I think the road bed is compacted and built up to provide a crown so
water runs off but the gravel itself is not compacted on the surface.
So putting some numbers in here... there are only 5,700
surface=compacted ways in the US. On the other hand, there are 107,000
surface=gravel. And I am willing
I recently bought a gravel bicycle to ride on the many gravel roads in
Kansas. Like this one:
https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=nYO4JI46L0SWzNAQlLT4kA&focus=photo
First question: What would you call this road? Obviously I am calling
it a "gravel road" but a couple of people have said they would
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Peter Dobratz wrote:
> Ilya,
>
> Here's a Walmart that's been built in the last few years I recently added to
> OSM:
>
> http://audit.osmz.ru/browse/walmart/5935
>
> What's currently in OSM represents my own mapping style, but I think it's
> worth discussing the di
On the flip side, this seems to be driving a second wave of pokemon
players coming to OSM and mapping parks over their homes, changing
things to footways and such nonsense. It is also driving beneficial
edits though. Hopefully the helpful users will stick around longer
than the trolls. Just keep an
I would usually advocate getting law enforcement involved in an OSM
licensing misstep... but someone should call the FBI!
It's not just the Denver field office. The map on the nation-wide
field office locator page also lacks attribution:
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices
I just send ou
Yeah, there isn't any way too fix it short of an admin manually changing
the database and that isn't going to happen for something like this.
Commenting on the changesets is probably reasonable.
Toby
On Jun 1, 2017 12:42 PM, "Steve Friedl" wrote:
> Isn’t the easiest thing here to just comment
As an ingress player, I can confirm use of ingress data for pokestops and
gyms. Same location descriptions and images submitted by ingress players.
Ingress saw a huge influx of new users when Pokemon Go launched. People
created ingress accounts just so that they could use the ingress Intel map
to f
er of people who first
learned about OSM through these posts and there are several posts
about people seeing empty maps of their cities and getting the urge to
fill them in, regardless of Pokemon activity!
Toby
On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Toby Murray wrote:
> There was a video uploade
There was a video uploaded to YouTube a couple of days ago that claims to
show some possible evidence that Pokemon Go uses data from OSM to determine
good spawn locations for Pokemon. There are also several threads on reddit
under /r/TheSilphRoad that have similar claims. It is amusing to see their
According to some traffic on IRC, there is currently some delay in
replication between the master and slave databases. Since reads are
served from the slaves, this can lead to this kind of inconsistency.
The reason is still unknown. It will probably be a couple of hours
before it gets fixed. But up
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Jack Burke wrote:
> So I take it that at least you and I are in agreement that the wiki is
> deficient for branching exits like this one:
> http://mapillary.com/map/im/7igAGXSa6EsUYlTIujXchw
Why does this example even need any special lane tagging? I would map
th
Mind sharing the link to the GitHub issue?
Do they think that "none" is an invalid option and are replacing it
with a blank globally? If so, this should be shut down immediately.
"none" and blank are both valid values and while I wouldn't mind
seeing it be consistent, any such edit would need to b
Well there was already significant work done on a "groups" feature
that would have let users opt in to location-specific groups. But it
never got a final push to completion. The work and discussion
surrounding it are in a GitHub pull request:
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/
I just discovered some misguided edits and the user in question seems
to have made many of them over a wide area so I thought I would put
people on notice to be aware of this.
While on the Biking Across Kansas tour last week I saw some odd
looking segments in OsmAnd along US 36 in Kansas. I got ho
On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 11:09 PM, Jake wrote:
> I've been mapping a small section of National Forest, which straddles two
> counties; Boone and Callaway.
>
> On every map I can find - Boone Countys GIS dept., census.gov, US Forest
> Service - the county border strictly follows a river, Cedar Creek
I have set up a Slack bot using some software[1] that relays messages
between a slack channel and an IRC channel. It is listening in #osm on
OFTC and the #irc slack channel in Steve's team.
