Re: [OSM-talk] Should we be mapping transformers and powerlines?

2023-01-18 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 7:05 PM john whelan wrote: > Apparently you can do a lot of expensive damage by firing a rifle bullet > through them as happened more than once in the US and given the situation > in Europe at the moment is there a risk that something similar could happen > there? > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of "Proprietary" imagery to edit OSM

2022-10-26 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 2:59 PM Mike Thompson wrote: > Concerning this changeset: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/128035436 > > Changeset comment: > > added missing roads according to proprietary aerial imagery > > Editing organization's follow on comment: > "Proprietary" for Lyft

Re: [Diversity-talk] Code of conduct

2020-12-08 Thread Clifford Snow
eather Leson > heatherle...@gmail.com > Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson > Blog: textontechs.com > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 10:31 PM Clifford Snow > wrote: > >> Heather - A small group of the LCCWG met via BigBlueButton yesterday to >> start a similar initiative.

Re: [Diversity-talk] Code of conduct

2020-12-08 Thread Clifford Snow
Heather - A small group of the LCCWG met via BigBlueButton yesterday to start a similar initiative. I was going to send an invite to the rest of the LCCWG as well as to this mailing list. Since you have the ball rolling, can you include lo...@osmfoundation.org in the mailing. On Tue, Dec 8, 2020

Re: [OSM-talk] I’m running for OSMF board and I’ve set up office hours for questions

2020-12-02 Thread Clifford Snow
Frederik, I've had it with four years of listening to Trump. Not only don't I want to hear it on OSM but it's completely inappropriate for a mailing list. Can you please respond in a constructive manner. Thanks, Clifford On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 3:45 PM Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/2/20

Re: [Talk-us] interesting crossing of borders between CA and AZ

2020-11-09 Thread Clifford Snow
0 3:07 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > > Ray, > Thanks for taking on the task of fixing the tribal boundaries. From > personal experience of having done a number of these, it's hard work and > easy to make errors. But don't let that discourage you. It feels great once > you're complet

Re: [Talk-us] interesting crossing of borders between CA and AZ

2020-11-09 Thread Clifford Snow
Ray, Thanks for taking on the task of fixing the tribal boundaries. From personal experience of having done a number of these, it's hard work and easy to make errors. But don't let that discourage you. It feels great once you're complete. One note - as far as I know, tribal boundaries should just

Re: [OSM-talk] Big Blue Button email outage?

2020-10-31 Thread Clifford Snow
Richard, Can you try sending an email to supp...@cloud68.co? I'm sure it's miggle of the night there but hopefully you'll get a reply soon. Clifford On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 1:06 PM Richard Welty wrote: > trying to either 1) recover a BBB account or 2) setup a new one, > there seems to be an

Re: [Talk-us] Recent Trunk road edits

2020-09-27 Thread Clifford Snow
Jack, First off - lets name names. Who is this person? We did have a discussion on Slack a while back about an editor changing trunk to something other than trunk. As far as I know we were successful in reverting many of those. Not everyone is comfortable using Slack and I understand. However,

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Large fire perimeter tagging?

2020-09-27 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 7:24 AM Clifford Snow wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 12:46 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging < > tagg...@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > >> landuse=forest is used to tag tree covered area, not for how land is used >> > > I don't

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Large fire perimeter tagging?

2020-09-27 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 12:46 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging < tagg...@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > landuse=forest is used to tag tree covered area, not for how land is used > I don't believe everyone around here will agree with that interpretation. I live in an area with significant logging.

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Large fire perimeter tagging?

