Re: [Talk-us] Route Tagging Consensus

2010-10-29 Thread Val Kartchner
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 23:57 -0400, Richard Weait wrote: > It feels like we have been going around in circles on this for almost > two years. I wrote this in March 2009. I concur. Discussions here go round and round, with no decision being reached. They die then come up a few years later. Sound

Re: [Talk-us] Route Tagging Consensus

2010-10-29 Thread Richard Weait
It feels like we have been going around in circles on this for almost two years. I wrote this in March 2009. http://weait.com/content/badges-badges Can we reset just a bit? Rather than jumping to an answer "The tags shall be this!" can we look at what our ideal goals would be? So from a superf

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Tagging Consensus to Improve OSM (and address some of 41 latitude's concerns)

2010-10-29 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Nathan Edgars II > > wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Val Kartchner > wrote: > >> > On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 15:17 -0400, Nathan

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Tagging Consensus to Improve OSM (and address some of 41 latitude's concerns)

2010-10-29 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Nathan Edgars II > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Val Kartchner wrote: >> > On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 15:17 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Val Kartchner >> >

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Tagging Consensus to Improve OSM (and address some of 41 latitude's concerns)

2010-10-29 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Val Kartchner wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 15:17 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Val Kartchner > wrote: > >> > Sorry to disappoint, but the 17x17 example that you

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Tagging Consensus to Improve OSM (and address some of 41 latitude's concerns)

2010-10-29 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Val Kartchner wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 15:17 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Val Kartchner wrote: >> > Sorry to disappoint, but the 17x17 example that you gave is quite >> > readable. >> Not nearly as readable as a lone 7.

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Tagging Consensus to Improve OSM (and address some of 41 latitude's concerns)

2010-10-29 Thread Val Kartchner
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 15:17 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Val Kartchner wrote: > > Sorry to disappoint, but the 17x17 example that you gave is quite > > readable. > Not nearly as readable as a lone 7. > > > I've attached another 17x17 that is also readable. Sin

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-dev] Super-relations or not

2010-10-29 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On 29 Oct 2010, at 9:05 , Peter Budny wrote: > > P.P.S. Why do I see so many route relations where a way has been added > more than once, sometimes up to 5 times, with the same role? What is > that supposed to mean? typically an error. only use case where it makes sense is a bus route which so

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-dev] Super-relations or not

2010-10-29 Thread Peter Budny
Andy Allan writes: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Peter Budny wrote: > >> That doesn't work; there are cases where it's ambiguous.  If you look at >> [1], US-278 runs along North Avenue (bottom) and Ponce de Leon Avenue >> (top), connected by Monroe Drive (left) and Piedmont Avenue (right).

Re: [Talk-us] Any interest in Google Code-In?

2010-10-29 Thread j...@ocjtech.us
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > That's a good idea. Is there a list of preset or validation test suggestions > out there already? Are there smaller-sized JOSM plugins that could be > written? I'd like a JOSM plugin that would expand US street name abbreviations, e.g. NW -> Nor

Re: [Talk-us] Any interest in Google Code-In?

2010-10-29 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > That's a good idea. Is there a list of preset or validation test suggestions > out there already? Are there smaller-sized JOSM plugins that could be > written? Things I'd propose: A street suffix fixer based on MS Word's track/review that makes

Re: [Talk-us] Any interest in Google Code-In?

2010-10-29 Thread Ian Dees
That's a good idea. Is there a list of preset or validation test suggestions out there already? Are there smaller-sized JOSM plugins that could be written? On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Adam Schreiber wrote: > Perhaps creation of additional JOSM presets/validation tests and fixes? > > Cheers,

Re: [Talk-us] Any interest in Google Code-In?

2010-10-29 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Richard Weait wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > At the Google Summer of Code mentors summit this past weekend Google > asked > > us (the organizations that participated in Summer of Code) to also > > participate in th

Re: [Talk-us] Any interest in Google Code-In?

2010-10-29 Thread Adam Schreiber
Perhaps creation of additional JOSM presets/validation tests and fixes? Cheers, Adam On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Richard Weait wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Ian Dees wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> At the Google Summer of Code mentors summit this past weekend Google asked >> us (th

Re: [Talk-us] Any interest in Google Code-In?

2010-10-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > Hi everyone, > At the Google Summer of Code mentors summit this past weekend Google asked > us (the organizations that participated in Summer of Code) to also > participate in the Google Code-In project. The Code-In project is similar to > the Su