[Talk-us] I am that MSP/St. Cloud, MN person

2009-10-05 Thread Mark Dalton
I would like to bring together some newbies to experienced people to help everyone get things done. I would be happy to find a venue, supply snacks, etc.. Here are some of the questions I have been asked to get a feel for some experience that would be helpful. I will go through the FAQ's and arc

[Talk-us] MSP area folks?

2009-10-05 Thread Richard Weait
A good friend (not yet on talk-us) is looking to organize OSM meeting in/around MSP/St.Cloud. Anybody else here interested in participating? Let me know off-list and I'll put you in-touch. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists

Re: [Talk-us] Ka'ula Rock Missing from Yahoo Satellite Imagery

2009-10-05 Thread Scott Atwood
I'm certain these islands and atolls exist, and that it is a problem with the Yahoo imagery. All of the publicly accessible satellite imagery seems to be of variable resolution, depending on the perceived importance of the area in question (or other factors), so it isn't too surprising that barren

Re: [Talk-us] Ka'ula Rock Missing from Yahoo Satellite Imagery

2009-10-05 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
have seen other small islets missing in yahoo, but they are seen in google imagesmust be a yahoo problem On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Scott Atwood wrote: > Kaʻula Rock is a tiny islet a couple of dozen miles southeast of Niʻihau in > the Hawaiian Islands. The islet appears in the imported PG

[Talk-us] Ka'ula Rock Missing from Yahoo Satellite Imagery

2009-10-05 Thread Scott Atwood
Kaʻula Rock is a tiny islet a couple of dozen miles southeast of Niʻihau in the Hawaiian Islands. The islet appears in the imported PGS coastline data and in the recently imported TIGER boundary data. But even at maximum zoom, the islet doesn't appear in the Yahoo satellite imagery. I was hoping

Re: [Talk-us] Mailboxes, etc.

2009-10-05 Thread Chris Hunter
I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree here. Different countries *do*blur the line between shops and post offices. For example, I've visited Canada quite a few times, and quite a few drugstores sell stamps and accept mail for delivery under the Canada Post (canadian equivalent to USPS) sign. I

Re: [Talk-us] Calling Coloradans

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Batty
Hi all, we never really confirmed this get-together, but I was in touch with Steve today and unfortunately it looks as though he will have to head out of Denver earlier than planned, so we are going to postpone this pub meetup (unless Steve sends a message to say something different, in which case

Re: [Talk-us] Mailboxes, etc.

2009-10-05 Thread Barry Parr
> >the US. The wiki page does say that post_office is usable for private > >facilities, but I disagree that such use is reasonable - the government > >office and a private mailbox shop are totally different kinds of > >entities. > > > >I would call them > > > > shop=shipping > > > >or > > > >

[Talk-us] Hawaii and other areas, 2007 TIGER not NAD83

2009-10-05 Thread Mark Gray
Reading the notes for the 2009 Tiger data at http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/faq.html I found the following quote (line breaks added by me): In the 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles, the following areas had not gone through the NAD83 transformation process and were still within local astronomical da

[Talk-us] Big Island, Maui, Lanai, and Molokai (was Re: Characterizing Systematic Errors in Hawaii and US Pacific Island Data)

2009-10-05 Thread Scott Atwood
Big Island (Hawai'i Island): I spot checked the road network here. With the exception of portions of the Kailua-Kona area, the roads everywhere I checked hadn't been edited since the 2007 TIGER import. And all data (even most of the Kailua-Kona data that had been manually edited) suffered from th

[Talk-us] Maui, Lanai, and Molokai (was Re: Characterizing Systematic Errors in Hawaii and US Pacific Island Data)

2009-10-05 Thread Scott Atwood
Lanaʻi: This is a small island with a relatively limited road network, concentrated mostly in a single small, central town. It looks like there has been extensive manual editing of the road network, and it seems to correspond fairly well to the satellite photos. Molokaʻi: The coastline data seem