Re: [Talk-us] border screwup by ToeBee needs reverting

2011-03-26 Thread Russ Nelson
Ian Dees writes: > I personally don't think borders that are controlled by others belong in OSM > but if others insist that the borders are there then I think they should at > least be represented with clean OSM data. Yet Another reason to have http://www.closedstreetmap.org -- renderers need t

Re: [Talk-us] Civil War sites

2011-03-26 Thread Richard Welty
On 3/26/11 5:53 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: Richard Welty writes: > historical mapping can be hard. i have the resources to do a bunch of it for > the Civil War, but the tagging system doesn't support a lot of the data and > it would just make a mess of the map, i think, right now. OSM doe

Re: [Talk-us] Civil War sites

2011-03-26 Thread Russ Nelson
Richard Welty writes: > historical mapping can be hard. i have the resources to do a bunch of it for > the Civil War, but the tagging system doesn't support a lot of the data and > it would just make a mess of the map, i think, right now. OSM doesn't have a good concept of time. It would be re

Re: [Talk-us] "Screw-up" of borders

2011-03-26 Thread Russ Nelson
Charlotte Wolter writes: > Nathan, > > I read on the Talk US forum that I have made a mistake on a > state boundary near Four Corners. Specifically, you said I had > "screwed up" the border. It would have been helpful if you had > contacted me directly and worked with me to fix t

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-26 Thread Richard Welty
On 3/26/11 11:43 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 3/26/2011 11:37 AM, Richard Welty wrote: a helpful visualizer for the US would be one that flags speeds w/o a units tag (kph default). the mph option was added to the wiki in recent memory, and i for one tagged a lot of US roads with kph values bef

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-26 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 3/26/2011 11:37 AM, Richard Welty wrote: a helpful visualizer for the US would be one that flags speeds w/o a units tag (kph default). the mph option was added to the wiki in recent memory, and i for one tagged a lot of US roads with kph values before i became aware of the update to the maxspe

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-26 Thread Richard Welty
On 3/26/11 11:37 AM, Richard Welty wrote: On 3/26/11 7:51 AM, Mike N wrote: As a side note: the speed limit in mph has confounded the Skobbler designers - possibly because their data is filtered via Cloudmade. There are many roads already fully tagged with maxspeed that get Mapdust reports o

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-26 Thread Richard Welty
On 3/26/11 7:51 AM, Mike N wrote: On 3/26/2011 12:58 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: Great tool for visualizing speed limits The US convention of 'xx mph' has proved difficult for many map consumers. I have bugged all the other "Speed Limit Visualizer" providers, but no one has come up with a func

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Long-distance scenic roads

2011-03-26 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2011-02-24 18:15, Richard Welty wrote: On 2/24/11 6:44 PM, Charlotte Wolter wrote: As for tags, shouldn't they be tagged for the actual way, no matter what the route? Then, given that these are historically or scenically important, is there some way to tag them with something like a "histo

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-26 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2011-03-26 07:22, Nathan Edgars II wrote: The ITO map isn't loading now; I was going to check if it correctly treats a one-way with x lanes as equivalent to a two-way with 2x lanes. ...and maybe 2x+1 lanes. I typically tag an arterial with 2 lanes in each direction plus a center turn lane a

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-26 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 3/26/2011 7:51 AM, Mike N wrote: The better the visualizers and consumers, the more maxspeeds will get entered. You could almost needed a stopwatch to measure the delay between Mapquest rendering tollways as green and the completion of toll road markings in the US. Well that was mainly me ha

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-26 Thread Mike N
On 3/26/2011 12:58 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: Great tool for visualizing speed limits The US convention of 'xx mph' has proved difficult for many map consumers. I have bugged all the other "Speed Limit Visualizer" providers, but no one has come up with a functional speed limit visualizer in M

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Alan, Alan Mintz wrote: http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2011/03/ito-map-extended-to-cover-usa-canada.html Great tool for visualizing speed limits, FIXMEs, layers, etc.! The ITO tool indeed has a number of cool and unique features. The FIXME layer that you mention is however nothing new as it h