Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-06-13 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > I only saw this since NE2 had mass-upgraded everything in the US highway > system to trunk nationwide. Typically, trunk in the US has been meant to > mean an expressway, ie, basically a freeway, but it might have intersections > (the midwes

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-06-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Kevin Kenny wrote: > > Is there *anyone* that actually can speak to what *is* common > > practice in the US? When I've asked, I've always drawn a lot of > > replies and come away more confused than before. > > I've been doing vast amount

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-06-12 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > * highway=motorway: interstate or other long-distance restricted-access road > * highway=trunk: fast, busy State Highway or US Highway, often NHS/STRAHNET > * highway=primary: major State Highway or US Highway > * highway=secondary: other

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-06-12 Thread Wolfgang Zenker
* Richard Fairhurst [170612 20:55]: > Kevin Kenny wrote: >> Is there *anyone* that actually can speak to what *is* common >> practice in the US? When I've asked, I've always drawn a lot of >> replies and come away more confused than before. > I've been doing vast amounts of rural TIGER fixup ov

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-06-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kevin Kenny wrote: > Is there *anyone* that actually can speak to what *is* common > practice in the US? When I've asked, I've always drawn a lot of > replies and come away more confused than before. I've been doing vast amounts of rural TIGER fixup over the past couple of years and this is what

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-06-12 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > It would be really helpful if there were one single place where US common > practice was explained, succinctly (not like the verbal diarrhoea[2] on the > US Roads Tagging page) and unambiguously, and in a way that accords with > interna

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-06-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Albert Pundt wrote: > This seems like a way overboard change. I've just received a changeset message back from someone else who had made a few unusual reclassifications, in this case highway=secondary for dirt roads in Nebraska. The user explained that they had been working from this wiki page:

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-06-11 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 11/06/2017 19:52, Peter Dobratz wrote: I've found that even active OSM contributors don't necessarily check the email address associated with their OSM account. If that is the case, they may have not yet seen any changeset comments you have made on their changesets. Indeed - and if they c

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-06-11 Thread Peter Dobratz
I've found that even active OSM contributors don't necessarily check the email address associated with their OSM account. If that is the case, they may have not yet seen any changeset comments you have made on their changesets. It's good to follow up with an OSM private message as these pop-up wh

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-06-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Bryan Housel wrote: > What’s an acceptable amount of time to wait for a response before I > just start reverting? I commented on another of granpueblo's changesets on 21st May and have also not had a response yet. Given that, you probably only need to wait just a couple of days before embarking o

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-06-10 Thread Bryan Housel
2 months later and they’re still at it. I finally did reach out to the user with a changeset comment here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/46561481#map=12/40.7194/-74.4255 What’s an acceptable amount of time to wai

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-04-04 Thread Albert Pundt
The user is granpueblo and he's made a lot more than one changeset ... --Roadsguy On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Albert Pundt wrote: > Recently somebody went around and bulk-"demoted" many n

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-04-04 Thread Bryan Housel
I agree that seems wrong.. If you’ve got a list of changesets, or the username who is doing it, I can help with the revert. Thanks, Bryan > On Apr 4, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Albert Pundt wrote: > > Recently somebody went around and bulk-"demoted" many northern NJ roads. > Granted, some of these w

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-04-04 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On 04/04/2017 10:00 AM, Albert Pundt wrote: > Recently somebody went around and bulk-"demoted" many northern NJ roads. > Granted, some of these were marked as trunk and primary that would > probably be better as primary and secondary, respectively, but this > person made various trunk routes second

[Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-04-04 Thread Albert Pundt
Recently somebody went around and bulk-"demoted" many northern NJ roads. Granted, some of these were marked as trunk and primary that would probably be better as primary and secondary, respectively, but this person made various trunk routes secondary (including major arterials such as US 206, NJ 15