Re: [Talk-us] Reference numbers to use for hiking trail route relations

On 10/11/20 6:42 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 6:09 PM Mark Brown > wrote: Just mapping some of the trails in the Cabinet Mountains in the Idaho panhandle, from the US Topo Maps. Noticed that the trails have numbers. What should I

Re: [Talk-us] Trouble with getting Superior National Forest

I'm with Kevin, SteveA, etc,  here.   In the part of the world that I live, a map without national forest & BLM boundaries is very incomplete.   A useful OSM needs this.   The useful boundary would be the actual ownership boundary, not the outer potential ownership boundary.   Messy, I know.

Re: [Talk-us] Opinions on Devil's Slide Bunker (San Mateo, CA)

Agree, it seems pretty clear.   Even if the signs are universally ignored,  OSM shouldn't mislead everyone about the legality. On 8/30/20 12:01 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, "Devil's Slide Bunker" is a WW2 observation point near Pacifica in San Mateo County in California. OSM has the bunker

Re: [Talk-us] Labeling forestry service roads/tracks

of a compacted road and create a ball bearing interface?   If they grade it after initial construction, do they subsequently compact it again too? On 7/19/20 9:27 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 9:29 PM brad <mailto:bradha...@fastmail.com>> wrote: Thanks for diving in.   If it

Re: [Talk-us] Labeling forestry service roads/tracks

s FR or FS, they probably won't even notice. Keep this in mind when getting frustrated with the tiger data, I think we would have next to nothing if it didn't get imported. Brad On 7/19/20 5:50 PM, Dave Swarthout wrote: Mike, welcome to the real world. Tiger street data is better than not

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest boundaries

I've been struggling with this for roads.   Unfortunately on the ground survey is the best.   There are a few cases where property owners have put up illegal, or very misleading signs.  The motor vehicle use map (MVUM) is helpful, but usually not accurate outside NF boundary, but maybe good

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest boundaries

On 6/20/20 6:19 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:45 PM stevea > wrote: > > I think we need both as well.  I've been doing this while watching the evolution of how we best do this as I participate in a "do our best, always better" efforts

Re: [Talk-us] USFS Roads - name and ref

On 6/6/20 9:24 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 8:24 AM Mike Thompson > wrote: ref: The wiki states that these should be ref=FR + . In practice: * ref:usfs=FS + * ref=FS + Most of the changesets that added a "ref:usfs" tag include

Re: [Talk-us] Off-highway vehicle recreation areas

Good question.   At first glance I don't think Leisure=park is wrong.  The wiki is characteristically narrow since it says that it is green.   leisure=sports_center or landuse=recreation_ground would be better.   leisure=pitch doesn't seem right even thought the sport=motocross wiki page

Re: [Talk-us] Taking a break and a call for help

How can I tell who is a one-edit-and-done spam, amazon logistics account, and who is a first edit noob? On 3/20/20 5:07 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: So, you all know at this point that I've been heavily invested in editing OSM and contributing to my maximum activity, less as a need to help a

Re: [Talk-us] Jefferson Notch Road and latest "GPS made me do it" in the news

Considering the keys pointed to by Zeke, I also like winter_service=no. There are a few US or state highways in CO which close, the tagging is not consistent. US 34, Independence pass https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/627645541#map=17/39.10849/-106.55914 "motor_vehicle"="conditional=no @

Re: [Talk-us] Alaska Highway AK-2 tagging

I'm not expressing strong opposition because consistency with the adjacent highways is important, and also because I don't live up there, but the wiki makes sense, trunk is a divided highway. Both this: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Road_classification#Trunk and the US

Re: [Talk-us] Opinions on micro parks

At the rough level presented here, I think all of these could and probably should be validly tagged as leisure=park, particularly if a local mapper has tagged them as such.    I don't think it makes sense to limit the size, that seems to be micromanaging (no pun intended :)). Sometimes people

Re: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

I like this better than calling a state park a national park. Tagging them state parks with the national park tag is an abstract concept that will just result in confusion.   If the consensus is to tag them the same then I suggest depracting the national park tag and coming up with something

