Re: [Talk-us] Per-State relations for the Appalachian Trail

On 05/03/2016 03:09 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: In the USA, partly because we are such a geographically large part of the North American continent and partly because each of our fifty states is sovereign, I find that breaking apart very large relations so they are across a single state at

[Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2016-04-30

These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel free to ask. However, please do not send me private mail. The odds are, someone else will have the same questions, and by asking on the talk-us@

Re: [Talk-us] Per-State relations for the Appalachian Trail

In the USA, partly because we are such a geographically large part of the North American continent and partly because each of our fifty states is sovereign, I find that breaking apart very large relations so they are across a single state at a time (then perhaps these are collected into a

Re: [Talk-us] Improving coverage of exit numbers and destinations on motorways

Hey all, I believe the way-junction:ref should be used in addition to the node-ref only when needed at splits - like this example: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Exit_Info#A.2FB_Split_Example These types of splits do not happen very often - however, when they do - having the way-junction:ref

Re: [Talk-us] Improving coverage of exit numbers and destinations on motorways

Hi Paul, These are good points, but it does not look like the `junction:ref` tagging scheme is very common. Till there is widespread usage by the community we will continue to follow the conventional tagging of the reference numbers on the motorway_junction node [1]. Curious to know what the

Re: [Talk-us] Improving coverage of exit numbers and destinations on motorways

I'm wondering why the push to tag a node with directional information when tagging the first segment of the diverging way would be more concise and already had support in some navigational data consumers? This handles weird situations where ramps diverge to the left or from a lane other than the

[Talk-us] Improving coverage of exit numbers and destinations on motorways

There has been a recent push to improve the coverage of exit numbers and destination signs on the motorways in the US by the data team at Mapbox. Some context here [1][2][3][4]. The primary sources of data were DoT documents and Mapillary images. The secondary source was Wikipedia, but as per the