Randy,
I just want to point out that there is an existing and well established
OSM-based service that already supplies worldwide boundaries in a number
of formats https://osm.wno-edv-service.de/boundaries/ .
Further the operator runs daily quality checks on changes in the boundaries.
Simon
Am
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Randy Meech randy.me...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us
wrote:
Seattle has very defined neighborhoods and even sub-neighborhoods. The
prior discussions kept us from adding the boundaries. Maybe it is
It supports at least down to level 11, simply click on the entries and
it will display sub-boundaries and so on.
Not that there isn't room for further parallel services, but this wasn't
actually a vacuum :-). In particular anything helping improving
boundaries in the US is a good thing.
Simon
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote:
I just want to point out that there is an existing and well established
OSM-based service that already supplies worldwide boundaries in a number
of formats https://osm.wno-edv-service.de/boundaries/ .
Yes -- unless I'm
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us
wrote:
I apologize for coming in so late on this thread. Looking at my small
county, we have 55 place=hamlet according to an overpass query.
Note we're only talking about `place=hamlet` in urban areas. I wasn't 100 %
clear
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote:
Note we're only talking about `place=hamlet` in urban areas. I wasn't 100
% clear whether your post referred to `place=hamlet` nodes in urban areas
or in general.
Sorry - I missed the Urban part. The 55 are definitely not
2015-03-22 4:00 GMT+01:00 Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us:
At its most basic, OSM is a geospatial database. We have countries,
states, counties, and cities. Why not neighborhoods. OSM tells where a
feature is located. Points can only tell us how close a feature is to a
node. Using nodes
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
2015-03-22 4:00 GMT+01:00 Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us:
At its most basic, OSM is a geospatial database. We have countries,
states, counties, and cities. Why not neighborhoods. OSM tells where a
Clifford and Serge write:
Seattle has very defined neighborhoods and even sub-neighborhoods.
As you imply, Seattle may be an exception (more detailed explanation below).
Serge, this isn't an implication, it is stated and actual fact.
...But if we have access to
administrative
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us
wrote:
Looking at King County, especially Seattle, it appears that a number of
the place=hamlet are actually neighborhoods. We have been reluctant to add
neighborhood borders because of prior discussions on the mailing list
In Santa Cruz county (California), each place=* tag has been
carefully compared to local knowledge and a wonderful reference
(book) I have called Santa Cruz County Place Names: A Geographical
Dictionary by author Donald Thomas Clark, published by the Santa
Cruz Historical Trust. At over 500
On 3/18/2015 4:20 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote:
Levittown, New York, for instance is a hamlet with a population of
over fifty thousand.
This is not a hamlet. Typically a hamlet would have less than 100-200
people. What you've described is a town or a city, this is regardless of
if it has
On Thursday, March 19, 2015 04:12:45 PM Clifford Snow wrote:
I apologize for coming in so late on this thread. Looking at my small
county, we have 55 place=hamlet according to an overpass query. (2007 for
Washington State) I certainly recognize a number of these hamlets. I
would hate to see
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com wrote:
I wouldn’t. The USPS doesn’t recognize it, so mail can not be delivered
there. There are no signs either.
The USPS is not an always a good choice.
I did some googling to see if it is a historical name, but all the
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote:
Now OSM is the only map where you cannot locate Bender's Corner. It looks
like it might be a nice area.
http://berkeley-heights-real-estate.com/home-sales-berkeley-heights-nj-new-jersey/
110 Diamond Hill Rd Benders
OK, I’ll revert the changeset if if bothers you that much..
On Mar 20, 2015, at 12:23 AM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com
mailto:br...@7thposition.com wrote:
I wouldn’t. The USPS doesn’t recognize it, so
I apologize for coming in so late on this thread. Looking at my small
county, we have 55 place=hamlet according to an overpass query. (2007 for
Washington State) I certainly recognize a number of these hamlets. I
would hate to see them removed. I would like to see if any need to be
updated to
I wouldn’t. The USPS doesn’t recognize it, so mail can not be delivered there.
There are no signs either.
