[Talk-us] Massachusetts addresses/tiger addresses

Hi, I am not sure if anybody is actually working on importing the tiger address ranges or not. Just in case somebody is ... The Massachusetts mapping department (MassGIS) just this week released data for all of the buildings in the state! http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/it-serv-and-supp

[Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

Hello Everybody, Last week the Massachusetts mapping department (MassGIS) released data for all of the buildings in the state. http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/it-serv-and-support/application-serv/office-of-geographic-information-massgis/datalayers/structures.html Since it is likely tha

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

Hi Serge, I don't see a license related to this data, only a copyright notice on > the page. Is there a separate license somewhere that says this data is > usable? > Like the federal goverment, maps are considered part of the public record in Mass, and therefor are in the public domain (no copyri

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

at 2:05 PM, the Old Topo Depot wrote: > Hi Jason, > > If the MassGIS building/address objects have MassGIS IDs are you planning > to preserve them in the OSM DB ? > > Best, > > On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Jason Remillard > wrote: > >> Hi Serge, >> &

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

Hi, On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Alex Barth wrote: > > +1 for importing this. I'm curious for a battle plan of whoever leads this > effort, this will be a lot of work. > I think the plan should be to give the local mappers some time hand merge the data in, record what towns were done by ha

[Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import Start

Hello Everybody, I would like to kick off the MassGIS building import. This following is copy/paste from the current wiki ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MassGIS_Buildings_Import). The external links will work on the wiki. -- On Dec, 2012 MassGIS

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import Start

Hi Paul On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > A couple of initial comments: > > ** ** > > Has some kind of simplify been run on the data? Although most of the > buildings are quite good some of the curved ones are overnoded (e.g. > http://took.paulnorman.ca/imports/massgis/no

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import Start

Hi, On second thought, we will ask everybody that wants to help to use their own import account. Besides the simplifications, and the re-projection verification does anybody have any other issues? Thanks Jason. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Jason Remillard wrote: > Hi Paul > On Wed,

[Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import - simplify

Hi, I would like to continue the discussion on the simplification of the MassGIS buildings in a new thread. In my town, there are 5427 buildings. 43,628 nodes, or 8 nodes per structure. I did a 0.25 meter simplify on the entire town, and the node count went down to 41,809. We are looking at an ex

[Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import - merge

Hi, I would like to start a new thread to talk about merging building data. My town Groton has mostly hand drawn buildings from bing. Like was suggested previously, dumping them all and replacing them with the MassGIS buildings would be a definite improvement of the map quality. My suggestion is

[Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import - user account

Hi, I would like start a new thread, to talk about the user account situation for the import, but no policy discussion please! Given that this is a distributed/community import, we will simply ask each user to make their own import account and use it. For example, I will make an new account calle

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import - merge

I agree. I will make a third osm file that just has overlapping buildings, it is very easy. Then, put them away for after the dust settles on the missing buildings. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Jason Remillard writes: > > > Hi, > > > >

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import - simplify

Hi, The ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology worked great! I will upload new data tomorrow. Thanks Jason. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:18 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > Hi, > > On 14 December 2012 02:12, Jason Remillard > wrote: > > In my town, there are 5427 buildings. 43,628 nod

[Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import - process

Hi, I update the wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MassGIS_Buildings_Import It includes all of the emails from tonight. - The import account will be restricted to directly uploading the data. Any post fixes should be done with the normal account. - There will be a new upload tomorrow with

[Talk-us] MassGIS building import - update 1

Hi, The following towns were imported this weekend that were previously mostly devoid of structures. Abington, Acton, Acushnet, Alford, Arlington, Ashfield, Auburn, Avon, Dunstable, Harwich, Leyden, Littleton, Mattapoisett, Millville, Mount Washington, Nahant, Newburyport, Truro, and Westhampton.

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import - process

PM, Jason Remillard > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I update the wiki >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MassGIS_Buildings_Import > > Jason, > > While I think it's great you want to help OSM in this way, I have a > few concerns. > > I think

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Mass Edits in the US

Hi, There are some technical issues that make imports more complicated than needed. First is the entire user account thing. I don't understand why it is needed. If something gets screwed up, either way, we are reverting the change set. Besides discouraging people form the import, I don't know we b

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Mass Edits in the US

. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Jason Remillard > wrote: > >> If you setup a user group to "help" with the imports, I think it will >> be overrun with people that don't like all imports or are terrifie

