Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned railway

2014-08-30 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/29/2014 9:41 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: And then I can point you to oddly connected roads, and a lack of buildings, or new buildings. Those things should certainly be mapped, but there are other projects to put historical data. ___ Talk-us mailing

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned railway

2014-08-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Russ Nelson wrote: I fear that the deletionism infection has jumped from Wikipedia to OpenStreetMap. ...is exactly what I was going to say. Seriously, OSM in the US, outside a few cities, is still way beyond broken. You can open it at any random location and the map is just fictional. (I did,

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned railway

2014-08-30 Thread Mike N
On 8/30/2014 4:33 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Seriously, OSM in the US, outside a few cities, is still way beyond broken. You can open it at any random location and the map is just fictional. (I did, just now:http://www.osm.org/edit#map=13/36.1938/-103.6446 . Landing on the high plains

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned railway

2014-08-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Il giorno 30/ago/2014, alle ore 10:33, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net ha scritto: Russ Nelson wrote: I fear that the deletionism infection has jumped from Wikipedia to OpenStreetMap. ...is exactly what I was going to say. Seriously, OSM in the US, outside a few cities, is

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned railway

2014-08-30 Thread Russ Nelson
Paul Norman writes: On 8/29/2014 9:41 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: And then I can point you to oddly connected roads, and a lack of buildings, or new buildings. Those things should certainly be mapped, but there are other projects to put historical data. Don't render them, then. Oh, wait,

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned railway

2014-08-30 Thread Martijn van Exel
OK, I believe everyone has made their point here. Let’s leave it at this, or take it offline. — Martijn van Exel President, OpenStreetMap U.S. Chapter http://openstreetmap.us/ @openstreetmapus Elections for the 2014-2015 board Oct 4-12 - consider running for a board seat! From: Russ

Re: [Talk-us] 2014 Tiger Update

2014-08-30 Thread Martijn van Exel
Good point. I’ll see about updating the JOSM layer, I am not sure the iD one uses the same imagery actually.  —  Martijn van Exel From: Hans De Kryger hans.dekryge...@gmail.com Reply: Hans De Kryger hans.dekryge...@gmail.com Date: August 29, 2014 at 11:45:40 PM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned railway

2014-08-30 Thread Russ Nelson
Mike N writes: On 8/30/2014 4:33 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Seriously, OSM in the US, outside a few cities, is still way beyond broken. You can open it at any random location and the map is just fictional. (I did, just now:http://www.osm.org/edit#map=13/36.1938/-103.6446 .

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned railway

2014-08-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike N. wrote: Landing on the high plains desert in the west does not make a good case that OSM in the US is broken. Desert imagery cues do not match those of conventional climates. I really wish I could agree with you, Mike, but my experience is that ~75% of the US landmass is like that.

Re: [Talk-us] 2014 Tiger Update

2014-08-30 Thread Bryan Housel
iD mostly uses https://github.com/osmlab/editor-imagery-index So if it is added as a layer there, it can be made available in iD very easily. So I think tiles need to be generated and the source needs to be added here:

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned railway

2014-08-30 Thread Ian Dees
Hi. Let's stop this thread here, please. Thanks, Your friendly list admin ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned railway

2014-08-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: Landing on the high plains desert in the west does not make a good case that OSM in the US is broken. Desert imagery cues do not match those of conventional climates. Those roads likely do exist, but are barely visible in

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned railway

2014-08-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: NO! We would *still* classify them as tracks! Because there's no good reason to classify them as more major, given consistency. We're trying to * not* break the routers, after all. Yes, I realize that the vast