I love my irssi+screen IRC setup however it kind of breaks down when
it comes to a phone-friendly interface.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 03/03/2016 08:02 PM, Steve Friedl wrote:
>> I’ve been updating all the cities in Orange County California to have fully
>> segmented relationalized boundaries, such that cities sharing a common
>> border share a single way in each o
Yeah, the tiles on osm.org just straight up render the name=* tag
which is supposed to contain the name of an object in the primary
language of the area that it is in.
I know Wikipedia has done some work on localizing maps. I believe the
way they do it is to render a map without any labels and the
My view is that this isn't much different than speed limits. We don't
tag maxspeed=96.5606, we tag maxspeed=60 mph. Tag what's on the sign.
The complicating factor on this is of course that "ton" has at least 3
different meanings but I would generally assume that weight
restrictions in the U.S. are
OSM is not the ideal tool to be a dumping ground for all GIS data. It
excels at holding information that users can see, verify and update.
Boundaries like this cannot be seen or verified by anyone except the
government agency that originally made them. So the data gains no
benefit from being in OSM
I run into this as well. If I don't see anything close to the way on
imagery I definitely have very little problem deleting them.
I also question the access=private tagging although not because of the
rendering. I mean technically it is correct I suppose but if you are
trying to route to an addres
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Minh Nguyen
wrote:
> On 2015-09-17 15:56, Toby Murray wrote:
>>
>> I went through and upgraded all roads marked as "Minor collectors" and
>> "Major collectors" from residential to tertiary. The result can
oads" on the KDOT map so it kind of provided a secondary source to
justify differing classifications.
Thoughts?
On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Toby Murray wrote:
> My general rule of thumb for highway tagging in rural Kansas is as
> follows. If I know nothing else about the road I start o
Agreed. The 7-Eleven shop this user added (twice - once as a node,
once as a way) does not appear on the store locator on 7-eleven.com.
While it wouldn't be entirely out of the question that OSM had a newer
location than the chain's own store locator, the edits do seem very
much the same as those f
My general rule of thumb for highway tagging in rural Kansas is as
follows. If I know nothing else about the road I start off with US
highway = primary, Kansas highway = secondary and county roads =
tertiary. Then adjust as needed.
For example. K-10 between Lawrence and Olathe [1] is controlled
ac
Sorry to start another thread on this but I just had an exchange with
another mapper here in Kansas that could use some more opinions.
I recently reclassified US 24 west of Manhattan, KS from trunk down to
primary. NE2 had bumped it up to trunk a long time ago and I never
felt that this was right
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Ray Kiddy wrote:
>
> Strangely, I am finding that some of the cities in California _are_ in
> the system, but as ways and not as relations. This seems odd, but we
> will see.
Well the primary reason to use relations in boundaries is to reduce
duplication. So if two
The area you linked to has no boundary data in OSM. You don't state
this in your email but by pulling up the TIGER shapefile, it looks
like you are wanting school district boundaries? I see one runs
through the area you linked to, in the shapefile. School districts
were not imported into OSM. The o
Well ok, I guess this is primarily targeted at anyone who was planning
on bringing a backpack. I'm sure I can fit what I need for a day in a
bag this size as well. But any "normal" backpack is going to be 16-18
inches tall and too large for the UN. This is what I have used at
previous conferences b
I was just preparing for my trip to SOTM-US and ran across something
in the fine print that caught me by surprise so I thought I'd share.
The email from the conference organizers made a note that we can not
take "large" backpacks into the building. I assumed this meant you
couldn't take the kind of
I was just wondering if there was a mappy hour tonight and found this
email. Thought I'd send out a ping in case others weren't sure either. Hope
to see some of you tonight :)
Toby
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:26 AM, Mike Dupont
wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:48 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
I did a quick fix for the hole in the Denver, Denver County and Adams
county relations. I may take another look at the area tonight. I saw a few
oddities although I don't think they are related to your edit. I don't
think way 321010352 should have aeroway tags on it since it is a member of
a relati
the
2012 SOTM-US conference in Portland. Links to the presentation are on the
wiki:
http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_U.S._2012
Toby
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Toby Murray wrote:
> Where did you find a link to that attribution page? I went looking and
> found a flight tracker on
Where did you find a link to that attribution page? I went looking and
found a flight tracker on their website that is actually serving up tiles
straight from osm.org. Not quite in line with tile usage policies I suppose
but they DO have attribution on the map at least.
