Re: [Talk-us] Portland, Oregon surrounding areas - OSM mappers

2011-05-01 Thread PJ Houser
I'm told by my employer that Trimet is the first transit agency in the United States to choose OpenStreetMap as a data source, and invest in updating the area's data. Does anyone else know of others? -- PJ Houser Trimet GIS intern, 503-962-5711 (office) On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Martijn

Re: [Talk-us] Portland, Oregon surrounding areas - OSM mappers

2011-05-01 Thread PJ Houser
I am working on updating the wiki for our data sources (RLIS and CCGIS - search wiki for each of those acronyms). Perhaps I can make a page with a summary from the meet greet. -- PJ Houser Trimet GIS intern, 503-962-5711 (office) On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com

Re: [Talk-us] Portland, Oregon surrounding areas - OSM mappers

2011-05-01 Thread Mike N
On 5/1/2011 2:17 AM, PJ Houser wrote: See a sneak preview of the Open Trip Planner, TriMet's new open source multi-modal trip planner scheduled for release in Fall, and meet the developers involved in the project. This is a very interesting project. I recently began mapping and entering the

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 13-04-2011

2011-05-01 Thread Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 16:59 +0100, Dave Hansen wrote: These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php I wrote scripts to joined them myself to lessen the impact of doing a large join on Lambertus's server. I've also cut them in large

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 13-04-2011

2011-05-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote:         http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/13-04-2011 I had to go update my script a bit since Lambertus's site got moved around.  Please let me know if anyone has trouble with these. Empty directory here.

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 13-04-2011

2011-05-01 Thread Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 12:09 -0400, Richard Weait wrote: On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/13-04-2011 I had to go update my script a bit since Lambertus's site got moved around. Please let me know

[Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Toby Murray
Every time I go editing in some new place, I always find another reason to hate imports. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5186568 I will contact this user and revert the changeset shortly. Dear importers: CHECK YOUR SHIT! kthx, Toby ___

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Mike N
On 5/1/2011 1:25 PM, Toby Murray wrote: Every time I go editing in some new place, I always find another reason to hate imports. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5186568 I will contact this user and revert the changeset shortly. I didn't look very far, but

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Toby Murray
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:  I didn't look very far, but http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5190419 also looks bad: old upload, all nodes, an area sampling shows a string of ghost nodes.  There are probably other bad imports there also. Arg! I was

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Mike N
On 5/1/2011 2:05 PM, Toby Murray wrote: Arg! I was planning on taking a look through their changesets later as well. I have an event to get to right now. I have sent a message to the user but haven't done any reverting yet. the API seems to be running kind of slow right now anyway so I'll

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 13-04-2011

2011-05-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 12:09 -0400, Richard Weait wrote: On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote:         http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/13-04-2011 I had to go update my script a

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Alan Millar
On May 1, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Toby Murray wrote: Every time I go editing in some new place, I always find another reason to hate imports. Yeah... Every time I go editing in some new place, I always find another reason to hate newbies, too. If you are looking for a reason to hate something,

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 13-04-2011

2011-05-01 Thread Mike N
It should be OK now. It worked here, the map section I looked at seems normal. Thanks! ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Alan Millar grunthos...@yahoo.com wrote: On May 1, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Toby Murray wrote: Every time I go editing in some new place, I always find another reason to hate imports. Yeah...  Every time I go editing in some new place, I always find another reason

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Kai Krueger
Hi, Imports have gotten quite a bad reputation in the community as being more of a harm than a help. Partly this is for ideological reasons, opposing any form of import, but a good deal is also due to the fact that many imports are less than ideal on the technical execution side. We need to try

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Alan Millar
On May 1, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Richard Weait wrote: I think that is different in a significant way. It is much easier to fix a newbie than to fix an import. Not if you start your conversation with them with I hate newbies. That was my real point. - Alan

