On 1/13/2012 4:50 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
Speaking of, has anyone talked to balrog-kun yet? I know he was at
one point insanely prolific and I often stumble across his data, he's
currently a decliner.
I don't have a clue what the below statement means, since he hasn't
said he'll make his
On 1/10/2012 10:26 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:
I just change the node's tags from place=hamlet
to landuse=residential.
Not that I'm correct, but I still use place=hamlet for apartments and
subdivisions since it's a group of people residing in the same
organizational entity. Clearly it is not
I'm wondering if it would be legal to trace from LandSat.com aerials.
Of course I would need to buy the CD myself and not be able to share the
actual imagery to anyone else, but would the usage license be compatible
with tracing OSM objects?
On 1/8/2012 10:16 AM, Mike Dupont wrote:
Hi, landsat is already available in a josm plugin
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landsat
i dont know if what you are planning to buy is better than that,
Thanks - I didn't make the connection with the JOSM plugin! That
answers my question.
On 1/8/2012 7:49 AM, Josh Doe wrote:
Seems all recent edits have been just adding Safeway stores:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Brian@Brea
The edits seem good (adding building outlines), though I'm not sure
about putting the store number in the name, I've always put that in the
ref tag.
On 1/8/2012 1:31 PM, Toby Murray wrote:
He has done good work mapping several Safeway subsidiaries throughout
the US. But yeah I agree the store number should go in the ref tag. We
don't really care about internal Safeway naming conventions... we care
about how that data fits into OUR data
On 1/8/2012 2:00 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
It is certainly useful but the ref tag (like many other tags) is
popular enough that I think it's fair to say it's standard in OSM
tagging. So let's tag consistently and use this tag for reference
numbers.
This makes sense in this case. I've
Copied from another user in the web forum...
-
I'm announcing the beta test phase for Trafficspeed.org, an
Openstreetmap based traffic speed information system. This is a
free-to-use, crowd-based system for handheld devices to provide
up-to-date traffic
On 1/3/2012 3:17 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
Those are unfortunate false negatives. We can probably not capture
each and every one of those. We need to weigh them against the benefit
of having a consistent naming across the US. I personally tend to
accepting these false negatives. That said, I
On 1/4/2012 7:52 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
2 - The edge cases where the abbreviated name is the official name and
cannot be expanded. Would this need a special tag to tell the bot that
the name is correct?
I'm not sure that there is such a thing as an official name
A better term would have
On 1/2/2012 6:50 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
I think Martijn's focus on cleaning up the imports, especially in the
US, should be welcome and encouraged.
I've reviewed some of the original threads in the mailing list
archives, and it seems that only 1 person seriously objected at first,
but
Continued from tagging...
On 1/2/2012 11:40 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
What makes you think that the current common opinion is against
automatic expansion?
Mostly because of customary resistance to automatic imports, which is
rooted in bad imports. Josh has noted in Tagging that it
On 12/21/2011 4:29 AM, Ed Loach wrote:
Do any of the 4 alternatives in the Amazon review here help?
Yes - A direct link to the review with 4 alternatives is here:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R3RAKYFG6DOERN/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8ASIN=B00542NVS2nodeID=tag=linkCode=
A common method of photo surveying in OSM is to take a picture of the
GPS while it displays the GPS Satellite time. On the eTrex 30, I can
only display the time to the nearest minute. Has anyone found a screen
to display the seconds? If not, it is useless as a reference time
source and
On 12/18/2011 1:20 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
do not harass those who have explicitly declined.
what's done is done.
In the case of a local 'decliner', he has made an informal statement
wishing for Public Domain. There now *may* be an option to take over
the ownership of PD/Decliners or
On 12/13/2011 2:27 PM, Hillsman, Edward wrote:
Thinking in terms of a NEW user, who is already facing a steep learning
curve to contribute to OSM, and who has by default accepted the new CT,
and may not even know about the license change, such a person has every
right to expect that his/her
On 12/12/2011 5:10 AM, Floris Looijesteijn wrote:
Looks nice!
Does it add everything as one osm user?
In other words: how does it work 'license-wise'?
I'm looking at making something similiar so I'm very intested in this...
