneme...@revolwear.com wrote:
so here is a concrete example:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=16/41.7971/-88.3293
there is a hole in the abandoned railway, which orgiginally was probably
going through. How would you map this?
How do I know if there is a razed railway there?
That is, if I'm on the ground and there's a building, how do I know it's a
razed railway?
- Serge
Personally, I haven't used that tag much, I'm not that into railways. :)
When I have, it's usually when I'm doing some remote mapping in the
I think there's also this? http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/303225395
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net
wrote:
On 6/29/15 3:58 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
Is there any feature on the ground that can be surveyed? From the
image it doesn't appear that the
Small detail, but if it's a bike trail, bicycle=designated is probably
better than bicycle=yes
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bicycle#Bicycle_Restrictions
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Jim McAndrew j...@loc8.us wrote:
Paul, Bryan,
Thanks for your help with this! My issue was with
cycleway=shoulder is used in the US too: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/9IE
That seems to more accurately describe the situation, so I'd suggest using
that tag.
I wouldn't use cycleway=lane since I'd expect that to be marked as such.
(basically +1 to Richard's follow up post on the forum
Just to reinforce what has already been said, here's what the Census thinks
of CDPs:
Census Designated Places (CDPs) are the statistical counterparts of
incorporated places, and are* delineated to provide data for settled
concentrations of population that are identifiable by name but are not
GMT+02:00 Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com:
Fyi, user GautamPratik already started entering some hydro sites using
the tag hydropower_project:name. Here's a search for that:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/9lJ
And one for power=generator generally in Nepal:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/9lN
Fyi, user GautamPratik already started entering some hydro sites using the
tag hydropower_project:name. Here's a search for that:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/9lJ
And one for power=generator generally in Nepal:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/9lN
Cheers, Brad
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Steve
I understand keeping a feature in OSM if there is a remnant of the
railroad, but there are areas where everything has been replatted, regraded
and redeveloped, yet there is still a razed feature in OSM (for one small
example, see https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?#map=16/38.8663/-94.7943).
This
Speaking of rail mapping: I noticed something that could use some
attention. The key old_railway_operator=* is used ~90K times, but almost
entirely in the US. [1] It has a *really* minimal wiki page. [2] And I
don't see it mentioned on the main Railways page [3] or the US Railways
project page
I punted. When Josm added a preset that included addr:flats, then I
started using that tag. Right or wrong I figured most of the other
tags are Euro-English coloured, so to speak, that it did not mater if
I used addr:flats verses addr:unit.
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On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
On 2/4/2015 11:25 PM, Greg Morgan wrote:
addr:housenumber contains both the number
and the building letter in the same field. The map is useful because
you can find the building. How have other people tried to handle these
Looks like there's some database maintenance happening--I didn't notice
anything about this on the list recently. Any idea what's up and how long
it might last? (was planning a small mapping party this afternoon...)
Thanks!
Brad
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Could you include the new node in the relation as role=label? That's at
least somewhat documented...
On Thursday, November 27, 2014, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
2014-11-26 18:30 GMT+01:00 Andrew Wiseman awise...@gmail.com
I can't speak to the other countries you mention, but Japan's prefectures
are the equivalent of US states, and both are admin_level 4. The
Japanese states (doshusei) listed for admin_level 3 on the wiki page seem
to be some sort of experiment in regional administration. More info in
English here:
Here is the most recent thread on the tagging list about Indian
reservations:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-November/020160.html
Neither of the proposals mentioned in the thread advocates using admin_level
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Richard Welty
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Jack Burke burke...@gmail.com wrote:
I would point out that the legal status of U.S. States is slightly
different than that of provinces (and likely of states in other countries).
For one thing, U.S. States exist in their own right and do not drive their
It's in pretty wide use (35K uses), so I created a page in the wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:unsigned_ref
But I don't really know the details of usage or best practice, so I hope
others can fix and add to what's there...
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Jack Burke
This has probably come up in the past, but Michigan's state highways are
signed and referred to as M ##
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Michigan_Highways
It's also mentioned on
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Michigan/Highway_Relations, which
differentiates between the network
The thing is, once it's in OSM, it's not NYC's data anymore--it's
everyone's data. So it's no longer authoritative. Sometimes the crowd
will improve it or add to it, sometimes the crowd will screw it up,
sometimes the crowd will do it differently than you think is best. The
theory (borne out in
you will need to figure out your state's FIPS code to figure out the
state files of interest.
You'll probably also want to find out the county FIPS code, so you can get
the data for a particular area of interest--statewide files can get a
little large! You can find the state and county codes
Screen full of red is not what you want to see on the OSM Inspector's
Multipolygon checker! :(
From osm-talk:
On 7 September 2014 13:51, Gorm E. Johnsen osml...@gorm.cc wrote:
Any changes to runways and taxiways?