Re: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

On 4/29/19 4:11 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: brad writes: It seems that plain language can be used here, and from the Oxford dictionary, a park is: No. Plain language cannot be used to define what tags mean. Each tag is actually a codepoint, not human language, and needs a definition

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

Agreed, emphasis in Kevin's text is mine. It looks like some of this redefinition of the park tag is new?   ie the human sculpted part, and the attempt to restrict the usage. Perhaps clarity is needed, but more narrowly defined than the Oxford dictionary, or common usage, is not needed. On

Re: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

It seems that plain language can be used here, and from the Oxford dictionary, a park is: " A large public garden or area of land used for recreation." It doesn't restrict, as the leisure:park wiki does, to smaller, urban human-sculpted parks. In CO the county, city (some very large parks), and

Re: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

Unless we're going to be clear that a national park is a park owned/operated by a nation,  I'd be on board with this. Associating it with size is too ambiguous On 4/29/19 5:24 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: OSM Volunteer stevea writes: How much consensus IS there for tagging national_park on

Re: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

Agreed. 'National Park' is very specific.   We have national parks and we have state, county, regional ... parks. National: *: *belonging to or maintained by the federal government https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/national On 4/27/19 8:06 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Apr 24,

Re: [Talk-us] trail tagging

if new mappers didn't get discouraged by the confusion. On 4/19/19 8:28 AM, brad wrote: Everywhere I've been in the US or Canada a dirt 'way' too narrow for a 4 wheel vehicle is called a trail, path, or single track. For the most part they are appropriately (IMO) tagged as path. Unfort

[Talk-us] trail tagging

Everywhere I've been in the US or Canada a dirt 'way' too narrow for a 4 wheel vehicle is called a trail, path, or single track.   For the most part they are appropriately (IMO) tagged as path. Unfortunately the wiki says this for highway:path (the highlighting is mine): /A non-specific path.

Re: [Talk-us] Online mappy hour

I'll be traveling, but I'll try to dial in. On 3/18/19 12:20 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: On Mar 18, 2019, at 1:57 PM, Richard Welty wrote: [..] next thursday as in the 21st or the 28th? i'm going to be on my flight to IETF on the 21st but back on the 28th if the airlines cooperate. Sorry, I

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2019-02-10

Which style did you use? On 2/12/19 9:37 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel free to ask. However, please do not send me private mail. The odds are,

Re: [Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

I'm going to start close to home, extend that to the state of CO, & see how it goes. I've done quite a bit of recreating and boondock camping on BLM land and I've never come across any that are leased exclusively, altho I'm sure there are some.    It's more of a rarity, than 'most of'.

Re: [Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

polygon associated with those artifacts.  I'm guessing that there is BLM land in the adjacent state. Dave, Thanks for being a voice of reason! Brad On 1/6/19 3:36 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote: Ian Dees wrote: >"Those things shouldn't be in OSM either" Are you implying

Re: [Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

footprints, we use it to find our way in the national forest, the BLM land and the national parks.   It's very useful to know what is public or private land. Brad On 1/5/19 8:19 PM, Ian Dees wrote: Hi Brad, thanks for proposing this import and posting it here. I would strongly prefer that we

[Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

ship':'national'})     tags.update({'protect_class':'27'})     tags.update({'source':'US BLM'})     use the shapefile attribute 'Unit_Nm' as the name Import with JOSM The San Luis unit (CO) is here for your inspection. https://www.dropbox.com/s/qxv5gny2396ewki/sanLuisBLM.osm?dl=0 Comments?

Re: [Talk-us] Strange city boundary: Lee, Illinois

Minnesota has around 40 cross-county cities, most of which have just a small portion in the second county. St. Cloud is notable for being in three counties! https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/137238 On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 9:01 AM Clifford Snow wrote: > Yes - a city can cover more than one

Re: [Talk-us] possible upgrade for residential roads in Detroit

Looked at your examples, and an upgrade makes sense to me. If I see roads like this, I tend to upgrade to a lower level tag (ie tertiary) unless I understand the road network pretty well. Locals can always bump up the level later if it seems justified. Cheers, Brad (neuhausr) On Wed, Aug 16

