Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-16 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:07 PM, SteveC wrote: > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Anthony wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:05 PM, SteveC wrote: >>> So you put the house numbers on the nodes and then what happens with them >>> all when you switch the way >>> direction? >> >> Nothing. >> >>>

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-16 Thread SteveC
On Nov 15, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:05 PM, SteveC wrote: >> So you put the house numbers on the nodes and then what happens with them >> all when you switch the way >> direction? > > Nothing. > >> Every editor has to know to reorder the left and right hand

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-16 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On 16 Nov 2009, at 7:40 , Anthony wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Lord-Castillo, Brett > wrote: >> I'm still getting a handle on the schemas in use for OSM, and noticed that >> concept of matching address nodes to ways when doing imports. >> I'm not so sure this will be very functiona

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-16 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Lord-Castillo, Brett wrote: > I'm still getting a handle on the schemas in use for OSM, and noticed that > concept of matching address nodes to ways when doing imports. > I'm not so sure this will be very functional for floodplain counties or heavy > agricultural

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-16 Thread Lord-Castillo, Brett
I'm still getting a handle on the schemas in use for OSM, and noticed that concept of matching address nodes to ways when doing imports. I'm not so sure this will be very functional for floodplain counties or heavy agricultural counties. We have thousands of addresses with no corresponding roads

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:05 PM, SteveC wrote: >> So you put the house numbers on the nodes and then what happens with them >> all when you switch the way >> direction? > > Nothing. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.051148&lon=-82.552442&zo

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:05 PM, SteveC wrote: > So you put the house numbers on the nodes and then what happens with them all > when you switch the way > direction? Nothing. > Every editor has to know to reorder the left and right hand numbers? Nope. Up/Forward is defined as the direction i

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Russ Nelson
Well at least in theory, TIGER 2009 is positionally much more accurate. Theory. I reserve judgement either way. Peter Batty writes: > Russ, I think you misunderstood my comment. I am in the "TIGER import is a > good thing" camp. But in the areas I have worked in it has needed a fair bit > of

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Peter Batty
Russ, I think you misunderstood my comment. I am in the "TIGER import is a good thing" camp. But in the areas I have worked in it has needed a fair bit of minor positional cleanup. My point is that in those cases where you need to graphically adjust a street, I don't want to have to edit three or m

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Russ Nelson
Anthony writes: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Peter Batty wrote: > > I'm coming a bit late to this debate, but I just wanted to raise > > a fairly basic question, which is whether the Karlsruhe schema is > > the best one to use in the situation we find ourselves in with > > TIGER, where

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread SteveC
On Nov 15, 2009, at 8:03 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Peter Batty wrote: >> I think the Karlsruhe schema is good where you are trying to model addresses >> pretty precisely and you're not expecting major updates to the street >> network. But I think with the TIGER data w

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Peter Batty wrote: > I think the Karlsruhe schema is good where you are trying to model addresses > pretty precisely and you're not expecting major updates to the street > network. But I think with the TIGER data we have a different situation. And > like I said, th

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Peter Batty
I think the Karlsruhe schema is good where you are trying to model addresses pretty precisely and you're not expecting major updates to the street network. But I think with the TIGER data we have a different situation. And like I said, the two aren't incompatible, you can use a simpler approach on

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Peter Batty wrote: > When I said "messy", I guess I was thinking of two things - one is doing the > import, as you mention here (which is sort of where the discussion started). > This seems quite a bit more complex if you have to split ways and insert > nodes. You

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread SteveC
I suspect the Karlsruhe schema is a bit like the license change. Everyone thinks they have a better idea, and it will take 3 weeks of back and forth to go over it before they figure out that it's the best (or, least worst) way forward... but by then another 3 people who need convincing pop up...

