[Talk-us] Last day to book discount hotel for State of the Map US

2014-03-11 Thread Bonnie Bogle
Hi all,  Today is the last day to book a discount hotel room for $139/night just blocks from where State of the Map US will be held in downtown Washington, DC. This rate is available if you reserve today, and for April 11-13. More details here: http://openstreetmap.us/2014/02/hotel-discount-dc/

Re: [Talk-us] Last day to book discount hotel for State of the Map US

2014-03-11 Thread Ian Dees
Please note that the hotel-provided link prevents you from booking nights other than April 11th and 12th. You can get around this by going to the hotel's normal booking site and using group code 577D. e.g. To check in Friday, April 11 and check out Monday, April 14, click

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways

2014-03-11 Thread stevea
On 3/10/14 11:07 PM, James Mast wrote: I know that in some states that we don't add the state abbreviation (and use 'SR' or 'SH'), and other states we don't add anything at all expect just the number. I'm just curious if anybody thinks we should try to get them all standardized on the

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways

2014-03-11 Thread Toby Murray
As Richard pointed out, we need consistency. Here in Kansas state highways are generally referred to as K-xx however in OSM they are tagged with a ref of KS xx because I feel like being consistent is more important than how they look on osm.org. And speaking of renderers, you will notice that the

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways: Use of unique ISO/ANSI/USPS 2-letter state codes in RELATIONS as well as WAYS?

2014-03-11 Thread Richard Welty
On 3/11/14 7:04 PM, Peter Davies wrote: I thought I would make my proposal stand out a bit more by adding words to the title. :-O There are some weird things, like Nebraska's state law that requires NDOR to have a state road link to every community of a 100 people or more. I've changed some

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways: Use of unique ISO/ANSI/USPS 2-letter state codes in RELATIONS as well as WAYS?

2014-03-11 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014, at 06:04 PM, Peter Davies wrote: Texas also has many weird qualifiers on minor state routes but as I've never contracted there for 511 I'm not totally familiar with them. Weird is a matter of opinion, but I only know of Farm Road (FM), Ranch Road (RM or RR), Park Road

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways

2014-03-11 Thread stevea
Getting to a finish on what has developed and exists regarding shields (guessed/inferred to mean the active project MapQuest Open uses) would seem to disambiguate that. It seems a tall order, doable, but tall. We currently contract with 12 state DOTs that include and are spread between CA

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways: Use of unique ISO/ANSI/USPS 2-letter state codes in RELATIONS as well as WAYS?

2014-03-11 Thread Toby Murray
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote: On 3/11/14 7:04 PM, Peter Davies wrote: I thought I would make my proposal stand out a bit more by adding words to the title. :-O There are some weird things, like Nebraska's state law that requires NDOR to