Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-23 Thread Craig Hinners
> Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net > For FM 1960, I'd use:> network=US:TX> ref="FM 1960"   I'd prefer to put all of the network information in the "network" tag, keeping the "ref" tag as a pure container for "the unique designation within the network":   network=US:TX:FARM ref=1960   Similar

[Talk-us] appropriate tags

2011-08-23 Thread Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
Trying to figure out how to tag certain things in Massachusetts and was looking for some clarification on appropriate tagging. 1. The things on the Mass Pike that people tend to call rest areas should be tagged highway=services, I think. 2. Highway depots, salt sheds, fiber optic lines, and micro

Re: [Talk-us] appropriate tags

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Dobratz
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: > Trying to figure out how to tag certain things in Massachusetts and was > looking for some clarification on appropriate tagging. > 1. The things on the Mass Pike that people tend to call rest areas should be > tagged highway=services

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-23 Thread Dale Puch
The scheme sounds simple enough at first but is it robust and usable? If not what would it take to make it so? Here are some of my thought on it. The way I see it you take the last element of the network tag (FARM in this case) and that is the network. Ref is the ID in that network The first par

Re: [Talk-us] Planet extract for the US

2011-08-23 Thread Val Kartchner
On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 23:53 -0600, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a ready-made, reasonably frequently updated planet extract > for the contiguous US available somewhere? Right now I am merging the > partial US extracts made available by Geofabrik, but I'd love to be > able to get i

[Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2011-08-12

2011-08-23 Thread Dave Hansen
These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl 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 longitude swaths that should fit conveniently on removable media. ht