Re: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

2013-06-11 Thread william skora
I'm really intrigued by this conversation. Neighborhood identity is subjective - collectively defined by residents and stakeholders (businesses, and other organizations) within and outside of the neighborhood as well as governments, politicians, and the media. Nonetheless, I believe they belong

[Talk-ca] Tag for Tim Horton's

2013-05-30 Thread william skora
hi, I was just curious if there's a consensus on what tag to use for a tim horton's. I've found http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:cuisine%3Dcoffee_shop and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines which both mentioned variations. For what it's worth, this location was

[Talk-us] Tag for Tim Horton's

2013-05-29 Thread william skora
hi, I was just curious if there's a consensus on what tag to use for a tim horton's. I've found http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:cuisine%3Dcoffee_shop and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines which both mentioned variations. For what it's worth, this location was

[Talk-us] Visualizing editathon edits

2013-04-22 Thread william skora
Hey everyone, Good chatting (or miming) on the google hangout. A question I forgot to ask: A couple of the editathon participants in Cleveland have asked me if there's a visualization or way to see the edits that we've made that day. I know of whodidit - (in our case -

[Talk-us] Tagging Live Indoor Music Venues (continued)

2013-02-28 Thread william skora
To those who commented, thank you. I've created a wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dmusic_venue that include the points that most of we were able to agree upon, which is using amenity=music_venue to tag these places. As for using concert_hall, and other more complex

[Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-24 Thread william skora
Hi, I was curious us to hear what others have been using to tag music venues. There's numerous places in my city that hold upwards of 1,000 people for music concerts (also called 'shows'). In the US, they're indoors, serve alcohol, and usually only open when there are shows. There's usually

[Talk-us] Cleveland 2013 Meeting Recap

2013-01-29 Thread william skora
Just an FYI, Cleveland had its first meeting of 2013 last week - here's a recap of it - http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/skorasaurus/diary/18494 With pictures ! Feel free to comment here or on the diary entry. Regards, Will ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] OSM-edit-a-thon, Growing US User Groups/Communities

2013-01-23 Thread william skora
Great discussion so far and perfect timing for us in Cleveland, we're having our first event of 2013 tomorrow. http://www.meetup.com/cleveland-civic-hacking/members/23087451/ Given Cleveland's population relative to other cities, our mutual interests and the sheer overlap between OSM and open

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-29 Thread william skora
Here's my 2 cents on the mentioned tiger tags, fwiw: tiger:cfcc - As I understand, its original purpose was to classify different highway types, but once the appropriate OSM tags [derived in part from this tag, and then also from whatever other sources, imagery, personal visit, etc] have been

Re: [Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 52, Issue 18

2012-03-17 Thread william skora
As a relative recent us mapper, I've mapped only a few Sub divisions and they're low on priority list to map. One, I live in the dense city which is more efficient to map (more to map in a small area) and when I go on errands, I can take alternate routes to map that aren't far out of the way. For