Re: [Talk-us] Lot boundaries

ose kind of data be better than using the TIGER data for > addressing? Any idea how Google got those data? About 75% of the municpalities in Massachusetts have that data online via MassGIS. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta ___ Talk-us mailing l

Re: [Talk-us] Procedures for Bulk Uploading Road Centerline Data

gt; > Well why aren't they over here on dev telling us all about what they're > doing! Come on everyone, fill us in! :-) (Because this is talk-us, and not dev?) Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta ___ Talk-us mailing list Tal

Re: [Talk-us] no streets in gloucester, ma??

work, so it didn't get an upload. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Frustrated

get going (and could probably benefit from using changesets, etc.). But it was a tool designed to help alleviate this problem. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Public Domain Non-GPS Data Question

ne. Best Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Public Domain Non-GPS Data Question

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:29:20PM -0500, Russ Nelson wrote: > > On Feb 26, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > > > > Because the legal jurisdiction in which OSM is based is *not* the US, > > This is an important topic. We should consult OpenStreetMap's

Re: [Talk-us] Public Domain Non-GPS Data Question

e kind of trap that people should avoid falling into. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Public Domain Non-GPS Data Question

"What is a good idea in OSM" -- the latter is narrower, and is what we should be concentrating on for imports to OSM. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Public Domain Non-GPS Data Question

omething the GIS department *wants*, even if the supreme court slapped them on the wrist and sent them to the corner, seems to be a dangerous idea to me... not because OSM could gt sued and lose, but because it could get sued at all... I'd rather us ask, and if people tell us "no"

Re: [Talk-us] Public Domain Non-GPS Data Question

y to OSM, it's best to ask. Even *if* there is, it's often still best to ask, because it can help you get your local GIS people interested in OSM. One more time: This is personal opinion, does not reflect on any legal opinion, nor on the legal opinions of MetaCarta or any of its subsi

Re: [Talk-us] Public Domain Non-GPS Data Question

ver, there is no national law or even comon set of state laws that requires this; it is generally simply policy by the GIS departments. This is why it is usually best to just ask; you'll usually get a yes anyway, but it's best to have it done &#x

Re: [Talk-us] Public Domain Non-GPS Data Question

ols, I'd recommend the 'polyshp2osm' tool in http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/import/shp2osm/ , but you'll need some technical expertise to manage the conversion and the upload. If you don't have any, there may be other people on this list who could help with conve

Re: [Talk-us] Public Domain Non-GPS Data Question

a quick snapshot of UVA (I think) with current OSM: http://crschmidt.net/osm/uva-empty.png And one with the Blacksburg Buildings Layer: http://crschmidt.net/osm/uva.png Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@o

Re: [Talk-us] Public Domain Non-GPS Data Question

web for 'personal use only', 'not to be used commercially', etc.) Check with the city, ask them waht they think. They'll pobably love you for even noticing :) If you share a link, then we can probably help explore a bit more what the source of the data nad rights ass

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Dataset

ederik isn't on this list, and he can probably quickly tell me that I'm wrong in thinkign he might mean the latter. :) Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Dataset

h of time. Which MassGIS script? mgis_to_osm, or the new polyshp2osm? The latter is something I would recommend much more for anyone writing code now... mgis_to_osm has some significantly convoluted stuff in it, in my reading of it... -- Chris > Christopher Schmidt wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 16,

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Dataset

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:24:21AM -0600, Ian Dees wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Christopher Schmidt < > crschm...@metacarta.com> wrote: > > > > > What script did you use for doing the polygons themselves? Did i t > > support splitting of

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Dataset

ld be easy to extend, (or > someone else may have better ones), but they would need to be tested. What script did you use for doing the polygons themselves? Did i t support splitting of large polygons into smaller ways? Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta

Re: [Talk-us] Boston Mapping Party tickler

> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Boston for the details. Look for the Big Map: http://flickr.com/photos/crschmidt/3274048625/ Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] MA National Hydrography basins

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 11:41:37AM -0600, Ian Dees wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Christopher Schmidt < > crschm...@metacarta.com> wrote: > > Most of the water in the state doesn't exist. It is my plan before the > > Feb 14th mapping party -- and hopefully

Re: [Talk-us] Boston Coastline leak? Re: Where next?

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 05:12:01PM +, Peter Miller wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2009, at 17:56, Bill Ricker wrote: > > >On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Bill Ricker > >wrote: > >>On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Christopher Schmidt > >> wrote: > >>

Re: [Talk-us] directions of ways in MassGIS data

On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 10:55:56AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Christopher Schmidt writes: > > > MassGIS does not encode the direction. Oneways which are potentially > > wrong are marked with a FIXME note to fix the incorrect directionality. > > (I believe it is

Re: [Talk-us] directions of ways in MassGIS data

nce but wanted to ask before > changing it. The classifications are based on the roads data, which is maintained by the executive office of transportation. I would assume that the classification is based on the legal classification of the road, rather than on usage. Regards, -- Christopher Sch

Re: [Talk-us] Boston Coastline leak? Re: Where next?

x27;ve been watching it flip back and forth, and just assumed it was a renderer problem instead of a data problem. My bad. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Boston Coastline leak? Re: Where next?

rendered it last, despite no significant change in data that I've observed. I'm pretty convinced that this is a rendering problem somewhere, not a coastline problem. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@o

Re: [Talk-us] Water Areas (NHD)

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:47:20PM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 08:20:01PM -0600, Ian Dees wrote: > > NHD data is accessible by going to the data viewer > > (http://nhdgeo.usgs.gov/), > > then by clicking on the extract tool on the left and dr

Re: [Talk-us] Water Areas (NHD)

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 08:20:01PM -0600, Ian Dees wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Christopher Schmidt < > crschm...@metacarta.com> wrote: > > > > > 1. How badly does it screw up an NHD import if I upload Mass data from > >a different source? >

[Talk-us] Water Areas (NHD)

mport if I upload Mass data from a different source? 2. Who is working on NHD? 3. If I help with NHD, what is the timeline before I can get Massachusetts data uploaded? 4. How the heck can I find data to start playing with -- especially local data? Thanks fo

Re: [Talk-us] Haverhill, MA missing

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:48:38PM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 3:02 AM, Dale Puch > > wrote: > > > Just noticed, braintree is also missing, so eotroads_128 and 40 > > > freetown 102 > > > glouchester 107 > > > are

[Talk-us] Haverhill, MA missing

stuff, so. Right now, I'm looking at Haverhill: looks like 495 is all there is. I'll de-dupe 495 and get that one in. Has anyone else look at the other 2? Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Large-scale Data Imports and Tags on Nodes

d to replace this dataset with a new one, we would have a tag > to go by. > > the tag "is_in=Ontario" would that not say the same thing? Probably not, but I don't know about the GeoBased data enough to be sure. At the very least, Mass lakes data extends outside massachusetts -- a

[Talk-us] Large-scale Data Imports and Tags on Nodes

ender (the MassGIS import) to correct its blatantly stupid behavior in this regard. I would have no problem if someone else did this. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetma