Re: [Talk-us] Washington DC place node cleanup

On 12/4/20 3:43 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 04.12.20 12:33, Mikel Maron wrote: I'm not sure what the "name" tag should be, but I am wondering what the point of the translations are which simply duplicate the default name. Is it like a marker to say "don't try calling this place anything

Re: [Talk-us] Extremely long Amtrak route relations

It seems that OSM has a an architectural problem with over-large relations? Is modifying the relations in potentially arbitrary ways a good solution? Seeking something that may work now, can any "size-based" relation splits be done in a way that they can be automatically removed at some

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

. cheers - ray On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 2:03 PM Ray Kiddy <mailto:r...@ganymede.org>> wrote: Hello - I am seeing an interesting editing task at the eastern edge of Riverside County in California. As of now, I am not expert enough in JOSM to do it, but I will, at

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

Hello - I am seeing an interesting editing task at the eastern edge of Riverside County in California. As of now, I am not expert enough in JOSM to do it, but I will, at some point, be able to do it and I will do it then. Unless someone else wants it. I am starting to add lines to define

[Talk-us] app for keeping track of relations

Hello - I have an early version of an application that I wanted to share. Please be kind with it. There is documentation on the app. The idea here is that people may want to keep track of the health of a set of relations. Governmental entities, if they find a way to use OSM, will want to

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

://www.georeference.org/doc/zip_codes_are_not_areas.htm Specifically for Zip codes, the best you could do is query for addr:postcode. On Jun 24, 2020, at 2:33 PM, Ray Kiddy wrote: Hello - I am interested in where people in the US lack internet connectivity and I keep thinking that I should be able to use OSM

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

Hello - I am interested in where people in the US lack internet connectivity and I keep thinking that I should be able to use OSM for some part of this. I am recalling (perhaps not accurately) that connectivity information is published by the FCC and I think that at least some of the

Re: [Talk-us] Alt_names on counties

Is there a way that the alt_name vs name situation can be sorted for a key like "operator"? For example, the "San Jose Unified School District" in California gives too few results in overpass. Add queries for "San José Unified School District" and you are good. If I was looking at the

Re: [Talk-us] Local OSM groups in the US

On 1/12/16 5:23 AM, Steven Johnson wrote: Dale & list, TeachOSM has initiated a project with the US Census Bureau we've been calling 'Missing America', dedicated to mapping those marginal areas and vulnerable populations. We're just getting organized, but anticipate local communities

Re: [Talk-us] Legislative districts, Land-use zoning, etc.

On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:19:20 +0200 Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/21/2015 04:46 AM, Ray Kiddy wrote: > > To me, OSM is a tool which is ideal for relating various information > > layers across a multi-dimensional substrate. This substra

Re: [Talk-us] Legislative districts, Land-use zoning, etc.

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:10:00 -0500 Toby Murray wrote: > OSM is not the ideal tool to be a dumping ground for all GIS data. It > excels at holding information that users can see, verify and update. > Boundaries like this cannot be seen or verified by anyone except the >

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:28:18 -0400 Bryan Housel wrote: > Agree with everything you said about *why* groups are important, > except that: now that it's 2015, Facebook groups is really a better > place for this. Well, isn't Facebook so two years ago? :-) As for state

Re: [Talk-us] what happened to Sacramento?

On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:12:52 + (UTC) Minh Nguyen wrote: > Jack Burke writes: > > > > > You're not crazy. Just using the regular OSM website interface, I > > can find > the city node, and the county boundary, but not a city boundary. > AFAICT, it

[Talk-us] what happened to Sacramento?

I have been fixing up boundaries of cities in California and I have found something odd. Where is the city of Sacramento? There is a city there. There is a county. The county boundaries are at http://openstreetmap.org/relation/396460 and that all looks good. And it is not a county/city hybrid

[Talk-us] ok to create a new relation?

I just wanted to check with the list on this. I think it makes sense to do this, but I would like to know if I am wrong or if there are concerns. I am looking at 2 ways: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/33075997 https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/107712882 Together they seem to delineate the

Re: [Talk-us] Fictional / Old locations (was: User HomocideBaltimore)

Good to know about the opengeofiction site. I have wondered what to do, for example, with a school in Sunnyvale CA that closed 20+ years ago. I think it is still on the OSM map. It seems there could be a way to mark a location with "x was here" but that could become a huge mess Have others

Re: [Talk-us] understanding administrative boundary relations

On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 21:40:57 -0400 Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net> wrote: > On 9/4/15 5:09 PM, Ray Kiddy wrote: > > So, there is nothing that a relation brings to the table that a way > > does not? I mean, it is clear that for the purposes of drawing,

Re: [Talk-us] understanding administrative boundary relations

On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 07:06:33 +0200 Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:56 AM, Ray Kiddy <r...@ganymede.org> wrote: > > > It has occurred to me that there will probably need to be a > > "boundary watcher" tool, which ca

Re: [Talk-us] understanding administrative boundary relations

On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 14:11:26 -0500 Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Ray Kiddy <r...@ganymede.org> wrote: > > > > Strangely, I am finding that some of the cities in California _are_ > > in the system, but as ways and

[Talk-us] understanding administrative boundary relations

Hello - I am on a quest to learn more about how administrative boundaries can be managed as relations. I have a bit of experience with these things, but I am discovering the limitations of my knowledge also. Which was the point, actually. I would like to be able to suggest that governmental

Re: [Talk-us] understanding administrative boundary relations

States of America | country | | 3 | NULL | Sunnyvale Elementary School District | school district | ++--+--+-+ As you can see, the relation for the SESD still needs to be defi