[Talk-us] NY GIS/SIG conference

2015-11-02 Thread Richard Welty
The NY GIS/SIG conference is being held on April 12th, 2016 in Rochester, NY. The conference organizers are interested in building a strong OSM/OpenData/OpenSource track and broadening the audience to include the OSM community. the call for papers will go out after Thanksgiving and i'll forward

[Talk-us] Maxweight in the USA

2015-11-02 Thread Andy Townsend
Just a heads up... There's a bit of a discussion going on at the moment as to whether it makes sense to store SI units (or actually a derivative - metric tons) in maxweight tags. I noticed a few changes (initially to other values in the UK), and commented on

[Talk-us] Fix missing and wrong oneway ways

2015-11-02 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, We have created a new tool in the footsteps of the missing roads tool, this time focusing on wrong and missing oneway ways. There is more info in my diary entry: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/36209 Please let me know if you find it useful! Send me examples of interesting

Re: [Talk-us] Maxweight in the USA

2015-11-02 Thread Steve Friedl
This issue has come up as well with the height of mountain peaks; those of us who hike in the mountains in the US know peak heights *only* in feet, but OSM seems to reflect this in meters; this is entirely unhelpful to local hikers. Us locals think of Sierra Peak as 4050 feet, not 928 meters.

Re: [Talk-us] Maxweight in the USA

2015-11-02 Thread Richard Welty
On 11/2/15 4:59 PM, Andy Townsend wrote: > > I'm not from the US, and I'm not sure what the right answer is (if as > a community you're happy entering maxweight=4.5359237 it'd certainly > make everyone's lives easier), so I'm posting this here and then > retiring back across the Atlantic :) > i'm

Re: [Talk-us] Maxweight in the USA

2015-11-02 Thread Toby Murray
My view is that this isn't much different than speed limits. We don't tag maxspeed=96.5606, we tag maxspeed=60 mph. Tag what's on the sign. The complicating factor on this is of course that "ton" has at least 3 different meanings but I would generally assume that weight restrictions in the U.S.

Re: [Talk-us] Maxweight in the USA

2015-11-02 Thread Paul Norman
On 11/2/2015 2:28 PM, Toby Murray wrote: My view is that this isn't much different than speed limits. We don't tag maxspeed=96.5606, we tag maxspeed=60 mph. Tag what's on the sign. The complicating factor on this is of course that "ton" has at least 3 different meanings but I would generally