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/1/2011 2:23 PM, Alan Millar wrote: On May 1, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Toby Murray wrote: Every time I go editing in some new place, I always find another reason to hate imports. Yeah... Every time I go editing in some new place, I always find another reason to hate newbies, too. Personally

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Richard Welty
On 5/1/11 2:35 PM, Toby Murray wrote: On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Richard Weaitrich...@weait.com wrote: On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Alan Millargrunthos...@yahoo.com wrote: Yeah... Every time I go editing in some new place, I always find another reason to hate newbies, too. I think

Re: [Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 42, Issue 4

2011-05-01 Thread PJ Houser
Message: 1 Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 08:13:54 -0400 From: Mike N nice...@att.net To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Portland, Oregon surrounding areas - OSM mappers Message-ID: 4dbd4e82.8060...@att.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed

[Talk-us] OpenTripPlanner info and Trimet

2011-05-01 Thread PJ Houser
Ugg, sorry, I didn't edit the subject or erase all the other messages. Here's a fixed version. :) ~PJ See a sneak preview of the Open Trip Planner, TriMet's new open source multi-modal trip planner scheduled for release in Fall, and meet the developers involved in the project. This is a

Re: [Talk-us] Portland, Oregon surrounding areas - OSM

2011-05-01 Thread Hillsman, Edward
On Sun, 01 May 2011, Mike N wrote: This is a very interesting project. I recently began mapping and entering the local bus routes (which even Google doesn't have, courtesy of our local closed data policies). I realized that my work is still useless to the general community because the OSM

Re: [Talk-us] OpenTripPlanner info and Trimet

2011-05-01 Thread Mike N
On 5/1/2011 4:23 PM, PJ Houser wrote: I don't understand what you mean by local closed data policies. Maybe in the past, but not anymore. Portland has some of the most open data policies in the States, or so I've heard. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that I'm in South Carolina, and open data

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Mike N
On 5/1/2011 3:39 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: blindly copying route numbers from TIGER into refs I'll have to admit that I have done this for most of the stuff I have ref'd because I usually don't have a more authoritative source. ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] OpenTripPlanner info and Trimet

2011-05-01 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 5/1/2011 4:23 PM, PJ Houser wrote: I don't understand what you mean by local closed data policies. Maybe in the past, but not anymore. Portland has some of the most open data policies in the States, or so I've heard. Oh

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/1/2011 5:23 PM, Mike N wrote: On 5/1/2011 3:39 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: blindly copying route numbers from TIGER into refs I'll have to admit that I have done this for most of the stuff I have ref'd because I usually don't have a more authoritative source. Hopefully you realize that

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Ben Supnik
Hi Toby, If/when you make contact with the importer, it would be useful to know what went wrong exactly, e.g. did an automated part of the conversion fail, what was the last phase of the import the user checked, did the import fail on upload, etc. Given the discussion of NHD imports last

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Mike N
On 5/1/2011 6:19 PM, Ben Supnik wrote: If/when you make contact with the importer, it would be useful to know what went wrong exactly, e.g. did an automated part of the conversion fail, what was the last phase of the import the user checked, did the import fail on upload, etc. Given the

Re: [Talk-us] OpenTripPlanner info and Trimet

2011-05-01 Thread Tom Brown
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: This is getting slightly OT (if there's an appropriate non-OSM mailing list about open transit data / apps in the US, I'd love to learn about it) but is there a comprehensive overview of the open-ness of transit authorities

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Toby Murray
So it gets worse. It seems that the failure of this changeset was probably noticed. Later the same day, another changeset[1] was created that uploaded duplicate nodes but also got at least some (but apparently not all) of the ways in there. Then some god damned bot came along and merged all the

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/2/2011 12:50 AM, Toby Murray wrote: Tomorrow I think I may try to use my local pgsnapshot database to query all untagged, unconnected nodes in the region and nuke them from that. If you can catch the xapi when it's up, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi#Child_Element_Predicates