If it wasn't this dispute then it would have been another. At least now
there's a precedent set for ground truth and following the local laws. One of
the premises of OSM is that crowd-sourcing and local knowledge improves the
quality of the maps, I think this conversation and eventual legal
Brooklyn actually does come up way down in the Nominatim list.. I
think part of the confusion may be that this is technically Kings
County (which renders invalid the possibility of using the
administrative level of county as the key for the boroughs).
Boroughs are somewhat unique beasts to New
Great to see this group pop up! I agree that it is surprising how
much of NYC is off base
-Skye
On Jul 3, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote:
There's a new Meetup for OpenStreetMap folks in New York City!
http://www.meetup.com/osm-nyc
If you're in the New York City
There was initial enthusiasm from some folks I've talked to at the NYPD
Office of Emergency Management.
They're unfortunately hindered more by NYC's ill-suited data policy but the
fact remains that they have far better data than sets like Tiger and get
discouraged seeing folks manually redoing
On Mar 29, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Josh Doe wrote:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
After loading Cook County TIGER road features and OSM linear features into
PostGIS, I ran a simple query to find how well the roads matched:
SELECT a.name, b.fullname,
On Mar 29, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Josh Doe wrote:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
After loading Cook County TIGER road features and OSM linear features into
PostGIS, I ran a simple query to find how well the roads matched:
SELECT a.name, b.fullname,
, at 10:54 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
Well done, finding lost mappers. :-)
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I'd be glad to give the tool a try, have been thinking of making a small
utility for mapping street lights.. I'm a little confused about your reference
to the drinking fountains though: does it map drinking fountains exclusively or
single node/features (where drinking fountains are an example
Mapping party sounds great, hopefully its a warm winter! I'll be around over
the holidays and can put time into getting this together. I've never arranged
one before, though, so any veterans would be very much appreciated!
Yes, I would definitely want to be sure that any information going
I'm doing a ton of work with the data made available from the city as of late
and a gripe from some people employed by the local government about OSM is that
it isn't making full use of the data that the city is putting out there for
consumption. Indeed, there is a ton of information that we
On Nov 16, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Katie Filbert wrote:
On Nov 16, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Skye Book skye.b...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm doing a ton of work with the data made available from the city as of
late and a gripe from some people employed by the local government about OSM
is that it isn't
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