On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
> Borders for Vermont and New York appear "bolder" than for Minnesota and
> Illinois. Have they been tagged differently, or duplicated? Anyone
> have a border-checker script?
I see something similar near Emerson, MB.
Both are tagged as
bou
Hi,Im just trying to download some areas.. and finding that with HTTP
download, it downloads files that are corrupt.
and the link to the FTP directory is broken. :-( [1]
Anyway, while that is down for some reason, I will continue to work on
showing more details of the Roads from the CanVec list. H
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
> I think relations are the way to go.
> Tag the way with the source, uuid and attribution.
> Split the way at each prov/state/county/regional municipality junction.
> Add tags only at highest level relation for say, name, place,
> population
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 10:00 -0600, James Ewen wrote:
> The end result, is that I would concur that the GeoBase borders are
> much closer to the real world location than the manually input border,
> or the USGS imports.
>
> So, now we need to clean up the erroneous data.
>
> The county outlines in
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:47 AM, James Ewen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Brent Fraser wrote:
>
>> And for those who like to parse latitude and longitude:
>>
>> http://www.internationalboundarycommission.org/products.html#coordinates
>
> Aha, the definitive source that I was asking ab
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Brent Fraser wrote:
> And for those who like to parse latitude and longitude:
>
> http://www.internationalboundarycommission.org/products.html#coordinates
Aha, the definitive source that I was asking about... Actual lat/long
values of the monuments. One would be
And for those who like to parse latitude and longitude:
http://www.internationalboundarycommission.org/products.html#coordinates
Best Regards,
Brent Fraser
GeoAnalytic Inc.
Calgary, Alberta
Mepham, Michael wrote:
> Stupid spell checker GeoBase, not Georgia.
>
> The values in GeoBase for
Stupid spell checker GeoBase, not Georgia.
The values in GeoBase for the US borders are from the International Boundary
Commission and are consensus values for the internal boundaries.
Mike Mepham
Federal/Provincial/Territorial Liaison
GeoConnections Program
Natural Resources Canada
E
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Matthew Schneider
wrote:
> Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!
>
> Actually, it is the 49th parallel, West of Lake of the Woods.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Treaty
Yup, 49 it is, but there are minor deviations along that line due to
measurement inaccuracies of t
2009/3/30 James Ewen
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
>
> > We're good neighbo(u)rs. We should fix our fence. Shouldn't each
> > border be a single way, with a relation for each adjacent region?
> >
> > We should have a fence-mending party.
>
> So, now comes the interest
Someone get the text to the Treaty of 1818 and figure that one out... I
don't seem to have my copy ready by my computer.
--
James Fee
http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> > We should fix our fence.
>
> Ayuh. Good fences make good naaybahs. [
> if you can put the list of features along with the corrisponding OSM
> tag to a wiki page, this would be helpful :)
> (then i can help match features & cross-check to what i have)
Unfortunately, in the case of my import for USGS Geonames items, they
don't have specific feature categories. I'm d
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
> Dear Can-Americans,
>
> This is silly. Four different lines for one border.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906&lon=-95.15362&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF
>
> We're good neighbo(u)rs. We should fix our fence. Shouldn't each
> border b
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Sam Vekemans
wrote:
> Hi all,
> i just wanted to let you all know that on page 57 of this big atlas
> book, openstreetmap is listed!
> (a big heavy book)
> So kids studing geography will see it!
>
> Its ISBN 978 0 00 7236701 - "The greatest book on earth" www.times
Adam Schreiber wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
>
>> Dear Can-Americans,
>>
>> This is silly. Four different lines for one border.
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906&lon=-95.15362&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF
>>
>> We're good neighbo(u)rs. We should fix o
> We should fix our fence.
Ayuh. Good fences make good naaybahs. [1]
> Shouldn't each
> border be a single way, with a relation for each adjacent region?
around whom does it go clockwise?
Shouldn't the entirety of a country's (state/province/county) be a
(multi)polygon for area?
Can that be em
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Adam Schreiber wrote:
>
> They weren't duplicated. Ian (I believe?) imported the borders for
> the New England and Mid-Atlantic states and I imported the rest.
>
It might be the county border imports. I imported those without doing any
polygon-overlap-detection
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Matthew Schneider
wrote:
>> Great. Which one's correct?
looks to me like they were traced with subtly different projections
that supposedly were squared up but didn't quite fit.
E.g., Interesting factoid i just picked up - Warsaw Pact and NATO used
the same pri
When you say listed, does it show an OSM map? Or just name the project?
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Sam Vekemans
wrote:
> Hi all,
> i just wanted to let you all know that on page 57 of this big atlas
> book, openstreetmap is listed!
> (a big heavy book)
> So kids studing geography will see
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
> I've adjusted the boundary=admin rendering on my tile server to make
> more sense for North America. Rendering the state / provincial borders
> at zoom 1 & 2 might be overdoing it, but at zoom 3 looks reasonable. It
> does point out a poten
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
> Borders for Vermont and New York appear "bolder" than for Minnesota and
> Illinois. Have they been tagged differently, or duplicated?
an additional possibility is eastern borders are more wiggly following
terrain as opposed to ruler on a ma
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