Re: [Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

2011-10-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 10/01/2011 04:24 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: That consensus is very hard to reach :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:State_route_naming_conventions_poll/Account Are any of the people mentioned by username on that page involved in OSM today? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ##

Re: [Talk-us] Complete Addresseses (Was: What does the community want from a US local chapter?)

2011-10-01 Thread Mike N
On 9/30/2011 11:27 PM, Val Kartchner wrote: It is much quicker to fill in address interpolations. Are either of these types of address data actually used anywhere? Nominatim uses them (main www.openstreetmap page, MapQuest) today. Future navigator apps could use them; the current Skobbler/US

Re: [Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

2011-10-01 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 09/30/2011 08:36 PM, Mike N wrote: Really? Are there people who say I'd rather not map because there is no consensus on the roads tagging? Are those people the 20,000 missing mappers in the US? It is more

[Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2011-09-25

2011-10-01 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.

Re: [Talk-us] East Coast Greenway

2011-10-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 07:51 -0400, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: I'm actually in the process of doing this for MA and was trying to figure out the correct tagging, I take it in the US we don't use the local regional national bike route scheme? We do, regional are state owned cycleways.

Re: [Talk-us] East Coast Greenway

2011-10-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 10:13 -0400, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: Is there a place on the wiki where this is spelled out or at least an area of the country I can use as a reference ? Oregon, Kansas, Oklahoma, much of New England, Michigan, near where NCN 76 and NCN 1 cross...

Re: [Talk-us] East Coast Greenway

2011-10-01 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 10/1/2011 6:22 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Isn't this NCN 1? No. They're pretty close in NH-Maine, but differ in several places (the ECG uses unpaved trails while USBR 1 sticks with paved roads). The routings are very different in Virginia and North Carolina (compare the cycle map rendering

Re: [Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

2011-10-01 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Scott Rollins organ...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.orgwrote: Really? Are there people who say I'd rather not map because there is no consensus on the roads tagging? Are those people the 20,000 missing

Re: [Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

2011-10-01 Thread Ian Dees
As someone currently in the OSM US group, I thought I'd share what I hoped we could accomplish: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I'd like to see more discussion and guidance for the US local chapter. So, questions for the community: 1) What would you