[Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Paul Norman
There are a significant number of cities in BC and Washington which have borders that in practice[1] coincide with the Canada/US border. Currently in OSM these are represented with many nearly-overlapping ways. The Canada/US border here consists of the BC-WA border, BC-ID border, BC-MT border, AB-

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Peter Dobratz
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Paul Norman wrote: > There are a significant number of cities in BC and Washington which have > borders that in practice[1] coincide with the Canada/US border. Currently in > OSM these are represented with many nearly-overlapping ways. ... > I am considering replac

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Alexander Roalter
Am 30.03.2012 11:17, schrieb Paul Norman: There are a significant number of cities in BC and Washington which have borders that in practice[1] coincide with the Canada/US border. Currently in OSM these are represented with many nearly-overlapping ways. The Canada/US border here consists of the B

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Alexander Roalter wrote: > Am 30.03.2012 11:17, schrieb Paul Norman: > >> There are a significant number of cities in BC and Washington which have >> borders that in practice[1] coincide with the Canada/US border. Currently >> in >> OSM these are represented with m

Re: [Talk-us] Using TIGER to find missing road segments in OSM after license change

2012-03-30 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > [...] > > The main problem I found with the original query is the Haussdorff > distance parameter, which chosen so small would not catch TIGER ways and > OSM ways that are of very different length. I increased the distance > thr

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Toby Murray wrote: > > The problem with conflicts is if someone is splitting ways that are > members of the US border relation down in Arizona while you are doing > the same up in Washington. But in general I don't think this will be a > huge problem. Much of the U

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Paul Norman
> From: Jeffrey Ollie [mailto:j...@ocjtech.us] > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 8:21 AM > To: talk-us > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Toby Murray > wrote: > > > > The problem with conflicts is if someone is splitting ways that ar

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 3/30/2012 12:55 PM, Paul Norman wrote: From: Jeffrey Ollie [mailto:j...@ocjtech.us] Could this be mitigated somewhat by the use of super relations? IE on relation each for the US-Canada, US-Mexico, US-Pacific, US-Atlantic borders tied together with one super relation? Do any of the tools sup

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Minh Nguyen
Ngày 2012-03-30 9:55 AM, Paul Norman viết: From: Jeffrey Ollie [mailto:j...@ocjtech.us] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 8:21 AM To: talk-us Subject: Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border Could this be mitigated somewhat by the use of super relations? IE on relation each for the US-C

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Paul Norman
> From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:nerou...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 10:02 AM > To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border > > On 3/30/2012 12:55 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > >> From: Jeffrey Ollie [mailto:j...@ocjtech.us] Could this b

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 3/30/2012 3:59 PM, Paul Norman wrote: Yikes, that's complicated. I'm not sure that hatching will help much with a situation like that in general - what if the boundary between two cities is like that? Both would be inside a boundary and have the same shading. It's much less likely that the t

[Talk-us] Changeset: 11154859

2012-03-30 Thread Paul Johnson
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/11154859 has the comment "proposed bikeways ("primary greenways" as rcn)". I wonder, are these actually state cycleways? If not, then LCN would be the correct network. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@opens

Re: [Talk-us] Changeset: 11154859

2012-03-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 3/30/2012 5:08 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/11154859 has the comment "proposed bikeways ("primary greenways" as rcn)". I wonder, are these actually state cycleways? If not, then LCN would be the correct network. Yawn. This passive-agressive shit is

Re: [Talk-us] Changeset: 11154859

2012-03-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > (These are, in a way, part of a state network, with FDOT providing planning > assistance and perhaps funding for connections between rural trails and city > centers.) Cool, that's what I was curious about. But hey, stay angry... __