Re: [Talk-us] State Open Data

Clifford, I don't have rights to edit the document. MN Data is here: https://gisdata.mn.gov/dataset David, On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 10:30 AM Ian Dees wrote: > Thanks for putting this together, Clifford! > > I was collecting street centerline data as part of OpenAddresses a while > ago here:

Re: [OSM-talk] [BOT] [RFC]: water surfaces

I think that this would be a great Maproulette subject! > On Mar 22, 2016, at 9:23 AM, Maarten Deen wrote: > >> On 2016-03-22 14:10, Frank Villaro-Dixon wrote: >> >> # First goal: >> First goal is quite simple. The idea is to work only on relations >> which have a

Re: [OSM-talk] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.36.0

Maybe it is time to start a new thread and move this over to the tagging list. > On Nov 2, 2015, at 6:45 AM, Colin Smale wrote: > > > > >> On 2015-11-02 13:24, Marc Gemis wrote: >> >> >>> >>> >>> that's the difference between explicit and implicit mapping. If

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve's better map

Agreed. Jukka points to ideas that could enhance OpenAddresses, There is some good momentum behind OA already, let's get together and improve that project. On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Jukka Rahkonen

Re: [Talk-us] Statistics of board candidate edits

Robin, Thank you for running for the board, and for your very convincing statement describing why you would like to be board member. When I think about the membership of the boards of many corporations and NGOs, I often see people who do not have a lot of direct experience with that corp/org's

Re: [Talk-us] Statistics of board candidate edits

To respectfully turn your statement around. I would like to hear from all candidates what skills and resources that they would bring to the board. By being an active mapper, a candidate has demonstrated that they know the project, and that they are putting resources into it to improve the map.

Re: [Talk-us] Statistics of board candidate edits

Excellent description of your experience, education, passion, and commitment Alyssa. Again, I think that the work that Alyssa has done shows that she has skills, experience, and a network that would be very valuable to the board, and fit what is needed to move OSM US forward. I have seen of

Re: [Talk-us] Beach routing

Isn't this all a little bit like mapping for the renderer? (Mapping for the router?) If paths don't exist, should they really be created? If people feel that they should be created, maybe there is a need for a new tag for 'highway connectors', kind of like the flow connectors used in the NHD

Re: [Talk-us] Ramsey County Minnesota opened its GIS data to the public today

Hennepin too. The MetroGIS Policy Board passed a recommendation for all of the 7 counties to do so. Hennepin and Ramsey were the first to vote. Give them a little time and I expect to see clear license terms and convenient download. When we are done with the MN Geospatial commons, much of

Re: [Talk-us] Local user groups

Despite the cost overhead of Meetup, it is definitely worth investigating. Our local Python group started using meetup last year and it gave us a huge boost in exposure and has brought in quite a few new people who didn't know that we existed. To me, the exposure to the (literally) thousands of

Re: [OSM-talk] Carto stylesheet for parks/campgrounds

Has the NPS shared theirs? On Sep 28, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: Just curious if anyone else has created on OSM Carto stylesheet focused on parks or campgrounds. There are a lot of parks near me which have maps which haven't changed in ten, twenty, or thirty years.

Re: [Talk-us] New member

You might also be interested in how the University of Wisconsin redesigned their campus map and based it on OSM data. http://www.sco.wisc.edu/news/evolution-of-a-campus-map.html The developers are giving a presentation on it at the FOSS4G NA Conference next week in Minneapolis. David. On Thu,

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ?

+1 On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com jaa...@helleranta.com wrote: Not quite sure what Werner wanted to convey with the info about the shape and numbers of the long tail of OSM (perhaps nothing more than the numbers). Anyways, I'd just want to say that the tiny 0.1% of

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping coastlines

I have done some editing on the US side of the north shore of Lake Superior. On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Andrew Allison andrew.alli...@teksavvy.com wrote: Hello, ,my US counterparts:        Originally I have not been editing the US side of the great lakes. But with the deadline

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed import: GeoBase Coastlines into Northwest, Washington state

I would hope that this is the same for the Great Lakes as well. David. On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Wim Lewis w...@.org wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:50:13 -0700, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I propose replacing the PGS coastlines (largely imported by blars) in Northwest

Re: [OSM-talk] Printed map books

You might also want to look at some of the newer 'map book' plugins for Quantum GIS. David. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I’ve thrown something together in python. It uses mapnik for rendering the maps and cairo for page layout. It’s on github at

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping is good

I have seen more frequent reference to confirming street names using Google Maps or Google Streetview lately. Is this practice compatible with producing clean ODBL and TOC data? Is is compatible with Google TOS? People seem to scream very loudly whenever Google has allegedly used OSM data for

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Release

Interesting choice of words. A section of map data carefully collected by a mapper in good faith in the past is now considered cancerous. Obviously this cancer was brought on by environmental factors and was not due to genetic issues... David. On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Nick Hocking

Re: [OSM-talk] USGS Topo maps

The 24K topos may have better locational accuracy, but GNIS likely has better temporal accuracy. Some of the topos have not been updated in ~50 years. David. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: Richard Weait rich...@weait.com writes: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at

Re: [OSM-talk] GNIS quality improvement, was: USGS Topo maps

I am interested in this concept/project. On Nov 28, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: On that matter -- I've been working on an idea for a GNIS microtasking platform. What it would do is: * Show a random non-improved GNIS point in your neighborhood - name + map *

[OSM-talk] Research on CrowdSourcing?

