Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM

2016-05-23 Thread Lars Ahlzen
Hi Kevin, On 05/22/2016 11:26 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: Alas, I'm not going to SOTM, but put me down as someone who's interested in the project, with some 'skin in the game' already. As I already posted privately to Clifford: I picked up TopOSM's code for my own purposes and added quite a few

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM

2016-05-22 Thread Lars Ahlzen
On 05/21/2016 01:54 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: TopOSM looks like a good candidate for a hack session at SOTM-US. Let me know if you are interested so I can find a room for people to meet on July 25th. That's not a bad idea. Sounds like there's some interest in the OSM community, and I'd be

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM

2016-05-21 Thread Lars Ahlzen
On 05/20/2016 10:58 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 5/20/16 9:24 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: I was just on TopOSM [1] which appears to be very outdated. Does anyone know who maintains this site? [1] http://toposm.ahlzen.com/ lars ahlzen maintains it. not sure if he's still monitoring this list

Re: [Talk-us] Where to find airport information?

2016-03-08 Thread Lars Ahlzen
Ian is right that not all private airports are recognized by the FAA. The two examples you gave appear to be examples of that. The second example *is* shown on FAA's VFR Sectional Chart (that pilots use to navigate in visual conditions) as an "unverified" airport (circled U) but with no

Re: [Talk-us] Elevation in local units

2015-03-26 Thread Lars Ahlzen
On 03/25/2015 01:43 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: * I feel that osm convention should encourage all mappers to specify units (e.g. 22 m). * That whitespace should be allowed (e.g. 22m, 22 m, or even 22 meters). * And that local units should be encouraged (e.g. 22 feet, or 22' 0). The wiki

Re: [Talk-us] Get your early bird ticket to State of the Map US!

2015-02-03 Thread Lars Ahlzen
On 01/28/2015 02:39 PM, Alex Barth wrote: Hello everyone! Early bird ticket sales for State of the Map US are open, find out all the details on our web site: http://openstreetmap.us/2014/12/early-bird/ Looking forward to the conference! A minor detail, but is there a reason why

Re: [Talk-us] Should this be a dual carriageway?

2015-01-11 Thread Lars Ahlzen
On 01/11/2015 07:32 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: However, north of the rotary for quite a while, it should just be primary. There are intersections and lights all over the place, nothing better than an ordinary US highwway that happens to have two lanes each way. It's posted 40 and we really mean

Re: [Talk-us] Should this be a dual carriageway?

2015-01-08 Thread Lars Ahlzen
On 01/08/2015 06:02 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 1/8/15 5:57 PM, Mike N wrote: On 1/8/2015 5:51 PM, Richard Welty wrote: i don't think this photo is relevant to the section that Chris is talking about; it's a different section of US 6. i think this road is in dire need of a ground survey.

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Boston Meetup group

2014-04-16 Thread Lars Ahlzen
On 04/16/2014 10:24 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: Thanks for starting this up! And it was good seeing you again at SOTM US. You too Martijn! Let me know if there's any way I can help out. I am just in the middle of 're-imagining' my SLC group around the Maptime concept, to get a broader

[Talk-us] OSM Boston Meetup group

2014-04-09 Thread Lars Ahlzen
Hi all! For those of you who haven't seen it already, we're (finally) starting up a proper OSM Meetup group in the Greater Boston area: http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Boston/ Jason Remillard and myself will initially try to head up the group. Anyone is of course more than welcome to

Re: [Talk-us] Fall Editathon Seattle Edition

2013-10-22 Thread Lars Ahlzen
extensively. Also, because we all agreed this is a pleasant way to spend a Saturday afternoon, we are introducing a new monthly event, the Saturday Mapternoon! If you're in the area, check us out: http://www.meetup.com/osmutah/ -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM 2

2013-02-25 Thread Lars Ahlzen
On 02/25/2013 03:06 PM, Rick Marshall wrote: Serge is right though, the blue text with the white halo for the water features is difficult to read. Sometimes it appears a little blurry. I am not sure a black halo will do the trick either. What about changing the color of the text; maybe making

[Talk-us] TopOSM 2

2013-02-24 Thread Lars Ahlzen
Hi all! Since Ian Dees recently brought up the OSM-US servers, I thought I'd mention that I'm reviving my old TopOSM project which - for those who haven't seen it - is a US-wide topo map using OSM data [1]. This time it's updated with carto styling, tilestache compositing and support for

Re: [Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

2011-10-02 Thread Lars Ahlzen
On 09/30/2011 10:25 AM, Richard Weait wrote: 1) What would you like to see the US local chapter do? When Cloudmade hosted events, their representatives brought banners, brochures, stickers, loaner GPS units and similar things. I'm not sure GPS units are needed these days (with a smartphone

Re: [Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

2011-10-02 Thread Lars Ahlzen
On 10/02/2011 02:41 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 10:20 -0400, Lars Ahlzen wrote: On 09/30/2011 10:25 AM, Richard Weait wrote: 1) What would you like to see the US local chapter do? When Cloudmade hosted events, their representatives brought banners, brochures, stickers

Re: [Talk-us] Brainstorm: What should a US map of OSM data look like

2011-09-16 Thread Lars Ahlzen
existing styles to carto. Git might work well, too. -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Boston Mapping Party on Sunday, Nov 7

