Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-02-28 Thread James Mast
sible. ;) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:13:30 -0600 From: ian.d...@gmail.com To: rickmastfa...@hotmail.com CC: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles Try again. I think it might have been spending too much time trying to render low zoom tiles. I've since put a limit

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-02-26 Thread Ian Dees
Try again. I think it might have been spending too much time trying to render low zoom tiles. I've since put a limit so that it will only render zooms 16-19 over the US. On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:54 PM, James Mast wrote: > I think it might have gone down. In the java console, it's just saying >

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-02-25 Thread James Mast
I think it might have gone down. In the java console, it's just saying "Read timed out" for any of the tiles.___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-02-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Val Kartchner wrote: > On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 12:11 -0600, Ian Dees wrote: > > The JOSM TMS URL is > > http://{switch:a,b,c}. > tile.openstreetmap.us/tiger2011_roads/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png > > Okay, I found this previous email in the mailing list. I started JOSM, > ed

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-02-25 Thread Val Kartchner
On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 12:11 -0600, Ian Dees wrote: > The JOSM TMS URL is > http://{switch:a,b,c}.tile.openstreetmap.us/tiger2011_roads/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png Okay, I found this previous email in the mailing list. I started JOSM, edited preferences, clicked on WMS/TMS, click on "+", selected the TMS t

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-02-17 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-02-17 06:35, Toby Murray wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: > > Better quality will result if we verify from additional sources, like those > available from many counties. The best quality will result if we grab a GPS unit and a camera and GO there ourselves. Just

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-02-17 Thread Mike N
On 2/17/2012 10:05 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: On the topic of TIGER layers: Harry Wood made an interesting suggestion in the comments section of my blog post on road analysis (see other post): wouldn't it be interesting to crowdsource particularly problematic (in terms of alignment) areas of TIG

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-02-17 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Toby Murray wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Alan Mintz > wrote: >> >> Better quality will result if we verify from additional sources, like those >> available from many counties. > > The best quality will result if we grab a GPS unit and a camera and GO

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-02-17 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: > > Better quality will result if we verify from additional sources, like those > available from many counties. The best quality will result if we grab a GPS unit and a camera and GO there ourselves. Just sayin' :) (yes, I have used TIGER 2011 m

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-02-17 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-01-15 10:11, Ian Dees wrote: In order to assist with road name checking I've set up a Mapnik layer rendering from TIGER 2011 ROADS data. I also stumbled across the fact that the Census is making some of TIGER available as a WMS, too: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_2011#WMS

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-01-18 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:40:27PM -0600, Ian Dees wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Kristian M Zoerhoff wrote: > > > I got it working in Potlatch 2 [*], but as someone else mentioned, the > > white > > layer is invisible on Potlatch's default manilla background. The > > black-outlined tex

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-01-17 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Kristian M Zoerhoff wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:11:49PM -0600, Ian Dees wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > In order to assist with road name checking I've set up a Mapnik layer > > rendering from TIGER 2011 ROADS data. It consists of a transparent tile > > with a w

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-01-16 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:11:49PM -0600, Ian Dees wrote: > Hi all, > > In order to assist with road name checking I've set up a Mapnik layer > rendering from TIGER 2011 ROADS data. It consists of a transparent tile > with a white line (of varying thickness for the different MTFCC's) for the > roa

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-01-16 Thread Nick Hocking
Thanks Ian, This in conjunctin with Bing imagery makes finding new neighbourhoods really easy. Of course at the same time I always clean up a few nearby decliner edits as well. And where a decliner has "taken over " a Tiger road it is now very easy to just blow it away and remap it from the new T

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-01-15 Thread Josh Doe
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > Hi all, > > In order to assist with road name checking I've set up a Mapnik layer > rendering from TIGER 2011 ROADS data. It consists of a transparent tile with > a white line (of varying thickness for the different MTFCC's) for the road > and whi

[Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-01-15 Thread Ian Dees
Hi all, In order to assist with road name checking I've set up a Mapnik layer rendering from TIGER 2011 ROADS data. It consists of a transparent tile with a white line (of varying thickness for the different MTFCC's) for the road and white text for the road's full name. I did this with JOSM in min