[Talk-us] amenity:fuel and fuel types for the US

2011-08-18 Thread Peter Dobratz
Since I drive a diesel car, I've been adding fuel:diesel=yes to a bunch of gas stations around here, but today I filled up and took some notes at a gas station and I'm not sure how to tag all of it. Here's a list of the fuels for sale at Haffner's in Hudson, NH: Racing Fuel - minimum octane 110 S

Re: [Talk-us] amenity:fuel and fuel types for the US

2011-08-18 Thread Richard Welty
On 8/18/11 6:30 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote: Does anyone know how to translate the US octane measurements to the European ones used (fuel:octane_91, fuel:octane_95, fuel:octane_98, fuel:octane_100)? that's actually hard to do, as there are different ways of measuring octane and there isn't a natura

Re: [Talk-us] amenity:fuel and fuel types for the US

2011-08-18 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Richard Welty wrote: > On 8/18/11 6:30 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote: >> >> Does anyone know how to translate the US octane measurements to the >> European ones used (fuel:octane_91, fuel:octane_95, fuel:octane_98, >> fuel:octane_100)? >> > > rather than messing about, i

Re: [Talk-us] amenity:fuel and fuel types for the US

2011-08-18 Thread Peter Dobratz
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Toby Murray wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Richard Welty wrote: >> On 8/18/11 6:30 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote: >>> >>> Does anyone know how to translate the US octane measurements to the >>> European ones used (fuel:octane_91, fuel:octane_95, fuel:octane_

Re: [Talk-us] amenity:fuel and fuel types for the US

2011-08-18 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Toby Murray wrote: > > So just tag it as fuel:octane_87, fuel:octane_89, etc. Not Sure about > the kerosene. fuel:kerosene=yes would seem logical but I'm not sure > what the non-taxable use has to do with things. I believe that this has to do with road-use taxes.

[Talk-us] NHD data conversion

2011-08-18 Thread Ben Miller
I was watching with anticipation the conversation about pre-converting NHD data for the whole US, but it seems to have died down since June. I think I'm the target audience for this effort (I'm willing to put in time merging the data in carefully, but I'm not conversant in the command-line tools to

Re: [Talk-us] amenity:fuel and fuel types for the US

2011-08-18 Thread Richard Welty
On 8/18/11 10:25 AM, Toby Murray wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Richard Welty wrote: So just tag it as fuel:octane_87, fuel:octane_89, etc. Not Sure about the kerosene. fuel:kerosene=yes would seem logical but I'm not sure what the non-taxable use has to do with things. there are two