Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MA towns

2011-10-20 Thread Peter Dobratz
Thanks for uploading these borders. Building on my recently added relations for Tyngsborough and Dunstable, I decided to create a relation for Chelmsford. On the Chelmsford/Westford border you created 7 overlapping Ways, so I deleted 6 of them and then added the remaining one to the relation. Als

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Thread Paul Norman
> From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:nerou...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings > > On 10/20/2011 10:56 AM, Paul Norman wrote: > >> From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:nerou...@gmail.com] > >> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings > >> > >> On 10/19/2011 9:31 PM, Paul

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MA towns

2011-10-20 Thread Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
Ok uploading. The linework that didn't make it in (i.e. border's contagious with counties or towns that were already done) can be found at the link bellow for those who would like to help clean this up. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37626989/other.xml >-Original Message- >From: Greg Troxel

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MA towns

2011-10-20 Thread Greg Troxel
Richard Weait writes: > Starting with Stow, (is this the right Stow?) > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.4237&lon=-71.5119&zoom=13&layers=M > you might decide that the existing town border is correct-enough, then > merge the Worcester / Middlesex border to the town line where they are > expe

Re: [Talk-us] Slippymap for USGS topos?

2011-10-20 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
I've been using http://mapper.acme.com/ which seems to source from: http://mytopo.com/ This least lets me flip between mapnik and usgs. It is not as good as having a true background layer during JOSM or Potlatch editing. ___ Talk-us mailing list Ta

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MA towns

2011-10-20 Thread Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
Upon doing some research this makes sense, going to wipe the lower values >-Original Message- >From: Phil! Gold [mailto:phi...@pobox.com] >Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 1:32 PM >To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MA towns > >* Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) >[201

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MA towns

2011-10-20 Thread Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
Ah I take it certain renderers can't parse semicolons? If so are there some details somewhere? Because I want to be consistent in MA and if I end up sorting through the disputes to be able to do villages as admin_level=10 (or something like that) we're going to want them tagged with semicolons a

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MA towns

2011-10-20 Thread Phil! Gold
* Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) [2011-10-20 12:26 -0400]: > It retags all ways that make up counties to be admin_level=6;8 As I understand the conventions, a way should be tagged with the lowest admin_level applicable, so if it's a member of an admin_level=8 relation and an admin_level=6 relation, the wa

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MA towns

2011-10-20 Thread Andrew S. J. Sawyer
Great work Calvin, regarding the coastline you may want to check to see if it is the average high water mark which is used for the [natural=coastline], just a heads up. When I can, I'll lend my help to the NH/Mass border, etc. Andrew On

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 10/20/2011 12:25 PM, Toby Murray wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 10/20/2011 10:40 AM, Toby Murray wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2011-March/005466.html "I might add tha

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MA towns

2011-10-20 Thread Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
All right so http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37626989/admin.zip It retags all ways that make up counties to be admin_level=6;8 It adds a way with admin_level=8 and boundary=administrative to any town boarder that currently doesn't have one All ways are non overlapping and are split based on where they n

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 10/20/2011 10:40 AM, Toby Murray wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Nathan Edgars II >>  wrote: >>> >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2011-March/005466.html >>> "I >>> might add that trying to revert such

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Thread Paul Johnson
+1. There's also temper and civility issues that make it difficult to amicably resolve issues that have been persistant for a very long time now. His contributions about geography on Wikipedia are a bit stronger and less controversial, perhaps "going with what you're good at" is apropos in the l

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 10/20/2011 10:40 AM, Toby Murray wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2011-March/005466.html "I might add that trying to revert such a large changeset without even waiting for a reply is also somewhat rude." That's

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 10/20/2011 10:57 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: I see I have some new enemies, and the old ones are coming back to slander me. "threatened to remove whole cities from the map", "stomping local knowledge in Oklahoma", reverting a bunch of

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 10/20/2011 10:56 AM, Paul Norman wrote: From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:nerou...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings On 10/19/2011 9:31 PM, Paul Norman wrote: He has a history in Canada of deleting data in the same manner http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/50623

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > I see I have some new enemies, and the old ones are coming back to slander > me. > "threatened to remove whole cities from the map", "stomping local knowledge > in Oklahoma", reverting a bunch of relation fixup because you don't like one >

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Thread Paul Norman
> From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:nerou...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings > > On 10/19/2011 9:31 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > > He has a history in Canada of deleting data in the same manner > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/50623496/history > Are you sure you'

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > I see I have some new enemies, and the old ones are coming back to slander > me. The fact that you keep making new enemies might be something to stop and think about. And for the record, I'm not really an enemy... I do think you have done

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MA towns

2011-10-20 Thread Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
So I did do that with stow as a test, I deleted the current boarder added the new one, turned it into a relation, and merged each of the overlapping county boarders into it. What I intended to do was to import admin data only where there was not already existing data, but didn't notice that a f

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MA towns

2011-10-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: >  If nobody objects I'll start uploading the towns from the admin8 file and > stow file Dear Calvin, I have an objection and a suggestion. See below. > I noticed that a couple of the counties are only relations (i.e. the ways > a

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MA towns

2011-10-20 Thread Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
If nobody objects I'll start uploading the towns from the admin8 file and stow file I noticed that a couple of the counties are only relations (i.e. the ways aren't tagged admin_level=6) so no lines are going to go in there. With this done all borders in Mass will be represented by a tagged way

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 10/20/11 08:16, Toby Murray wrote: Sorry for undoing what I'm sure was a good chunk of work but unilaterally retagging other peoples work on a state-wide bases from a thousand miles away and without prior discussion is not acceptable. +1, if I may say so from a couple thousand miles awa

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 10/19/2011 9:31 PM, Paul Norman wrote: He has a history in Canada of deleting data in the same manner http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/50623496/history Are you sure you're not talking about yourself? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstr

Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

2011-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
I see I have some new enemies, and the old ones are coming back to slander me. "threatened to remove whole cities from the map", "stomping local knowledge in Oklahoma", reverting a bunch of relation fixup because you don't like one particular element - what a crock of shit. And Toby, what the h