I am working on a demo app to 'harness the crowd' to improve locational data for features. The data for this project is not in OSM (except potentially as part of the infamous EPA import), and the output data will not be place into OSM. OSM data may likely be used for background layers in the app

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatic Map Plotting in OpenStreetMap

Come on, almost all of us have been to Haiti! Good thing that we were able to leverage that following the earthquake... On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Hjart hj...@milvus.dk wrote: Mandag den 15. august 2011 13:07:13 skrev kenneth gonsalves: On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 18:34 +0800, maning sambale

Re: [OSM-talk] Where Did You Edit

. David. How about this: http://www.sethoscope.net/heatmap/ (Python on your server) In Perl: http://blog.imtrevor.com/2009/07/16/generating-heat-maps-using-perl/ On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Stephan Knauss o...@stephans-server.de wrote: On 04.08.2011 17:06, David Fawcett wrote: Have

Re: [OSM-talk] Where Did You Edit

Have you looked at Open Heat Map? http://www.openheatmap.com/ and https://github.com/petewarden/openheatmap/wiki/ On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Ian ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, August 3, 2011 9:49:18 PM UTC-5, Josh Doe wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Stephan Knauss

Re: [OSM-talk] Licensing Working Group

+1 On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com writes: I agree.   I don't particularly dislike the ODBL, but I am not comfortable with CT that grants the project permission to relicense under non-share-alike terms later.

Re: [Talk-us] High resolution off-leaf imagery of Virginia (VBMP)

You have to love open, public domain data only published in proprietary formats... On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: I'm not sure how many are aware of this, but the Commonwealth of Virginia regularly acquires high resolution orthoimagery, through the Virginia

[OSM-talk] ArcGIS Online with OSM - Violation of License?

I recently saw a blog post about how one can embed maps from ArcGIS.com and that they have an OSM layer. What jumped out at me is that even though they manage to get the 'Powered by ESRI' text on the map, there is no attribution for OSM. I realize that this may be the responsibility of the

[Talk-us] NHD Hydro Connectors

In some areas where the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) has been imported, the rendering of the data is less than desirable. I am not sure if this is something that should be fixed in renderers or in the data. The issue is that the NHD includes polygons for waterbodies in one data set, and

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Hydro Connectors

. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: * David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.com [2011-02-18 10:13 -0600]: In some areas where the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) has been imported, the rendering of the data is less than desirable.  I am not sure

Re: [OSM-talk] Path with Pit Stops

If you wanted to do the routing analysis yourself, you could also use the following tools: pgRouting (PostGIS/Postgres) http://www.pgrouting.org/ VirtualNetwork (routing functionality in Spatialite) http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-2.3.1/spatialite-network-2.3.1.html A service is definitely

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

Damn, I assumed that it was either the 'evil twin' or 'amnesia' plot line. On Feb 10, 2011, at 8:00 PM, Dermot McNally derm...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 February 2011 01:34, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Oh my God. How many times do I have to say this? NO OBJECTS WERE INVOLVED. By now

Re: [OSM-talk] New tool in Potlatch 2 for areas that share a way

I believe that if one is tagging an area to imply that there is contamination, one should cite an authoritative source. Having your property tagged as potentially contaminated could lead to difficulties in selling or refinancing the property. Even if a property was contaminated, it could be

Re: [OSM-talk] Unsetting CT flag

I think that the pertinent question is whether Steve deliberately accepted the CT and license or was he hijacked by a bad UI. David. PS. Wow, reading all of the emails on this subject over the last year, it is clear that this license issue and the way that it has been handled is obviously the

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve Coast Joins Microsoft as Principle Architect of Bing Mobile

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:57 PM, David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, that already happened a few months ago when NPR's Future Tense did a story about the new OSM tiles for Bing. http://futuretense.publicradio.org/episode/index.php?id=902367746

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve Coast Joins Microsoft as Principle Architect of Bing Mobile

Actually, that already happened a few months ago when NPR's Future Tense did a story about the new OSM tiles for Bing. On Nov 23, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 18:06, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

Great and constructive suggestions Jonas! On Oct 15, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Jonas Krückel o...@jonas-krueckel.de wrote: Am 15.10.2010 um 14:40 schrieb ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen: I agree that we need to have a map to demonstrate what one can do with OSM. But in my opinion,

Re: [Talk-us] Issue in Lake Superior

Mapnik render also appears to be having some problems in Duluth too: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=46.76582lon=-92.08333zoom=17layers=M I remember mention of some major work on the Superior coastline in the last month or so. I believe that it was just the Canadian shoreline though. David.

