Re: [Talk-us] Help needed with polygon/membership of admin area in Willits, CA

2014-01-26 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 26/01/14 19:22, Richard Welty wrote: On 1/26/14 2:13 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 1/26/14 2:07 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: Could it be because the polygon has place_name=Willits as an attribute? In that case, would it be safe to delete this attribute, as it is the name of the relationship that

Re: [Talk-us] Help needed with polygon/membership of admin area in Willits, CA

2014-01-26 Thread stevea
Common "outlying areas" of "corporate municipality" (city) boundaries in the USA include landfills, recycling/material storage/transfer centers, corporation yards (equipment storage and/or service areas, sometimes fabrication, e.g. signage), water and sewage treatment plants, and in some cases

Re: [Talk-us] Help needed with polygon/membership of admin area in Willits, CA

2014-01-26 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/26/14 2:13 PM, Richard Welty wrote: > On 1/26/14 2:07 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: >> >> Could it be because the polygon has place_name=Willits as an >> attribute? In that case, would it be safe to delete this attribute, as >> it is the name of the relationship that's important? >> > maybe, but

Re: [Talk-us] Help needed with polygon/membership of admin area in Willits, CA

2014-01-26 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/26/14 2:07 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: > On 26/01/14 18:54, Richard Welty wrote: >> the relation is named Willits, which is as it should be, so this is >> properly a tools issue rather than a data issue. >> >> Nominatim came up with two answers for Willits. one was the >> individual polygon, an

Re: [Talk-us] Help needed with polygon/membership of admin area in Willits, CA

2014-01-26 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 26/01/14 18:54, Richard Welty wrote: On 1/26/14 1:46 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: Thanks all. Is it possibly to make it so that a search in OSM for Willits, CA brings up the whole relationship - as opposed to several separate elements, which when clicked send you to some spot in the middle of n

Re: [Talk-us] Help needed with polygon/membership of admin area in Willits, CA

2014-01-26 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/26/14 1:46 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: > > Thanks all. Is it possibly to make it so that a search in OSM for > Willits, CA brings up the whole relationship - as opposed to several > separate elements, which when clicked send you to some spot in the > middle of nowhere? If all of them are part o

Re: [Talk-us] Help needed with polygon/membership of admin area in Willits, CA

2014-01-26 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 26/01/14 17:53, Richard Welty wrote: On 1/26/14 12:36 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I'm doing a bit of mapping in Willits, CA - and a quick search of Willits, CA in OSM returns this lonely polygon in the middle of, pretty much, nowhere: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/39.38187/-123.30127

Re: [Talk-us] Help needed with polygon/membership of admin area in Willits, CA

2014-01-26 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/26/14 12:56 PM, Toby Murray wrote: > In Bing imagery I see what might be a disused sewage treatment tank just to > the south of the area originally highlighted. Around here that is one > common thing that ends up being a separate little section of city boundary. > You can easily see the whole

Re: [Talk-us] Help needed with polygon/membership of admin area in Willits, CA

2014-01-26 Thread Toby Murray
In Bing imagery I see what might be a disused sewage treatment tank just to the south of the area originally highlighted. Around here that is one common thing that ends up being a separate little section of city boundary. You can easily see the whole relation on osm.org: http://www.openstreetmap.or

Re: [Talk-us] Help needed with polygon/membership of admin area in Willits, CA

2014-01-26 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/26/14 12:48 PM, Tod Fitch wrote: > Looks like the administrative boundary relation for Willits has four separate > unconnected areas. > > (Right click on the boundary relation and download unloaded members, select > relation members and then zoom to selection is what I did) > > I don't know

Re: [Talk-us] Help needed with polygon/membership of admin area in Willits, CA

2014-01-26 Thread Tod Fitch
Looks like the administrative boundary relation for Willits has four separate unconnected areas. (Right click on the boundary relation and download unloaded members, select relation members and then zoom to selection is what I did) I don't know enough about Willits to know if this is correct or

Re: [Talk-us] Help needed with polygon/membership of admin area in Willits, CA

2014-01-26 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/26/14 12:40 PM, Richard Welty wrote: > On 1/26/14 12:36 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: >> I'm doing a bit of mapping in Willits, CA - and a quick search of >> Willits, CA in OSM returns this lonely polygon in the middle of, >> pretty much, nowhere: >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/39.381

Re: [Talk-us] Help needed with polygon/membership of admin area in Willits, CA

2014-01-26 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/26/14 12:36 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: > I'm doing a bit of mapping in Willits, CA - and a quick search of > Willits, CA in OSM returns this lonely polygon in the middle of, > pretty much, nowhere: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/39.38187/-123.30127 > > According to JOSM, it is a memb

[Talk-us] Help needed with polygon/membership of admin area in Willits, CA

2014-01-26 Thread Sebastian Arcus
I'm doing a bit of mapping in Willits, CA - and a quick search of Willits, CA in OSM returns this lonely polygon in the middle of, pretty much, nowhere: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/39.38187/-123.30127 According to JOSM, it is a member of a larger membership - but I'm not sure how to