Re: [Talk-us] Differences with USA admin_level tagging

Frederik's description of colored polygons made me think of the French OSM instance, which can display admin level, ie http://layers.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=5=39.9597=-78.77311=0B000FFFTFF Regarding Native American reservations, while there "is no consensus" there are a couple

Re: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints

I think this is it? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Available_Building_Footprints On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Rihards wrote: > On 2017.03.22. 18:37, Clifford Snow wrote: > > I am happy to announce that Microsoft has made available approximately > > 9.8 million

Re: [Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

Also see "But is the Blue Ridge Parkway a National Park?" on the Blue Ridge FAQ: https://www.nps.gov/blri/planyourvisit/np-versus-nf.htm According to that it is a "National Park Service area" but not a park. The NPS makes this distinction on their nomenclature page (

Re: [Talk-us] Is USBR 11 in Maryland complete/correct in OSM?

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Kerry Irons wrote: > The NB route uses Keep Tryst Rd. west from the path to connect with US 340 > for about 1,500 ft. headed east and then onto the ramp to SR 67. The SB > route takes the right hand ramp from the southern end of SR 67

Re: [Talk-us] Per-State relations for the Appalachian Trail

What about just combining the relations for selected states where the AT crosses back and forth across the state border, like TN/NC and VA/WV? On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > > On May 2, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Mike N wrote: > > > > On

Re: [Talk-us] Someone please check Beaver Lake, AR

I'm guessing that's the issue--all the tags should be on the relation (once), not duplicated on the individual outer ways that make up the relation. On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Mike Henson wrote: > I noticed Beaver Lake AR is no longer showing up as a lake on the

Re: [Talk-us] Cycle_greenway

All occurrences of cycleway=cycle_greenway seem to be in Seattle as of now: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/bI5 There are at least a few different accounts adding that tag, but STBrenden included the greenway tag in some changeset comments (ie http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/21347401). Have

Re: [Talk-us] Question?

I think there's also this? http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/303225395 On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 6/29/15 3:58 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: Is there any feature on the ground that can be surveyed? From the image it doesn't appear that the

Re: [Talk-us] Proper tagging for crosswalks

Small detail, but if it's a bike trail, bicycle=designated is probably better than bicycle=yes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bicycle#Bicycle_Restrictions On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Jim McAndrew j...@loc8.us wrote: Paul, Bryan, Thanks for your help with this! My issue was with

Re: [Talk-us] Paved Shoulder Tag for US Highways

cycleway=shoulder is used in the US too: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/9IE That seems to more accurately describe the situation, so I'd suggest using that tag. I wouldn't use cycleway=lane since I'd expect that to be marked as such. (basically +1 to Richard's follow up post on the forum

Re: [Talk-us] Removing a CDP

local administrative entities tend to be Places and sometimes County Subdivisions, but it really varies by state. If you want to dig that deep, you can view info about each state's census geography here: https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/geoguide.html Brad On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Serge

Re: [Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap

I understand keeping a feature in OSM if there is a remnant of the railroad, but there are areas where everything has been replatted, regraded and redeveloped, yet there is still a razed feature in OSM (for one small example, see https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?#map=16/38.8663/-94.7943). This

Re: [Talk-us] USA Rail: Calling all OSM railfans! (especially in California)

their railroads! :) Thanks, Brad [1] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/old_railway_operator [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key%3Aold_railway_operator [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railways [4] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States/Railways On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

I punted. When Josm added a preset that included addr:flats, then I started using that tag. Right or wrong I figured most of the other tags are Euro-English coloured, so to speak, that it did not mater if I used addr:flats verses addr:unit. __

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 2/4/2015 11:25 PM, Greg Morgan wrote: addr:housenumber contains both the number and the building letter in the same field. The map is useful because you can find the building. How have other people tried to handle these

Re: [Talk-us] Who controls data: Google Maps, others erasing Hollywood sign, but it's in OSM

Could you include the new node in the relation as role=label? That's at least somewhat documented... On Thursday, November 27, 2014, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-11-26 18:30 GMT+01:00 Andrew Wiseman awise...@gmail.com

[Talk-us] admin level for US states

I can't speak to the other countries you mention, but Japan's prefectures are the equivalent of US states, and both are admin_level 4. The Japanese states (doshusei) listed for admin_level 3 on the wiki page seem to be some sort of experiment in regional administration. More info in English here:

Re: [Talk-us] admin level for US states

Here is the most recent thread on the tagging list about Indian reservations: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-November/020160.html Neither of the proposals mentioned in the thread advocates using admin_level On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Richard Welty

Re: [Talk-us] admin level for US states

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Jack Burke burke...@gmail.com wrote: I would point out that the legal status of U.S. States is slightly different than that of provinces (and likely of states in other countries). For one thing, U.S. States exist in their own right and do not drive their

Re: [Talk-us] Second thoughts

It's in pretty wide use (35K uses), so I created a page in the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:unsigned_ref But I don't really know the details of usage or best practice, so I hope others can fix and add to what's there... On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Jack Burke

Re: [Talk-us] User going around adding '-' to ref tags in Michigan

This has probably come up in the past, but Michigan's state highways are signed and referred to as M ## http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Michigan_Highways It's also mentioned on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Michigan/Highway_Relations, which differentiates between the network

Re: [Talk-us] Merging NYC buildings

in practice thus far) is that over time the data quality line keeps trending upwards. Best, Brad On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Reilly, Colin crei...@doitt.nyc.gov wrote: All that a particular data source can be authoritative for is what that data source says something is. What is authoritative

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2014 update

you will need to figure out your state's FIPS code to figure out the state files of interest. You'll probably also want to find out the county FIPS code, so you can get the data for a particular area of interest--statewide files can get a little large! You can find the state and county codes

Re: [Talk-us] Taxiways and runways in mapnik?

From osm-talk: On 7 September 2014 13:51, Gorm E. Johnsen osml...@gorm.cc wrote: Any changes to runways and taxiways? These seem to have an issue at the moment. Hard to tell at a glance due to cached tiles and rendering ques. But at least they were not rendered at zoom 15 at one recent point

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

Just trying to process this: wouldn't a tracktype 1 be tagged as unclassified or residential anyway? Or to ask a different way, assuming that roads with houses should be tagged as residential, when should one tag a sub-tertiary road as track vs. using unclassified? On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:21

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

found to date; I'd be open to further suggestions. On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-07-03 17:36 GMT+02:00 Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com: Just trying to process this: wouldn't a tracktype 1 be tagged as unclassified

Re: [Talk-us] Creating a multipolygon of a body of water across state boundaries

. Sometimes I also see them tagged with landcover (ie natural=forest, etc) Cheers, Brad On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Will Skora skorasau...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed that some islands within Pymatuning Reservoir ttps://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/41.6074/-80.5203 , a large reservoir

Re: [Talk-us] Sidewalks as footpaths

be physically separate enough :) Brad On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Martijn van Exel mart...@openstreetmap.us wrote: I do that too - but only when the sidewalk is really physically separate from the main roadway. So I would add a separate highway=footway here: http://binged.it/1fttMse

Re: [Talk-us] Burning Man old data, publicity opportunity

You might want to check out this thread from last year: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-August/011641.html Cheers, Brad On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:16 PM, robmorgan78 robmorga...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I am doing a project in my GIS class that involves working

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways

That's totally where my mind went! :) On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Martijn van Exel mart...@openstreetmap.us wrote: Hah. This should be an interesting one then, for trekkies at least: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/187922/7-9.png Create your own at

Re: [Talk-us] Rural Montana - can we find local mappers?

users in Montana/Idaho who you might contact. Brad On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Russell Deffner russdeff...@gmail.comwrote: Wolfgang, Lots of rural United States, as well as many places do not currently have a local mapping community. We are working on it, and a good chance to 'recruit

Re: [Talk-us] Tags to use for chain stores in the United States

, supermarket, and hypermarket(!) Brad On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Russell Deffner russdeff...@gmail.comwrote: Seems the stores you listed are going to have different tags, example the 'dollar' stores are probably best tagged shop=variety_store, the wiki has a pretty extensive list

Re: [Talk-us] Freeway directions

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System#Primary_.28one-_and_two-digit.29_routes_.28contiguous_U.S..29: In the numbering scheme, east-west highways are assigned even numbers and north-south highways are assigned odd numbers. Odd route numbers increase from west to east, and