To see it you have to find
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Greg Morgan wrote:
>
>
> It is unfortunate that importers are dropping values like addr:city and
> addr:state during US imports. Especially when they appear to have clean
> data at the time of import. There are other users of the OSM data than
> just Nominatim.
This thread seems like a storm in a teacup. From a data perspective
addr:state is not really needed. Nominatim in particular and probably other
geocoders as well assign it automatically based on state (admin_level=4)
boundary relations. These relations are also tagged with ref=<2 letter
code> which
Voting closed on the OSM-US board election last night. Michael Collinson
and I acted as election observers and we are both satisfied that the
election was carried out properly. So today I am happy to announce our new
board members:
Alyssa Wright
Martijn van Exel
Alex Barth
Ian Dees
Eleanor Tutt
M
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <
dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2014-09-15 16:59 GMT+02:00 Ed Hillsman :
>
>> I agree there is a need to have a way to deal with this. Where I have
>> checked a street, in both directions, for a posted speed limit and found
>> none, I tag
I would say the primary use of address data in OSM is geocoding, not mail
delivery. There may be legitimate differences between a street name and the
address of a house along that street but abbreviations are not a legitimate
difference. The Census Bureau also has a list of 503 "official"
abbreviat
I see it on admin level 6 not 5.
The way that page is constructed makes it a little harder to track down.
That table isn't in the page you linked to but is some kind of template
included in the page. I'm still not quite sure how all that works but the
table and its history can be viewed outside th
I believe this was an import done in 2009. Here is an example changeset
that is obviously an address import in the area:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/3407483
The import is documented on the import catalog page[1] on the wiki and
mentioned on the California imports page[2] as well. It is
It isn't the best presentation of OSM ever but we were mentioned yesterday
in All Tech Considered. We are seeing a bit of a spike in new users today
because of it. So watch out for new users in your area!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/07/07/329501435/from-pen-and-paper-to-3-d-loo
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Clifford Snow
wrote:
> I can not search for an address in part of unincorporated King County, WA
> when using the postal city.
>
> Fails - 7732 234th Place Northeast, Redmond, WA
>
> The search works when omitting the postal city. The search returns the
> CDP, Un
Well it doesn't surprise me that google doesn't see any attribution, even
if they had it. The only thing I can access without an account is the front
page and their help site at squareup.com. And the only mention I see of
maps in the help docs is definitely a google map (
https://squareup.com/help/
Wait, what is the consensus method for tagging sidewalks? I haven't done a
lot of them but I know I've added a few as footways myself.
Toby
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Steven Johnson wrote:
> Certainly your first move should be to contact the user, gently point
> her/him to the consensus
I'm in Orlando for the next week visiting family. I'm not quite sure what
my schedule will be but was wondering if there were any OSM-ish events
going on. I didn't see anything on meetup.com or the wiki so I'm guessing
there isn't much happening but maybe I missed something.
Toby
_
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
> On 3/11/14 7:04 PM, Peter Davies wrote:
> > I thought I would make my proposal stand out a bit more by adding words
> to
> > the title. :-O
> >
> > There are some weird things, like Nebraska's state law that requires NDOR
> > to have a state
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Peter Davies wrote:
>
>
> I have no idea why the convention of leaving out half the ref in the
> relation has been adopted. Just writing "5" instead of "I 5" is in my view
> pointlessly inconsistent. Most states have an "SH 5". Why create
> relations that are fund
As Richard pointed out, we need consistency. Here in Kansas state highways
are generally referred to as "K-xx" however in OSM they are tagged with a
ref of "KS xx" because I feel like being consistent is more important than
how they look on osm.org.