2020-09-24 Thread Clifford Snow
Steve, Just a reminder, landuse is to tag what the land is used for. landuse=forest is for areas that have harvestable wood products, ie trees. Just because there was a fire doesn't mean the landuse changes. Landcover is a better tag for burnt areas as well as areas just clearcut. On Thu, Sep

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:49 AM GITNE wrote: > On 09/23/2020 at 02:19 AM Clifford Snow wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 2:43 PM GITNE mailto:gi...@gmx.de>> > wrote: > > > > Hello OSMF Legal Team, > > > > due to a qui

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

2020-09-22 Thread Clifford Snow
Steve, If the boundaries exist, you could use admin_level=10. Most of the neighborhoods I'm familiar with are just small subdivisions within the city. For example, in Seattle I lived in the Wallingford Neighborhood. Seattle has defined boundaries for each of the neighborhoods. In other areas,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-22 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 2:43 PM GITNE wrote: > Hello OSMF Legal Team, > > due to a quite troubling revelation by @SomeoneElse that changeset > comments are > automatically republished by the third party private company Slack, I would > appreciate if you could share your legal assessment of this

Re: [OSM-talk] Big Blue Button download

2020-09-17 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:50 AM Rory McCann wrote: > Great to see people using the BBB server. We didn't ask to delete > anything, the video is still there (I sent you the link off-list). When you > view the Room in BBB, you should see “Room Recordings” underneath, which > should have the

Re: [Talk-us] Trouble with getting Superior National Forest boundary to render on standard map

2020-08-30 Thread Clifford Snow
Paul, I don't have a definitive answer for you, but rendering usually takes a while for large areas. I would expect it to render when zoomed in but wasn't able to see any rendering on a couple of spot checks. I did notice that around islands either the forest or the island, are shifted. I would

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Import of Addresses for Thurston County, WA, USA

2020-08-25 Thread Clifford Snow
import this data, as > this includes rural towns and unincorporated thurston > county. > I would divide the building footprints into small blocks to avoid well > mapped areas. > As for addresses, because they are points and there are so few > addresses in my region, I feel li

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of OSM data without attribution

2020-08-19 Thread Clifford Snow
Hey Mike, They definitely mention OSM, even call us a partner [1] but like you found their basemap is definitely OSM. Instead of suggesting their users edit OSM, they instead instruct them to email d...@openstreetmap.org, All Trails is located in SF but I couldn't find any listing of a leadership

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: Roadmap for deprecation of name tags in OSM

2020-08-09 Thread Clifford Snow
As I read your proposal, it sounds like you have a solution but haven't defined the problem. If you could focus on the problem and describe exactly what is wrong with the current arrangement, and what will happen if we do nothing, that might help. Otherwise I can not see the merits of your

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Orange County, California Buildings and Addresses

2020-07-28 Thread Clifford Snow
Tod, You might want to look into Paul Norman's ogr2osm.py [1] python tool which can translate shapefiles into .osm files that can be uploaded using JOSM. It's simple to use, just need to create a translation file for shapefile fields to OSM tag. I'm in the process of doing an import of building

Re: [Talk-us] Labeling forestry service roads/tracks

2020-07-20 Thread Clifford Snow
The legend is just for the USFS road layer that is served by Mapbox on JOSM. Sent from my Android phone. On Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 4:48 PM Tod Fitch wrote: > > On Jul 20, 2020, at 4:35 PM, Clifford Snow > wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 3:46 AM wrote: > >> Clifford

Re: [Talk-us] Labeling forestry service roads/tracks

2020-07-20 Thread Clifford Snow
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 3:46 AM wrote: > Clifford, > > Could you repost the legend? It's hard/impossible to make out the > surface reliably from aerial photos. > Sure - here is a link https://mycloud.snowandsnow.us/index.php/s/7zQNGbyNQqBMj2S -- @osm_washington www.snowandsnow.us

Re: [Talk-us] Labeling forestry service roads/tracks

2020-07-19 Thread Clifford Snow
If you are using JOSM there is a USFS road layer. The color of the way indicates surface and highway classification if I remember correctly. I posted the legend on Slack a couple of years ago. The TIGER import data quality varied from region to region. Even today in Washington State it's bad, so

Re: [Talk-us] Finding Changesets to Correct or Revert

2020-07-08 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 11:56 AM Doug Peterson < dougpeter...@dpeters2.dyndns.org> wrote: > It's my fault for not zooming in more. I did not see it at all when I > downloaded that area in JOSM. I sent a note to tyndale about that. I > understand that there is a direction towards using boundary to

Re: [Talk-us] Finding Changesets to Correct or Revert

2020-07-08 Thread Clifford Snow
I believe this is the park https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/549549501#map=14/41.9987/-86.5489. Looking at the history, I see when you created it. It was changed to boundary=park by user tyndale on changeset openstreetmap.org/changeset/86836794 I don't believe boundary=state_park is appropriate.

