Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-16 Thread Evin Fairchild
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Okay folks. Coming back from not even 48 hours camping and this thread has > exploded. I don't think it benefits anyone to continue in this way. > Valuable insights get lost in the sheer volume of email; arguments are > being repeated. >

[Talk-us] Something very bad happening in Maryland?

2017-10-16 Thread Ben Discoe
If you look across a large area of the Maryland, for example around here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/39.11882/-76.62031 You may notice a few very odd things. 1. Back in 2015, user 'gdoyle' created a large number of buildings, using small, incorrect geometry. 2. This week, user 'annapo

Re: [Talk-us] Something very bad happening in Maryland?

2017-10-16 Thread Max Erickson
More at: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2017-October/005181.html At the moment they are blocked: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1587 It can be hard to say if the node only changesets are broken. JOSM will split changes up like that when they exceed the API limit (1

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-16 Thread Martijn van Exel
We actually switched to zoom (zoom.us) because it is easier for folks to just dial in if they prefer that. I'll send details closer to the date. We usually plan them so that it's after work hours for most (5:30pm PT - 8:30pm ET) but open to other preferences. Martijn On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:18

Re: [Talk-us] Low-quality NHD imports

2017-10-16 Thread Charlotte Wolter
Hello, all, Clifford makes some very good points. In the West, particularly, those little intermittent streams are important landmarks. Particularly when hiking in a featureless area, such as pinyon-juniper forest, a trail direction may say something like, "turn right after crossing the t

Re: [Talk-us] Low-quality NHD imports

2017-10-16 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Echoing (+1-ing) what Charlotte (and Clifford) said: waterway=creek on a downward-flowing way (and an intermittent=yes tag, if true) are extensively used and helpful, certainly where I am. While hiking, they are relatively unambiguous wayfinding attributes, especially when/as they are numbere

Re: [Talk-us] Low-quality NHD imports

2017-10-16 Thread Wolfgang Zenker
Hi, * Charlotte Wolter [171016 23:50]: > Clifford makes some very good points. In the West, particularly, > those little intermittent streams are important landmarks. Particularly > when hiking in a featureless area, such as pinyon-juniper forest, a > trail direction may say something li

Re: [Talk-us] Low-quality NHD imports

2017-10-16 Thread Clifford Snow
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > > the problem here is that at least those NHD imports I have seen in > Montana have only some of the existing streams. I don't know if this is > because NHD does not have more or because the import used not all > available streams. "Existi

Re: [Talk-us] Low-quality NHD imports

2017-10-16 Thread Mike Thompson
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > > >> > Unnamed streams are helpful to people hiking in the forest areas by giving > a landmark for navigation. From areas I'm familiar with, there are > thousands of unnamed streams. They are unnamed because civilization just > hasn't reache