Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-15 Thread Mike N
On 7/15/2012 6:13 AM, Mike N wrote: The Columbia, SC area is about to be burned by Sherman's redactor. Any help for the 'roads' will be welcome. A link: http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=10&lat=34.04041&lon=-81.07156&layers=00B ___ Talk-us mailing

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-15 Thread Mike N
On 7/13/2012 6:04 AM, Alexander Jones wrote: Hello. I have plently of spare time, and my home (San Antonio) has almost no remapping to do. Where is my help most needed? I'm adept with relations, and I practically redrew almost all of Visalia, CA. (100,000+ people) No GPS, though. :( The Col

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-13 Thread Alexander Jones
Hello. I have plently of spare time, and my home (San Antonio) has almost no remapping to do. Where is my help most needed? I'm adept with relations, and I practically redrew almost all of Visalia, CA. (100,000+ people) No GPS, though. :( Alexander ___

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-12 Thread Richard Welty
On 7/12/12 4:24 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 7/12/2012 11:27 AM, Clay Smalley wrote: I like this idea. That would encourage more people to TIGER-review streets, as highway=road shows up pretty ugly on Mapnik, and people like getting rid of ugly. What would be the drawbacks of doing this? It se

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-12 Thread Robert Kaiser
Martijn van Exel schrieb: I agree that residential is not the right classification, but 'unclassified' would be better than 'road', at least for halfway built-up areas. Well, "highway=road" means "road without classification" while "highway=unclassified" is an actual classification (yes, confu

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi, On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Mike N wrote: >> >> On 7/12/2012 11:26 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> >>> I like that idea, especially given the high number of obviously not >>> urban roads that would be better off tagged as track or

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-12 Thread Kevin Kenny
On 07/12/2012 12:01 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm still working on ones that should have been tagged highway=imaginary. Ones that go over cliffs, splash along streambeds, or otherwise do not and cannot ever have existed. (And I wonder just how some of those made it into TIGER in the first place!)

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-12 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 7/12/2012 11:27 AM, Clay Smalley wrote: I like this idea. That would encourage more people to TIGER-review streets, as highway=road shows up pretty ugly on Mapnik, and people like getting rid of ugly. What would be the drawbacks of doing this? It seems like there would be some but I can't thin

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-12 Thread Mike N
On 7/12/2012 11:43 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: I was wondering if something likehttp://frontdoor.cloudapp.net/ might be a fun solution. Present some aerial imagery, the OSM data, and say "is this a track or a road?". Kind of like HotOrNot for the OSM generation. (For extra efficiency, have a bu

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Mike N wrote: > On 7/12/2012 11:26 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> I like that idea, especially given the high number of obviously not >> urban roads that would be better off tagged as track or unclassified >> getting counted as residential (a more urban classificati

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-12 Thread Mike N
On 7/12/2012 11:26 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: I like that idea, especially given the high number of obviously not urban roads that would be better off tagged as track or unclassified getting counted as residential (a more urban classification). I'd be willing to extend this idea to any way tagged t

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi, On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote: >> >> Richard Weait schrieb: >> >>> Larger cleanups can be imposing at first glance. Other mappers will >>> understand that a single mapper can't do everything at once, so you >>> sh

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Kaiser wrote: > After having spent another vacation in the US (in Northern > California this time), I started wondering if there should be > a mass edit to switch all the highway=residential (or other > highway values set en masse and mostly wrong) that are from > TIGER imports and still

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi, On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote: > Richard Weait schrieb: > >> Larger cleanups can be imposing at first glance. Other mappers will >> understand that a single mapper can't do everything at once, so you >> shouldn't be criticized if you fix a few things but not others. >

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-12 Thread Clay Smalley
I like this idea. That would encourage more people to TIGER-review streets, as highway=road shows up pretty ugly on Mapnik, and people like getting rid of ugly. What would be the drawbacks of doing this? It seems like there would be some but I can't think of any. On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:29 AM, R

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote: > Richard Weait schrieb: > > Larger cleanups can be imposing at first glance. Other mappers will >> understand that a single mapper can't do everything at once, so you >> shouldn't be criticized if you fix a few things but not others. >> > >

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-12 Thread Robert Kaiser
Richard Weait schrieb: Larger cleanups can be imposing at first glance. Other mappers will understand that a single mapper can't do everything at once, so you shouldn't be criticized if you fix a few things but not others. After having spent another vacation in the US (in Northern California

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-11 Thread Mike N
On 7/11/2012 3:56 PM, Evin Fairchild wrote: If people don't want to do the TIGER fixup all over again, they could import the TIGER 2011 data which is of MUCH better quality than the TIGER data that was originally imported into OSM (though not quite perfect). In fact, I sometimes use the TIGER da

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-11 Thread Evin Fairchild
ailto:rich...@weait.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 8:19 AM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more" On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > I'd be fine with trying to clean up unedited TIGER - or even a > "horrible

[Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping "more"

2012-07-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > I'd be fine with trying to clean up unedited TIGER - or even a > "horrible mess of half-deleted TIGER" - if the expectations of > the results weren't quite so daunting. [ ... ] Larger cleanups can be imposing at first glance. Other mappers