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Mass Edits in the US

(s) and accept my apologies. Thanks Jason. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Jason Remillard wrote: > Hi Serge, > > You are tougher man than me :-) > > How about this, nobody on the committee that has not personally done > at least 1 large import. If you do that, I am happy. Li

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Mass Edits in the US

Hi, Just wanted to put my 2 cents on on this. OSM already has a rough consensus on its relationship to external data sources. I don't think there we be any controversy saying "no thank you" if somebody showed up wanting to import a shape file containing the habitat of say black bears. We don't im

[Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

Hi, I am not sure this has been discussed before. We have decided that we don't want parcel data into the US OSM database. I agree with this decision. However, looking at the map in Mass, the situation is not so cut and dry. The open space layer from MassGIS was imported several years ago. This h

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

with the existing data. I have been working on it, but I am not sure if I am doing the best thing. Thanks Jason. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Jason Remillard > wrote: > >> The open space layer from >> MassGIS

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

d and who's mission is conservation. Without having a "parcel" layer, in the openstreetmap.org, the map would be less useful to people who are trying to figure out where to take a hike. Thanks Jason. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > > On 28.

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

ike the "New England Forestry Foundation", that harvest tree's, so the land is in fact a "forest", but encourages the public use the land and who's mission is conservation. KEEP landuse = forest, leisure=nature_reserve, area=yes on parcel boundary. Thanks Jason. On

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

Hi, On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > OSM is not data repository, it's a dataset onto itself. Through years > of experience, and trial and error, we have found that importing these > external datasets does not help the project in most cases. Therefore > we propose differ

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

Hi, > * Another is, the threat of importing crappy TIGER ranges is motivating people > to go look at available county data. That is fantastic. So as Ian alluded > to pushing the conversation forward is itself a motivator The reason why I pushed the building import is that I am worried about som

[Talk-us] matching external data to OSM

Hi, I'm not sure if this has been discussed or not, if yes, a pointer to the old thread would be much appreciated! People working on imports, QA tools, and others come across the problem of comparing data in OSM to external data sources. So far, I have seen proposals that look like git and use ch

Re: [Talk-us] matching external data to OSM

nteresting way to deploy this kind of functionality to everybody that needs it. Thanks Jason. On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > > On 12.01.2013 19:05, Jason Remillard wrote: >> >> I'm not sure if this has been discussed or not, if yes,

Re: [Talk-us] parcel boundaries and associated data in OSM

Hi Brian, All of your questions are good, and like you mentioned, we had a debate about this in late December. I don't think we (community and our software) are ready right now to import all of the parcel data in the US. However, it does not mean we should sit around and do nothing either! One of

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] additional layers on osm.org

Hi, > Well öpnvkarte was considered along with the current transport layer and the > decision was that having two transport layers would be silly and that we > preferred the one that we are currently offering. OK, just to be clear. öpnvkarte passed all of the technical requirements, but was rejec

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

+1 on this, one step at a time. Lets just get the data first. > I don't think we should worry about importing or standardizing into anything > yet. That step should happen once we have a pretty good size sample of the > data so we can figure out what's available. Thanks Jason. __

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US Server Infrastructure

Hi, Just a thought on US tag info server, It might be better to just work on a patch to the existing tag info code/server to support regions directly. Having our own taginfo server is not that useful if it is not integrated into the main wiki. The wiki is the major entryway to the tag info server,

Re: [Talk-us] Chicago Buildings Redux

Hi Ian, - The changeset source tag, shouldn't that be something like - City of Chicago, data set "blablabla". The github link will probably be dead in 5 years. You could use a website= tag on the change set for the github repo link. - The wiki says that you are planning on manually checking for o

Re: [Talk-us] Chicago Buildings Redux

Hi Ian, One more thing. I realize that this is a controversial area. On our import MA building import we decided to not include the MassGIS building id. The id was just a munged centroid position and MassGIS indicated they don't intend for it to be preserved/maintained long term. Basically, the sh

[Talk-us] MA Parcel Image Layer for JOSM

Hi, With lots of help from Ian Dees, and Lars Ahlzen and servers from US OSM chapter, a new image layer is available in JOSM that includes the parcel boundaries, house numbers, and ownership info for most of Massachusetts. If you map in MA, update your images sources in JOSM, and activate the "Ma

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

Hi Matthew, The import proposal looks good! I downloaded the tar file and looked at the first OSM file. - There are some duplicate buildings. They were probably added while you have been processing the data. You may want to proceed anyway and fix them after if it will be a lot of work redoing the

Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

Hi, If you carefully read the original mail, you will see two download links. Both of those links it says the data is public domain I don't think the the web site terms of use apply. The data can't both be in the public domain and have a license. Thanks Jason. On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:41 PM, R