Re: [Talk-us] relations on which thematic data can be connected? eg internet availabilty byt zipcode

2020-06-24 Thread Clifford Snow
Ray, As you learned from Spencer Alves, postal codes are not areas. As far as I know there are no zip code areas in OSM. I would recommend using QGIS and Postgis to construct your queries using OSM and TIGER zip code boundaries. Are you looking for any broadband connectivity, just cellular, DSL,

Re: [Talk-us] Labeling county roads (Idaho)

2020-06-21 Thread Clifford Snow
Be cautious using TIGER data in rural areas. I suspect many of the small counties don't have the resources to send updates to Census. I'd recommend looking at county and state data sources for accurate road names. Best, Clifford On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 6:29 AM wrote: > > Newby here. > >

[OSM-talk] Microgrants Committee call for review

2020-05-14 Thread Clifford Snow
Greetings on behalf of the OSMF Microgrant Program Committee! We have closed the call for proposals for this first ever iteration of the program. We are already beginning the evaluation process for the submitted proposals, which consist of promising projects that aim to have a positive impact in

Re: [Talk-us] admin_level and COGs, MPOs, SPDs, Home Rule

2020-05-07 Thread Clifford Snow
Steve, I don't have the patience to put up with discussions about admin levels. As you know they can drag on forever. I did post a link to the discussion on the Connecticut Slack channel. Maybe that will get more people involved. Good luck, Clifford On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 11:31 PM stevea wrote:

[OSM-talk] OSM Foundation’s Call for Microgrant Applications

2020-04-30 Thread Clifford Snow
In case you missed this announcement, I'm reposting it on talk-us mailing list. 2020 will be the first year that the OSM Foundation operates the new microgrants project. In the coming weeks, we hope to hear from you about a bold, community-driven, and impactive OpenStreetMap project idea that

[Talk-us] OSM Foundation’s Call for Microgrant Applications

2020-04-25 Thread Clifford Snow
In case you missed this announcement, I'm reposting it on talk-us mailing list. 2020 will be the first year that the OSM Foundation operates the new microgrants project. In the coming weeks, we hope to hear from you about a bold, community-driven, and impactive OpenStreetMap project idea that

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging sidewalks as separate ways and issues with bicycle routing

2020-04-03 Thread Clifford Snow
On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 10:46 AM Martin Chalifoux via Talk-ca < talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > This morning I checked some large cities namely New-York, Paris, > Amsterdam, London, Berlin. Since OSM is best developed in Europe these > capitals make sense. I just checked Tokyo, Shangai, Seoul,

Re: [Talk-ca] Coastline Question

2020-03-25 Thread Clifford Snow
Adam, I just looked at a recent CANVED File Geodatabase. The coast line appears not to extend into the river. However, and this is a big however, the metadata associated with the data doesn't have sufficient information to say for certain what I'm looking at is actual shoreline. My guess is there

Re: [Talk-us] Taking a break and a call for help

2020-03-20 Thread Clifford Snow
Paul, I hope you have good luck recovering from having your truck stolen. (A number of years ago, a neighbor had his van stolen in Seattle. It was recovered in Portland not only in good shape, but with new leather seats - which is certainly the exception.) Obviously your job is very important,

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Taking a break and a call for help

2020-03-20 Thread Clifford Snow
Paul, I hope you have good luck recovering from having your truck stolen. (A number of years ago, a neighbor had his van stolen in Seattle. It was recovered in Portland not only in good shape, but with new leather seats - which is certainly the exception.) Obviously your job is very important,

Re: [OSM-talk] Is there some existing detailed tutorial directed at complete newbies? Describing how to add various features?

