Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

2017-09-06 Thread Nick Hocking
Thanks Mike, Looks good. I've already found a serious routability issue with an unedited TIGER road in the Houston area. -I'm fixing it now. Cheers Nick ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

2017-09-06 Thread Mike N
On 9/6/2017 12:42 AM, Nick Hocking wrote: A couple of years ago there was a "Tiger missing and misaligned 2015" layer that I found really usefull for bringing many US cities and towns up-to-date. Do you know if there is (or plans for) a more recent version of this, maybe Tiger 2017??? This

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

2017-09-06 Thread Nick Hocking
Is there anything we can do, OSMwise, for communities in the path of Hurricane Irma. Anything that may be useful for search and recovery would be a priority. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

2017-09-05 Thread Nick Hocking
Hi Brian, >From the TxDOT website I see that the road data is updated yearly, but unfortunately the data was last published at the end of 2015. One think I would like to make sure of, is that Texas roads are up-to-date so that any new subdivisions that may be water affected are actually on the

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

2017-08-28 Thread Brian May
Cliff, Thanks for pointing out the png issue. If you choose png format, JOSM will automatically make it transparent, because it adds transparent=true to the generated WMS URL. And best to choose image/png; mode=8bit to reduce the size of the image generated on the server, which helps with

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

2017-08-28 Thread Clifford Snow
Brian if I may - adding transparent=true on to the end of the URL will allow the street layer to be transparent so satelite imagery can be used along with the streets. The URL would be http://maps.mapwise.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=maps/fmo-base-osm-texas.map=true After selecting the layer using

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

2017-08-27 Thread Brian May
There is now a task in the OSM Task Manager to help coordinate the effort at http://tasks.openstreetmap.us/project/104 There is also a WMS layer of Texas statewide streets available at http://maps.mapwise.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=maps/fmo-base-osm-texas.map; - use that URL in JOSM. Adding

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

2017-08-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Aug 26, 2017 00:10, "Greg Morgan" wrote: On Aug 25, 2017 1:59 PM, "Brian May" wrote: Calling all TIGER fixup junkies. I've been poking around the coastal areas of Texas where Hurricane Harvey is expected to make landfall and seeing a lot of TIGER

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

2017-08-25 Thread Greg Morgan
On Aug 25, 2017 1:59 PM, "Brian May" wrote: Calling all TIGER fixup junkies. I've been poking around the coastal areas of Texas where Hurricane Harvey is expected to make landfall and seeing a lot of TIGER fixup needed. More and more websites depend on OSM so it would be nice

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

2017-08-25 Thread Hans De Kryger
Thanks for letting me know, i'm on it! *Regards,* *Hans* On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Brian May wrote: > Calling all TIGER fixup junkies. I've been poking around the coastal areas > of Texas where Hurricane Harvey is expected to make landfall and seeing a > lot of TIGER

[Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

2017-08-25 Thread Brian May
Calling all TIGER fixup junkies. I've been poking around the coastal areas of Texas where Hurricane Harvey is expected to make landfall and seeing a lot of TIGER fixup needed. More and more websites depend on OSM so it would be nice to provide more accurate and updated info than what is there