These seem to have an issue at the moment. Hard to tell at a glance due to
cached tiles and rendering ques.
But at least they were not rendered at zoom 15 at one recent point
Just trying to process this: wouldn't a tracktype 1 be tagged as
unclassified or residential anyway? Or to ask a different way, assuming
that roads with houses should be tagged as residential, when should one tag
a sub-tertiary road as track vs. using unclassified?
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:21
found to date; I'd be open to further suggestions.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
2014-07-03 17:36 GMT+02:00 Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com:
Just trying to process this: wouldn't a tracktype 1 be tagged as
unclassified
It's one body of water, so I would create one multipolygon for the whole
reservoir. Data providers should be able to deal with things crossing
administrative boundaries, it happens with all sorts of objects.
Note that the user who did this made chunks of areas over the water--maybe
to avoid the
Just to clarify, Martijn, are you saying example #1 is physically separate
because there's a curb *and* a grassy median in between the street and
sidewalk, but example #2 is not physically separate because there's only a
curb in between? As a pedestrian, I would hope that a curb would be
You might want to check out this thread from last year:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-August/011641.html
Cheers, Brad
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:16 PM, robmorgan78 robmorga...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone, I am doing a project in my GIS class that involves working
That's totally where my mind went! :)
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Martijn van Exel mart...@openstreetmap.us
wrote:
Hah. This should be an interesting one then, for trekkies at least:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/187922/7-9.png
Create your own at
Here's a similar but more general query with OverpassTurbo if you want to
avoid all that punctuation ;) http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2S9
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.comwrote:
There was a question about bus routes/route relations just the other day.
See
Wolfgang, you might also try looking at contributors with activity in this
area, via the Who's Around Me? map. (
http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/oooc?zoom=7lat=47.8062lon=-113.57002layers=B00FTT)
I don't see anyone active in the exact county you mention, but there are a
few fairly regular OSM
You can enter whatever language codes you want in the Multilingual Map
Test, so for Finnish just enter fi in the text box. (ex:
http://mlm.jochentopf.com/?zoom=7lat=52.57802lon=19.11621layers=B0Tlang=fi
)
To the original question, there is the old_name tag, which is documented on
the name page
How about this?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editing_Standards_and_Conventions#Areas_and_Ways_Sharing_Nodes
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
Hi
There's a general consensus that attaching polygons to ways that represent
roads was a bad idea. For
Personally, I tag big box stores like Target, KMart, WalMart etc with
shop=department_store, just because that seems like the closest fit that
isn't too restrictive (they're much more than a supermarket, to my mind).
You can pick an area and run Overpass Turbo and see what you get with
different
To highlight just one of Pascal's maps, there is a Newest OSM
Contributors map, and if you look at the fine print at the bottom, you can
create an RSS feed for a bounding box of your choosing.
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:50 AM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.ukwrote:
Frederik Ramm wrote:
From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System#Primary_.28one-_and_two-digit.29_routes_.28contiguous_U.S..29:
In the numbering scheme, east-west highways are assigned even numbers and
north-south highways are assigned odd numbers. Odd route numbers increase
from west to east, and
Jay,
I don't think the data is incorrect. If you look at the City of Las Vegas
webmap (
http://clvplaces.appspot.com/apps/interactive/clvpi.htm#ctrLat=36.27433191227921ctrLng=-115.18729447119142zoom=11layers=|10435|10010userMarkers=0mapType=roadmap)
and turn on the Cities and City Limits layers,
There is a place=town node for Enterprise, which is why Nominatim is
returning that. (
http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=3680398185)
The question in the forum is confusing the mailing city preferred by the
US Postal Service with the administrative area. These often do not
Back to the original question about iD being the default editor:
Originally at least part of the thinking behind iD was to have a
newbie-friendly editor [0]. As seen before and in this thread, more
advanced users want to keep adding functionality, which will tend to make
it less simple and
Gave it a go, but still hasn't rendered correctly. Looks like there
might've been a separate relationship for each state's part of the lake and
they got broken somehow, probably in June. I deleted one relation (370016)
and consolidated ways into http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=370015
The
Kerry,
NE2 has been indefinitely banned (see
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-May/010867.html ) so
if you want these changed, have at it.
