Re: [Talk-us] Importing parks and schools for Anne Arundel County MD

Hi Eric, It looks like a good start to me. There were a couple of things that stuck out to me: many of the parks and schools are already in OSM, even if just as a GNIS point. Also, many of the curves in the import are over digitized. We don't need curves of that size to have that many points.

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

I think that this import was poorly done but overall I don't see the problem with having this type of data in OSM. In fact, I think it is really useful and don't entirely understand the backlash against it. I would really enjoy having that kind of base to work with. So, Thoughts on Plot and Buil

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> >> The TIGER tags are not exactly standard OSM tags that belong in the >> database. Better that we get rid of them at the same time as we expand >> abbreviations. > > > Although the tige

Re: [Talk-us] Parks, etc. Points or outlines

If there is a point and an area I keep the area and delete the point. If the point has data I'd like to keep, as is often the case when I trace a park on the map and want to use the name and other info from a GNIS point I simply copy the attributes over. To easily copy the attributes over in JOSM

Re: [Talk-us] tiff, dwg and nad83

Hi, "Imported data turns down potential new mappers." I really disagree with this statement. I think the mappers would be turned off if we didn't import it when available. "So you have all 250,000 address points for the city but instead of using them you'd rather us go collect all of them a sec

Re: [Talk-us] importing bus stops

> Anyone here with experience importing bus stops? Any particular > considerations? > I haven't imported any but I've tagged a bazillion of them. > To make it more concrete, I have permission to import all UTA stops. They > come in a shapefile similar to the one available for download here: > >

Re: [Talk-us] NHD import

Yes, I see a lot of water features that are just not corroborated by the > aerial imagery, which could mean one of at least three things: > 1) The aerial imagery is out of date > 2) The NHD data is out of date > 3) The NHD data represents something I don't understand (the future, a > temporary situ

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US Chapter elections and

Another barrage of questions The wiki says that the 2011-2012 election is coming up soon. How is this being organized and when is it actually going to be? The system that was set up last year worked pretty well. I think it was surveymonkey run by some independent (Apache?) observers. Is it

Re: [Talk-us] Announcing the DC Sidewalks Project

Thats really awesome work Serge. Not just a good idea but well implemented. Really slick. Thanks for your hard work. Greg ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Address Node Import for San Francisco

stances that they're probably not actually stacked, eg, they're for different businesses that have locations along the front of the building but I'm not sure how to deal with that. In some cases, especially multi-family residences the "stack" is correct in that its at the entrance for all of the addresses in the stack. Thanks, Gregory Arenius ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Address Node Import for San Francisco

ing it geographically makes more sense. Do you think census block size is best or maybe by neighborhood or aim for an approximate number of nodes in each geographic chunk? Cheers, Gregory Arenius ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Address Node Import for San Francisco

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Gregory Arenius > wrote: > > I've been working on an import of San Francisco address node data. I > have > > several thoughts and questions and would appreciate any feedback.

[Talk-us] Address Node Import for San Francisco

looked into how I plan to do the actual uploading but I'll take care to make sure its easily reversible if anything goes wrong and doesn't hammer any servers. I've also made a wiki page for the import.<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Address_Import> Feedba

[Talk-us] San Francisco "Mappy Hour"

Hi Folks, We're having a "Mappy Hour" social meetup in San Francisco on Wednesday October 20th at 6:00 PM. We'll be at Jillian's which is a restaurant and bar at 101 4th Street in the Metreon. Its on the OSM Bay Area meetup.com

[Talk-us] San Francisco "Mappy Hour"

Hi Folks, We're having a "Mappy Hour" social meetup in San Francisco on Wednesday October 20th at 6:00 PM. We'll be at Jillian's which is a restaurant and bar at 101 4th Street in the Metreon. Its on the OSM Bay Area meetup.com

Re: [Talk-us] San Francisco Geodata

PM, Gregory Arenius wrote: > San Francisco has a website at datasf.org that has a lot of good geodata > on it. The current licence isn't acceptable for using any of the data but > they might be willing to give us permission to use it. > > Some of the datasets that I thought w

[Talk-us] San Francisco Geodata

San Francisco has a website at datasf.org that has a lot of good geodata on it. The current licence isn't acceptable for using any of the data but they might be willing to give us permission to use it. Some of the datasets that I thought were interesting were city lots

Re: [Talk-us] Over-digitized imports?

Computer storage and processing time are relatively cheap and only getting cheaper at an exponential rate. OSM volunteer time is very limited. Given those facts I wouldn't worry about "unsmoothing" except in particularly egregious cases. I just don't see the benefit in decreased storage and proce

[Talk-us] SOTM-US Synopsis

Since I would like to hear more about what goes on at some of the conferences I can't make I thought I would post some of what stuck out the most for me at this one. This is just what stuck out to me. If I miss something or am wrong about something I apologize in advance. I actually mailed this

[Talk-us] SOTM-US

Since I would like to hear more about what goes on at some of the conferences I can't make I thought I would post some of what stuck out the most for me at this one. This is just what stuck out to me. If I miss something or am wrong about something I apologize in advance. Nama Budhathoki gave a

[Talk-us] Pre-SOTM-US Gathering

Are there any plans for a get together at a bar or restaurant tonight in Atlanta before we kick things off tommorow? If there aren't yet does anyone want to make some? Cheers, Greg ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstre

Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

The USPS abbreviations are listed here: http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.html How do the commercial maps deal with this in other English speaking countries? Do they vary by country or do they use the USPS standard throughout? If they vary by country are we sure we want to do t