[Talk-us] holes in Columbus OH?

2012-06-11 Thread Peter Dobratz
I currently have the opportunity to do some mapping in Columbus, Ohio. The admin boundary for the city seems a bit odd: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/182706 There seem to be a lot of holes in the multipolygon relation, and it seems strange to me that there are so many places withi

Re: [Talk-us] Seeing things you don't care about in the database

2012-06-11 Thread andrzej zaborowski
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Nathan Edgars II > wrote: >> I agree with this. But I'm not sure that there is a solution. You can use >> XAPI/Overpass API to download only roads in an area, but you get conflicts >> (or worse, you move a node and screw up something else without realizing it) >>

Re: [Talk-us] Seeing things you don't care about in the database

2012-06-11 Thread the Old Topo Depot
>From a slightly different perspective, there are, in fact, many solutions, each of which may be suboptimal in some respects. In any case, the scalability issues arising as a result of data growth will need to be dealt with. Some benefits may be had looking for optimizations to apply to data down

Re: [Talk-us] Seeing things you don't care about in the database

2012-06-11 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/11/2012 7:17 PM, Mark Gray wrote: On one hand, I share the frustration of having lots of new data in an area making some of our tools slower and more difficult to use. In my area a building footprint import slowed down most of the mapping tools and land use polygons can get in the way of edi

[Talk-us] Seeing things you don't care about in the database

2012-06-11 Thread Mark Gray
On one hand, I share the frustration of having lots of new data in an area making some of our tools slower and more difficult to use. In my area a building footprint import slowed down most of the mapping tools and land use polygons can get in the way of editing roads. On the other hand, I really

[Talk-us] Contact info for Ben Supnik

2012-06-11 Thread the Old Topo Depot
if anyone has it, would be apprecaited. Or, Ben, if you're out there, please contact me offlist re NHD shapefiles. Thanks in Advance -- John Novak 585-OLD-TOPOS (585-653-8676) ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetm

Re: [Talk-us] Import discussions

2012-06-11 Thread the Old Topo Depot
The OSM UK wiki has a priorities page ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Mapping_Priorities); since a similarly named page does not exist for the US ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Mapping_Priorities), we should create one and begin populating it. Best, On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:15 A

[Talk-us] User adding hidden and non-official Interstate ref tags

2012-06-11 Thread James Mast
I've just notice that the user "SD Mapman" has added in the ref tags several hidden Interstates and removed what was originally in those tags (example: ref=US 27 > ref=I 124). It seems he's done this for all of the hidden Interstates.http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SD%20Mapman/edits?page=

Re: [Talk-us] Import discussions

2012-06-11 Thread Mike N
On 6/11/2012 10:54 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: Personally, I wish that all those that want to import building outlines would first think about the existing street network (this, after all, being OpenSTREETMap). So much of the US is still unedited TIGER 2005 data - mis-aligned, poorly connected, stale-n

[Talk-us] Import discussions

2012-06-11 Thread Alan Mintz
There have been several threads about import guidelines and building imports lately. Still, nobody is ever concerned with the data size and performance issues that will surely be caused by expanded imports of building and lot outlines (as discussed recently for Bakersfield, California). Shouldn