I have what may be a seriously weird question.
I've been trying to clean up my GPS tracks and enter data for the
Northville-Placid Trail in the Adirondacks. In the rare places that the
trail does appear in TIGER, the data are wildly wrong, so I'm rerouting
and retagging as I go. I'm also
On Dec 20, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote:
In at least one place (44.07447,-74.28335, says GPS) the trail crosses an
unnamed tributary of Pine Brook on a beaver dam that is visible in aerial
images. https://flic.kr/p/pFf3TV Hikers who don't quite believe that
On 12/20/2014 11:36 AM, Harald Kliems wrote:
highway=service;service=beaver;pedestrian=permissive (assuming that it's
nice beavers)
I didn't meet the beavers. They were busy. You know beavers. One dam
project after another. :)
More seriously: Does it really matter that the way leads over a
Alexander Jones wrote:
So, that's you? I've spent the past year-plus remapping rail lines in the
Central Valley. Right now, I'm finishing up the BNSF Mojave
Subdivision towards Barstow. A few tips:
* Please use the subdivision name where available. Using the railroad as the
name is redundant
On Dec 20, 2014, at 12:35 PM, stevea wrote:
Yes, I'll use owner= if known, and it is name= which displays in ORM as the
name of the line. Many lines had name= as the service run upon them (like
Caltrain instead of Union Pacific), and I have corrected this where I know it
was wrong in
Hey guys,
Some words of support and complication. The usage=main is a problem, and
here is why: What people consider to be main line can not and will not be
known by looking at it in real life nor specified by whether or not it has
passenger service on it. As such you can also have main line
On Dec 20, 2014, at 12:35 PM, stevea wrote:
Yes, I'll use owner= if known, and it is name= which displays in
ORM as the name of the line. Many lines had name= as the service
run upon them (like Caltrain instead of Union Pacific), and I have
corrected this where I know it was wrong in OSM.
Steve,
If you are finding PCIX those are the call letters for the railroad that is
the owner, they may also be the operator.
Now here is the tricky bit, I will use the example of a local short line
railroad.
This railroad the property is owned by the county and the port; one
railroad (GNPX) has
name=Walmart Neighborhood Market is a real thing, and probably shouldn't
be corrected.
They have different branding than a regular Walmart (green and yellow vs.
the regular Walmart blue and yellow).
Here's the one on hwy 99 in Milwaukee OR:
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