Re: [Talk-us] how to handle far away user making global changes

2012-12-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/14/12 05:54, Peter Dobratz wrote: I guess at this point I would like to pursue reverting these changes, but I'm not sure about what the next step is. I've talked to Shimas and reverted the changes. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09

[Talk-us] Where is this way in the DB ?

2012-12-28 Thread the Old Topo Depot
This way http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/13694101 is not in ways nor way_nodes tables in a PostGIS replica I have of the OSM planet, yet it appears in the master DB copy. I admit that I cannot understand how this might be, and I'm wondering if anyone has more insight into this

Re: [Talk-us] Where is this way in the DB ?

2012-12-28 Thread Toby Murray
Are you running a snapshot schema, imported with osmosis? If so then you just discovered the same thing I did a couple of months ago. Osmosis silently drops ways with less than 2 nodes during import. (yes, ways with zero nodes exist too) This is because they create an invalid linestring which can

Re: [Talk-us] Where is this way in the DB ?

2012-12-28 Thread the Old Topo Depot
Yes, yes I am. This explains why, when I checked timestamps on the zero/one node ways, they were all after the timestamp on the planet file I pulled to create the initial planet DB. It also explains the difference between the Geofabrik errors and the query results returned from the internal

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2012-12-28 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: The open space layer from MassGIS was imported several years ago. This has encouraged people to map out many of the hiking trails. How do you make the connection from The MassGIS open space layer was imported to

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2012-12-28 Thread Phil! Gold
* Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com [2012-12-28 16:16 -0500]: So the question is, what should the exact criteria be for including an open space parcel in OSM. Consider some of the various types of property. I've used parcel data as a layer in JOSM to trace from. It lets me be a little

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2012-12-28 Thread Nathan Mixter
Parcel data in and of itself are not inherently bad to have in OSM as long as they are filtered and modified before adding. For instance an open space parcel probably isn't that useful because it is not represented in OSM. It could be broken up into meadow, wood, scrub, forest, etc. Other parcel

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2012-12-28 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi Serge, To answer your questions, consider the following - Most of the hiking trails in MA were put in over the imported open space layer. - Unlike other countries, It is unacceptably risky to go on a hike on some random trail that might be on private property. You are likely to find yourself

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2012-12-28 Thread Brian May
On 12/28/2012 4:47 PM, Phil! Gold wrote: * Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com [2012-12-28 16:16 -0500]: So the question is, what should the exact criteria be for including an open space parcel in OSM. Consider some of the various types of property. I've used parcel data as a layer in

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2012-12-28 Thread Jeff Meyer
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: The open space layer from MassGIS was imported several years ago. This has encouraged people to map out many of the hiking trails. How do you make the connection from The MassGIS open space layer was imported to

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2012-12-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 28.12.2012 22:16, Jason Remillard wrote: So the question is, what should the exact criteria be for including an open space parcel in OSM. Consider some of the various types of property. I'd say anything that is observable on the ground is fine to map. So if there's a fence around a

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2012-12-28 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi Everybody, Frederik I have been doing the background layer/tracing over technique. So, Frederik's, says no to all of these parcels types. Not much gray area in Frederik criteria. - True conservation land, land that is owned by a private non-profit or owned by the town that is supposed to be

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2012-12-28 Thread Greg Troxel
Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Brian May b...@mapwise.com wrote: And as Phil said, sometimes it doesn't make sense to follow the parcel lines exactly, such as if the parcel boundary extends into a road and it makes more sense to draw the boundary

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2012-12-28 Thread Greg Troxel
Nathan Mixter nmix...@gmail.com writes: For instance an open space parcel probably isn't that useful because it is not represented in OSM. It could be broken up into meadow, wood, scrub, forest, etc. Jason and I are using 'open space' to mean land that is protected from development with some

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2012-12-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Frederik Ramm writes: add it, but if it's just a line in some government database then don't - Here in the US where you aren't allowed to trespass on private property except on certain conditions, these line[s] in some

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2012-12-28 Thread Russ Nelson
Ian Dees writes: Frederik's point is that you should only map things that other mappers can verify or improve on. Since you can't verify borders and boundaries or otherwise make them any better than the government data after they're imported, they don't belong in OSM. Anybody can verify

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2012-12-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Ian Dees writes: Frederik's point is that you should only map things that other mappers can verify or improve on. Since you can't verify borders and boundaries or otherwise make them any better than the government

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2012-12-28 Thread Russ Nelson
Ian Dees writes: The moment it makes its way in to OSM it becomes incorrect. There is *absolutely* no way to improve the data once it's in OSM, so it should not be in OSM. Period. That's a great theory, but I don't think many people subscribe to it. Of course anybody can improve on imported

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2012-12-28 Thread Michael Patrick
So it sounds like what you folks would want is for data where it's available, some sort of tracing background layer, or else a per object import where you could load the data in your editor of choice and manually select how they go in? Yes ... especially for 'large' imports. Looking at it from a