Re: [Talk-us] U.S.-Mexico border fence update

2017-01-24 Thread Paul Norman
On 1/24/2017 11:24 AM, Michael Corey wrote: Thanks, folks, these are good suggestions. I think posting the map in Github is a good first step -- we first have to iron our our licensing so it's compatible with OSM and with our own licenses. Just to note, if it's based on the OSM border data, it'

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] OSM-Colorado Mappy Hour Denver Buildings Import Discussion

2017-01-24 Thread Mike Thompson
The data here: http://gis.drcog.org/datacatalog/content/planimetrics-2014-building-roofprints Doesn't seem to match the description on the wiki. Perhaps it has already been converted partly to the OSM tagging (e.g. sheds and garages are separate)? On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Mike Thompson

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] OSM-Colorado Mappy Hour Denver Buildings Import Discussion

2017-01-24 Thread Mike Thompson
Russ, This is very exciting to see this coming along. Let me know how I can help. Hopefully we can use its success to convince other government bodies in Colorado to allow us to import their data into OSM! Here are a few comments. re: "The Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG), in part

[Talk-us] OSM-Colorado Mappy Hour Denver Buildings Import Discussion

2017-01-24 Thread Russell Deffner
Greetings all, this is a cross-post :) For some of you this may be old news/reminder. Last spring the Denver Regional Council of Governments approached our local group, OSM-Colorado , to discuss if and how a ton of planimetric data that they have collecte

Re: [Talk-us] U.S.-Mexico border fence update

2017-01-24 Thread Michael Corey
Thanks, folks, these are good suggestions. I think posting the map in Github is a good first step -- we first have to iron our our licensing so it's compatible with OSM and with our own licenses. So this will likely not happen this week, but hopefully soon. Thanks again! Michael Corey Senior New

Re: [Talk-us] U.S.-Mexico border fence update

2017-01-24 Thread Martijn van Exel
We could devise a MapRoulette challenge out of it (and could claim that OpenStreetMap has a tight border with Mexico before the Trump administration, AND nobody paid for it) Martijn > On Jan 23, 2017, at 4:35 PM, Clifford Snow > wrote: > > Michael, > Sharing you

Re: [Talk-us] I think I got this right...

2017-01-24 Thread Martijn van Exel
The only problem I can see is that you may then have three levels of relation hierarchy[1] which I find troublesome because it will make numbered route management harder for most people to know how to do. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t particularly like the complexity of having to maintain each me