Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-19 Thread Michal Migurski
I did not know about the Aperiodic site, very cool! It sounds from the advice there that I should use a different strategy with the network tags, and duplicate the "Loop", "Business" and other modifiers to that tag. -mike. On Oct 19, 2012, at 11:26 PM, Chris Lawrence wrote: > My only concern

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Lawrence
My only concern with the scrubbing applies to bannered routes (routes with the "modifier" tag); we've been going back and forth on the proper tagging for seemingly years now, and while I think the proposed scrubbing conforms with the original intent under the tagging scheme, the generally agreed-up

[Talk-us] press from SOTM US

2012-10-19 Thread Richard Welty
we got some. Carl Frantzen of Talking Points Memo asked me about coming to SOTM US and i urged him to do so. he did and here we are: http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/openstreetmap-part-1-new-cartographers.php ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk

Re: [Talk-us] Burlington, Vermont road classification

2012-10-19 Thread Greg Troxel
Andrew Guertin writes: >> If it's a US highway, then it's highway=primary, period. A US >> highway is important simply by virtue of being designated US >> highway. > > Good to hear. Which area of Massachusetts is this from? My experience > with driving there is mostly on 93 and 2 and in Bosto

Re: [Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 59, Issue 20

2012-10-19 Thread Andrew Guertin
On 10/18/2012 07:58 PM, William Morris wrote: > Third local mapper chimes in: As weird as the cartography will look (and > I've seen it appear as such on OSM in other U.S. cities), Route 7 through > Burlington has no business being listed as primary. I can hit a maximum of > 25mph on the sections b

Re: [Talk-us] Burlington, Vermont road classification

2012-10-19 Thread Andrew Guertin
On 10/19/2012 07:55 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > >> Primary highways generally lack stop signs; however, stop signs may >> control major intersections in rural areas with low traffic volumes >> and occur rarely elsewhere. > >> The most notable example of this is North Willard Street[2]. It is >> par

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2012-10-15

2012-10-19 Thread Dave Hansen
On 10/18/2012 08:15 PM, Richard Finegold wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Dave Hansen wrote: > [snip] >> Can or should I seed the torrents? >> >> Yes!! If you use the .torrent files, please seed. That web >> server is in the UK, and it helps to have some peers on this >>

Re: [Talk-us] Burlington, Vermont road classification

2012-10-19 Thread Greg Troxel
> Primary highways generally lack stop signs; however, stop signs may > control major intersections in rural areas with low traffic volumes > and occur rarely elsewhere. The most notable example of this is North Willard Street[2]. It is part of US Route 7, but as can be seen with Bing

Re: [Talk-us] What is the status of the Toolbox?

2012-10-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David ``Smith'' wrote: > The banner at the bottom has some issues. Helpful for new and > maybe intermediate users, but i'd like the option to turn it off. You can do that from the options dialogue (and it remembers your preference). I tried to put a little 'x' close box in there but, well, Flex

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-19 Thread Michal Migurski
On Oct 18, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Toby Murray wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Michal Migurski wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> We're getting ready to do a major data update to the Stamen Terrain layer >> and I've been working on scrubbing the route relations data from OSM. I've >> linked to