2020-02-22 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 12:49 PM Wayne Emerson, Jr. via talk < talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > The OSM World Discord server usually has people on that can answer basic > questions https://discord.gg/q6HnfNZ > Doing the iD tutorial teaches the basics and is easy to learn. One can > learn the

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-02-15 Thread Clifford Snow
I've done a number of building imports using no square shapes with no problem. JOSM is set to open up new tasks in a separate layer which avoid the problem of having task loading next the the just closed task. (I'm doing the imports in the US using voting districts. Each district typically has

Re: [Diversity-talk] Diversity 2020 Article

2020-01-07 Thread Clifford Snow
dia that are not > controlled by OSM/OSMF? > E.g. Twitter is currently used by a certain part of the community to > ridicule and criticize people writing on the mailing lists. > > regards > > m. > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 1:16 AM Clifford Snow > wrote: > > > > > https://www.te

[Diversity-talk] Diversity 2020 Article

2020-01-07 Thread Clifford Snow
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/diversity-why-open-source-needs-to-work-on-it-in-2020/ is an interesting read. The article talks about open source, but I don't see any significant difference between an open data project or an open source software project. What I took away from the article is

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Preliminary Import/Organized Mapping Effort Idea

2020-01-02 Thread Clifford Snow
Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 7:18 PM Clifford Snow > wrote: > >> I've reached out to a couple of the nearby reservations, one with a small >> parcel of off reservation land trust, the other with only a small >> reservation but a very large off reservation

Re: [Talk-us] FW: US Bicycle Route 1 through Daytona Beach

2019-12-30 Thread Clifford Snow
Kerry - the new cycle path has been added. See https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/29.19623/-81.01173 Do you know if it is paved or what kind of surface? Is it supposed to connect to the ECG, the East Coast Greenway route? From Strava it doesn't appear to? On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 4:41 PM Kerry

Re: [Talk-us] FW: US Bicycle Route 1 through Daytona Beach

2019-12-30 Thread Clifford Snow
I passed along your request on the US Slack Channel. Sam Ley is going to take a look at the area tonight. Can you also ask your subscribers to add the route? Do you have instructions on your site to add and update cycle routes in OSM which could help us get more needed mappers? Best, Clifford

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Preliminary Import/Organized Mapping Effort Idea

2019-12-20 Thread Clifford Snow
> >> Content warning: Aboriginal abuse mention >> >> On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 2:08 PM Clifford Snow >> wrote: >> >>> I do have Washington State tribal lands available [1] as a background >>> layer for JOSM. There is also a vector tile layer [2] of t

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Preliminary Import/Organized Mapping Effort Idea

2019-12-18 Thread Clifford Snow
Mike, Thanks to you, David and Paul for taking the initiative to mapping Natiive American Reservations. On and off for the last few years I've been attempting to reservations mapped in Washington State. My first choice for boundary information has always been from the reservation then the state.

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook map frequency of updates?

2019-10-15 Thread Clifford Snow
DaveF, FB is working on the problem. They hope to be able to speed up the process which as I understand from a SOTM-US talk involved finding vandalism and other garbage edits. It will be a few months before the update their maps then they expect to refresh more often. Best, Clifford On Tue, Oct

Re: [OSM-talk] I added MAPS.ME to list of entities using OSM data illegally (without proper attribution)

2019-10-08 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 11:33 AM Nuno Caldeira wrote: > Speaking of attribution, here's a great example by Microsoft Bing maps, > that has attribution based on the zoom level, they seem to be using OSM > buildings and HERE roads >

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] I added MAPS.ME to list of entities using OSM data illegally (without proper attribution)

2019-10-08 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 11:33 AM Nuno Caldeira wrote: > Speaking of attribution, here's a great example by Microsoft Bing maps, > that has attribution based on the zoom level, they seem to be using OSM > buildings and HERE roads >

Re: [Talk-us] Townships, Counties, Great Lakes

2019-10-05 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 10:18 AM Max Erickson wrote: > I've recently been working on adding administrative boundaries for > townships in Michigan (old USGS paper maps show the boundaries, I'm tracing > those). Previously I've concluded that counties in Michigan don't really > extend into the

Re: [Talk-us] Maine leaf-off imagery?

2019-10-04 Thread Clifford Snow
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 8:16 AM Bill Ricker wrote: > I would also be interested in how to use LAZ files with OSM tools or other > FLOSS tools. > (I note there's an open tool to uncompress LAZ to LAS.) > I see some tutorials for extracting buildings, but I'm interested in > traces of former

Re: [Talk-us] Maine leaf-off imagery?