Re: [Talk-us] Venues for State of the Map US and International Conferences (Peter Batty)

It looks like FOSS4G 2011 will be held September 12-16. http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2010/09/foss4g-2010-wrapup.html On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:  this Denver SOTM 2011 plan looks pretty neat to me as well. however, i'm going to play

Re: [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

A nice breath of clarity... On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: Chris wrote: I think this is an argument for Public Domain. As far as I understand the licenses, nobody is permitted to fork the OSM data without permissions, and it is thus not truly open: -

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] Culvert and average contributor

I my experience with culverts and American English, they always have a top. The wikipedia article matches my experience: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culvert On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:51 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/27  ed...@billiau.net: If you favourite search

Re: [OSM-talk] Culvert and average contributor

+1 On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:  Question 1 : is culvert commonly used by native english speakers ? Is that  a term mainly used by civil engineers ? I understand it to be a passage under a road that isn't big enough for a vehicle - maybe a 0.5m pipe

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

The Mapzen iPhone app does a pretty good job of it. When you start to set a point, a pin marker appears. On Aug 20, 2010, at 2:12 PM, bernhard zwischenbrugger b...@datenkueche.com wrote: hi I keep thinking an editing app for the 3G / wifi iPad would be awesome. It's always on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Seamarks

I know that OSM is the place that 'You too can be an Anarchist' (just like everyone else...) ,but after watching discussions on roads, sea marks, addresses, etc. I feel like the OSM community is missing opportunities to leverage individual data contributions when they can't all be tied together in

Re: [Talk-us] Address Standard

I also think that it is important to think about the street information as data as opposed to just what is necessary for display. By storing a minimal number of address parts as separate attributes, we can greatly increase the value of the data stored. This will make this data much more valuable

Re: [Talk-us] How to get college students involved?

It would be cool to create a wiki page with ideas, resources, tips, and tricks for campus mapping. The page could include links to past efforts. David. On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Sarah Manley sarah.m.man...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Stefan, I did some work with students back when I was with

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Good book on GIS concepts

Randy, You might want to take a look at 'Desktop GIS - The Book': http://desktopgisbook.com/ I haven't read it, but it has good reviews from people that I respect.  One cool aspect of the book is that utilizes OpenSource software, so you can work through the examples and lessons without having

Re: [OSM-talk] Philosophy about Autorouting for Cyclists and new key class:bicycle

You may be interested in the CycloPath project. http://cyclopath.org/ It is an OSM-like project for bicycle routes in Minneapolis - St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. A user can edit the cycle 'ways' and rate preferences for different ways. CycloPath can then generate preferable routes for that user.

Re: [OSM-talk] Post code areas

Another thing to note. In the US, Zip Codes do change. In fact, due to closing post offices, the data is more volatile than it has been in a long time. David. On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Paul Houle p...@ontology2.com wrote: Anthony wrote: The actual areas are basically only useful for

Re: [OSM-talk] Serious consideration of Newbie Editor

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:03 AM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: I don't want to Imagine the BAN THE NEW EDITOR voices here though. Potlatch was already considered too accessible by a lot of people, including me, although I think I got over it, because of the very non-technical

Re: [OSM-talk] Serious consideration of Newbie Editor

I am guessing that OpenLayers could already have most of the functionality that is needed. The primary issue is with the practical limit on the number of vector features being handled by the browser. When used in IE, that is about 300 features. If you can manage the number of features downloaded

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

I have been contributing to OSM for several months, gulping down the Kool Aid. Man, was it sweet and fruity nectar. Lately, this juice is starting to taste really bitter and I am starting to see giant multi-colored spiders in the shadows... I love the idea of OSM, I love mapping my world and

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for user block

I think that that it would be useful to have a dedicated email account(s) or Web form(s) for reporting map abuse and wiki spam. That would limit the publicity that the vandals get and make remediation more quick and stealth. On the wiki/diaries, it would be nice to have a link on each diary

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for user block

Apologies. Next time I will RTFW... On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com wrote: David Fawcett wrote: Sent: 04 February 2010 2:30 PM To: John Smith Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Request for user block I think

Re: [OSM-talk] Revisited: how to edit GPX tracks?