In the local case, a new OSM ID was created to add the points, so
FYI - TIGER 2011 files have been released today...
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/shp.html
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I saw a new user pop up recently and they added several POIs to the map
correctly. I saw a new (to me) app that was used: MapStalt Mini
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/f2249c46-1b92-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8
Points and addresses entered into the MapStalt app update the Open
Street
On 11/29/2011 1:45 PM, Randal Hale wrote:
I've also got a TMS of 2010 Hamilton County imagery at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Servers/Imagery
Do you or anyone have the actual JOSM string plus the dialog box
location in JOSM to place this
On 12/5/2011 3:48 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
I've tried a number of these options as well as Walking Papers as Brad
mentioned but (when they worked) they failed for what I needed because
they all used tiles downloaded from openstreetmap.org. The tiles from
osm.org work well enough for on-screen
On 11/29/2011 1:45 PM, Randal Hale wrote:
Tiger Fixups - mostly intersections - we've got ways that almost connect
and don't. OTP is routing around them. We're working from downtown out.
Most of the near connections in the areas I randomly chose appear to be
mapper edits - I made the same
On 11/29/2011 9:46 AM, Randal Hale wrote:
If you wish to help from where ever you are - please help us connect
unconnected ways to help with routing people and bicycles. We will
handle the tags.
What types of missing connections should we look for?
TIGER fixups - bridges, county border
On 11/28/2011 11:54 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
the POIs such as
churches, cemeteries, schools
I'm continually amazed by the turnover of schools due to
modernization, expansion, etc.My pre-survey of a new area is to find
the schools so that I can see what the building is now being used for,
In the toy gadget category, there's the new Garmin eTrex 10,20, and 30
GPS Navigator / logger. I recently had a chance to get hands on one of
these to see if I could measure the effect of additional GLONASS
satellites on measurement. While a full analysis would be very
complex, I wanted to
On 11/27/2011 4:30 PM, yvecai wrote:
Unless you are talking about a very small area, say just a kilometer
or so across, I don 't think you are likely to get good results trying
to render maps directly on the phone. Phones are rather limited in
memory and CPU speed compared to even a low-end
[From Talk..]
On 11/26/2011 1:01 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
there are some people whose edits we know we can keep somehow (even if
someone has to manually copy them and upload under their own account)
Is this a way that we might be able to retain a
declared-PD-but-CT-declining mapper's
On 11/20/2011 6:25 PM, Václav Řehák wrote:
But when I go for a mapping trip I need to see
as recent data as possible on the highest zoom available to decide
e.g. which of the tracks there is not yet mapped, whether a particular
POI is already mapped, etc. You get my point...
While I don't
From memory: out of the tweets going by in SOTM 2011, I remember one
that was something like Is navigation the best usage we hope to achieve
for OSM?
I'm curious to see the slides or video for this - who was the author
and/or presentation name?
Thanks,
On 11/13/2011 8:19 PM, Michal Migurski wrote:
On Nov 13, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Mike N wrote:
From memory: out of the tweets going by in SOTM 2011, I remember one that was something
like Is navigation the best usage we hope to achieve for OSM?
I'm curious to see the slides or video
On 11/12/2011 5:51 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
Would be nice to see some work towards validating and integrating the
2010 TIGER data into OSM. It's bound to be a huge improvement over the
2000 data.
I've been doing this on a small scale for Mapdust bugs and all the new
subdivisions in my county
On 11/4/2011 1:04 AM, Val Kartchner wrote:
As long as we have all of the addresses, we could use satellite data to
align them with houses. Is this the type of data we have in TIGER?
No, TIGER lists all of the addresses, but adds a large fudge factor to
comply with privacy laws. TIGER data
On 11/2/2011 6:59 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
for what it's worth, i think Martijn is on precisely the right path here.
imports go wrong when they're done carelessly and without any quality
control. it doesn't have to be that way.
I'm not against importing high quality address data, but can see
On 11/2/2011 9:46 PM, Anthony wrote:
2. Cutting ways into blocks would make for bedlam.
Why?
