Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-dev] [Tagging] Super-relations or not

2010-11-02 Thread Matthias Julius
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 01:02:37 +0800, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Peter Budny pet...@gatech.edu wrote: As far as I'm concerned, the difference in what's required to tag things is minimal between these concerns.  Therefore, wouldn't it make the most

Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

2010-04-12 Thread Matthias Julius
andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com writes: On 9 April 2010 15:30, Matthias Julius li...@julius-net.net wrote: Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com writes: 3) Prefix, body, suffix is available from the TIGER data, but what about streets that have already been added (or corrected) by users

Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

2010-04-09 Thread Matthias Julius
Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 12:23 -0400, Richard Welty wrote: i don't think anyone would argue with this. it's why having a bot rampage through fixing things is probably a Real Bad Idea unless it's extremely well thought out and comprehensively tested

Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

2010-04-09 Thread Matthias Julius
Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com writes: 3) Prefix, body, suffix is available from the TIGER data, but what about streets that have already been added (or corrected) by users? As we've seen, a bot won't always be able to correctly make these separations (as in the example of Southbay vs. South

Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

2010-04-09 Thread Matthias Julius
andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com writes: On 9 April 2010 15:06, Matthias Julius li...@julius-net.net wrote: Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 12:23 -0400, Richard Welty wrote: i don't think anyone would argue with this. it's why having a bot rampage through

Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

2010-04-07 Thread Matthias Julius
andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com writes: Hi, On 7 April 2010 07:36, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com wrote: The Editing Standards and Conventions (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editing_Standards_and_Conventions;) page says: In the name tag, enter the full name as it appears on the

Re: [Talk-us] US highway tagging and relations

2010-02-08 Thread Matthias Julius
Jeff Barlow j...@wb6csv.net writes: Shows how? This is not obvious to me. Are there examples somewhere? If they are not connected then are we supposed to move them around till they are? If so how does one guess where they are supposed to go? There is a sort button in the relation editor (the

Re: [Talk-us] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying Interstate Relations

2010-02-08 Thread Matthias Julius
Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us writes: What's more annoying is that he is changing the names/refs. From what I understand the ref is supposed to be only the interstate/highway number (e.g. 90 or 80) and not I 90 (MN). And I don't like this at all. First, this seems to be different than how

Re: [Talk-us] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying InterstateRelations

2010-02-08 Thread Matthias Julius
Mike N. nice...@att.net writes: Second, separating out the highway system requires the data consuming application to know how to piece things back together. Otherwise, a shield on a map for example with just a 25 in it is pretty limited in use. After / if a generalized shield solution is

Re: [Talk-us] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying Interstate Relations

2010-02-08 Thread Matthias Julius
Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us writes: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Matthias Julius li...@julius-net.net wrote: Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us writes: What's more annoying is that he is changing the names/refs.   From what I understand the ref is supposed to be only the interstate/highway

Re: [Talk-us] Use of highway=tertiary

2010-01-04 Thread Matthias Julius
Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com writes: Stellan Lagerstrom lagerst...@blindsight.com writes: We have a user (mk408) who seems intent on turning 3/4 of all residential streets in the bay area into tertiary. This seems excessive to me. Most of these are just residential streets, not

Re: [Talk-us] Marking closed bridges

2009-12-04 Thread Matthias Julius
Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net writes: On 12/3/09 11:27 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 12/3/09 11:00 PM, David Fawcett wrote: I agree that it would be good to have a standard answer. I am thinking that the tag should be used for both symbology and connectivity. i'm going

Re: [Talk-us] What's causing rendering artifacts in the Southeast?

2009-11-27 Thread Matthias Julius
David ``Smith'' vidthe...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote: It sounds like t...@home needs to trim data at the tile border, and then close open ways along the border of the tile... Just my uneducated opinion. Let's say you have a tile

Re: [Talk-us] What's causing rendering artifacts in the Southeast?

2009-11-25 Thread Matthias Julius
Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com writes: Oops I spoke too soon. There is a relation. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/304245 I still think this is the probable source of the problem though. Perhaps someone with more experience with relations could take a look? I don't know all the

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-16 Thread Matthias Julius
David Lynch djly...@gmail.com writes: Agreed. I can understand not wanting to abbreviate words that don't have a standard abbreviation, but the USPS is the de-facto arbiter of how addresses (and therefore street names) are written in the United States, and they have a well-defined list of

Re: [Talk-us] Non-Integer addresses

2009-11-16 Thread Matthias Julius
Greg Williamson gwilliamso...@yahoo.com writes: Just out of curiosity, how do our European companeros deal with things like 2-Bis ? Most of the addresses I have seen in the US with letters tend to be campuses and business parks as opposed to street addresses. A legit address in France -- #2

Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

2009-11-14 Thread Matthias Julius
Randy rwtnospam-new...@yahoo.com writes: Matthias Julius wrote: Randy rwtnospam-new...@yahoo.com writes: Dale Puch wrote: Would it be improper to tag the true Wal-Mart services to the building way, (either using semicolons or shop_n and amenity_n, and the partnered services (McDonald's, etc

Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

2009-11-13 Thread Matthias Julius
Randy rwtnospam-new...@yahoo.com writes: Dale Puch wrote: For the same reason as doing nodes at a mall or similar. To know the stores/services available, not just the type of stuff that is usually there. If your tagging fast food, why would you not tag the McDonalds in the super walmart as

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest Boundaries

2009-02-19 Thread Matthias Julius
Karl Newman siliconfi...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Theodore Book tb...@libero.it wrote: I have put the various proposals on the wiki at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Forest_Service_Data It seems like the landuse=forest tag has a fair amount of consensus,

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-20 Thread Matthias Julius
Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 11:33 -0700, Alan Brown wrote: Then, decide how if/when it is appropriate to write over the old TIGER stuff with new. Or, to merge it somehow. Be very, very careful here. Conflation is a difficult thing. I used to work at

Re: [Talk-us] [Talk-ca] Great Lakes - coastlines / lakes

2008-04-21 Thread Matthias Julius
Jason Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SteveC wrote: The great lakes are missing off the map! Anyone here able to import them or something magically? If not I'll turn over to the dev/talk list but I thought people here might be interested themselves :-) They show up on osmarender, I