The previously mentioned Quantum GIS runs on Ubuntu. http://qgis.org/en/download/current-software.html It is an OpenSource desktop GIS that is improving both in features and quality very rapidly. David. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 29,

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Mapping Radio and TV Stations _ Help needed!]]

Towers are also present in many of the unclassified DMA maps too. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Karl Guggisberg karl.guggisb...@guggis.ch wrote: Be careful with this list, we don't have the OK to import it into the OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Mapping Radio and TV Stations _ Help needed!]]

: Thanks for that information, David. They are vectorised? How could we access that information? Thanks for letting me know. Regards Sandra -Original Message- From: David Fawcett [mailto:david.fawc...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 6:50 PM To: Jeffrey Ollie Cc

Re: [OSM-talk] Haiti street names

How often is Nominatim being updated? I am watching for an update to show up before I mark it as a 'yes' in the PaP street names table. David. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Colin Marquardt cmarq...@googlemail.com wrote: 2010/1/19 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: The Port-au-Prince

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: [CrisisMappers] OSM / New Web Service Request

I just got denied by CrisisMappers, so that may not be the best route to go... David. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Jonas Krückel o...@jonas-krueckel.de wrote: FYI Maybe this can be done with OpenLayers? Email address is below if you want to get in contact or subscribe to the

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing - Optimally Sorting Vias

If you import your OSM data into a PostGIS database, you should be able to use PG Routing. http://pgrouting.postlbs.org/ PGRouting does the Traveling Sales Person algorithm. http://pgrouting.postlbs.org/wiki/TravellingSalesPerson The OpenRouter project is a lot less mature, but you may also

Re: [OSM-talk] Jacmel Haiti, DigitalGlobe Imagery, and Road Alignment

Is there confirmation that the referencing/rectification of the Digital Globe is good/best. I hate to keep moving features around to chase the latest imagery. David. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:27 PM, David G. Smith PE PLS dsm...@synergist-tech.com wrote: I had digitized some of those roads and

Re: [Talk-us] Ohio Statewide Imagery Program

David, I am guessing that you know that it is pretty easy to view WMS in different SRS in Merkaartor. Here is a link on adding new SRSs to Merkaartor. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Merkaartor_doc_0.12#Adding_Additional_Projections You can easily add new SRS to the config file. They

Re: [OSM-talk] Our work is used in Haiti.

Related to this, I was thinking last night if it would be of value if there was a Web service/app like maposmatic http://www.maposmatic.org/ to support work in Haiti. The OSM data would be overlaid with Military Grid lines to provide a coordinate system that many of the military operations are

Re: [Talk-us] Import of EPA data

I don't support the import at this time either. I think that this type of data is far better queried from the source at the time it is needed and mashed on top of OSM. States are continually improving this data and pushing it up to EPA where the changes will be reflected in new versions of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Slightly OT: Learning GIS?

Serge, Check out Quantum GIS, it is a powerful OpenSource desktop GIS that is evolving pretty rapidly. It also includes a plugin architecture, so people can write their own Python plugins. http://www.qgis.org/ OSGEO maintains a list of educational content in their wiki:

Re: [Talk-us] Import of EPA data

My preference is that you roll the data import back. The spatial accuracy is poor, and I know that there is more current data for at least my state. I am new to OSM, but importing 100k points with known accuracy issues does not make sense. Many of these points are difficult to crowd-improve

Re: [Talk-us] Import of EPA data

, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:27 PM, David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.com wrote: I also don't think that man_made=envionmental_hazard is an appropriate tag. That is easy to fix. Not automatically.  I've seen this tag on a sewage

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

I appreciate your enthusiasm for getting environmental data into OSM. I think that it can have value, but only if it is done carefully and with maintenance in mind. The spatial accuracy of the EPA data that you uploaded is not very good. I have to say that even in mixed-case, it really subtracts

Re: [OSM-talk] When will the next mapnik coastline update be?

This is interesting. I have been making some coastline edits and waiting for them to show up in the main Mapnik map layer on OSM. I have seen edits that I make to highways show up in the Mapnik layer, so I assumed that my coastline edits should be showing up soon. I guess the incorrect

[OSM-talk] Coastlines and Structures

I have some questions about standard practices for coastlines and structures that define or protrude from the coast. Is there a specific place for discussion of this topic area, or is this list the best place? Thanks, David. ___ talk mailing list

[Talk-us] Marking closed bridges

I am trying to figure out how to mark up a foot bridge that is closed. The bridge is still standing, but it is gated off because it is unsafe. To me, it doesn't make sense to remove the bridge, like in the case of a bridge that has been washed out. The bridge is still standing, but I want to be

Re: [Talk-us] Marking closed bridges

I agree that it would be good to have a standard answer. I am thinking that the tag should be used for both symbology and connectivity. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 12/3/09 10:28 PM, Seth Fitzsimmons wrote: for that matter, marking roads