Usually a CDP is simply an arbitrary area drawn by the Census Bureau
for statistical purposes. Does it sound reasonable that these should
at least not be treated as ordinary boundaries, if not (carefully)
deleted altogether where not based on actual administrative
boundaries?
_
The CDP functions as a statistical area for Census Bureau purposes. The
definition is:
"A statistical entity comprising a dense concentration of population that is
not within an incorporated place but is locally identified by a name. CDPs
are delineated cooperatively with state and local and trib
There was a thread that touched on this a while back
(http://www.mail-archive.com/talk-us@openstreetmap.org/msg03117.html),
and I'll repeat what I said then: I don't think you can say "usually"
with the Census data. You really need to look at it on a
state-by-state basis. While in some states CDP
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Brad Neuhauser
wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>> Usually a CDP is simply an arbitrary area drawn by the Census Bureau
>> for statistical purposes. Does it sound reasonable that these should
>> at least not be treated as ordinar
I was adding a couple local USPS Post Office drop box locations using
Potlatch when I wondered if there was a public list of locations I could
upload. I did find that there was a release of 2005 locations that was
released under the Freedom of Information Act. There are 20 Excel files
ranging fr
I would say that at least 1/3 of the post office drop boxes nationwide have
been removed or pulled out of service since this data has been released,
making an import of the data both inaccurate (due to geocoding) and old.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kirk Ireson wrote:
>
> I was adding a coup
These sites might also be interesting:
http://www.payphone-project.com/mailboxes/ and http://www.mailboxmap.com/
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
> I would say that at least 1/3 of the post office drop boxes nationwide have
> been removed or pulled out of service since this data
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kirk Ireson wrote:
>
> I was adding a couple local USPS Post Office drop box locations using
> Potlatch when I wondered if there was a public list of locations I could
> upload. I did find that there was a release of 2005 locations that was
> released under the Fr
Ian,
That payphone-project website is actually where I got the initial
information about the downloadable files.
Cheers,
~Kirk
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On 06/10/2010 02:50 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kirk Ireson wrote:
>>
>> I was adding a couple local USPS Post Office drop box locations using
>> Potlatch when I wondered if there was a public list of locations I could
>> upload. I did find that there was a release
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Kirk Ireson wrote:
>
> I was adding a couple local USPS Post Office drop box locations using
> Potlatch when I wondered if there was a public list of locations I could
> upload. I did find that there was a release of 2005 locations that was
> released under the Fr
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Katie Filbert wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Kirk Ireson wrote:
>
>>
>> -Is this compatible licensing?
>>
>> -What kind of attribution is required?
>>
>>
> The USPS is not a government agency, and it puts full copyrights on its
> data. Thus it's not pu
so just do another FOIA request?
On Jun 10, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
> I would say that at least 1/3 of the post office drop boxes nationwide have
> been removed or pulled out of service since this data has been released,
> making an import of the data both inaccurate (due to geocodi
Friends,
Hillsman, Edward wrote:
> The websites for these companies do not show all of the boxes I have
> mapped from direct observation.
There's an important message in what Ed writes ;-)
It is probably a natural hacker instinct: Map one drop box manually, ok.
Map two, accetable. Map three and
> Please let's not start this discussion here (again probably, I'm not
> going to search the archives). This is a religious topic - there's no
> "right" answer and discussions rarely result in anything positive.
> For reference, please read:
A more relevant thread is at
http://lists.openstree
> Who created this .POI format? Is the specification available
> somewhere? How many devices support this particular format?
I now see that it is basically just a .GPX format -
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/6202 . I don't yet know where to find the
list of acceptable choices for 'Category'
geocoder.us does use TIGER lines [1], which should also clarify the
limits of the service (as they do in their FAQ)
[1] http://geocoder.us/help/faq.shtml
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Joshua Finnie wrote:
> As for the software used with http://geocoder.us, I found this was the
> license for t
Oops, forgot to fix "to" field. again.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Mike N. wrote:
>> There are tons of websites whose niche is to get people to map something
>> as thoroughly as possible so others can download the files and stick them
>> on their satnav units (e.g. http://www.poi-factory.com
The age of the data is definitely an issue. The two websites that Ian Dees
suggested do not agree for the area where I live--they are not even close to
agreeing. Also, there can be serious artifacts of the geocoding process. This
shows in the two websites. It appears that both use data geocoded
As for the comment about copyright, I am not sure if this pertains to
geographic data like locations of post offices or mail boxes. From
Wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government#Exemptions
):
Exemptions
Works by certain independent agencies, corpor
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> POIs are
> extraordinarily easy to survey, anyone with a decent mobile gadget can
> do it. Use it as an opportunity to get people interested!
>
> (Maybe you can elicit from USPS the *number* of drop boxes in a given
> area, so you have an id
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Joshua Finnie wrote:
> As for the comment about copyright, I am not sure if this pertains to
> geographic data like locations of post offices or mail boxes. From
> Wikipedia (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government#Exemption
> There are tons of websites whose niche is to get people to map something
> as thoroughly as possible so others can download the files and stick them
> on their satnav units (e.g. http://www.poi-factory.com/).
Is there already a converter from .OSM to .POI? I'd like to offer free
current P
> geocoder.us does use TIGER lines [1], which should also clarify the
> limits of the service (as they do in their FAQ)
>
> [1] http://geocoder.us/help/faq.shtml
That also means that it is located within an accuracy of only the nearest
block.
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T
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:59 PM, David ``Smith'' wrote:
>
> Why doesn't the talk-us list use the "reply-to" field so that simple
> replies go to the list, not just the original poster? The newbies
> list does that. Every other e-mail list I've ever been on does that.
> So why not this one?
Plea
...if not worse
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Mike N. wrote:
>> geocoder.us does use TIGER lines [1], which should also clarify the
>> limits of the service (as they do in their FAQ)
>>
>> [1] http://geocoder.us/help/faq.shtml
>
> That also means that it is located within an accuracy of only
Oops, forgot to fix the "to" field...
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> Usually a CDP is simply an arbitrary area drawn by the Census Bureau
> for statistical purposes. Does it sound reasonable that these should
> at least not be treated as ordinary boundaries, if not (c
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Kirk Ireson wrote:
> released under the Freedom of Information Act. There are 20 Excel files
> ranging from 14,000 to 65,000 lines in length each and it looks like they do
> have all the locations. I thought it would be a good project for me to
> extract/clean up
As for the software used with http://geocoder.us, I found this was the
license for the PERL module:
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
> Copyright (C) 2004 by Schuyler Erle and Jo Walsh
> This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> under the same terms as Perl itself, either P
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 16:59 -0400, David ``Smith'' wrote:
> Why doesn't the talk-us list use the "reply-to" field so that simple
> replies go to the list, not just the original poster? The newbies
> list does that. Every other e-mail list I've ever been on does that.
> So why not this one?
It's
Why doesn't the talk-us list use the "reply-to" field so that simple
replies go to the list, not just the original poster? The newbies
list does that. Every other e-mail list I've ever been on does that.
So why not this one?
I know I can hit "reply-all" instead of "reply" but that still
requires
http://www.usps.com/foia/
Under the owned/leased properties data:
*"The information contained in the report is provided by the United States
Postal Service under the Freedom of information Act and should not be
redistributed or resold."*
Not sure if they can hold people to that or they just want to
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