Re: [Talk-us] New List: osm-professional

2010-03-04 Thread McGuire, Matthew
As far as the purpose of the group as distinct from this one, my hope for the professional group would be to focus on sustainably maintaining data in OpenStreetMap that meet non-OSM business needs. I contribute to OSM somewhat casually. I map things I am familiar with. But as an official

Re: [Talk-us] proposed first principles for United States road tagging

2010-03-04 Thread David ``Smith''
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:45 AM, McGuire, Matthew matt.mcgu...@metc.state.mn.us wrote: The US Census Feature Class Code has descriptions of most types types of roads. This would at least tie it to an existing US standard. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/appendxe.asc This designation

Re: [Talk-us] osm sign in los angeles

2010-03-04 Thread Steven Johnson
I'll bet it could be re-used at the OSM booth at the Where2.0 conference, no? SEJ Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands from beans. -Empedocles On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 22:10, Blars Blarson openstreetmap-talk...@scd.debian.net wrote: After SCALE, I wound up with the OSM sign. About

Re: [Talk-us] osm sign in los angeles

2010-03-04 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
I'm in san Diego and can take it up if it's still in LA? On Mar 4, 2010, at 8:09, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: I'll bet it could be re-used at the OSM booth at the Where2.0 conference, no? SEJ Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands from beans. -Empedocles On Wed,

Re: [Talk-us] Motorway vs trunk

2010-03-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-03-03 14:00, Paul Johnson wrote: Dave Hansen wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 15:50 -0500, Richard Welty wrote: Well, it's going to look goofy on the map to have dotted green and blue lines. I agree. However, coincidentally, I drove part of US-101 north of Ventura, CA this weekend

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest signs

2010-03-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-03-03 15:35, Paul Johnson wrote: Alan Mintz wrote: How should one tag the name signs at the entrance to a national forest (e.g. http://sites.google.com/site/am909geo/osm-1/DSCS5938_small.jpg?attredirects=0d=1 )? boundary=national_park is an error according to JOSM

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest signs

2010-03-04 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2010-03-03 15:35, Paul Johnson wrote: Alan Mintz wrote: How should one tag the name signs at the entrance to a national forest (e.g.

Re: [Talk-us] Motorway vs trunk

2010-03-04 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On 4 Mar 2010, at 8:45 , Alan Mintz wrote: At 2010-03-03 14:00, Paul Johnson wrote: Dave Hansen wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 15:50 -0500, Richard Welty wrote: Well, it's going to look goofy on the map to have dotted green and blue lines. I agree. However, coincidentally, I drove part

Re: [Talk-us] proposed first principles for United States road tagging

2010-03-04 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On 4 Mar 2010, at 9:38 , McGuire, Matthew wrote: I see three dimensions of road classification at play here. 1) System 2) Function 3) Observed Character System is the easy one. That is the road system(s) that that the road belongs to especially for signage, but also for road funding

Re: [Talk-us] proposed first principles for United States road tagging

2010-03-04 Thread Brad Neuhauser
So, aside from interstates (which it seems like everyone agrees should be tagged as motorways?), should/could System be abstracted out of road tagging definitions? On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 Mar 2010, at 9:38 , McGuire, Matthew wrote: I

Re: [Talk-us] proposed first principles for United States road tagging

2010-03-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-03-04 09:38, McGuire, Matthew wrote: ... A road's Observed Character is what kind of road it appears to be to a person on the road. For general purpose maps, using observed character to classify the roads intends to match a person expectations to what they see on the ground. Character

Re: [Talk-us] meeting minutes, March 4th 2010 conference call

2010-03-04 Thread SteveC
can't you just copy it in to your email? Not a lot of text after all. On Mar 4, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Richard Welty wrote: the minutes for tonight's conference call may be found here on google docs: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc9fx534_2fk694xc3 richard

Re: [Talk-us] meeting minutes, March 4th 2010 conference call

2010-03-04 Thread Richard Welty
On 3/4/10 10:37 PM, SteveC wrote: can't you just copy it in to your email? Not a lot of text after all. well, yes, i can. if that's preferred in the future i can certainly do that. richard ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] meeting minutes, March 4th 2010 conference call

2010-03-04 Thread SteveC
I think so - better than the extra click. We should do this in OSMF too, I don't think we do... Mike? Yours c. Steve On Mar 4, 2010, at 8:50 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 3/4/10 10:37 PM, SteveC wrote: can't you just copy it in to your email? Not a lot of text after all. well, yes, i

Re: [Talk-us] meeting minutes, March 4th 2010 conference call

2010-03-04 Thread Richard Welty
On 3/4/10 10:55 PM, SteveC wrote: I think so - better than the extra click. We should do this in OSMF too, I don't think we do... Mike? in the future (for the time i'm secretary, which hopefully will end at some point) i'll do this -- a link and the text both. the minutes at the link may

Re: [Talk-us] proposed first principles for United States road tagging

2010-03-04 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
didn't know this page exists. Fully agreed this is the best way to do. It's not perfect and some deviations will make sense here and there. On 4 Mar 2010, at 15:37 , Kevin Samples wrote: Hi, I am a proponent of using the Highway Functional Classification System, which Alan has described