2010-11-04 Thread Lars Ahlzen
of more regular OSM meetups and events in the greater Boston area - something we haven't had for a while. - Lars -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Reminder: Geobus call tomorrow

2010-09-03 Thread Lars Ahlzen
On 9/2/2010 10:50 AM, Jim McAndrew wrote: Hey, I am out of the country today and will not be able to attend the call this week either. Sorry, I can't make it either. Being Friday night before Labor day weekend, I have a feeling the attendance may be thinner than usual... :) - Lars -- Lars

Re: [Talk-us] Reminder: Geobus call tomorrow

2010-09-03 Thread Lars Ahlzen
On 09/03/2010 10:38 AM, Jim McAndrew wrote: Did anybody make the call last night? D'oh. I thought Friday night for some reason. Note to self: When subject says geobus call tomorrow, check date of email. Thanks Kate for taking notes! - Lars ___

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Aeroway=Aerodrome Modifier Tags?

2010-06-15 Thread Lars Ahlzen
to clean up the airports a bit in my state, and I would very much like to see some form of classification like what you originally suggested. -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS source/attribution tags

2010-06-13 Thread Lars Ahlzen
, or is a member of a way) then I'd say that sounds good. Yep, that was precisely what I had in mind. Alright, it's a simple algorithm, so hopefully I'll have time to write a bot that does this. -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] USGS National Map aerial imagery

2010-06-05 Thread Lars Ahlzen
the GeoTIFFs and serve them with MapServer or something... -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] USGS National Map aerial imagery

2010-06-05 Thread Lars Ahlzen
it to do better... - Lars -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map (02-10-2010) update

2010-02-18 Thread Lars Ahlzen
an external hard drive that you provide, fill it with NED data and ship it back to you. We're trying to find a place to host this massive data set, though, so hopefully downloading will get a lot easier soon. - Lars -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map (02-10-2010) update

2010-02-18 Thread Lars Ahlzen
Apollinaris Schoell wrote: On 18 Feb 2010, at 5:36 , Lars Ahlzen wrote: Apollinaris Schoell wrote: Anyone knows where to get NED data for large areas? The seamless server is such a pain and it will take forever just for a single state. or we could start a crowd source effort to download

Re: [Talk-us] hillshade

2009-11-12 Thread Lars Ahlzen
Don Lambert wrote: The problem seems to be with the color relief tiles between 106.6 long and 107.3 long at the approx 1:34,285 and 1:17,142 scale levels. Indeed. I've started rendering the missing tiles, so they should be up within a few days. - Lars -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com

Re: [Talk-us] hillshade

2009-11-11 Thread Lars Ahlzen
appreciate your work on this, and I hope something good comes out of it. And, yes, a TopOSM for the entire US would be very cool. It's near the top of my list as well. - Lars -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM Colorado

2009-09-07 Thread Lars Ahlzen
Lars Ahlzen wrote: Either way, I guess the thing for me to do would be to clean things up just enough to be readable and then put the code and instructions up on the wiki. Then we can all play with it. :) If you want to try it out, I put the scripts and other files up at http://toposm.com

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM Colorado

2009-09-05 Thread Lars Ahlzen
with it. :) I'm right in the middle of a move, so it may take a bit longer than otherwise, but I'll do my best. - Lars -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] TopOSM Colorado

2009-09-03 Thread Lars Ahlzen
/ [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TopOSM -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] talk-us-ma: Duplicate nodes in mass

2009-08-20 Thread Lars Ahlzen
it was uploaded to a git host or somewhere? I'd love to help out with that. I have many commitments and not a lot of time during the next month or two, though, so I can't promise much before the Boston PM talk. - Lars -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM update

2009-05-25 Thread Lars Ahlzen
in Massachusetts are a bit of a mess, so some cleanup of the actual OSM data might be necessary for these to be useful. - Lars -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] TopOSM update

2009-05-23 Thread Lars Ahlzen
/changelog.html It still has plenty of issues, and I'm (slowly) working on them... - Lars -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] TopOSM wiki page

2009-05-02 Thread Lars Ahlzen
details required to actually generate it, in case someone feels adventurous... :) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TopOSM - Lars -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [Talk-us] Massachusetts topo map

2009-04-29 Thread Lars Ahlzen
the sign contrast from the surroundings but not so well on a map. Good point. I've added this to my (long) todo list... :) - Lars -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [Talk-us] Massachusetts topo map

2009-04-29 Thread Lars Ahlzen
on width tends to quickly make them very complicated. I copied the runway style from the standard OSM mapnik style file, btw. - Lars -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Massachusetts topo map

2009-04-28 Thread Lars Ahlzen
have time I'll fix some of the issues with the map and include the steps (and scripts) used to generate it. Meanwhile, have a look: http://toposm.com/ - Lars PS. I'm looking for hosting. It's a fair amount of data (several GB), but if anyone has the space and bandwidth... -- Lars Ahlzen l

Re: [Talk-us] Massachusetts topo map

2009-04-28 Thread Lars Ahlzen
that data comes from. I don't know if the swamp pattern makes sense, but in most cases those are marshes or muddy areas. There seems to be few actual beaches in Mass in the OSM database. nice look over all, and in detail too. i like it Thanks! - Lars -- Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com