I did some googling to see if it is a historical name, but all the results are
spam (“Best plumber in Benders Corner, NJ!”)
Nobody around here knows what it is.
I’m just going to remove
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
My initial reaction to any automated edit is to break out in a rash.
I don't have the same reaction. A long time ago I added building=entrance
to buildings. That tag was deprecated in favor of entrance=* at some
point.
2015-03-18 3:48 GMT+01:00 Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com:
(IMO the “Bender’s Corner” hamlet should probably just be deleted
outright. I live near it and there really is no such thing.)
or maybe keep it as a historical place name, something like place=locality
and old_name=Bender's
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
2015-03-18 3:48 GMT+01:00 Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com:
(IMO the “Bender’s Corner” hamlet should probably just be deleted
outright. I live near it and there really is no such thing.)
or maybe keep
Would you put bender's corner on a map today?
If the barrier to cleaning is too great, not enough cleaning will happen.
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On 03/17/2015 05:25 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com
mailto:a...@mapbox.com wrote:
What do people think about how to properly retag place=hamlet in
US urban areas?
My colleague Eliane rendered out a map of all hamlets in urban
On 3/18/15 1:29 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
or maybe keep it as a historical place name, something like
place=locality and old_name=Bender's Corner? I agree that this
is
Everyone,
Aren't some of these hamlets still
used as postal addresses? In that sense, they still exist.
Also, in the West we have the phenomenon
of old rail infrastructure, such as watering
stations, that were named. A good example is
Adamana near the Petrified Forest. There
On 3/18/15 2:51 PM, Charlotte Wolter wrote:
Everyone,
Aren't some of these hamlets still used as postal addresses?
In that sense, they still exist.
Also, in the West we have the phenomenon of old rail
infrastructure, such as watering stations, that were named. A good
example
My initial reaction to any automated edit is to break out in a rash.
Can we use that image to promote mapping best practices? :-)
Goal: A new local mapper in each BadHamlet
Method:
1) Create an overlay that displays the hamlets as ugly, rash-like
spots. It could even be a rash that allows
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:18 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com
wrote:
In some cases, these hamlets may be separate legal entities, even
though surrounded by the city. For example, Davidson County, Tennessee,
and the city of Nashville merged in 1963 into a shared Metropolitan
In some cases, these hamlets may be separate legal entities, even though
surrounded by the city. For example, Davidson County, Tennessee, and the
city of Nashville merged in 1963 into a shared Metropolitan government.
However, six smaller municipalities within the county chose to keep partial
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote:
What do people think about how to properly retag place=hamlet in US urban
areas?
My colleague Eliane rendered out a map of all hamlets in urban areas in
the US:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/samely/diary/34541
I just
On Mar 17, 2015, at 8:06 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com wrote:
Brand new anonymous users come to the map every day and are confused by what
these hamlets are.
proof: https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/163246
I kind of doubt
Brand new anonymous users come to the map every day and are confused by what
these hamlets are.
proof: https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/163246
https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/163246
I kind of doubt this person is going to stick around and improve the map. To
them, it just looks like
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com wrote:
Brand new anonymous users come to the map every day and are confused by
what these hamlets are.
proof: https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/163246
I kind of doubt this person is going to stick around and improve the map.
Outreach is awesome. Mechanical edits have their (rather limited,
imho) place, but outreach is awesome.
SteveA
California
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I will have to look into the details to say for sure.
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On March 17, 2015 4:29:34 PM Paul Johnson
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
My initial reaction to any automated edit is to break out in a rash.
Can we use that image to promote mapping best practices? :-)
Goal: A new local mapper in each BadHamlet
Here's what I did with bike repair stations:
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
I'm in favor of a bulk edit for US hamlets within city boundaries to be
retagged as place=neighbourhood
I generally agree with this, as a first step.
Especially if there's a followup challenge of some sort to improve the
What do people think about how to properly retag place=hamlet in US urban
areas?
My colleague Eliane rendered out a map of all hamlets in urban areas in the
US:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/samely/diary/34541
I just posted how we could fix this:
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