If there's no difference between the blocks except for addressing, it
adds a needless extra step to map corrections. Instead of selecting an
entire street with a single click to correct the
On 11/2/2011 9:59 PM, Anthony wrote:
I guess, but there are already so many reasons to split ways that I
think you're fighting a losing battle. A better solution would be to
adopt something like street relations, so that the name of a road
isn't duplicated on every single way in the first
On 11/1/2011 7:14 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
But let's discuss: are
address imports useful (I say yes, for geocoding and routing they're
indispensable), necessary (I say yes, potential OSM data users will
want to be able to do these things) and feasible (I say yes, if
there's local mappers to
On 11/1/2011 8:24 PM, Nathan Mills wrote:
It would help if upload.py wasn't so finicky at times.
The real answer to upload.* and JOSM uploading is to query the
changeset from OSM after an error, determine what has uploaded, then
resume from there.
I think there is a reluctance to
On 10/23/2011 2:07 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
Alte Eisenbahn is German for old railway, which is a correct
description of the way
I don't have any reference, but locals do seem to use the German
designation as the name:
http://www.fuzzyworld3.com/3um/viewtopic.php?f=5t=4485
In the
On 10/22/2011 6:17 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
With signed shared roadways I meant those that are explicitly marked
with a sign that says that bikes share the road.
As the responses show, there are many variations on this. I don't
know about all the road types, but the term Sharrow comes to
FYI - this series of edits appear to be a newbie in need of help.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Justinb/edits
He has a fondness for combining elements that should not be combined,
as well as other unusual edits. I have not contacted the user yet - I
haven't had time to see if any of
On 10/7/2011 11:08 AM, Toby Murray wrote:
Wonder if this is another case of didn't realize I was saving to a
live database which I have seen several times before. Or maybe he
just doesn't quite understand the OSM data model yet. Either way he
should definitely be contacted. Would you like to do
On 10/5/2011 8:46 AM, Carl Anderson wrote:
For range data there is uncertainty how to increment addresses when an
end is such as
N82W15855 VALLEY VIEW DR,, MENOMONEE FALLS, WI, 53051-3709, USA
45-558 KAMEHAMEHA HWY STE B3,, KANEOHE, HI, 96744-1944, USA
46-026 A ALALOA ST,, KANEOHE, 96744-3824,
On 10/4/2011 9:04 PM, Steven Johnson wrote:
The purpose of this project is to improve the tagging and better reflect
local addressing practice, particularly in areas where the Karlsruhe
schema does not fit local practice. This includes Japan and United
States, but likely other regions as well.
On 10/2/2011 11:07 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
The swamp, being mostly water, is of
course, level, and without any tree cover or hills for nearly a half
mile in any direction, and having been using the GPS for pedestrian
navigation all afternoon, made me quite surprised to see the geolocation
data
On 9/30/2011 11:27 PM, Val Kartchner wrote:
It is much quicker to fill in address
interpolations. Are either of these types of address data actually used
anywhere?
Nominatim uses them (main www.openstreetmap page, MapQuest) today.
Future navigator apps could use them; the current Skobbler/US
On 9/21/2011 9:18 AM, John Sturdy wrote:
And I'd be worried about being brought to the attention of the
authorities for being seen pointing lasers at infrastructural things
such as electricity pylons --- do people tend to complain about having
their buildings etc visibly surveyed?
I have
On 9/20/2011 10:37 AM, Jochen Topf wrote:
We can see this effect with the source tag. In theory it should be updated
to always reflect the source or sources of some piece of data. In practice
it is hard to tell how to update this properly, so most people don't do it,
and it looses all its value
There's no difference between someone who goes through the
traditional signup process and messes up the data VS someone coming in
via a Facebook login or the Friendly page and messes up the data.
It's only a question of scale - do we pick up enough quality users from
convenient logins to
On 9/10/2011 4:01 AM, Simon Poole wrote:
With the same list of 476 mappers I ran a modified version of my V1
script that gave the following numbers for objects created by PD mappers:
Nodes:1'195'041 (0.11%)
Highways: 92'374 (0.22%)
Other ways:74'139 (0.13%)
On 9/8/2011 4:40 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
On 09/08/11 01:20, SteveC wrote:
There are a bunch of people asking things on twitter about OSM that we
miss.