Re: [Talk-us] RC Airfields

Hi, I have an RC field in my town. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/154081216 I just marked it has a private park, included its name, and the web site for the club that runs the field. Thanks Jason. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Rick Marshall wrote: > What is the best way to mark a

[Talk-us] MassGIS L3 Parcel Layer updated

Hi, The Massachusetts L3 parcel imaging layer has been updated. 10 new towns were added by MassGIS on 4/25. 321 of 351 towns are now covered. If you use JOSM for map editing in MA and have not yet tried the parcel layer, you just need to update the image sources, activate it, and restart. Thanks

Re: [Talk-us] Take another look at notes!

Hi, Since we are talking about the new notes feature. I think it is great, how about showing the notes by default on main OSM page? Thanks Jason. On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Richard Welty wrote: > On 5/31/13 6:30 PM, Richard Welty wrote: >> >> On 5/31/13 2:57 PM, Alex Barth wrote: >>>

[Talk-us] MassGIS L3 parcel layer update

Hi, The JOSM iMassGIS L3 parcel layer has been updated with the latest data. 326/351 cities and towns are present. Beverly, Holliston, Leominster, Somerset and Sudbury were added. You may need to clear our your local cache to get the new towns. Thanks Jason. ___

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging camp sites within campground

Hi Some guesses :-) 1. node, ref=xxx 2. node, addr:housenumber 3. node, place=locality, name=xxx 4. node, tourism=camp_site, name=xxx http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/?key=tourism&value=camp_site#combinations Try using turbo overpass (http://overpass-turbo.eu/) , and look for campsites ove

Re: [Talk-us] Road Restriction: No RV's?

Hi Thomas, This is all i could find http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:hgv#Land-based_transportation motorhome=no, Not used really at all (69 times). http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/?key=motorhome The wiki page is empty. The hgv tag is used a lot more, but it is not really the same

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS?

Hi Thomas, I don't know if we/OSM have a policy for dealing with the gnis imported data. I have been deleting all of the gnis tags except gnis:feature_id. The justification for deleting them is that given the gnis:feature_id and its position, the rest of the tags can be recreated from original da

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

Why not just patch osm2pgsql? It seems like the right place for this is on the relation. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > > I wanted to get an opinion on the right place for 'ref' tags on numbered > routes. > > From what I understand, osm2pgsql and the downstre

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

we make it a switch / option in osm2pgsql so folks can choose > based on their local situation? > > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Jason Remillard > wrote: >> >> Why not just patch osm2pgsql? It seems like the right place for this >> is on the relation. >> &

[Talk-us] Massachusetts MassGIS L3 Parcel JOSM image layer updated

Hi, The Massachusetts JOSM parcel image layer has been updated, with new MassGIS data. The following towns were added. Athol, Holbrook, Needham, Newbury, North Andover, Springfield, Wayland and Worcester The following towns/cities still don't have MassGIS data released yet. BOSTON, BUCKLAND,

[Talk-us] MA pond/lake import

Hi, We would like to import the rest of the ponds/lakes into Massachusetts. The import wiki is below. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MassGIS_DEP_Wetlands_Import_2013 - The data is public domain (all MassGIS data is public domain) - We are conflating via a script to avoid double imports - Sim

Re: [Talk-us] MA pond/lake import

hose parts that we covered in the previous import? > > Mike > > > On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Jason Remillard > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> We would like to import the rest of the ponds/lakes into >> Massachusetts. The import wiki is below. >>

Re: [Talk-us] Edit-a-thon promotion

Hello, There is already a mapping party at NeighborLand, mapping seats in NYC! http://handbook.neighborland.com/nyc-mapping-party/ Bummer, they are not doing this on top of OSM! The site is using google for everything, even storing the raw data. https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?do

Re: [Talk-us] Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US

Hello, Most people would agree that we don't have nearly enough people mapping. Clearly, transcending our early adopter types of GIS and open source software people will be needed. However, effective strategies for on boarding the next million people are going to be very different than what was ne

Re: [Talk-us] Best way to tag mile and interpretive markers?

Hi, information=guidepost ? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:information%3Dguidepost Thanks Jason On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Thomas Colson wrote: > Is there a preferred tagging for mile-markers? E.g. a wooden/concrete post > in the ground with the mile # on it; > > Interpretive ma

Re: [Talk-us] Cemeteries in OSM?

