Re: [Talk-us] National Park boundaries

2012-07-28 Thread Daniel Sabo
If you're OK with using non-rendering tags you should use the established boundary=protected_area instead of something US specific ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area#Protect_classes_for_various_countries ). If you want it to render the convention I've been using

Re: [Talk-us] National Park boundaries

2012-07-23 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi, On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: a search for 'Golden Spike' yields nada. I was about to draw a boundary=national_park[3] around it with a name tag, so it would be a little easier to find. But it turns out the NPS has a boundary shapefile for

Re: [Talk-us] National Park boundaries

2012-07-23 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: boundary=national_historic_site boundary=national_historic_park boundary=national_forest[1] There are 37 classes in total, most of them with only a few instances. What do y'all think of that idea? Perhaps add a

Re: [Talk-us] National Park boundaries

2012-07-23 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi, On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: boundary=national_historic_site boundary=national_historic_park boundary=national_forest[1] There are 37 classes in total, most of them

Re: [Talk-us] National Park boundaries

2012-07-23 Thread Greg Troxel
Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org writes: Hi, On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: Perhaps add a us: prefix to the value? boundary=us:national_historic_site boundary=us:national_historic_park boundary=us:national_forest I like that idea, in spite of the

Re: [Talk-us] National Park boundaries

2012-07-23 Thread Kevin Kenny
On 07/23/2012 12:50 PM, Steven Johnson wrote: Martijn all, I rather like the samples you gave: boundary=national_historic_site boundary=national_historic_park etc. They are simple, straightforward, and unambiguous. (The pattern could also be extended to other boundary types.) In the Forest

[Talk-us] National Park boundaries

2012-07-22 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, I was looking at the Golden Spike National Historic Site[1], of particular interest because the Union Pacific railroad celebrates its 150th birthday this year[2]. While elements are represented in OSM[3], a search for 'Golden Spike' yields nada. I was about to draw a

Re: [Talk-us] National Park boundaries

2012-07-22 Thread Mike N
On 7/22/2012 7:39 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: But it turns out the NPS has a boundary shapefile for all National Parks, Historic Sites, Rivers, Parkways, Lakeshores and more than a dozen other categories[4]. Is this something to consider for importing? I am in favor of importing park

Re: [Talk-us] National Park boundaries

2012-07-22 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi, On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 7/22/2012 7:39 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: But it turns out the NPS has a boundary shapefile for all National Parks, Historic Sites, Rivers, Parkways, Lakeshores and more than a dozen other categories[4]. Is this

Re: [Talk-us] National Park boundaries

2012-07-22 Thread Greg Troxel
a search for 'Golden Spike' yields nada. I was about to draw a boundary=national_park[3] around it with a name tag, so it would be a little easier to find. But it turns out the NPS has a boundary shapefile for all National Parks, Historic Sites, Rivers, Parkways, Lakeshores and more

Re: [Talk-us] National Park Boundaries

2009-03-12 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Zeke Farwell ezeki...@gmail.com wrote: The thing about the several renderers we currently have is that they can't be expected to take every possible mapped feature into account. The map would just get too cluttered. I think for a general street map (the

Re: [Talk-us] National Park Boundaries

2009-02-20 Thread Zeke Farwell
Nathan, This is something that has bugged me about Mapnik and Osmarender as well. I think you should start a wiki page about this issue. The thing about the several renderers we currently have is that they can't be expected to take every possible mapped feature into account. The map would just