And speaking of renderers, you will notice that
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Tod Fitch wrote:
> The USPS has a web site for giving ZIP and ZIP+4 values for specified
> addresses at
> https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action?mode=0&refresh=true
>
> As near as I can tell from the TOS at
> http://about.usps.com/termsofuse.htmth
What exactly is the census data representing? Zip codes are not polygons
(they are routes) so I'm curious what exactly they are modeling.
But beyond that, I'm not sure zip code boundaries are all that useful in
OSM. I think Nominatim already figures out zip code basics from
addr:postcode values in
Thank you Frederik and the DGW for looking at this. If whoever set up this
account had spent the same time editing their city or doing some battlegrid
cells, they might actually have been in the running for that iPad...
Toby
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> aft
Note that if you delete the node, the city name will no longer be rendered
on osm.org or Mapquest Open. Not sure about other renderings but I'm
guessing a lot of them do the same thing. Another way of fixing the
nominatim problem is to create a boundary relation for the city. Move the
tags from the
In Bing imagery I see what might be a disused sewage treatment tank just to
the south of the area originally highlighted. Around here that is one
common thing that ends up being a separate little section of city boundary.
You can easily see the whole relation on osm.org:
http://www.openstreetmap.or
I've been maintaining a similar list of relations on the wiki for Kansas.
It is a bit tedious to keep up to date though and doesn't have all the
highways in the state listed yet.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kansas_state_highways#List_of_highways_and_their_status
Toby
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014
You can view this information in JOSM as well. If Bing is the only imagery
visible you can right click and choose "Show Tile Info"
Toby
On Dec 4, 2013 5:42 PM, "Martijn van Exel" wrote:
The HTTP response header of the tile image contains something like:
X-VE-TILEMETA-CaptureDatesRange:
1/1/2012
On the subject of RC and drones: I have been working on building myself a
multirotor RC platform this year. One of the ideas behind it (besides just
being fun) was to be able to go to some new construction, send it up, grab
pictures and then map from them. So far I'm still stuck on the "flying it
w
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
>
> also, i would be remiss if i didn't point out that post office delivery
> addressing
> is only vaguely related to the actual administrative boundaries; the
> addressing
> situation for Enterprise is hardly unique, in fact situations like th
The tiles on the OSM-US server are up and running. The preview was on
Phil's home server that had limited bandwidth. A better UI to the tile
layer can be found here with standard map controls and a simple search
feature to jump to locations:
http://bl.ocks.org/ToeBee/raw/6119134/
I have talked to
That ITO map seems to be only looking at ways. If you include relations in
the analysis things should actually be pretty good. There should be a
(mostly) correct boundary relation for every county in the US. At one point
I was the last user to have touched about 40% of them... There may very
well b
This:
"when we update the page"
combined with
"This story was originally published in May 2011. We made minor text edits
in November 2011."
doesn't exactly make me want to hold my breath :)
Toby
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Greg
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> On Aug 8, 2013 9:42 PM, "Toby Murray" wrote:
> >> [As an aside, the 'N' and 'E' on Douglas County roads do *not* stand
> for 'North' or 'East,']
> >>
>
> W
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Richie Kennedy wrote:
> Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but I'm having trouble getting
> county road shields in my area to render.
>
> Example:
> http://tile.openstreetmap.us/osmus_shields/preview.html#16/39.0031/-95.3842
>
> I have made County Road 1029 a re
Well Alex whipped up some quick leaflet action and then I took it and added
some minimal geocoding so you can jump to places easier. The current result
can be viewed here:
http://bl.ocks.org/ToeBee/raw/6119134/
With the source being here if someone wants to make it prettier :)
https://gist.github
We're still working on the settings. Right now tiles are only cached for 5
minutes. For high zoom tiles that might work ok but it makes it annoying to
zoom out because the lower zoom tiles take so long to render.
Phil, Any ideas as to why Kansas and Nebraska are completely devoid of
interstate shi
As can be seen on Martijn's pages, there is no route relation for LA 12. It
is a member of some odd route relation:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/2320011
But this rendering is looking for a route relation with a network=US:LA and
ref=12 tag.