2019-10-02 Thread Clifford Snow
Is there any lidar data available for the area? It might be a good substitute for leaf-off imagery. On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 6:19 PM Kevin Broderick wrote: > Anyone have an ODbL-compatible source of leaf-off imagery for Maine, by > any chance? I'm particularly interested in the area around

Re: [OSM-talk] stalking, or stepping on someone's toes (area) ?

2019-09-19 Thread Clifford Snow
There are some tools like osmcha.mapbox.com that allows users to watch edits in specific areas. For example, I watch for new editors in my state. I also watch all edits in a wide geographical area around me. I'm sorry that the person is not giving you better feedback on how to improve. Feel free

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Attribution guideline status update

2019-09-08 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 1:24 PM Christoph Hormann wrote: > On Sunday 08 September 2019, Simon Poole wrote: > > > > But in any case the guideline refers to the "visible map rendering". > > At least in conventional use of the term, aerial imagery is not a > > map, but if you so which we could

Re: [Talk-ca] Piggyback a SOTM bid with FOSS4G in Calgary

2019-08-27 Thread Clifford Snow
love for that to happen again. If I can somehow support >> I'd be happy to. >> -- >> Martijn van Exel >> m...@rtijn.org >> >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, at 11:26, Clifford Snow wrote: >> >> The 2020 FOSS4G is being held August 24-

[Talk-ca] Piggyback a SOTM bid with FOSS4G in Calgary

2019-08-23 Thread Clifford Snow
The 2020 FOSS4G is being held August 24-29 in Calgary. This seems like a good opportunity to submit a SOTM bid for either the weekend before or the weekend after. I have a number of friends that can get funding from their company to one but not both. Having both conferences in the same week will

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline status update

2019-08-09 Thread Clifford Snow
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 7:35 AM Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder if we could perhaps get rid of the "Contributors" mention > altogether. > I agree, I've often felt that the OpenStreetMap Contributors was unwieldy. If we agree to the change, I imagine that OpenStreetMap would need to be

Re: [Talk-ca] Problems with tagging of islands/islets in a river

2019-07-04 Thread Clifford Snow
Thanks - I'm traveling right now or I would have. On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 8:01 AM John Marshall wrote: > I will fix it. > > John > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 10:47 AM Clifford Snow > wrote: > >> The multipolygon of the river where the islands are missing appears

Re: [Talk-ca] Problems with tagging of islands/islets in a river

2019-07-04 Thread Clifford Snow
The multipolygon of the river where the islands are missing appears to be wrong. JOSM should be able to fix it. Clifford On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 7:26 AM Steffen Roller wrote: > Rendering of islands/islets in a river > > I was missing several islands on 'my' Grand River while paddling. > I don't

Re: [OSM-talk] Terminate Facebook rights under ODbL

2019-06-09 Thread Clifford Snow
Nuno - On a Facebook Android app I checked [1] they also use the "i" symbol with a link to our attribution. I agree that they could do better, when the map is opened up there is space for proper attribution but they only give a very dim "i" symbol, but it is attributed. On the website, the map is

Re: [OSM-talk] Terminate Facebook rights under ODbL

2019-06-09 Thread Clifford Snow
Facebook does attribute using the "I" symbol as does Mapbox. Is that the issue? On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 2:12 PM Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > 9 Jun 2019, 22:31 by frede...@remote.org: > > As you rightly say, while the OSMF board's cooperation might be required > for a few legal aspects, there are

Re: [OSM-talk] Documenting controversial iD decisions

2019-05-28 Thread Clifford Snow
ything is OpenStreetMap approved > which unfortunately is not the case. > > If it's placed as the default editor then I think it needs to be held to a > higher standard or some sort of change management system implemented. > > Cheerio John > > On Tue, May 28, 2019, 7:47 PM Cliffor

Re: [OSM-talk] Documenting controversial iD decisions

2019-05-28 Thread Clifford Snow
Michael, Don't you think to be fair that you should include all outside projects, such as JOSM, Potlatch, CartoCSS, etc? None of them are controlled by OSMF as far as I know. To just look at one software project seems like we already reached a decision, we just need the data to back it up. Best,

