Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-04-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Matthew Schneider wrote: > Adam Schreiber wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Richard Weait >> wrote: >> >>> Dear Can-Americans, >>> >>> This is silly. Four different lines for one border. >>> >>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906&lon=-95.15362&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF >>> >>> W

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-31 Thread Doug Morrison-Cleary
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:01:59 -0500 Matthew Schneider wrote: > I know some of my friends in Northern Minnesota are wacky, but roads > in the middle of a lake? I didn't know we'd started mapping seasonal > ice roads. Looks like a TIGER mix-up. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.3146&lon=-94.

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-31 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Adam Schreiber wrote: > > A faster way of doing this might be if the person that did the county > borders saved their .osm files from that import, then the saved .osm > files from the state lines could be overlayed and fixes made. > I saved some of the imports,

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-31 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Richard Weait wrote: >> >> Dear Can-Americans, >> >> This is silly.  Four different lines for one border. >> >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906&lon=-95.15362&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF >> >> We're

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-31 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > Dear Can-Americans, > > This is silly. Four different lines for one border. > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906&lon=-95.15362&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF > > We're good neighbo(u)rs. We should fix our fence. Shouldn't each > borde

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Matthew Schneider < mlschnei...@bucketofbolts.net> wrote: > I know some of my friends in Northern Minnesota are wacky, but roads in > the middle of a lake? I didn't know we'd started mapping seasonal ice > roads. > Looks like a TIGER mix-up. > > > http://www.openst

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders]

2009-03-30 Thread Richard Weait
Forwarded Message > From: Richard Weait > To: Bill Ricker > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] silly borders > Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:30:47 -0400 > > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 22:07 -0400, Bill Ricker wrote: > > > We should fix our fence. > > > > A

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread Bill Ricker
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Matthew Schneider wrote: >> Great.  Which one's correct? looks to me like they were traced with subtly different projections that supposedly were squared up but didn't quite fit. E.g., Interesting factoid i just picked up - Warsaw Pact and NATO used the same pri

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread James Fee
Someone get the text to the Treaty of 1818 and figure that one out... I don't seem to have my copy ready by my computer. -- James Fee http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/ On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > > We should fix our fence. > > Ayuh. Good fences make good naaybahs. [

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread Matthew Schneider
Adam Schreiber wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > >> Dear Can-Americans, >> >> This is silly. Four different lines for one border. >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906&lon=-95.15362&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF >> >> We're good neighbo(u)rs. We should fix o

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread Bill Ricker
>  We should fix our fence. Ayuh. Good fences make good naaybahs. [1] > Shouldn't each > border be a single way, with a relation for each adjacent region? around whom does it go clockwise? Shouldn't the entirety of a country's (state/province/county) be a (multi)polygon for area? Can that be em

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread Matthew Schneider
I know some of my friends in Northern Minnesota are wacky, but roads in the middle of a lake? I didn't know we'd started mapping seasonal ice roads. Looks like a TIGER mix-up. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.3146&lon=-94.8657&zoom=14&layers=B000FTFT Richard Weait wrote: > Dear Can-Americans

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > Dear Can-Americans, > > This is silly.  Four different lines for one border. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906&lon=-95.15362&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF > > We're good neighbo(u)rs.  We should fix our fence.  Shouldn't each > border b

[Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread Richard Weait
Dear Can-Americans, This is silly. Four different lines for one border. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906&lon=-95.15362&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF We're good neighbo(u)rs. We should fix our fence. Shouldn't each border be a single way, with a relation for each adjacent region? We