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Peter Batty
When I said "messy", I guess I was thinking of two things - one is doing the import, as you mention here (which is sort of where the discussion started). This seems quite a bit more complex if you have to split ways and insert nodes. The other is in writing a geocoding engine based on the data whi

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Peter Batty wrote: > If you have two streets intersecting and put a number on that node, it isn't > clear which street that applies to. You could add an artificial node close > to the end of the street, but that seems a bit more messy to me. If you're adding the n

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Peter Batty
If you have two streets intersecting and put a number on that node, it isn't clear which street that applies to. You could add an artificial node close to the end of the street, but that seems a bit more messy to me. So my gut feel is that the simplest approach is still attributes on the street. Y

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 18:02 -0700, Peter Batty wrote: > I would be interested in being on the USA conversion team - how do I > sign up? (I am in Denver incidentally Perhaps someone should set up a wiki page of interested parties. We also need to start recording some of the consensus that's coming

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Dale Puch wrote: > Split each intersection, then build relations for the streets. Do you even have to split? Just add a node, and put the house number on the node. > One of the problems has been which side is left if the way is reversed. Put the house number on

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Peter Batty
I would be interested in being on the USA conversion team - how do I sign up? (I am in Denver incidentally) On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Peter Batty > wrote: > > I'm coming a bit late to this debate, but I just wanted to raise a fairly > > b

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Peter Batty wrote: > I'm coming a bit late to this debate, but I just wanted to raise a fairly > basic question, which is whether the Karlsruhe schema is the best one to use > in the situation we find ourselves in with TIGER, where quite a bit of data > cleanup is

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Dale Puch
Oops hit reply instead of replying to the mailing list :/ I personally favor having the possible address range in the street way segment (between intersections) Easier to edit and maintain, as well as smaller memory and bandwidth when working with it. Split each intersection, then build relation

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread John Callahan
For a single county or jurisdiction, if you delete the TIGER data and import more accurate local data, what do you do at the boundaries? County/Stare data sets I've seen usually get cut off +/- a few hundred feet (if that) from the boundary. Does somebody go through and make them fit/connect

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Peter Batty
Hi all, I'm coming a bit late to this debate, but I just wanted to raise a fairly basic question, which is whether the Karlsruhe schema is the best one to use in the situation we find ourselves in with TIGER, where quite a bit of data cleanup is anticipated. The major concern I have is that if you

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > There's nothing wrong with doing point-level address imports.  The only > thing I would suggest is ensuring that we connect those points ways or > whatever to the roads that represent them somehow. 1) Why? 2) Are you planning on doing that wi

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Kate Chapman
Dan, Alexandria gave us permission to import their data but still wanted the 100 dollar CD fee. Someone paid that and we do have the data. As far as I know nobody has asked Fairfax County, but I figured making D.C. look nice with a combination of mapping and importing would be a strong tool

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 18:54 -0500, Anthony wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 18:11 -0500, Kate Chapman wrote: > >> What's wrong with doing automated addressing imports in situations > >> where we have point level address data? > > > > The issue

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 18:11 -0500, Kate Chapman wrote: >> What's wrong with doing automated addressing imports in situations >> where we have point level address data? > > The issue is that it may not line up with the roads at all. Well, addre

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Dan, Both manual and donated data. I've been addressing my neighborhood in Virginia but Washington D.C. donated point level addresses. Kate Chapman On Nov 15, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Dan Putler wrote: > Hi Kate, > > How have the address points been obtained? From OSM users? The Census > Bure

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 18:28 -0500, Kate Chapman wrote: > Maybe I'm confused about the address versus road information. I would > think the address point would be the front door of the building and > would not be a relation to the road. So the node of the address and > the way of the road would no

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Kate Chapman
Dave, Understood, I would envision it being a partially manual and partially automated process. Maybe I'm confused about the address versus road information. I would think the address point would be the front door of the building and would not be a relation to the road. So the node of the addre

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 18:11 -0500, Kate Chapman wrote: > What's wrong with doing automated addressing imports in situations > where we have point level address data? The issue is that it may not line up with the roads at all. We also need to ensure that we *find* the roads to which it refers to e

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Kate Chapman
Dan, What's wrong with doing automated addressing imports in situations where we have point level address data? Or are you just referring to not importing the addressing that is available for the Tiger data? Kate Chapman On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Sun, 2009-11-1