Re: [Talk-us] Question about incorrect data for an administrative area

they're more with how Nominatim uses the data than the data itself. One way around it, which I mentioned in an earlier response, may be to use the zip code instead of city name in a search. Cheers, Brad On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Jay Boyer bo...@snhdmail.org wrote: I have been looking

Re: [Talk-us] Las Vegas region administrative areas

not match in the US. If you omit the city (and even state) and just search for Summers Ranch Ct, 89139, it returns the correct result. Brad On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/10/11 Mike N nice...@att.net There was a good question posted

Re: [Talk-us] Lake Powell

The relationship looks good to me, but there must be something wrong still. Unless someone else figures it out in the meantime, I'll try to look at it OSM Inspector once it refreshes and identify what the remaining issue is. Cheers, Brad (aka neuhausr) ps--really fun topography to view! On Fri, Jul

[Talk-us] Removing US Bicycle Route tags

Kerry, NE2 has been indefinitely banned (see http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-May/010867.html ) so if you want these changed, have at it. Cheers, Brad On Wednesday, June 5, 2013, KerryIrons wrote: Nathan, 3 months ago we discussed the existence of US Bicycle Route

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping Party

/Shortcuts Happy mapping! Brad On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: That's great to hear! Putting CalU on the map sounds like a good objective; except for one building there is no trace of CalU on OSM as yet... Is this your first mapping party? Let us know if you

Re: [Talk-us] Is there a great geo event that we don't have on our calendar yet? Let me know!

How about the 2013 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial North America (FOSS4G-NA) conference? It'll be May 22-24 in Minneapolis, MN http://foss4g-na.org/ On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.us/calendar/ Alex Barth

Re: [Talk-us] Tags for Emergency Interstate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_route#Emergency_detour_routes On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:19 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.comwrote: What is an emergency Interstate? I don't think I have ever heard that phrase before. Is it a detour to be used while the Interstate highway is under

Re: [Talk-us] National Map Corps Revived - And Using the OSM Stack

I watched it after Ian sent the link. According to the video, it uses Potlatch 2 to gather a very limited set of POIs in the initial pilot area of Colorado. I was kind of curious if there was going to be any interaction with OSM other than using the tool stack. Brad On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4

Re: [Talk-us] More things that are no longer there: schools.

If the building is still there, but not used as a school, I'd tag the building with old_name=[school_name]. Sometimes the name is still chiseled on the side somewhere. Brad On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote: As I've mentioned in the past, I have some

Re: [Talk-us] One click quality printed maps (as an OSM advantage)

Also: -Export images using the Export tab -Walking Papers http://walking-papers.org/ (my favorite quick printed map solution) On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: There's something

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

just an FYI--some states have laws limiting who can access voter data and/or what purposes the data can be used for (usually related to elections/campaigning) On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Voter records are a good idea. And business registration records /

Re: [Talk-us] County borders vs. State borders

About Minnesota's counties on Lake Superior, the Census has county boundaries going to the state border with WI/MI, and I'm assuming they did their homework. Still, I'll try to double check the legal definitions today. Brad On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: I

Re: [Talk-us] County borders vs. State borders

OK, hoping would be more accurate than assuming :) Thanks for finding the general statutes online, Nathan! On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: On 10/18/2011 8:44 AM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: the Census has county boundaries going to the state border

Re: [Talk-us] Announcement: Address Improvement project

Calvin, getting back to your original comment, what exactly do you mean use ZIP codes? They are currently tagged with the key addr:postcode. Are you proposing an import or some other way to use the Census ZCTA data? Brad On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) calvin.metc

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

to continue that discussion... Brad [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Functional_Classification_System http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Functional_Classification_System [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:United_States_roads_tagging On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Brian

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

Towns appear at zoom level 9 in Mapnik, which seems pretty decent to me. There are tagged towns in SW Kansas that show up, but some villages probably need retagging to towns in the N and W. The Place page recommends tagging county seats as towns regardless of population:

Re: [Talk-us] [KS] anyone familiar with this area?

