Re: [Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

2012-11-04 Thread Jeff Meyer
Please see notes below: On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: > > Right. So what do you think of the set of rules that I posted a bit ago? > > Well... I like mine better. ('natch!) "Pursue the truth & agreement & do no harm." is a little easier to remember and covers all the cases c

[Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2012-11-02

2012-11-04 Thread Dave Hansen
These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel free to ask. However, please do not send me private mail. The odds are, someone else will have the same questions, and by asking on the talk-us@ l

Re: [Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

2012-11-04 Thread Russ Nelson
Jeff Meyer writes: > On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: > > > > > Right. So what do you think of the set of rules that I posted a bit ago? > > > Well... I like mine better. ('natch!) "Pursue the truth & agreement & do > no harm." is a little easier to remember and covers al

Re: [Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

2012-11-04 Thread Jeff Meyer
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: > > People like simple rules because they're simple. But when you go to > figure out what the rules mean, you have to interpret them. What is > "agreement"? Agreement with you and your buddies as to how to tag? > Agreement with existing tags? Agr

Re: [Talk-us] What to do with unnamed NHD streams

2012-11-04 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 20:51 -0700, Paul Norman wrote: > Background: I'm working on converting NHD to .osm format > > NHD is an extremely large data set. It's about 25G of zipfiles and all of > this converted to .osm would total about 3 TB. This is about 10x-15x times > the size of planet.osm. >