Re: [Talk-us] AARoads

I do not think that the copyright is compatible with OSM use as written. The statement I find most relevant is All content, including but not limited to, the design, graphics, and photographic media are copyrighted by the AARoads webmasters or their respective contributors. This appears on

[Talk-us] Postal Code Extract (zip vs zcta)

From the page which Bryce referred to in http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-September/011738.html comes the following passage: The term ZCTA was created to differentiate between this entity and true USPS ZIP Codes. ZCTA is a trademark of the U.S. Census Bureau; ZIP Code is a

[Talk-us] Postal Code Extract (zip vs zcta)

Maybe I should clarify what my point really was ... one needs to choose whether they are mapping ZCTAs or ZIP Codes and not confound the two. That was what I was getting at. Regards --ceyockey ___

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM 2

Agreed -- looks very nice. Thank you. It would be very useful, I think, to have a layer which presents the currently available USGS topomaps for two reasons: first, as a reference to illustrate improvements; second, as a reference to illustrate gaps. Also, I should know, but what is the

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [OpenSeaMap-develop] Fwd: NOAA Imports

Good to use the new http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us list for this topic. --Courtland (ceyockey) -Original Message- From: Sailor Jerry sailorje...@scmarinetech.com Sent: Jan 16, 2013 1:17 AM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] [Imports]

[Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

(this is a follow-up post to my original at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-January/010086.html and the responses thereto) Thanks for the input on this topic earlier this month. I'm in agreement with those who feel that the information is too volatile and potentially out

Re: [Talk-us] Happy New Year from MapRoulette!

Likewise for highways crossing waterways; there are plenty of places where there is neither a bridge nor tunnel where the two intersect. More subtle would be also looking for layer problems where two ways cross and there is a bridge or tunnel, but there are no layer tags. --ceyockey-Original

Re: [Talk-us] Import Committee Mailing List

I have updated the mailing lists page in the wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mailing_lists), adding this new list. --ceyockey ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] identifying TIGER deserts

I know that the TIGER 2012 overlay available in JOSM has been very helpful and I think that a combination of a) increasing awareness of this overlay and b) making the overlay available in Potlatch would go a long way toward leveraging TIGER 2012. In general, I think it is not the geometry

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

Whoa! Source is a deprecated tag, having been for years?! Good grief - the wiki has no indication that this is the case; http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source . Could someone please confirm that source is a deprecated tag and that it should no longer be used? --ceyockey

[Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

I am generally opposed to importation of parcel data at the individual parcel level. This goes _directly_ to the design of OSM with a non-layered data model and the resultant massive increase in rendered data density.However, there is much information in local GIS datastores about subdivision and

[Talk-us] An admin_level for CDPs?

{{key|border_type}} is described as an alternative and sometimes complement to {{key|admin_level}} . I have recently been drawing subdivision boundaries based on County GIS data and including {{tag|border_type|subdivision}} as part of a relation of type border; see for instance

[Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

I am interested in what tagging you would suggest to indicate that a stretch of road has been adopted as part of an Adopt-a-Highway program. Quoting from the Wikipedia article: The Adopt-a-Highway program, also known as Sponsor-a-Highway (but see distinction below), is a promotional campaign

[Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

Thanks for your comments, Serge. I'm confused by your reference to changeset metadata as that is not easily accessible to future editors of the same ways. It would put informative content remove from the editing process. I've made reply comments in-line below. --ceyockey -Original