Cheers, Brad
On Wednesday, June 5, 2013, KerryIrons wrote:
Nathan,
3 months ago we discussed the existence of US Bicycle Route
From Simon's description, I think this is the Geocode in question:
http://geocode.biz/
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Hugo Holscher hugoholsc...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Simon,
that you may nor hear from them might be very true: see here:
http://www.geocode.com/
Is apparently part of TomTom,
One thing I'd note *not* to do in the example Martijn sent: individual
buildings should not generally be tagged amenity=university, they should be
building=* (along with name and whatever other tags). amenity=university
is for the overall area outline (or one central node if there isn't an area
I don't at all want to discourage improvements, the efforts of the WWG,
etc, but at the same time we have to be clear that this kind of ratio
is pretty common amongst crowd sourced projects. For example, if you look
at English Wikipedia's stats, there are over 800K wikipedians (and
note, they've
How about the 2013 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial North
America (FOSS4G-NA) conference? It'll be May 22-24 in Minneapolis, MN
http://foss4g-na.org/
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote:
http://www.openstreetmap.us/calendar/
Alex Barth
There's some teardrop designs on this page (which is linked to from the
logo design competitions):
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Logo
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org wrote:
Simon - thanks! But... I didn't see any teardrops or armpits there - is
there
From the dates, it looks like most of those are from the Haiti earthquake
tracing, when Google allowed OSM to use its imagery for tracing. See
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Imagery_and_data_sources#Google_Imagery
Cheers, Brad
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Andrew
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_route#Emergency_detour_routes
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:19 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.comwrote:
What is an emergency Interstate? I don't think I have ever heard that
phrase before. Is it a detour to be used while the Interstate highway is
under
I watched it after Ian sent the link. According to the video, it uses
Potlatch 2 to gather a very limited set of POIs in the initial pilot area
of Colorado. I was kind of curious if there was going to be any
interaction with OSM other than using the tool stack.
Brad
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at
If the building is still there, but not used as a school, I'd tag the
building with old_name=[school_name]. Sometimes the name is still chiseled
on the side somewhere. Brad
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote:
As I've mentioned in the past, I have some
Also:
-Export images using the Export tab
-Walking Papers http://walking-papers.org/ (my favorite quick printed map
solution)
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com
wrote:
There's something
just an FYI--some states have laws limiting who can access voter data
and/or what purposes the data can be used for (usually related to
elections/campaigning)
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
Voter records are a good idea. And business registration records /
About Minnesota's counties on Lake Superior, the Census has county
boundaries going to the state border with WI/MI, and I'm assuming they did
their homework. Still, I'll try to double check the legal definitions
today. Brad
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:
I
OK, hoping would be more accurate than assuming :) Thanks for finding
the general statutes online, Nathan!
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On 10/18/2011 8:44 AM, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
the Census has county boundaries going to the state border
Calvin, getting back to your original comment, what exactly do you mean use
ZIP codes? They are currently tagged with the key addr:postcode. Are you
proposing an import or some other way to use the Census ZCTA data? Brad
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
Brian, just to save you the trouble, the closest there is to a standard is
the FHWA Highway Functional Classification System. There's a wiki page [1]
and lengthy discussion about its pros and cons on this page if you want to
wade through [2]. Definitely would be a new thread if you want to
Towns appear at zoom level 9 in Mapnik, which seems pretty decent to me.
There are tagged towns in SW Kansas that show up, but some villages
probably need retagging to towns in the N and W. The Place page
recommends tagging county seats as towns regardless of population:
Wow, what would one tag the Acid Disposal ponds?
Much of the TIGER data comes from USGS topos, including this:
http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=38.92299,-95.01328z=15t=T
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If you zoom out all the way, it looks like there's a projection issue with
the Bing base layer and any of the overlays. Brad
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
http://sautter.com/map/
I can't speak German so I not sure if it's a known problem, but I can't
I do my best to avoid anything to do with highway relations, but FWIW I
recently did just this in Potlatch 2--split a way that's part of relations
to add a bridge and totally ignored the relations--and it all worked out
fine as far as I can tell: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/126659318
Just a guess here, but could it be related to Charlie Foxtrot?
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:10 AM, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.comwrote:
On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 10:01 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
On 08/05/11 04:29, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
Please keep in mind that development of
In Potlatch 1:
- Press 'U' (for undelete).
- All the deleted ways will show up as bright red (locked) lines. Locked
ways are not written to the server.
- Select the one you want to undelete, and edit it if necessary.
- Unlock it by clicking the Click to unlock bar.
- Click
Ogle Earth blog has a thorough discussion of the boundary issues regarding
South Sudan:
http://ogleearth.com/2011/07/mapping-south-sudans-northern-border-not-so-fast/
Not sure if it warrants any changes in the OSM border, but interesting
either way.
Cheers, Brad
2011/7/9 Vincent Privat
FYI, the import wiki page is
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/Japan_KSJ2_Import and
there's separate sub-pages for each type of data. It looks like User:Tatata
wrote one script being used?
