[Talk-us] Interstate name tag

2008-07-14 Thread Victor Snesarev
Hi all, Just want to get people's opinion on naming Intestate Highways in the US... The Wiki saysto set "name" as "Interstate Highway ###". In practice I mostly see "I-###". Since interstates are divided into two oneway ways, I t

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: GIS datasets for openstreetmap.org - FTP

2008-07-14 Thread Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 10:37 -0700, Adam Layne wrote: > Karl Newman told me that you might be the person to show these > shapefiles to. I've been talking to someone at Mt. Hood National > Forest about their datasets, and I'd like to do the same for all the > national forests eventually. I don't have

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: GIS datasets for openstreetmap.org - FTP

2008-07-14 Thread Ian Dees
This past weekend I wrote a generic shapefile to OSM converter (based on specific converters from Dave and Matt). I was playing with it for my NHD data and realized that my NHD->PostGIS import missed half the water bodies, so I got distracted by that. Anyway, if you have a relatively small area's

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: GIS datasets for openstreetmap.org - FTP

2008-07-14 Thread Morgan Ress
Ian Dees wrote: > Anyway, if you have a relatively small area's worth of shapefile data > that you'd like to convert to OSM, let me know and I can post this > script somewhere. I have a couple of shapefile datasets that I'd like to upload: Pittsburgh, Pa streets (~60sq miles/ ~150km2) and if that

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Gray
Hello, I am a new subscriber to this list. I live in the Atlanta, GA area. I have been adding to OSM a little in my spare time but now it seems to be getting closer to my work life. I have worked a bit on adding OSM as a background layer to our GIS, but today I found this mailing list with this di

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-07-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Mark Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I am a new subscriber to this list. I live in the Atlanta, GA > area. I have been adding to OSM a little in my spare time but now it > seems to be getting closer to my work life. > > I have worked a bit on adding OSM as

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-07-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Mark Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to speak up before finding that the thread was older than I > realized. I have now gone back and found the whole conversation that > has been taking place. I wasn't trying to be mean :). Just making sure you saw it.

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate name tag

2008-07-14 Thread Alex S.
Victor Snesarev wrote: > Hi all, > > Just want to get people's opinion on naming Intestate Highways in the > US... The Wiki says > to > set "name" as "Interstate Highway ###". In practice I mostly see > "I-###". Since inters