Toby
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 11:59 PM
We finally managed to get Phil's highway shield rendering up on the OSM-US
server today! You can see the tiles here:
http://tile.openstreetmap.us/osmus_shields/preview.html
This is a pretty basic preview for now. I'll look at getting the tiles set
up in a pretty leaflet UI or something.
Toby
___
Not sure if this is all editathon related but I noticed a spike in Pascal's
graphs of how many users closed notes in the US this weekend:
http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-notes-country?c=United%20States
Toby
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:02 AM, the Old Topo Depot
wrote:
> Event stats
>
> 55 uni
This last week Ian Dees and myself have been working on getting a JOSM
plugin for the new notes feature up and running. We started off by copying
the OpenStreetBugs plugin but ended up redoing a lot of the internals. The
user interface is still fairly similar though. It is still a little rough
arou
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:44 AM, James Mast wrote:
> Well, I've found a bug in the rendering engine.
>
> What's up with these "US 1-9" shields?
> http://elrond.aperiodic.net/shields/?zoom=16&lat=35.52081&lon=-79.18442&layers=B
>
>
This is a real thing. Welcome to the insane variety of how we do h
There was a gap in the two ways that now join at this node:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/599459023
Easy to spot in JOSM's relation editor after ordering the relation members
correctly.
Toby
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Elliott Plack wrote:
> This warrants a wiki article!
>
>
>
This actually came up when we were talking about the shields last week. The
shields rendering is actually a full mapnik stylesheet, not just an
overlay. Phil pointed out that this is the only way to avoid conflicts. So
it is essentially a full osm.org mapnik stylesheet (from a few months ago
but it
For those interested in highway shields:
Phil, Ian and myself put some more time in on getting shields working on
the OSM-US server last week. We actually got things mostly working but did
run into a brick wall. Unfortunately postgres 8.4 doesn't support how the
image data is being handled. The fi
Yeah, to me the wiki reads that to be a motorway it should be dual
carriageway except in exceedingly rare circumstances. That's how I've been
tagging.
So then we come back to the question of what exactly is trunk if it isn't
used for these kinds of roads?
Toby
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 1:58 AM, P
Around here they seem to just be somewhat random areas of town. Not formal
neighborhoods or anything. Examples:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/151609519
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/151882535
I've already deleted a couple of others because they didn't make much sense
and caus
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Curious if you guys are using US:KS for the network, which would fit the
> pattern or not? I ask because on the way's ref tags, some people are
> correctly using KS, but others are just using K.
>
>
> On Wed, J
Yeah, I'm guessing interstates and US routes are mostly done. The things
that might be missing is bannered routes (truck, business, etc). I suspect
that state highways are going to be a patchwork. I'm pretty sure I've got
most of the major and a good number of minor Kansas highways done. This
wiki
I did spend some time trying to set up Phil's code myself for eventual
deployment to the osm-us server. I got a good chunk of the way there but
ran into some problems. I'll see if I can put some more time into it now
that I'm home again.
Toby
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Richard Weait wrote
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
>
>> ok, i found "report a problem" on the map view for housing units
>> in an area. i'll have to go find a map problem and report it via the
>> GUI so i can see the full cycle.
>>
>
> I
As I'm sure a lot of you are aware, osm.org has a new "notes" [1] feature
(new as of a month ago) that allows anonymous users to submit random
comments about our maps.
Some of them will of course be unhelpful or silly but there have been many
useful ones submitted since the feature went live. We a
angeset centroids).
>
> 11,188 changesets
> 4,156,347 objects modified
>
> Serge - how do you explain the west-east difference in edits? Did you
> change the number of objects modified per changeset at some point?
>
> https://tiles.mapbox.com/ruben/map/map-13xkjfwx#5.00/37.86
Great news and thank you for all the work you put in on it.
Note that there may still be a few abbreviated street names around. The bot
was not a general purpose name expander. It looked at specific TIGER tags
and only changed ways where those tags matched what was in the name tag.