I don't think that we should encourage that. Call me old-fashioned but
to me this is as if you were saying: There's a lot of people
On 9/3/2011 11:44 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
58: have you considered putting an RFC out on cycleway=shared_lane to
get some discussion going around the tag?
Every main lane where bikes are allowed is a shared lane. Presumably the
intent is the indicate where there's a shared lane *marking*,
On 9/2/2011 7:03 PM, PJ Houser wrote:
Hi all,
TriMet, the Portland region transit agency, has released a report on the
OpenTripPlanner Project for its Metro 2009-2011 Regional Travel Options
Grant.
Great report! It will be interesting to see the public reaction when
it goes live.
On 9/1/2011 10:02 AM, Peter Miller wrote:
My understanding is that these services vary from 'fixed route-variable
times' through to completely random routes. Another question is if the
services stop anywhere on the route or only at fixed points or possibly
there are some fixed points and then
It seems to me to be premature to start removing map features. Edit,
remap from aerial and acceptable sources would be OK, IMO. Just not
something I'll be spending time on.
I was checking out a local change and was surprised that the church
was missing since it is a prominent local
On 9/1/2011 6:14 PM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
Why? it's replaced by a building polygon. so it's improvement of data
and license status.
The building polygon has no tags except building=yes. An anonymous
building has less value to OSM than a searchable POI in my opinion.
On 9/1/2011 1:02 AM, Dale Puch wrote:
Dealing with such a large area, will conflict resolution be an issue? I
really have not had to deal with it before, so do not know how big a
deal that is.
Conflict resolution would normally be an issue, but after all this is
the US... not many active
On 8/27/2011 1:28 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
Hi all,
I want to organize a mapping party here in Salt Lake City. Are there
any Salt Lake locals on this list?
Welcome to the US! I'm on the other side of the country, but will be
interested to see reports of mapping parties, etc there in
I have looked at Go-Sync (Great tool!) and have some questions about
public transport and GTFS. I am starting from perhaps the reverse of
normal case: any agency data on routes and stops was way out of date and
very incomplete. The system is small and well within the scope of
being
This is old news that AOL is ramping up local newspaper-style web sites
around the US.
http://www.patch.com/
They just recently launched 3 Patches nearby me, and it's cool to see
the map locations they identify next to stories using MapQuest's OSM
rendering.
On 8/8/2011 11:41 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
Dirk added a hidden preference so you can specify your own list of
roles to ignore this warning for. See [0], but if you set an advanced
preference of way.split.roles.nowarn in JOSM's preference pane with a
comma-separated list of roles it appears it will
But so far I couldn't find a really important type of apps that just work.
So just any of you iPhone users here in the list have an APP that can create
proper GPX files?
I like to take the bus and to create GPX files (I mean as a track not as single
POIs) of the bus routes. And there are a
On 8/1/2011 7:40 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
It's pretty cool. I should use those tags more often.
Here's an example of FLickr tags VS new map data after +1.5 years.
Granted, there are only about a dozen underlying POIs where the shop /
restaurant has been replaced, but it's largely correct
On 7/8/2011 11:21 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
North Elk Vale has been split into three ways with four relations on
each side of the overpass. And for what? To prevent a router from
telling you to turn right in the wrong part of the intersection? Is a
GPS even accurate to 100 feet?
I'm for
On 6/26/2011 12:40 AM, Dion Dock wrote:
However, when I look at Mapnik, I want to see the way's intended use.
I'm sure there are plenty of counterexamples, but in my experience,
all paths allow pedestrians, while only some allow bikes and/or horses.
This renders nicely too: bikes get one
On 6/26/2011 12:46 AM, Nick Hocking wrote:
Along the way I see that there is an enormous number of missing roads
(new roads). Most of these, hopefully, are in the TIGEDR 2010 data.
Is there a place that I can view the TIGER 2010 data so that I can edit
in, road by road (with their names), the
On 6/26/2011 7:52 AM, Mike N wrote:
I converted a copy of Mesa County for your use:
One more thing - start working with a small area until you are
comfortable with how it works; in other words start by downloading an
area of interest, then open the TIGER2010_CO_Mesa.osm file. (If you
On 6/26/2011 10:01 AM, Nick Hocking wrote:
What would be really usefull is to have OSM in one of the geofabrik
compare windows and TIGER 2010 in the other. Is there an easy way to
achieve this?
