Re: [Talk-us] U.S. inland waterways

2012-05-18 Thread Malcolm Herring
On 17/05/2012 19:24, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Basically I'm tagging general characteristics of waterways. It seems the categories will be: *maintained for deep draft ocean vessels *maintained for shallow draft barges and pleasure boats *not maintained, possibly open to pleasure boats I don't

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. inland waterways

2012-05-17 Thread Malcolm Herring
On 17/05/2012 03:44, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 5/16/2012 10:42 PM, Dale Puch wrote: You might check with the OpenSeaMap guys Surely at one of them is paying attention to tagging@? Nathan, Yes, we are paying attention! What is it that you wish to map? If it is for inclusion in the

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. inland waterways

2012-05-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nathan Edgars II wrote: I'm trying to do something like the European tagging: http://www.itoworld.com/map/24 But there they have some sort of international treaty that defines configurations. (puts day-job hat on) For users of a waterway, the European (CEMT) waterway classes describe,

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. inland waterways

2012-05-16 Thread Dale Puch
http://www.ndc.iwr.usace.army.mil//index.htm looks to be one of the places you should look. I found it thru http://www.usace.army.mil/Missions/CivilWorks/Navigation.aspx in case there is more information there. On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote:

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. inland waterways

2012-05-16 Thread Dale Puch
I found this at http://www.ndc.iwr.usace.army.mil/data/dictionary/ddnwn.htm Data is here http://www.ndc.iwr.usace.army.mil//db/waternet/data/ but not in shp format so someone would need to do some format translation. There are lots of other sets of data and perhaps one of those has something even

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. inland waterways

2012-05-16 Thread Dale Puch
You might check with the OpenSeaMap guys On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: On 5/16/2012 6:48 PM, Dale Puch wrote: I found this at http://www.ndc.iwr.usace.army.** mil/data/dictionary/ddnwn.htmhttp://www.ndc.iwr.usace.army.mil/data/dictionary/ddnwn.htm

[Talk-us] U.S. inland waterways

2012-05-15 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Is anyone familiar with the regulations governing the U.S. inland waterways (such as the Mississippi River and the Intracoastal Waterway)? From my brief look, it seems to be less these barge configurations are allowed and more you can go anywhere but don't crash. Is this correct, or are there

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. inland waterways

2012-05-15 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone familiar with the regulations governing the U.S. inland waterways (such as the Mississippi River and the Intracoastal Waterway)? It's been a long time since I've done any boating, so I'm not an expert or

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. inland waterways

2012-05-15 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/16/2012 1:06 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: In either case, any idea what the suitable tags might look like (other than the generic boat=yes ship=yes)? I guess that depends on what you're trying to do... If you are trying to tag the largest possible vessel that can navigate a waterway (under