Re: [Talk-us] Putting businesses on OSM with onosm.org

2013-08-21 Thread Alex Barth
This is great. - Right now if your business is already on there you're kinda falling through the cracks. - How are you thinking this should develop in the future? Direct editing on OSM? On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: At the Chicago Hack Weekend several

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal

2013-08-21 Thread Steven Johnson
I am strenuously in favor of keeping whichever feature ID enables us to know the lineage and provenance of the GNIS point. That bit of metadata can be useful for downstream uses. There are instances where the ele tag is useful, even if only as a rough guide, but I don't have strong feelings about

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal

2013-08-21 Thread Darrell Fuhriman
On Aug 21, 2013, at 10:19, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: The ele tag is of unknown accuracy. It can be off by much more for mountains. This is the case when it's a real steep cliff between the sampling of NED data. found one peak where it was off by 300ft this is simply

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal

2013-08-21 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Serge, - If there are two tags for the feature id, we should pick one and change the other one. There aren't two tags for feature_id, there's only feature_id. This UUID tag appears to be related to the

Re: [Talk-us] Putting businesses on OSM with onosm.org

2013-08-21 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: This is great. - Right now if your business is already on there you're kinda falling through the cracks. Yea, there's definitely room for improvement here. Right now a business would add themselves again via a note. But...

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal

2013-08-21 Thread Darrell Fuhriman
On Aug 21, 2013, at 10:38, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: I am strenuously in favor of keeping whichever feature ID enables us to know the lineage and provenance of the GNIS point. That bit of metadata can be useful for downstream uses. I agree. While I know some are not fans

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal

2013-08-21 Thread Paul Norman
From: Serge Wroclawski [mailto:emac...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal There was another, gnis:fcode, I believe, which people wanted preserved. My solution to this ambiguity is to explicitly list the tags to remove, rather than say All gnis tags except X,Y ,Z

[Talk-us] Chapter board elections Oct 5 - 12

2013-08-21 Thread Alex Barth
The election period for the OpenStreetMap US board elections is now finalized with October 5th to 12th. Here's all you need to know to vote or run: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/08/elections-2013/ - Consider running for a position - Help spread the word Related thread:

Re: [Talk-us] Putting businesses on OSM with onosm.org

2013-08-21 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi Ian, I gave it a spin. For me the interesting question is how to deploy it. Option 1, would be to make this a feature on the main OSM site. Instead of asking people to add a note, we could ask a couple more structured questions to insure we have enough info in the note. Let face it, add a

[Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal

2013-08-21 Thread Ivan Privaci
On Aug 21, 2013, at 10:19, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: The ele tag is of unknown accuracy. It can be off by much more for mountains. This is the case when it's a real steep cliff between the sampling of NED data. found one peak where it was off by 300ft this is simply