[Talk-us] Turnouts (US-style passing places)

2011-03-11 Thread Alan Mintz
On long or inclined two-lane roads (e.g. in the mountains), there are turnouts at regular intervals on each side of road for slower traffic to pull off to allow faster traffic to pass them. These are different than wide spots on a dirt road that are usable by traffic in either direction, which

Re: [Talk-us] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-11 Thread Steve Coast
did you do that? I'm curious to look at addresses near me and help import On 3/2/2011 12:59 PM, Ian Dees wrote: Hi All, I'm planning on converting these to OSM format in the coming hours and dividing them up into chunks of some size that can be relatively easily checked by humans. I'll

Re: [Talk-us] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-11 Thread Ian Dees
I did, but I held off because most of the data wasn't very useful (points in the middle of the road or in the middle of a field, etc.) When I get home I can upload the files I have. On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: did you do that? I'm curious to look at

Re: [Talk-us] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-11 Thread Steve Coast
huh... please do, would be fun to look On 3/11/2011 3:01 PM, Ian Dees wrote: I did, but I held off because most of the data wasn't very useful (points in the middle of the road or in the middle of a field, etc.) When I get home I can upload the files I have. On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:56 PM,

Re: [Talk-us] Summer of Code 2011 Ideas

2011-03-11 Thread dion_dock
As admin for OSM's application to Google's Summer of Code this year, I'd like to remind everyone that we're looking for some project ideas for students to work on here on the wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2011. The application deadline is roughly 24 hours

[Talk-us] Mapquest rendering issue

2011-03-11 Thread Nathan Edgars II
http://open.mapquest.com/link/10-YfsRKQZk I figured someone higher-up would have noticed and fixed this by now. There's a roughly drawn boundary outside which the US rendering rules don't apply. This boundary sometimes crosses into the US. Is this boundary even necessary? What's wrong with