Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Alex Barth wrote: > Here's a map showing where TIGER is better than OSM: > > https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/lxbarth.647bc246/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoibHhiYXJ0aCIsImEiOiJFVXdYcUlvIn0.bbaHTEWlnAwGgyVwJngMdQ#5/39.724/-99.360 > I think the correct phrase is

[Talk-us] Last day for State of the Map US scholarships!

Hello, friends - today is the last day to apply for State of the Map US scholarships. Luckily, the scholarship application is quick & easy - so if you need financial assistance to make it to New York City in June, you still have time to fill out an application. If you help organize your local Ope

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

On 3/15/2015 8:53 AM, Clifford Snow wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Alex Barth > wrote: Here's a map showing where TIGER is better than OSM: https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/lxbarth.647bc246/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoibHhiYXJ0aCIsImEiOiJFVXdYcUlvI

[Talk-us] Rail USA: an initial transcontinental super-relation declaration

OSM is having a sort of "golden spike" moment: in the USA, there is now a route=railway super-relation with tags name=Southern Transcon and operator=BNSF. http://www.osm.org/relation/4673773 links Los Angeles and Chicago by rail. This contains eleven component Subdivision relations as member

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

As others have mentioned, this map might give false positives where TIGER data is worse than OSM. It might be better to look at the map of OSM intersecting TIGER 2007ish and use that to highlight areas where the geometry hasn't changed since the original import. A roughly similar result could be fo

Re: [Talk-us] Your opinion about SOTM US

Y, this would be the most accurate way to put this. Most often actually neither data is excellent. We have an opportunity here in the US: create the most spatially accurate and complete dataset available. On Sunday, March 15, 2015, Clifford Snow wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Alex B

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

> Yeah, that's just setting up a HOT tasking manager right? Except the HOT >tasking manager will probably choke on one half hour tasks for all of US :)  Set up multiple projects on the OSMTM, say 1 (or more) per state... * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron On Saturday, March 1