Hi Thomas, It would be 100% fine putting in individual gravestones into OSM. It is an physical object that can be surveyed, does not move, and people care about it. Personally, I would enjoy mapping the locations of gravestones of loved ones, important people, kind of like a little Internet memori

Re: [Talk-us] Mark your calendars for the #BirthdaySprint! (Now with snazzy website!)

Hi, Also, it looks like we have some actual locations for some US events this weekend too. San Francisco, Denver, Nashua, NH. Thanks Jason On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Kathleen Danielson wrote: > As you all know, in honor of OpenStreetMap's 9th birthday, we are holding a > Birthday Sprint

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal

Hi Serge, I am 100% OK, removing these tags. Thanks Jason. On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been looking at the GNIS data and it's quite a mess. > > As a step towards cleaning up the mess, I'd like to discuss removing > some extranious gnis tags in the

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal

Hi Serge, - If there are two tags for the feature id, we should pick one and change the other one. - I don't think the ele tag should be renamed just because it is only accurate to 60m. Everything in the database is an estimate. - I would be ok with removing all of the gnis:* tags except the featu

Re: [Talk-us] Putting businesses on OSM with onosm.org

Hi Ian, I gave it a spin. For me the interesting question is how to deploy it. Option 1, would be to make this a feature on the main OSM site. Instead of asking people to add a note, we could ask a couple more structured questions to insure we have enough info in the note. Let face it, "add a not

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal

Hi Greg, I think in all the back and forth you missed the fact that the gnis feature id is staying put. Nobody has suggested removing it. Looking at the node history it will be obvious if a feature was imported (which is why we have the history function). The rest of the tags are going because the

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] GNIS tag removal proposal

Hi Bryce, If you really want to be sure nobody gets confused by some of the "extra" tags in the drop tags, you could run an automated edit project to remove them. I am not 100% sure about this, but putting something in the JOSM drop list is 50x less work than running an automated edit project over

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Introducing OSMLY

Hi Aaron, Serge In Aaron defense, before this thread, it would not have have occurred to me to use Maproulette for an import. We seem to have two flavors of community imports right now. The first style, (Seattle, DC and NY city), has the QA, conflation, and uploading done directly by mappers. It

[Talk-us] incorrect tagging on lakes in Massachusetts?

Hi, We have been working on improving the lakes and ponds in MA. I have come across what I think is incorrect tagging on an import done in 2010. Please consider this way http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/29683169 Besides the gratuitous massgis: tags. It has a owner, ownership, and protect

[Talk-us] NHD tags

Hi, I came across my first NHD imported data set this weekend, in Western MA. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/43638395 It has the following tags. NHD:ComID = 7711652 NHD:FCode = 39004 NHD:FDate = 1999/09/06 NHD:FTYPE = LakePond NHD:GNIS_ID = 00212194 NHD:GNIS_Name = Lake Winnemaug NHD:R

Re: [Talk-us] Admin borders in the US: misalignments

Hi, For what it is worth, this is an example of a several different imports ignoring each other rather than a problem specific to admin boundaries. >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/36.2642/-95.7297 > that is a good one. This is the same problem as above. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#

Re: [Talk-us] NHD tags

Anybody care about NHD tags The geometry is very rough on the import. I guess it's OK to delete the NHD tags while fixing up the geometry? On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Jason Remillard wrote: > Hi, > > I came across my first NHD imported data set this weekend, in Wester

Re: [Talk-us] Admin borders in the US

Hello, The inconsistency is caused by those that insist on defining the project in terms of things that can be verified on the ground. My definition of the project has no inconsistency. A free map of the entire world. Thanks Jason On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > T

Re: [Talk-us] Separate relations for each direction of US & State highways.

Hi, As a meta comment. I have been trying to follow all of the US route/shield discussions over the past couple of months. I don't feel confident that I understand the consensus on how to map these routes+shields and do not feel comfortable editing them. When the dust settles, could somebody that

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Address Data Import for Fulton County, Georgia

Hi Saikrishna, I agree with Serge, we need to be 100% sure the license situation is straight. Often the data providers say the data is in the "public domain", but in fact, isn't. Some workflow suggestions - In general, you should try to script the workflow from start to finish. You will be runni

[Talk-us] GNIS updating

Hello Everybody, My winter OSM project is to merge all of the imported GNIS reservoir points in MA with the actual water ways. It is a manual process, I am about 60% through it. I have been getting very, very familiar with the GNIS data set. When I find a confusing, wrong GNIS point, or duplicate

[Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

Hi, Richard Fairhurst, posted an blog about attributing OSM this weekd. http://blog.systemed.net//post/7 Beyond attributing OSM, hopefully our large commercial users can take it a step further and provide a way of editing OSM from their user interface. For example, in August, Foursquare announce

Re: [Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

Hi, For Foursquare, I am interested in knowing if it has been rolled out everywhere, do they have any idea how much the "edit" button has been pressed, and if it has caused any support burden or other unexpected problems. As a baseline, hopefully adding the "edit" button does not harm... > O

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] "fleet manager" speed limit import proposal (Canada, USA)

Hi Richard, - Is it possible to get the way version number in the output file? Otherwise, if the drivers are using older map data, we might overwrite more recent corrections. - Will the data have duplicate change requests on the same way id from different drivers, so we can get some kind of votin

Re: [Talk-us] Sidewalks as footpaths

Hi I think highway=footway for a sidewalk is 100% ok. Also I get the impression that the tagging is not settled yet either. Jason On Wednesday, April 30, 2014, William Morris wrote: > Is there a general OSM policy on marking sidewalks as highway=footway? > User dolphinling appears to have gone

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

Hi, Bike Route 1 on Cape Cod, MA is signed. I saw a bunch of them last summer biking around on vacation. In my opinion at this point the new routes should go through the import process, but given that signs are already up, and over time more are sure to come, I don't see any problem having the da

[Talk-us] routing tags used by actual routing applications

Hi, Would it be possible for somebody from telenav/scout/skobbler to update this page, or make a new wiki page describing what tagging is actually used to determine if a way is considered for a route? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing Playing around with scout, I have disco

Re: [Talk-us] routing tags used by actual routing applications

Hi Martin, Some of the highway tag values are not clear. For example, scout does not route over highway=tracks, unless you are in pedestrian mode. It seems like a reasonable decision, perhaps all of the routers do this, but the wiki documentation says nothing of the sort, and it surprised me. If I

Re: [Talk-us] routing tags used by actual routing applications

confusing. Thanks Jason On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Jason Remillard > wrote: >> Playing around with scout, I have discovered that it will not route >> over tracks, cycleways, and paths unless you are in pede

Re: [Talk-us] Merging NYC buildings

Hi, > the building to the east. In this case it was the tax parcel and multiple > address that indicate two buildings not one. We have a the MA state tax parcel data as a translucent imaging layer hosted on the US OSM. It can be used in JOSM, and it useful for all kinds of things. Perhaps, the s

Re: [Talk-us] Tesla Supercharger import

Hi Charles, > > > > > This telsa:ref tag seem weird, should probably be just ref, or ref:telsa if the value is a db key. However, given the stations have names + location, it is not needed to keep the data update

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Hi Roman , - The source addresses uses abbreviations (RD, ST,etc) are you expanding them? - The source addresses are capitalized, are you fixing that? - How are you dealing with multiple addresses per building - How are you dealing with multiple buildings per address. - Unless you are working ful

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Hi Roman, The city of Boston building data set for buildings has address. http://bostonopendata.boston.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/492746f09dde475285b01ae7fc95950e_1 It seems like they have already figured out what address goes on what building. Should this data set be used rather than the parc

Re: [Talk-us] Green Mountain National Forest cleanup

Hi Kevin, hstore support, which would allow rendering boundary=protected_area is being actively worked on the main style sheet. Its coming... https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1504 https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1975 Otherwise, I agree with yo

Re: [Talk-us] Need advice on a project i've taken on

Hi It is my opinion that removing imported non standard tags is almost always ok. It has been 10 years since tiger was imported, any effort to maintain it should be welcomed. We own it now, no script is comming to automatically update it. You might want to run it as an automated edit. https://w

[Talk-us] US Sports Fields Import

Hi, I have trained a neural network to find baseball, basketball, and baseball fields in satellite images. It was trained using OSM and bing tiles. Using the neural network I have mapped 2,800 new fields in the US northeast, I would like to import the missing fields back into OSM. Wiki project pa

Re: [Talk-us] US Sports Fields Import

om existing > OSM data, and would be under the ODbL? > > I haven't looked at your data, or tried to run the code myself, but I'd > like to do it sometime. > > Rory > > On 30/12/17 20:51, Jason Remillard wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have trained a neural ne

Re: [Talk-us] Help fight advertising

Hi Frederik > * Should we have some MapRoulette task or OSMCha automatism or OSMI view > to detect potential advertising? > > > Detecting these change sets should be quite straightforward. Here is a Keras sample that could be easily modified to process change sets. The model in this example is ti