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
is
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/AND
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Joseph Koshy joseph.ko...@gmail.comwrote:
I have seen the tags AND_a_nosr_p=NUMBER and source=AND
associated with some nodes in OpenStreetMap. For example:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/245622615/history
I think some are legit. In the case of the Twin Cities, the area isn't just
an urban agglomeration, it's major cities that are very tightly
interconnected, socially, economically, and governmentally, in addition to
geographically (and historically). When talking about the region, residents
may
You're both right :) Check it out Toby:
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/instr.htm
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote:
The OpenCycleMap elevation data comes from the SRTM dataset, which
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:02 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
2010/10/20 Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com:
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
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Peter Budny pet...@gatech.edu wrote:
Andrew S. J. Sawyer assaw...@gmail.com writes:
My thoughts are mixed in below.
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:17, Peter Budny pet...@gatech.edu wrote:
Antony Pegg anttheli...@gmail.com writes:
tagging
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote:
On 10/20/2010 03:01 PM, Alex Mauer wrote:
Townships are at the same level as cities/towns/villages/other
municipalities[1], [2]. I’m sure
To save you some work, you might look at this report, Government
Organization, published in 2002 by the Census:
http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/gc021x1.pdf
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
At the
...
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote:
On 10/20/2010 04:07 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
Only in those states, of course. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey (and
apparently the Dakotas?) it should remain admin_level=8.
FYI, it's the same with Minnesota: cities
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.
OK, a metaphorical gauntlet has been thrown down, and Richard makes great
points. That said, is there any chance the US community can find some
agreement about highway tagging? And once we do, we can broker the
Israel-Palestine peace talks. :)
But seriously, it seems like we need some sort of
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote:
For 1 - seriously, you do. In the UK we don't have some roads tagged
A3400
and others tagged A-3400 and others tagged CNSE (Chipping Norton
Stratford Expressway, _obviously_): they're all tagged a la A3400. Our
roads are
If it's about NearMap, then talk-au seems more appropriate.
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
this discussion must move to legal-talk.
If we don't change the contributor terms, then we
So, can we agree that in some areas the directionals *are* necessary
for display? If not yet, in Minneapolis there are many more examples.
To wit, there are four separate roads that are 3rd Ave, each with a
different directional: N, S, NE, SE. For a little Where's Waldo fun,
see if you can find
When I lived in Japan, almost all place names included the place type,
as specified on the Japan tagging page, both officially and in common
usage. If you want to change this, I'd suggest first contacting some
of the Japanese OSMers. If you remove it, it might actually make the
map look wrong
Regarding Matthew's earlier point (Agreed. There is no observation
that will tell you whether a road is more important than another road
that is not where you are. But you can identify physical
characteristics. A lot of these observations will lead to a coherent
whole.): it seems like if you take
I think that's pretty much covered here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Functional_Classification_System
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Carl Anderson
carl.ander...@vadose.org wrote:
WRT US Highway classifications
You may want to take a look at the National Highway Planning
If you're not advanced enough to handle the four step process, L in
Potlatch tells you the lat/long of the current cursor position, so you
might be able to get pretty close. Cheers, Brad
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
John F. Eldredge wrote:
If
I've been using the operator tag for library branches (where name is
the branch name, and operator is the library system). Same could be
done with schools within a school district. Does this seem like a
reasonable use for the operator tag?
Side note: John, Do you seriously check health
From mapquest's blog post [1]:
AOL also announced today, a $1 million open-source mapping investment
fund. This fund will support the growth of open-source mapping in the
United States in the local communities that Patch.com covers. More
information about the AOL grant application process is
This might be helpful regarding arctic boundaries/claims:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/ibru/resources/arctic/
Brad
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Sam Vekemans
acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm just thinking about that mega Oil Spill that happened, and the Canadian
concerns
This might be helpful regarding arctic boundaries/claims:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/ibru/resources/arctic/
Brad
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Sam Vekemans
acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm just thinking about that mega Oil Spill that happened, and the Canadian
concerns
I'd agree with Brett on the boundaries. The Census data is not
perfect by any means, but it's pretty good, at least in my
area--Minnesota. (and orders of magnitude better than it was in
2000!) And if it's not good in your area, you should talk to your
local government and make sure they're
Paul, I believe this is what you said on another thread. Have you tried it yet?
You can contact the person through the website (change your name in the
URL when you look at your profile with the person you're trying to
contact).
I'm also pretty sure NE2 is on talk-us. See the thread proposed
So, aside from interstates (which it seems like everyone agrees should
be tagged as motorways?), should/could System be abstracted out of
road tagging definitions?
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 Mar 2010, at 9:38 , McGuire, Matthew wrote:
I
The keepright checker http://keepright.ipax.at/ shows layer
conflicts (amongst other things), if you want to clean up an area.
Brad
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:
On 1/27/10 9:50 AM, Chris Hunter wrote:
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In case you haven't seen these, the folks at Delta State University
have been making PDFs with the MGRS grid of much of the main
earthquake zone (and using some OSM data)--see them here:
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