Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Alan, Alan Mintz wrote: http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2011/03/ito-map-extended-to-cover-usa-canada.html Great tool for visualizing speed limits, FIXMEs, layers, etc.! The ITO tool indeed has a number of cool and unique features. The FIXME layer that you mention is however nothing new as it

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-26 Thread Mike N
On 3/26/2011 12:58 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: Great tool for visualizing speed limits The US convention of 'xx mph' has proved difficult for many map consumers. I have bugged all the other Speed Limit Visualizer providers, but no one has come up with a functional speed limit visualizer in

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-26 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 3/26/2011 7:51 AM, Mike N wrote: The better the visualizers and consumers, the more maxspeeds will get entered. You could almost needed a stopwatch to measure the delay between Mapquest rendering tollways as green and the completion of toll road markings in the US. Well that was mainly me

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-26 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2011-03-26 07:22, Nathan Edgars II wrote: The ITO map isn't loading now; I was going to check if it correctly treats a one-way with x lanes as equivalent to a two-way with 2x lanes. ...and maybe 2x+1 lanes. I typically tag an arterial with 2 lanes in each direction plus a center turn lane

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-26 Thread Richard Welty
On 3/26/11 7:51 AM, Mike N wrote: On 3/26/2011 12:58 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: Great tool for visualizing speed limits The US convention of 'xx mph' has proved difficult for many map consumers. I have bugged all the other Speed Limit Visualizer providers, but no one has come up with a

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-26 Thread Richard Welty
On 3/26/11 11:37 AM, Richard Welty wrote: On 3/26/11 7:51 AM, Mike N wrote: As a side note: the speed limit in mph has confounded the Skobbler designers - possibly because their data is filtered via Cloudmade. There are many roads already fully tagged with maxspeed that get Mapdust reports

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-26 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 3/26/2011 11:37 AM, Richard Welty wrote: a helpful visualizer for the US would be one that flags speeds w/o a units tag (kph default). the mph option was added to the wiki in recent memory, and i for one tagged a lot of US roads with kph values before i became aware of the update to the

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-26 Thread Richard Welty
On 3/26/11 11:43 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 3/26/2011 11:37 AM, Richard Welty wrote: a helpful visualizer for the US would be one that flags speeds w/o a units tag (kph default). the mph option was added to the wiki in recent memory, and i for one tagged a lot of US roads with kph values

[Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-25 Thread Coast, Hurricane
Thought that the US and Canada might be interested in this: http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2011/03/ito-map-extended-to-cover-usa-canada.html ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

2011-03-25 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2011-03-25 14:54, Coast, Hurricane wrote: Thought that the US and Canada might be interested in this: http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2011/03/ito-map-extended-to-cover-usa-canada.html Great tool for visualizing speed limits, FIXMEs, layers, etc.! -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net