Re: [Talk-us] New I.D Feature

2014-11-09 Thread James Mast
Just wanted to throw this out there in case you guys have forgoten, but we also use the two letter abbreviation in almost all relations for highways in the USA (however, there are a few that do spell out the state). However, we use 'is_in:state=PA instead of the addr scheme of course. This

[Talk-us] State highway refs (was Re: New I.D Feature)

2014-11-09 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 03:56 -0500, James Mast wrote: Just wanted to throw this out there in case you guys have forgoten, but we also use the two letter abbreviation in almost all relations for highways in the USA (however, there are a few that do spell out the state). There are still a few

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2015 in New York, NY, June 6-8

2014-11-09 Thread Randy Meech
Good morning from Buenos Aires on the last day of the State of the Map! As a member of the NYC organizing committee, I want to invite everyone to save the dates for SotM-US at the United Nations on June 6-8, 2015. The conference will be very large and very international, with a lot of full travel

[Talk-us] OSMF AGM election results

2014-11-09 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, Thank you to all of the candidates. Offering to spend your time and energy acting on behalf of the group is an act of generosity. The OpenStreetMap Foundation held the 2014 AGM yesterday including votes on several matters including the election to the board. The results are summarized

[Talk-us] zip-city mappings

2014-11-09 Thread Richard Welty
actually, it wouldn't be terribly hard for me to knock together a simple web page for looking up/entering zip code to city mappings, so i think i'll look into doing that. anyone who wants to save up shopping/credit card receipts so that they can enter the data should feel encouraged to do so. it

Re: [Talk-us] zip-city mappings

2014-11-09 Thread Nathan Mills
Just keep in mind that some ZIPs cover multiple cities. The one I'm standing in now is found in parts of at least 3 different cities that I know of. Others cover both (parts of) cities and unincorporated areas outside of the city whose name they are associated with. -Nathan On November 9,

Re: [Talk-us] zip-city mappings

2014-11-09 Thread Richard Welty
On 11/9/14 3:10 PM, Nathan Mills wrote: Just keep in mind that some ZIPs cover multiple cities. The one I'm standing in now is found in parts of at least 3 different cities that I know of. Others cover both (parts of) cities and unincorporated areas outside of the city whose name they are

Re: [Talk-us] OSMF AGM election results

2014-11-09 Thread Alan McConchie
Richard, thanks for the great work you and the other election monitors did to make this election run so smoothly. And thanks particularly for your series of blog posts explaining how STV (the Single Transferable Vote) works. I’ve been a supporter of election reform for a long time (something

[Talk-us] Ghost Towns

2014-11-09 Thread Hans De Kryger
Anyone know if we map ghost towns in osm? Couldn't find anything, not even a tag. *Regards,* *Hans* ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Ghost Towns

2014-11-09 Thread Marc Gemis
Is the abandoned prefix [1] something for you ? or abandoned=village [2] (in German) both tags are rendered on [3] regards m [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:abandoned [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Tag:abandoned%3Dvillage [3]

Re: [Talk-us] State highway refs (was Re: New I.D Feature)

2014-11-09 Thread James Mast
I know of no place where the state name is spelled out in the ref=* tag on any way or relation. Only in the 'is_in:state' tag on RELATIONS have I seen the state name sometimes spelled out. As for states that have just '123' on the way ref tags. I know of only two that have that happening in