On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Kerry Irons wrote:
> Yes, but what about when there are two different names on street signs
> depending on where you are on the street? It clearly is a mistake on the
> part of the sign department, but in this case it probably means you have to
> go with the "u
no matter what the
street sign says.
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From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2017 11:46 PM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Texas - redacted roads.
On 10/12/2017 6:54 PM, Nick Hocking wrote:
>
> Should we (in O
On 2017.10.13. 05:06, Nick Hocking wrote:
> AAAH - all my questions are answered.
>
> The City of Austin's use of google base map has "fooled" me into
> thinking that the map data was theirs rather than googles. If I click on
> the "blue line" then I see the actual City of Austin data and indeed i
On 10/12/2017 6:54 PM, Nick Hocking wrote:
Should we (in OSM) put what the user will probably search for, the
correect (hypothetically) Redwil or should we put the "ground truth"
(REED WILL) which is what the user will see if he acually ever makes
it to that location.
Although this has been
AAAH - all my questions are answered.
The City of Austin's use of google base map has "fooled" me into thinking
that the map data was theirs rather than googles. If I click on the "blue
line" then I see the actual City of Austin data and indeed it is "REED WILL
DRIVE".
Damm - So I have actually j
Clifford wrote
"Looking at the data from
Austin, the road should be name Reed Will Drive."
Hi Clifford.
Which site did you find the authoritive data for Austin from? (Tiger has
nothing and is not authorative anyway, as far as I can tell)
The Cit of Austin site
https://data.austintexas.gov/Locat
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Nick Hocking
wrote:
> Nathan wrote
>
>
> has the road listed as REED WILL and with a type of DR. I've been told
> that this is an acceptable source or road names,
>
>
> Maybe somebody could drive past this road and report back what the actual
> street signs do sa
On 2017.10.13. 01:15, Nick Hocking wrote:
> Nathan wrote
> "Best to stay well on the correct side of the line "**//___^
> **//___^
> Ok - point taken.
yes, google so far has not flat out denied permission, but their terms
of service would make data not usable in some countries.
it's safer to do a
Nathan wrote
"Best to stay well on the correct side of the line "
Ok - point taken.
Did I mention that at the location I posted (using OSM) the CAPCOG website
(roads dataset)
http://regional-open-data-capcog.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/roads-2015
has the road listed as REED WILL and with a ty
The problem as I understand it is less copyright violation (in the US, so long
as what you see in Google isn't ever put into the OSM database), and more
database licensing difficulty in the rest of the world where the law is less
permissive and even using Google to identify possible errors in to
richlv wrote "just a quick reminder that we should try not to use google
maps or
streetview, the legal status of "just looking" is also fuzzy :)"
Ok, so I if want to find out what a road is called, I'm not allowed to use
a street directory to do this? This would be extremely weird.
If I am allo
On 2017.10.11. 13:37, Nick Hocking wrote:
> Andrew wrote "I would check out the City of Austin's OpenData portal:
> https://data.austintexas.gov/Locations-and-Maps/Street-Segment/t4fe-kr8c
>
> The license is the same (PD) as when the initial building import was
> completed, so you are good to go."
Andrew wrote "I would check out the City of Austin's OpenData portal:
https://data.austintexas.gov/Locations-and-Maps/Street-Segment/t4fe-kr8c
The license is the same (PD) as when the initial building import was
completed, so you are good to go."
Thanks Andrew, I'm now replacing some names adding
Nick-
I would check out the City of Austin's OpenData portal:
https://data.austintexas.gov/Locations-and-Maps/Street-Segment/t4fe-kr8c
The license is the same (PD) as when the initial building import was
completed, so you are good to go.
-Andrew
OSM: Andrew Matheny
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