Re: [OSM-talk] Power pole validation (was: mass iD validation arrives in NYC)

2019-05-28 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 1:59 PM Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > > > 28 May 2019, 22:10 by cliff...@snowandsnow.us: > > I don't "fix" those because the validator is just looking at a node > without a power pole. Often their isn't a pole at that location according > to the imagery. > > Sometimes

Re: [OSM-talk] mass iD validation arrives in NYC

2019-05-28 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 10:53 AM Dave F via talk wrote: > I notice these changesets were completed in 30/60 seconds respectively. > I don't use iD. How is this possible? Does it have a JOSM like mass edit > ability? > > Yes - JOSM does allow mass fixes through the validator. I've even seen

[Talk-ca] MAPS.ME Changeset

2019-05-13 Thread Clifford Snow
A MAPS.ME user added 66 attractions [1] in a changeset that included Vancouver, Montreal and Vermont. While I visit Vancouver I'm not familiar with any of them. I left a changeset comment that has been replied to in the last 16 hours. Another user suggested reverting them. Can someone local check

Re: [OSM-talk] FCC public documents license and submarine cables mapping

2019-04-13 Thread Clifford Snow
François, The US FCC should be public domain unless otherwise indicated. Best, Clifford On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 7:48 AM François Lacombe wrote: > Hi all, > > Google is currently rolling out several submarine telecommunication cable > systems and Amercian FCC actually publishes application

Re: [OSM-talk] iD influencing tagging

2019-04-07 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 5:44 AM John Whelan wrote: > I note that the matter has been raised in talk-de and mentioned in osm > weekly. > > Tagging is not always easy, but I do have concerns when iD is so commonly > used but the recommended tags do not align with OpenStreetMap I'll say > normals. >

Re: [Talk-us] Announcing our Interim Executive Director & Upcoming Election

2019-03-27 Thread Clifford Snow
Maggie, Congratulations on stepping into the Executive Director role. Having a person with actual OSM experience makes you a great choice. I'm sure replacing you on the Board will be difficult but I'm hopeful we see some good candidates step forward. Jonah was somewhat vague on what you will be

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove objects that are not existing according to source of GNIS import that added them

2019-03-21 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 9:52 AM Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > Good idea, independent check would be welcomed! > > Something from Seattle region would be OK, right? > > If my googling went right the you are probably interested > in data around >

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove objects that are not existing according to source of GNIS import that added them

2019-03-21 Thread Clifford Snow
I'm in favor of the bot but I'd like to review a sample of the data being removed in my area. The purpose is to test the assumption that the data is of no use. Best, Clifford On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 9:32 AM Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > Mar 21, 2019, 3:56 PM by m...@rtijn.org: > > Re-reading this

Re: [Talk-us] Online mappy hour

2019-03-18 Thread Clifford Snow
Thanks for clarifying the date - I can make the 28th 6PM PDT. Adding it to my calendar. On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 11:20 AM Martijn van Exel wrote: > > > On Mar 18, 2019, at 1:57 PM, Richard Welty > wrote: > [..] > > next thursday as in the 21st or the 28th? i'm going to be on my flight > > to

Re: [Talk-us] Michigan Forest Land

2019-03-07 Thread Clifford Snow
David, Thanks for asking on the talk-us mailing list before importing the data. Guidelines for importing data into OSM are available at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines. Please read the guidelines before proceeding. Basically the guideline want to insure that the data is

Re: [Talk-us] Hello World!