Until Ian gets the comparison server up, you can try setting the
Inactive layer color in JOSM to a
On 6/21/2011 7:10 PM, PJ Houser wrote:
Well, I have a conundrum here in Portland, Oregon. The 4 TriMet mappers
here in Portland would prefer to tag all multi-use paths as paths, with
bicycle=designated, particularly because we are attempting to make the
Portland area routable. OpenTripPlanner,
On 6/20/2011 8:39 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
i personally favor highway=path and then
setting bicycle, foot, etc., to indicate access permissions as appropriate.
I agree - this is the approach taken with the JOSM preset, and will
thus gravitate toward a more exact definition as tag sets become
http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f225/women-trust-gps-drive-suv-into-lake-81264/
I did check the OSM map to be sure there were no non-existing roads
shown crossing the lake.
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On 6/16/2011 2:29 PM, KKL Import wrote:
Up to some point everything was fine, all the nodes got uploaded, and
also half of the ways, but then it started to return the 500 Internal
Server Errormessage.
I have seen this behavior once. A possible solution is to change the
fragment to work
On 6/15/2011 4:53 AM, Parveen Arora wrote:
Please give your valuable suggestions to make it better, also add the
points that you wants to take care about during this kind of online
event event.
Just a note for the local venue - in many recent cases, the student
edit activities will result
On 6/15/2011 7:00 AM, Parveen Arora wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Mike Nnice...@att.net wrote:
Just a note for the local venue - in many recent cases, the student edit
activities will result in an automatic block on that IP address. The
automatic block is necessary to block those
On 6/15/2011 7:41 AM, Hillsman, Edward wrote:
One of my colleagues and I have completed a report on developing
multimodal trip planners. The report focuses on open-source software,
and open data sources such as OpenStreetMap and public transportation
data in GTFS format. The report is available
On 6/14/2011 5:10 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
Also the current acceptance numbers are ~166,000 accepting, vs. 406 declined.
What is the no response count to the emails so far?
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On 6/13/2011 4:47 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/21928761/history says that user
mpinnau deleted the road.
In addition, there is a suspicious edit by jumoriana
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jumoriana/edits
In his second edit ever, there is an uncommented
On 6/9/2011 1:34 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
3) The upload script should keep track of the response information to
see what nodes actually get uploaded. If I remember correctly there's no
way to know which elements in a diff upload were successful and which
weren't if you receive an error in the reply
On 6/9/2011 5:00 PM, Ben Supnik wrote:
I don't have an upload script - my theory is that we could post the set
of xml diff files, ready for editing and let people manually integrate
them using an editor (e.g. JOSM) then upload once the NHD data and
existing data have been integrated.
Even
On 6/7/2011 7:04 AM, Lennard wrote:
However, I would suggest that this is not a particularly hard problem to
solve; the editor can hide all nodes with a certain tag or put them in a
different layer. Currently, available editors don't do that.
JOSM does that. Particularly well, too. Have a
On 6/6/2011 6:03 PM, Mikel Maron wrote:
Folks, what did we have in place to produce map books?
Hikingbook.pl has an 'Atlas mode'.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hikingbook.pl
Parameters seem fully customizable; I don't know how much work it
would take to adapt to your application.
On 5/30/2011 10:07 PM, Robin Paulson wrote:
i'm getting more into tagging bus routes in auckland, and wonder if
there is a tagging scheme to cover the times of bus
arrivals/departures? i have a few ideas of how it might work, but want
to check out the existing system first. i can't find anything
On 5/28/2011 9:12 AM, Anthony wrote:
Trunk has no meaning beyond color the road the same color as other
things that are tagged trunk.
Even color is not defined - some trunks can be toll / not toll.
However, trunk *could* serve as a router hint that the road is a
better selection than
On 5/27/2011 12:32 AM, Nathan Mills wrote:
Would I be correct in stating that tagging an undivided 2 lane (one lane
in each direction) highways would be improper, even if a state calls the
highway a trunk for planning purposes?
