Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

2012-05-08 Thread Anthony
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Anthony wrote: > "Doctor Martin Luther King Bolevard" is one thing.  "Drive Martin Luther King > Boulevard" is another. And if we're going to make so many mistakes (1/1000 means thousands of mistakes), I'd rather it just be left as "Dr Martin Luther King Blvd". Y

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

2012-05-08 Thread Anthony
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > 2) My human error rate estimation of 1/1000 seems entirely reasonable. > Think typos, or misreading. I'm sure we see error rates that high now > in OSM and we find them acceptable. A computer that's acting > conservatively will actually pr

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

2012-05-08 Thread Anthony
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Mike N wrote: > On 5/1/2012 11:49 PM, Anthony wrote: >>> >>>  That assumes that the TIGER tags will always be present to assist with >>> >  proper automatic expansion. >> >> I'm not sure what you mean, because I am not making that assumption at >> all. > > >  You me

Re: [Talk-us] WTF happened to Bing's imagery of Mackinaw City, MI?

2012-05-08 Thread James Mast
Wow, this is messed up. I just took a look @ Google's imagery and it isn't blacked out. Looking at it, I didn't see any reason for it to be blacked out.. http://g.co/maps/yxrkg So, it must mean that somebody in Bing is doing this for fun possibly. --James

Re: [Talk-us] WTF happened to Bing's imagery of Mackinaw City, MI?

2012-05-08 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/**edit?editor=potlatch2&lat=45.** > 78&lon=-84.73&zoom=16 > > For some reason, the city is blacked out, but the black only extend

[Talk-us] WTF happened to Bing's imagery of Mackinaw City, MI?

2012-05-08 Thread Nathan Edgars II
http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch2&lat=45.78&lon=-84.73&zoom=16 For some reason, the city is blacked out, but the black only extends to the shoreline. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/l

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data changes

2012-05-08 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Saturday, May 05, 2012 10:19:36 PM Paul Norman wrote: > I've been looking at the NHD data from the USGS site and have noticed a few > recent changes from how they were described on the wiki. > > 1. The viewer has changed. http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/nhd.html > will bring up a map you c