Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

2014-09-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Welty wrote: agreed. i have spent quite a lot of time in Iowa farming territory where the road grid consists mostly of high quality, well maintained gravel roads that are in regular, heavy use by farm equipment. i generally give these highway=unclassified, surface=gravel. Great

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

2014-09-01 Thread Mike N
On 9/1/2014 7:53 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: I think the other half of the equation, however, is actually getting this fixed across the country. At present it appears to be just a small number of mappers doing it in their areas; To be honest, I don't really get the problem with excessive

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

2014-09-01 Thread Wolfgang Zenker
Hi, * Mike N nice...@att.net [140901 14:45]: On 9/1/2014 7:53 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: I think the other half of the equation, however, is actually getting this fixed across the country. At present it appears to be just a small number of mappers doing it in their areas; To be honest,

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

2014-09-01 Thread Mike N
On 9/1/2014 9:59 AM, Wolfgang Zenker wrote: I guess you haven't done much in the rural parts of the US yet. Have a look at Lincoln County MT: You will find A LOT of tracks. Most of these had been tagged as residential highway in the TIGER import (with horrible distorted geometry of course), and

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

2014-09-01 Thread Mike N
On 9/1/2014 11:27 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Except I don't know if they're at all cyclable, or if I need to take the bike with knobbly tyres, or even if they exist at all. OSM in the US just isn't reliable to that level, whereas it is in Western Europe, and the Australians are also working on

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

2014-09-01 Thread stevea
What would help here? A Tasking Manager instance with defined areas (say, 10km x 10km, or counties, or...)? Anything else? I like the idea of a TM to help here (like a cake map or somesuch), but I'd rather we slice things up by county rather than (random, 10km x 10km) grids. Reason #1 is

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

2014-09-01 Thread Nick Hocking
While people work out how to remove the multitude of tiger ways that don't actually exist, downgrade others from the incorrect residential to unclassified or track depending on imagery or ground survey, and fix the geometry of all unedited TIGER data, I beleive that it's absolutely essential (from

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

2014-09-01 Thread Michael Patrick
I think the other half of the equation, however, is actually getting this fixed across the country. At present it appears to be just a small number of mappers doing it in their areas; the US is a big place, and at the current rate it's not going to be fixed any time soon. Drive-by tools like