Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2014-06-02 13:24, Simon Poole wrote: @stevea you would substantially help your cause if the route data was available for inspection, best a public source from where it could be obtained. Here are the special committee minutes approving the routes (along with various U.S. route

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread Simon Poole
Am 03.06.2014 10:42, schrieb Minh Nguyen: On 2014-06-02 13:24, Simon Poole wrote: @stevea you would substantially help your cause if the route data was available for inspection, best a public source from where it could be obtained. Here are the special committee minutes approving the

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread Kerry Irons
Just a point of clarification for everyone: AASHTO does not choose US Bicycle Routes. The state Departments of Transportation develop the routes, typically in cooperation with bicycle advocacy groups and with the specific agreement of local road agencies where the route is not on state

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread Russ Nelson
Simon Poole writes: Route USBR 10 nicely illustrates my point about GIGO. It starts of in untouched TIGER country and continues. Best way to get something mapped is to draw attention to it. That's what Steve is trying to do. Can we move on now, and stop calling this an import? Permissionless

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread Mikel Maron
 Stop with the stop energy already! +1    Permissionless innovation -- that's what OSM is all about. Right.  This is a totally weird, overstepping of authority, unnecessary discussion. There's nothing wrong or damaging happening here. In fact, some very conscientious efforts to improve OSM. I

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread Mike N
On 6/3/2014 5:34 AM, Simon Poole wrote: Route USBR 10 nicely illustrates my point about GIGO. It starts of in untouched TIGER country and continues. Implying that nothing has been surveyed along the route, clearly requiring large amounts of clean up before even thinking about adding the roads to

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread stevea
Martijn van Exel writes: No more of this please. I'd place this thread under moderation if I could, but since Ian is on vacation, I will have to rely on you all to do the right thing and take this wholly inappropriate mode of discussion offline. I appreciate and accept your excellent advice,

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread stevea
Simon Poole writes: (The approved USBRs in OSM could) provide some show casing of why OSM is better, instead of worse. Thank you, Simon! I'll even go one better than that: OSM might be the best data set in the world of national bicycle network routes, at least in the UK and the USA. That

Re: [Talk-us] Importing parks and schools for Anne Arundel County MD

2014-06-03 Thread Eric H. Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:12:02PM -0400, Eric H. Christensen wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 05:17:59PM -0800, Paul Norman wrote: You'll need to develop a translation for the shapefiles that converts shapefile attributes to OSM tags, for use