Re: [Talk-us] Mapping Space Ports

2014-07-16 Thread Paul Norman
On 2014-07-15 10:37 AM, Scott Rollins wrote: ​I think we hit a divided by a common language situation here. From the dictionaries I found, launchpad appears to be perfectly acceptable (and, it appeared to me, the preferred spelling) in American English. Although I'm not commenting on the

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Anniversary Event in Seattle: Reminder to get your proposals submitted

2014-07-16 Thread Martijn van Exel
Clifford - what a great initiative! I am going to try to attend (and think of something interesting to present as well) On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: OpenStreetMap Seattle invites you to the Tenth Anniversary of OpenStreetMap Celebration, August

Re: [Talk-us] 10th Anniversary!

2014-07-16 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm checking with with Tulsa's Code for America brigade if they're interested in having another mapathon (the first one was largely successful with about what I would have expected for turnout, even though I overslept in and was five hours late when I was the one supposed to be giving an intro!)

Re: [Talk-us] exit_to vs destination

2014-07-16 Thread Chris Lawrence
Bear in mind that motorway_junction nodes also (often/should) have a ref tag marking the exit/junction number, and there's no specific tagging for motorway_links that carries that info. Chris -- Chris Lawrence lordsu...@gmail.com Website: http://www.cnlawrence.com/

Re: [Talk-us] exit_to vs destination

2014-07-16 Thread James Mast
Anybody else think we should CC [talk-ca] in on this too? Main reason I'm suggesting this is because of how they (at least in Ontario) have been doing the exit tags, which is to add everything to the 'name' tag so it gets rendered on the map (at least I think that was why it was done this way,

Re: [Talk-us] exit_to vs destination

2014-07-16 Thread Bill R. WASHBURN
James, it couldn't hurt to bring them in on it. Canada and the US coordinate to some degree on many standards including some collaboration on signage standards. It shouldn't really just be a US or North American standard, in the end; anywhere that has highway off ramps should probably be using the