Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-13 Thread Kam, Kristen
Clifford, In March 2014, Chris Zontine (cc’d) and I ADDED city population values for nodes that _*did not*_ have a 'population' tag. We focused on nodes that had a place=city or place=town tag. We reviewed approximately 625 nodes, updated bout 560 of them. This was a manual editing

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Minh Nguyen wrote: I think we should consider a mechanical edit to update these tags While you're thinking about GNIS mechanical edits, could I suggest one for GNIS-sourced POIs with (historical) in the name? There are several gazillion amenity=post_office, name=Fred Creek Post Office

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-13 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2015-01-13 10:50, Richard Fairhurst wrote: I'd do it myself but this is about the one area where you _do_ need JOSM rather than P2. ;) That makes two of us. ;-) -- m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Race Tracks!

2015-01-13 Thread Richard Welty
[this message is essentially the same as my new diary entry, feel free to ignore both] i've started working on adding Auto Racing venues in the US Canada to the map, and improving those that are already in the map. this exercise is in two parts; for those tracks that are still clearly visible

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-13 Thread Harald Kliems
I wonder if this isn't something that could be more elegantly solved via wikidata [1]. It looks like population data is not yet routinely included in the entries of cities and towns, but to me this would make a lot of sense. Much easier to maintain than having to regularly do mass mechanical edits

Re: [Talk-us] Place classifications

2015-01-13 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2015-01-12 11:23, Elliott Plack wrote: Great start on this Minh, I tried to tackle this in the Baltimore Washington region last year. After reading the wiki, I decided on the following classifications: * hamlet: census population was less than 200 * village: census pop. between 200 and

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-13 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us wrote: I think we should consider a mechanical edit to update these tags to the 2010 Census figures en masse. I've been updating individual places as I edit them for other reasons, but this tag is most useful when its

[Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-13 Thread Minh Nguyen
It looks like most of the place=city/town/village/hamlet POIs from GNIS are tagged with 2000 Census populations in the population tag. These population tags allow renderers to label places with font sizes corresponding to population, which is a pretty common use case. I think we should

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-13 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Mihn, If we do any en-mass edit, there are a few things I think we want to consider: 1. Before anything else, we need to make sure it's community approved, source data and code examined and approved by the community. 2. I think that in principle this is a good idea, but we'll also encounter

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-13 Thread Wolfgang Zenker
* Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net [150113 19:50]: Minh Nguyen wrote: I think we should consider a mechanical edit to update these tags While you're thinking about GNIS mechanical edits, could I suggest one for GNIS-sourced POIs with (historical) in the name? There are several

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-13 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2015-01-13 07:22, Serge Wroclawski wrote: Mihn, If we do any en-mass edit, there are a few things I think we want to consider: 1. Before anything else, we need to make sure it's community approved, source data and code examined and approved by the community. Sure. The code isn't ready

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-13 Thread stevea
What a fantastic set of discussions we now enjoy here. Thank you Minh and all who contribute. I essentially agree with every bit of good sense I see in this Digest's current era (circa Vol 86, Issue 23): A way to bot-update (partly, part smart manual, too) something as basic / sensible as