Re: [Talk-us] More Garmin Maps

2009-11-18 Thread Bill Ricker
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Shaun McDonald wrote: >> I don't think the Cloudmade-created maps I posted last time are really >> meant for daily use.  I think they're intended to help people track down >> and survey things like missing street names. > > That's correct, they are the error/noname

[Talk-us] Routable Mass Re: Whole-US Garmin Map Update

2009-11-18 Thread Bill Ricker
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: >  roads are disconnected at state boundaries due to being cut with a >  non-splitter tool.  (splitter has special logic to insert nodes on >  ways at tile boundaries.)  I think I had this problem when using >  e.g. massachusetts.osm.bz2 i expec

[Talk-us] Will Google use OpenStreetMap? (was Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mentioned in NYTimes)

2009-11-18 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi again, I just got my copy of yesterdays paper, (and changed the subject heading) Well, it appears that the author hit the nail on the head, and highlighted the discussion we've been having about this issue. At the very end of it it says "a Google spokeswoman, Elaine Filadelfo, said Google som

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map Update

2009-11-18 Thread Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 18:50 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > Dave Hansen writes: > > > I updated my whole-US map for Garmin devices. It's stolen from the > > Cloudmade state gmapsupp images that you can find here: > > > > http://downloads.cloudmade.com/north_america/united_states/ > > > > and pie

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map Update

2009-11-18 Thread Greg Troxel
Dave Hansen writes: > I updated my whole-US map for Garmin devices. It's stolen from the > Cloudmade state gmapsupp images that you can find here: > > http://downloads.cloudmade.com/north_america/united_states/ > > and pieced together with mkgmap and wget. Just take the gmapsupp.img > fi

Re: [Talk-us] More Garmin Maps

2009-11-18 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 18 Nov 2009, at 01:11, Dave Hansen wrote: > I don't think the Cloudmade-created maps I posted last time are really > meant for daily use. I think they're intended to help people track down > and survey things like missing street names. That's correct, they are the error/noname edition. Sha

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-18 Thread Matthias Julius
Dave Hansen writes: > On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 16:24 -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: >> IMHO it is unfortunate this was not >> done during the TIGER import. It would have been easy enough. > > Sure. But, there were 50 other things that were "easy enough" to do. > Joining county borders, eliminating

Re: [Talk-us] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data - Discussion

2009-11-18 Thread Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 08:57 -0600, Travis Rayhons wrote: > 1) How do you see this information being imported into OSM where > existing TIGER data already exists? For instance, I know that I've > added roads to OSM that didn't exist in the first TIGER import. I > noticed that they exist in the OSM

Re: [Talk-us] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data - Discussion

2009-11-18 Thread Travis Rayhons
Dave and Talk-US, I requested my local area from Dave and have reviewed the information that was provided. I was sent two versions and I'll provide comments and questions on both versions. I know that some of this has already been discussed but I'm adding my opinions to the discussion. OSM1 - T

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] OSM Mentioned in NYTimes

2009-11-18 Thread Sam Vekemans
Awesome! (I was going to get the article tommorow (today), as there is a 1 day delay before it makes its way to Vancouver Island, (and take a photo of it, happy you beet me too it) :) Usually (IMO) for getting articles, i'd scan the top & bottom section of the front page, as well as the header & f