[Talk-us] Mapping Party in NYC Next Sunday

2013-05-18 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hey all, Just in case anyone here is in/around NYC and isn't aware of the mapping party next week: http://www.meetup.com/osm-nyc/events/118375942/ Whether you're a new mapper or an experienced mapper, you should join us! - Serge ___ Talk-us mailing

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundary level quirk in NYC

2013-05-18 Thread Greg Troxel
So I propose a different schema: New York Boroughs: 9 Cities (incl. NYC): 8 Counties: 6 and have separate relations for the counties and boroughs (e.g. Brooklyn and Kings County), sharing the same ways. Your proposal sounds entirely reasonable to me. The notion that cities are

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundary level quirk in NYC

2013-05-18 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Clay, Thank you for bringing this up. I have a number of thoughts on this issue, so it may take me a bit to get to the proposal in your email. First, I think that this is a good illustration of why some of us would like all administrative data taken out of OSM and moved into another dataset. The

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundary level quirk in NYC

2013-05-18 Thread John F. Eldredge
You might want to take a look at how Virginia is mapped. Cities in Virginia are not considered to be subordinate to counties, even if surrounded on all sides by a county. Towns, on the other hand, are subordinate to, and part of, counties. Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: So I

[Talk-us] MassGIS L3 Parcel Layer updated

2013-05-18 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi, The Massachusetts L3 parcel imaging layer has been updated. 10 new towns were added by MassGIS on 4/25. 321 of 351 towns are now covered. If you use JOSM for map editing in MA and have not yet tried the parcel layer, you just need to update the image sources, activate it, and restart.