2019-03-07 Thread Clifford Snow
Wesley, Welcome to OSM. It nice to seem someone from a local GIS community contribute. I don't know of other mappers in your area, I'm in the PNW, but I can suggest looking at http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/oooc to see who maps around the area. Besides this mailing list we also have an active

Re: [Talk-us] gunnison national forest not being rendered

2019-03-02 Thread Clifford Snow
I'm not sure it's tagged correctly. boundary:type=protected_area, should be boundary=protected_area. Although I do see boundary:type in use. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area See https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1399218#map=9/47.9660/-121.5472 for a

Re: [Talk-us] Road name update challenges

2019-03-02 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 5:27 AM Mike N wrote: > On 3/1/2019 12:49 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > > > > One caution - when doing a building/address import a few years ago, we > > discovered errors in the counties address database. They had different > > street name

Re: [Talk-us] Road name update challenges

2019-03-01 Thread Clifford Snow
On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 7:09 AM Aaron Forsythe wrote: > These are all just my opinions, so don't take as fact. I could be wrong. > > > > >> We were able to get a local GIS to release data to OSM. In analyzing > > the data, I notice that address tags are much more carefully updated > > than road

Re: [OSM-talk] Any suggestions on how to handle these errors?

2018-12-02 Thread Clifford Snow
I sent a message to the Costa Rica OSM Community. They are active on Telegram. Maybe someone there could help. On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 10:54 AM Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com < jacknst...@sprynet.com> wrote: > While chasing down some OSM Inspector-tagged errors, I found this. Any >

Re: [Talk-us] Forest Routes

2018-11-20 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 9:50 AM Clifford Snow wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 9:44 AM Martijn van Exel wrote: > >> It is worth noting that the current shape file available from USDA seems >> to be more comprehensive than the forest service roads layer available: >&g

Re: [Talk-us] Forest Routes

2018-11-20 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 9:44 AM Martijn van Exel wrote: > It is worth noting that the current shape file available from USDA seems > to be more comprehensive than the forest service roads layer available: > https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/datasets.php?dsetCategory=transportation > > >

Re: [Talk-us] Strange city boundary: Lee, Illinois

2018-11-14 Thread Clifford Snow
Yes - a city can cover more than one county in the US. I'm not familiar with your example, but we have Bothell, WA which is in both King and Snohomish County. Best, Clifford On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 5:47 AM wrote: > Hi, > > are there cities (admin level 8) in the USA which part of two

Re: [Talk-us] JOSM Scripts Plugin

2018-11-04 Thread Clifford Snow
o do and I can try to > work up a more pertinent example. > > Mike > > On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 6:28 PM Clifford Snow > wrote: > >> I'm looking for some example scripts for the JSOM Scripts Plugin. The >> goal is to fix capitalization problems. The github repository

[Talk-us] JOSM Scripts Plugin

2018-11-03 Thread Clifford Snow
I'm looking for some example scripts for the JSOM Scripts Plugin. The goal is to fix capitalization problems. The github repository has some example, but with my limited programing skills I'm hoping for something more complete. Thanks in advance, Clifford -- @osm_seattle

[Talk-us] Looking for Mappers that are also RV or campers

2018-10-08 Thread Clifford Snow
We are looking for mappers that are active RV users, especially those that have used Kampgrounds of America. We are looking for help with an OSM article. Please contact me off line. Thanks, Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER place confusion

2018-09-28 Thread Clifford Snow
Thanks for the overpass query which really helps. As far as I'm concerned, you can remove the tag. Clifford On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 7:49 AM Max Erickson wrote: > Just comparing relations with place= tags to the corresponding nodes works: > > http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/CjI > > Obviously not an

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER place confusion

2018-09-27 Thread Clifford Snow
Max, Can you give an example or better yet a overpass query that we can use to view some in our back yard? Thanks, Clifford On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 4:48 AM Max Erickson wrote: > Many of the administrative boundaries imported from TIGER have a > place= tag that reflects the legal type of

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Post Boxes

2018-09-25 Thread Clifford Snow
First off, I don't have an opinion on the naming of blue boxes. I'm am concerned about adding the wikipedia tags. One of the unintended consequences of adding the wikipedia tag to fast food chains is that nominatim puts those locations high in the search results. We removed most of the wikipedia

Re: [Talk-us] Food delivery services: Move-fast-and-break-trust

2018-08-21 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 1:24 PM Ian Dees wrote: > It'd be great to have smaller, shorter versions that could be handed out > like business cards to handle this case in particular, where business > owners are curious and law enforcement or other interested parties might > express concern. > I

