Kudos to Kate, Thea, organizers and speakers for a fantastic conference. A
very good use of our time all around and very educational.
One minor thing that may not show up on notes or video: The 2010 TIGER
will be rolled out between end of Nov 2010 and near end Feb 2011 depending
on the state.
Well, personally there is what is, what should be, and what is practical.
The directional prefix/suffix absolutely should not be dropped from any
streets. Even ones that are simple straight lines that change N/S or E/W at
a point along it. Treat them as 2 different streets.
What to
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, personally there is what is, what should be, and what is practical.
The directional prefix/suffix absolutely should not be dropped from any
streets. Even ones that are simple straight lines that change N/S or E/W at
Learon Dalby gave a talk at US State of the Map regarding road centerline
data. For slides of the presentation, see
http://www.slideshare.net/learondalby/open-the-data
My summary is that he has gathered each county's GIS data over a period of
time and now has the entire state's data with a
thanks for sharing this.
I was looking into the lake norfork mapping, there is very little there.
are the lakes and rivers of AR also in this dataset?
mike
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote:
Learon Dalby gave a talk at US State of the Map regarding road centerline
For messy imports in general, would something like this be suitable?
Import the data but with the tags somehow commented out like
import:highway instead of highway, and then let mappers uncomment
individual ways. We'd want a shortcut for uncommenting in the editors,
but everything else would fit
On 8/16/10 9:49 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote:
thanks for sharing this.
I was looking into the lake norfork mapping, there is very little there.
are the lakes and rivers of AR also in this dataset?
i can't speak with certainty, but i suspect it's all roads. you might want
to look at
I got the impression after SotM US that there was a huge interest in doing
imports correctly. For me, correctly means the following:
1. Get permission
2. Convert to OSM format
3. Compare to existing data
4. Upload to the data
I think a tool could be made that automated most of these steps (or at
First, what's the US standard for incorporated places? Should the
actual form of government (town/city/etc) be used?
More importantly, how are unincorporated places handled?
With respect to boundaries, census-designated places are not really
suited for our use. Sometimes it's easy to define a
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Dale Puch wrote:
The directional prefix/suffix absolutely should not be dropped from any
streets. Even ones that are simple straight lines that change N/S or E/W at
a point along it. Treat them as 2 different streets.
1) Why?
2) Do you live in an area that uses
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 23:34 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
What place=* values should be used for unincorporated places? In some
states villages are incorporated; do we skip this value? Do we use
suburb at all, or is everything village or hamlet?
There should be something between 1000 and 2,
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 23:34 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
What place=* values should be used for unincorporated places? In some
states villages are incorporated; do we skip this value? Do we use
suburb at all, or is
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