But it did expa
I don't think the "edit relation" feature is working right. It keeps
sending me to edit the last place I was viewing on the map instead of where
the relation is. So I don't think that has anything to do with the original
problem.
As for the original problem during upload... I'm not sure. The Color
I booked my flight last night. You should too!
Toby
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
> Hi list-goers,
>
> Knight-Mozilla OpenNews and myself are hosting a hack weekend April 27th and
> 28th in the heart of downtown Chicago.
>
> These sorts of hack weekends are a chance for the
Part of the issue here is how some countries in Europe sign speed
limits. For example when you cross the border into Austria, there is a
huge sign that lists what all the default speed limits are for various
types of roads. They expect you to remember this. Local speed limit
signs are only posted w
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Russ Nelson wrote:
> Toby Murray writes:
> > Hmm... I might look at doing something similar for Biking Across
> > Kansas. Not sure if these event routes really belong in OSM as a route
> > relation though. They do not indicate a route tha
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Toby Murray wrote:
>>
>> Hmm... I might look at doing something similar for Biking Across
>> Kansas. Not sure if these event routes really belong in OSM as a route
>> relation tho
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> I know that in the past there has been some interest in RAGBRAI among
> OpenStreetMappers (if you're not familiar with RAGBRAI it's best
> described as a week-long moving party where to have to ride your
> bicycle from party location to part
So I've mentioned this import a couple of times now. I have been
taking my time with it and working with the new US imports committee
that Serge started to go through the import process. But after the
meeting tonight I think I am now ready to actually hit the upload
button. I plan on uploading in a
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> I always find it boggling that open data projects are willing to use
> google docs and google hangouts. It would be really nice to at least
> have the data in a free software/free culture compatible place like an
> OSM foundation server.
I
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Rick Marshall
wrote:
> I mistakenly sent this to Greg and not the entire list. So, I'll
> retry it again:
>
> Hello all. I am still fairly new to OSM, so I don't know all the ins
> and outs. But I have to ask a question. Other than Google Mapmaker
> is there an
See the "Shawnee County" related threads on the imports list in December:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2012-December/thread.html
Although he only sent that message *after* doing at least some of the import.
I sent a message with specific problems I saw and he fixed some of
the
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote:
> All of the rules about observability and verifiability apply to country and
> state borders, as well, as Mike states, but we include them and somehow
> improve them.
Have we improved them? Being the last user to touch about 35% of all
county bo
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Toby Murray wrote:
> As mentioned previously on talk-us, I made contact with the Riley
> county GIS department and got access to their data. Since then I have
> been analyzing and working with the data. I believe I am nearing a
> point at which I can
The only real tag that is well and truly "deprecated" is created_by.
Both JOSM and Potlatch automatically and silently delete this tag from
any object you modify if it is present. So it is actually impossible
to create a new object with a created_by tag on it in the two most
popular editors.
Toby
The amenity tag is way too overloaded to the point where it is pretty
useless. It might as well be "thing" instead of amenity. Do not use it
for new things. Why not just make a new tag like
"adopt_a_highway=" - it only requires one tag to
encode to encode the information and is much more obvious.
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote:
>> Why does "imports" mean "not crowdsourced," if the crowd determines which
>> imports are source-able?
>
> Crowdsourced means that we survey the data indivdually.
>
>> Why doesn't pub
Are you running a snapshot schema, imported with osmosis? If so then
you just discovered the same thing I did a couple of months ago.
Osmosis silently drops ways with less than 2 nodes during import.
(yes, ways with zero nodes exist too) This is because they create an
invalid linestring which can c
While we didn't discuss it in terms of this specific law, this does
match my conversation with the Riley county GIS department. As long as
names aren't used, they do not have any problems with their
information being used in OSM.
Toby
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Mike Dupont
wrote:
> Well
Just saw some of this going in and decided to take a look.
Specifically this node:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2078174875
- I think there is pretty good consensus that we don't need addr:state
and addr:country tags
- The addr:street tag has odd capitalization
- The building=* tag typi
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