Re: [Talk-us] importing bus stops

2012-04-16 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi Paul, On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: From: Martijn van Exel [mailto:mve...@gmail.com] Subject: [Talk-us] importing bus stops Hi, Anyone here with experience importing bus stops? Any particular considerations? To make it more concrete, I

Re: [Talk-us] tiff, dwg and nad83

2012-04-16 Thread Gregory Arenius
Hi, Imported data turns down potential new mappers. I really disagree with this statement. I think the mappers would be turned off if we didn't import it when available. So you have all 250,000 address points for the city but instead of using them you'd rather us go collect all of them a

Re: [Talk-us] tiff, dwg and nad83

2012-04-16 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: That is exactly the wrong message. Between the lines, it reads: Importing is for professionals and you can earn laurels by doing it right. The message we should be sending is: Imports are nearly always bad; they are

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-16 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-04-16 13:24, stevea wrote: At 2012-04-12 17:36, you wrote: I see excellent progress in California during the recent eight days of re-mapping. If you are an editing maniac... Can you comment on your process? I see very little real, coordinated info about tools, concrete solutions, or

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-16 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-04-16 13:52, stevea wrote: At 2012-04-12 17:36, you wrote: I see excellent progress in California during the recent eight days of re-mapping. If you are an editing maniac... Can you comment on your process? I see very little real, coordinated info about tools, concrete solutions, or

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-16 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/16/2012 8:56 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: So, we're basically duplicating the existing way and then blessing it. Is this really sufficient - to verify the tainted geometry instead of re-drawing it? Only if the nodes are clean. Another point, at least in SoCal, is that many of our tainted ways

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-16 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-04-16 14:06, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Or you can simply add odbl=clean if there's nothing ungood about the object (e.g. it was split from a TIGER way and the splitting is something you would have done anyway). Is this really sufficient? Can someone from the redaction squad comment?

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-16 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/16/2012 9:18 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: At 2012-04-16 14:06, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Or you can simply add odbl=clean if there's nothing ungood about the object (e.g. it was split from a TIGER way and the splitting is something you would have done anyway). Is this really sufficient? Can

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-16 Thread Paul Norman
From: Alan Mintz [mailto:alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 6:18 PM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s. At 2012-04-16 14:06, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Or you can simply add odbl=clean if there's nothing ungood about the

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-16 Thread James Mast
I just saw this post on the rebuild list, so you guys might want to be a tad careful when you're doing cleaning work by creating a new way and keeping the old tainted nodes in it. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/rebuild/2012-April/000206.html

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-16 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/16/2012 11:04 PM, James Mast wrote: I just saw this post on the rebuild list, so you guys might want to be a tad careful when you're doing cleaning work by creating a new way and keeping the old tainted nodes in it. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/rebuild/2012-April/000206.html

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-16 Thread Nathan Edgars II
One possible enhancement: add a border of the same color as the highway (e.g. red for primary). This would make it easier to identify which highway the shield refers to, which isn't always clear. This may of course be very complicated, in which case never mind.

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-16 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/16/2012 9:18 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: At 2012-04-16 14:06, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Or you can simply add odbl=clean if there's nothing ungood about the object (e.g. it was split from a TIGER way and the splitting