Wow, what would one tag the Acid Disposal ponds? Much of the TIGER data comes from USGS topos, including this: http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=38.92299,-95.01328z=15t=T ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

I do my best to avoid anything to do with highway relations, but FWIW I recently did just this in Potlatch 2--split a way that's part of relations to add a bridge and totally ignored the relations--and it all worked out fine as far as I can tell: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/126659318

Re: [Talk-us] place=city name=Tri-Cities

I think some are legit. In the case of the Twin Cities, the area isn't just an urban agglomeration, it's major cities that are very tightly interconnected, socially, economically, and governmentally, in addition to geographically (and historically). When talking about the region, residents may

Re: [Talk-us] Sevier Lake Anomaly

You're both right :) Check it out Toby: http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/instr.htm On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: The OpenCycleMap elevation data comes from the SRTM dataset, which

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:02 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/10/20 Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com: Aren't admin_level and place getting at slightly different things? admin_level is to mark official political/legal boundaries. place is to mark a...well

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Peter Budny pet...@gatech.edu wrote: Andrew S. J. Sawyer assaw...@gmail.com writes: My thoughts are mixed in below. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:17, Peter Budny pet...@gatech.edu wrote: Antony Pegg anttheli...@gmail.com writes: tagging

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 10/20/2010 03:01 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: Townships are at the same level as cities/towns/villages/other municipalities[1], [2]. I’m sure

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

To save you some work, you might look at this report, Government Organization, published in 2002 by the Census: http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/gc021x1.pdf On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: At the

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

... On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 10/20/2010 04:07 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: Only in those states, of course. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey (and apparently the Dakotas?) it should remain admin_level=8. FYI, it's the same with Minnesota: cities

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

, to ensure a more common way of tagging across the globe, and not to end up with cities of 1000 residents for example.*** Just like the term township that Ant linked to, the same word can have different meanings in different contexts. Brad On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Antony Pegg anttheli

[Talk-us] US highway tagging (was: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap)

the issue for whatever reason. Maybe the OSMF-US (or a working group, or some organizationally smart person on this list) could come up with a process and timeline as a way to focus the conversation and move to a resolution? My $.02, Brad -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard

Re: [Talk-us] Address Standard

'em all! (abbreviated, of course): http://osm.org/go/t...@fd4yc5-- Cheers, Brad On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: Do paper maps include the directional prefix or postfix?  I looked at a few maps of Washington DC and not one of them I saw include

Re: [Talk-us] United States Roadway Classification Guidelines

could agree on a solution that is 95% perfect, 5% do-what-you-need-to-do-for-it-to-make-sense-in-your-area, that'd be good enough for now, and far better than the confusion engendered by conflicting schemes spread across the wiki. Kevin's proposal seems to be headed in that direction. Cheers, Brad

Re: [Talk-us] United States Roadway Classification Guidelines

I think that's pretty much covered here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Functional_Classification_System On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Carl Anderson carl.ander...@vadose.org wrote: WRT US Highway classifications You may want to take a look at the National Highway Planning

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

From mapquest's blog post [1]: AOL also announced today, a $1 million open-source mapping investment fund. This fund will support the growth of open-source mapping in the United States in the local communities that Patch.com covers. More information about the AOL grant application process is

Re: [Talk-us] Canadian International Boundary Offshore Limit

This might be helpful regarding arctic boundaries/claims: http://www.dur.ac.uk/ibru/resources/arctic/ Brad On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm just thinking about that mega Oil Spill that happened, and the Canadian concerns http

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

municipal boundaries are always changing, and as has been mentioned, boundaries are not usually something that is easily verifiable on the ground Cheers, Brad On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Lord-Castillo, Brett blord-casti...@stlouisco.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Apollinaris

Re: [Talk-us] proposed first principles for United States road tagging

So, aside from interstates (which it seems like everyone agrees should be tagged as motorways?), should/could System be abstracted out of road tagging definitions? On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 Mar 2010, at 9:38 , McGuire, Matthew wrote: I

Re: [Talk-us] Fw: script for adding layer=1 to bridges

The keepright checker http://keepright.ipax.at/ shows layer conflicts (amongst other things), if you want to clean up an area. Brad On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 1/27/10 9:50 AM, Chris Hunter wrote: Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile