[Talk-us] USNPS, Great Smoky Mountains Bulk Import In Progress

2013-05-19 Thread Thomas Colson
We have completed seeding a portion of Great Smoky Mountains National Park OSM data this weekend. We focused on the Cades Cove section of the park, which contains a complete sample of the types of features that are of relevance to visitor services and how they can be depicted in OSM. The parking

Re: [Talk-us] USNPS, Great Smoky Mountains Bulk Import In Progress

2013-05-19 Thread Derick Rethans
On Sun, 19 May 2013, Thomas Colson wrote: The parking icons and labels are a bit obtrusive in the default OSM renderer, as are the building labels. I'll likely remove some parking node tags as well as building labels, really not necessary to label every shed and generator building (this is

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

2013-05-19 Thread Phil! Gold
* John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com [2013-05-18 09:49 -0500]: 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. From what I've seen of Virginia, it seems to be mapped

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

2013-05-19 Thread Clay Smalley
On May 19, 2013 4:31 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: (which, I suspect, is why NYC is currently mapped as admin_level=5). Well, that's what's in the specification in the wiki. But NYC is currently mapped as level 8 in OSM. Although now that I think about it, NYC does seem more

[Talk-us] A new openstreetmap.us

2013-05-19 Thread Alex Barth
OpenStreetMap.us relaunched today. Head over to http://openstreetmap.us and check it out. It was high time for this update as our old site which served us well for many years was overdue for an update. Our goal for the relaunch was to create a more compelling introduction to OpenStreetMap, lead