[Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM data density - top regions

2012-05-27 Thread Alan Mintz
I wrote: Here are some details about a small piece* of one of these Kern County tiles: 1667KB OSM XML 6036 nodes: - 5702 nodes that are part of building ways - 256 trees - 69 highway nodes 525 ways - 489 building ways - 34 highways That is to say this medium-density (4-5 houses per acre) res

[Talk-us] Topo map source?

2012-05-27 Thread Russ Nelson
Do we have a new source for WMS topo maps now that Terraserver (msrmaps.com) has been shut down? Can I get a working URL from somebody? -- --my blog is athttp://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | She

Re: [Talk-us] Federally Funded Research R&D Centers: landuse=military?

2012-05-27 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-05-25 14:41, stevea wrote: Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federally_Funded_Research_and_Development_Center I would go with landuse={commercial|industrial} for the bulk of them that are not directly military. Even those that work for DoD may "look" like a normal commercial/ind

Re: [Talk-us] Railway start and end dates?

2012-05-27 Thread Russ Nelson
Nathan Edgars II writes: > Why when the tracks were removed? What if a bridge was washed out and > the tracks beyond were left to rust? What about (say) the Brooklyn Cooperage line out of St. Regis Falls? It was lain, torn up supposedly for good, and laid down again. start_date1 and start_date

Re: [Talk-us] Railway start and end dates?

2012-05-27 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/27/2012 1:51 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: Nathan Edgars II writes: > I'm considering using http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:start_date > and end_date for some railways, but there seems to be too much > ambiguity. First, if it's now a highway=*, I'd use start_date:railway > for wh

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Railway start and end dates?

2012-05-27 Thread Bill Ricker
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: > And you don't need start_date:railway, because you've already created > a relation for most every railway, so put start_date on the relation. > That's an excellent suggestion from a data point of view too. -- Bill @n1vux bill.n1...@gmail.co

Re: [Talk-us] Railway start and end dates?

2012-05-27 Thread Russ Nelson
Nathan Edgars II writes: > I'm considering using http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:start_date > and end_date for some railways, but there seems to be too much > ambiguity. First, if it's now a highway=*, I'd use start_date:railway > for when the line opened. But on a railway=disused, wo

[Talk-us] Railway start and end dates?

2012-05-27 Thread Nathan Edgars II
I'm considering using http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:start_date and end_date for some railways, but there seems to be too much ambiguity. First, if it's now a highway=*, I'd use start_date:railway for when the line opened. But on a railway=disused, wouldn't this be when it started to be

Re: [Talk-us] Federally Funded Research R&D Centers: landuse=military?

2012-05-27 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/27/2012 7:15 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: That raises an interesting question, which is the presumption that landuse= is nonoverlapping and tiles the world. Besides the issue with confusion between landuse and landcover, that single-tiling view seems like an unreasonable oversimplificiation of a

Re: [Talk-us] Federally Funded Research R&D Centers: landuse=military?

2012-05-27 Thread Greg Troxel
I, too, am interested in this question. I have such a facility in my neighbourhood, for which I have official cadastral data. I asked on IRC about it, and was quite brusquely rebuffed with, essentially, "barrier=fence is the only way to map it." (When I pointed out that the fence doesn't

Re: [Talk-us] Federally Funded Research R&D Centers: landuse=military?

2012-05-27 Thread Greg Troxel
Regarding Lincoln Labs, I forget if they have military security on their driveway; if so, landuse remains military and they're a tenant. If they have their own industrial access, maybe they are industrial. That raises an interesting question, which is the presumption that landuse= is nonover