I agree for this case, there is no established convention that can
On 5/26/2011 5:09 PM, Thea Aldrich wrote:
Our question to the community is: If you like this idea, what types of
branded materials would you like?
Just to toss out some ideas:
A refrigerator magnet in the shape of a US map.
A Map Cap
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On 5/7/2011 10:26 AM, Kai Krueger wrote:
Facebook is imho less likely, as as far as I know, it uses a proprietary
protocol and so I would be less enthused to support that.
It depends on the type of mapper we're trying to attract. Using the
Facebook login will be the simplest possible way to
On 5/4/2011 7:58 AM, Jaak Laineste wrote:
Regarding user interface: I would add quick street selector feature
to JOSM (and other editors) - when you open PresetAnnotationsAddress
screen, then instead of text field it would have buttons to select
quickly up to 5 nearest streetnames. I would
On 5/2/2011 6:05 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
I uploaded a couple pie charts based on this data to the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Gpx_trkpts_privacy.svg
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Gpx_files_privacy.svg
SSSH! Don't tell the Dutch police that they don't even
On 5/2/2011 12:50 AM, Toby Murray wrote:
Ideally there would be
an option to delete all nodes in the changeset except if the node is
in use by another way. Or is there a better way to handle this?
I don't know that this is a better way, but what about an intelligent
NHD upload for the areas
On 5/2/2011 12:50 AM, Toby Murray wrote:
Then some god damned bot came along and merged all the duplicate
nodes
I'll bet the bot got a virtual good guys badge for that day...
http://matt.dev.openstreetmap.org/dupe_nodes/leaderboard.html
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On 5/2/2011 10:54 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
Probably one of the main challenges for a rep system is getting the
balance just right: you want to stimulate doing good things but reduce
collateral damage (badge hunting) as much as possible. You wouldn't want
to reward pure quantity - anyone can
On 5/1/2011 2:17 AM, PJ Houser wrote:
See a sneak preview of the Open Trip Planner, TriMet's new open source
multi-modal trip planner scheduled for release in Fall, and meet the
developers involved in the project.
This is a very interesting project. I recently began mapping and
entering the
On 5/1/2011 1:25 PM, Toby Murray wrote:
Every time I go editing in some new place, I always find another
reason to hate imports.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5186568
I will contact this user and revert the changeset shortly.
I didn't look very far, but
On 5/1/2011 2:05 PM, Toby Murray wrote:
Arg! I was planning on taking a look through their changesets later as
well. I have an event to get to right now. I have sent a message to
the user but haven't done any reverting yet. the API seems to be
running kind of slow right now anyway so I'll
It should be OK now.
It worked here, the map section I looked at seems normal. Thanks!
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On 5/1/2011 4:23 PM, PJ Houser wrote:
I don't understand what you mean by local closed data policies. Maybe in the
past, but not anymore. Portland has some of the most open data policies in
the States, or so I've heard.
Oh yes, I forgot to mention that I'm in South Carolina, and open data
On 5/1/2011 3:39 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
blindly copying route numbers from TIGER into refs
I'll have to admit that I have done this for most of the stuff I have
ref'd because I usually don't have a more authoritative source.
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On 5/1/2011 6:19 PM, Ben Supnik wrote:
If/when you make contact with the importer, it would be useful to know
what went wrong exactly, e.g. did an automated part of the conversion
fail, what was the last phase of the import the user checked, did the
import fail on upload, etc.
Given the
On 3/29/2011 7:06 PM, John Chambers wrote:
He also changed a motorway link to primary. I don't know how to block
or revert. He's worked around my local area (including that airport
in a building in Winder) so far.
No further activity, so he may not have realized the changes were
live. I
On 4/26/2011 12:50 PM, Ben Supnik wrote:
Richard's idea of building an NHD tile map for tracing seems very
do-able, but it wouldn't save a ton of time - every water feature would
have to be hand-traced, even though we do have them in vector form already.
I'm not at all comfortable with the
On 4/25/2011 6:45 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
Please don't import these without verifying against your own local
knowledge or other sources. Experience is that they are poorly
geo-referenced and/or have other problems
In fact I treat them as individual bug reports; many cannot be
verified from
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