Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-30 Thread David ``Smith''
Wasn't someone working on importing address data from TIGER? I was under the impression that may have depended on tiger:tlid tags on objects already in OSM, but wasn't sure… On Jul 30, 2012 1:50 AM, Alan grunthos...@yahoo.com wrote: On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 16:21 -0500, Toby Murray wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] NYC administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Richard Welty
On 7/30/12 5:11 AM, Kevin Kenny wrote: On 07/29/2012 11:56 PM, Skye Book wrote: Do we have a source for NYC administrative boundaries? http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/districtsmetadata.shtml there also should be boundaries in TIGER. most of the problems i've seen with nominatim and

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-30 Thread Mike N
On 7/30/2012 7:18 AM, David ``Smith'' wrote: Wasn't someone working on importing address data from TIGER? I was under the impression that may have depended on tiger:tlid tags on objects already in OSM, but wasn't sure… TIGER address data isn't nearly accurate enough to import into OSM.

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-30 Thread Phil! Gold
* Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net [2012-07-29 18:54 -0700]: [1] When combining ways in JOSM (at least), values for tiger:* tags are combined with : (colon) as a delimiter, instead of ; (semi-colon). Why, and should this be changed? I believe this behavior was intended to make

Re: [Talk-us] NYC administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote: On 07/29/2012 11:56 PM, Skye Book wrote: Do we have a source for NYC administrative boundaries? http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/districtsmetadata.shtml I'm not sure of the license situation with any of the

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Greg Troxel
10, Park Plaza, Central Square, Bay Village, Middlesex, Massachusetts, 02116, United States of America. http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=21777524 The Central Square, Bay Village and Middlesex are what are confusing me as they look to be points and I'm not sure

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) calvin.metc...@state.ma.us wrote: So I'm somewhat confused about how nominatim actually works. A good example is the building I work in (10 park plaza Boston ma) the version of nominitum on the website gets the correct location on the

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Greg Troxel
Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) calvin.metc...@state.ma.us writes: So basically if we see nodes like that, get rid of them? No, I think it's: If there's a node for the place, it's progress to replace it with a polygon. Not Just delete place nodes pgpaHaOu9jRqT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
*constructively get rid of them For places that already have boundary relations (like Middlesex county) what is the best method to do that -Original Message- From: Greg Troxel [mailto:g...@ir.bbn.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 2:57 PM To: Metcalf, Calvin Cc: 'Serge Wroclawski';

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) calvin.metc...@state.ma.us writes: So basically if we see nodes like that, get rid of them? No, I think it's: If there's a node for the place, it's progress to replace it with a polygon.

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
So I transferred the attributes from the middlesex node to the relation and deleted the node, lets see how this works. If I was to complain about one thing nominatim related it would be the documentation. While I was able to find some pretty detailed info for installing it, but less about how

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-30 Thread Apollinaris Schöll
great idea, have done it manually from time to time when I edit tiger data. just adding my support after reading pro/con for certain tags. Ideally you can come up with a default list and users can extend it. On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Some people

[Talk-us] New York Times Article Mentions OSM

2012-07-30 Thread Mike Thompson
For those who may not have seen this: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/business/28map.html?_r=3 ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us