Re: [Talk-us] Food delivery services: Move-fast-and-break-trust

2018-08-21 Thread Clifford Snow
When I'm out taking pictures for later entry into OSM, I bring a bunch of business cards to hand out. The card has my name, phone number, email and the OSM website. I do this because I'm hoping to get interested businesses to add more data to OSM. But giving the staff a card might also lessen

Re: [Talk-us] State Open Data

2018-08-11 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 12:01 PM Pine W wrote: > I'm interested in this subject. An issue is that the copyright might be > owned by the government entity that created it, even if the records are > open for the public. If something is public record in California, does that > also mean that it's

Re: [Talk-us] State Open Data

2018-08-08 Thread Clifford Snow
open datasets including >> centerline and speed limits. I’ll take a look at the doc and add some. >> http://data.imap.maryland.gov/datasets?q=transportation >> >> Kudos on getting this together! >> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 23:27 Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>> >&

Re: [Talk-us] State Open Data

2018-08-08 Thread Clifford Snow
and speed limits. I’ll take a look at the doc and add some. > http://data.imap.maryland.gov/datasets?q=transportation > > Kudos on getting this together! > On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 23:27 Paul Johnson wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 9:00 PM, Clifford Snow >&

Re: [Talk-us] State Open Data

2018-08-07 Thread Clifford Snow
Ian, On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 9:30 AM Ian Dees wrote: > Thanks for putting this together, Clifford! > > I was collecting street centerline data as part of OpenAddresses a while > ago here: https://github.com/openaddresses/centerlines > > I'm happy to add you to this repo if you want to use this

[Talk-us] State Open Data

2018-08-07 Thread Clifford Snow
A few months back I made available Washington State Roads background layer available for use in JOSM and iD. (Shoutout to Mapbox for providing free hosting of this service.) I would like to add other states but need your help finding open data suitable for inclusion in OSM. To help please update

Re: [Talk-us] Sidewalks in Austin without any tags

2018-07-25 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 3:58 PM Andy Townsend wrote: > > > > Do you (or does anyone else on this list) have a direct connection to > the TaskarCenterAtUW account? If so it'd be great to let them know that > people have been trying to get in touch with them, and to get some > information about

[Talk-ca] Bike Routes in BC

2018-07-02 Thread Clifford Snow
The US just completed three bike routes that end at the Canada/US border in BC. The routes are USBR87, 95 and 97. Looking at WaymarkedTrails cycling map[1], they routes don't extend into BC. Is anyone on this list involved with mapping cycle routes, especially national routes? I don't know if

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Importing Addresses in Orange County North Carolina

2018-06-23 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 2:50 PM Greg Morgan wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 2:34 PM Clifford Snow > wrote: > >> A couple of things First you have two tags that are not needed, >> addr:state and addr:country. >> > I have a different opinion on this subjec

Re: [Talk-us] Slack: Do we need an Alternative (was Planning an import, in Price George...)

2018-06-12 Thread Clifford Snow
Doug, Like Martijn said, many of us are on multiple communications forums. I'm on talk-us (and a bunch of others), IRC, Slack, Reddit and even on various Meetup Groups. I used to be on Facebook, but just couldn't tolerate FB attitude towards users privacy. Slack is available on desktops as a

[Talk-us] Slack: Do we need an Alternative (was Planning an import in Price George...)

2018-06-08 Thread Clifford Snow
SteveA wrote: At least once, Clifford invited me to join Slack as well. However, after reading Slack's Terms of Service Agreement (a contract of adhesion, really), I could not and do not abide with the ways which Slack (and other proprietary, not-open-source/open-data communication platforms)

Re: [Talk-us] Planning an Import in Prince George's County, Maryland

2018-06-07 Thread Clifford Snow
Gregory, Any import should start with a review of the Import Guidelines [1] and discussion with the local community, which you started with your email. When you create the import page on the wiki, please describe which attributes from the shapefile you plan to add to OSM and how they map to OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] water taxi stops

2018-05-20 Thread Clifford Snow
Check out the Seattle to West Seattle water taxi. https://www.openstreetmap.org/query?lat=47.60118=-122.33881 I believed it is mapped correctly. Basically map as any ferry route with a amenity=ferry_terminal at both ends. Connect the ferry route to a highway=footway, since a water taxi is usually

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