Re: [Talk-us] Best way to tag mile and interpretive markers?

Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/lug/2013, at 03:04, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Thomas, I'd caution against placing nodes every mile and tagging them highway=milestone unless there's

Re: [Talk-us] Cemeteries in OSM?

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Thomas, It would be 100% fine putting in individual gravestones into OSM. It is an physical object that can be surveyed, does not move, and people care about it. Personally, I would enjoy mapping the

Re: [Talk-us] Shining example of OSM use, tarnished.

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: What's the issue? Other than the zoom/pan icons missing, it looks fine to me: http://i.imgur.com/5ANaNMB.png I wonder, if you really tried to use the map? I wish they wouldn't have used OpenStreetMap data because this gives

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've been looking at the GNIS data and it's quite a mess. This is a horribly crafted proposal. You haven't shown your research why but you declare the GNIS tags as a mess. Your proposal is as good as me

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I've been looking at the GNIS data and it's quite a mess

Re: [Talk-us] Locations for State of the Map US 2014

I sent what I found for Phoenix to the board email address just now for cost comparisons. I was as far as talking with the Phoenix Convention Center and the Visit Phoenix for area information before missing the deadline. I found that this was a short lead time for the details involved and

[Talk-us] Advice On Data Removal Problem

So there is a fairly new mapper in the Phoenix area removing valid data. I would like advice on what to do. I don't to want dampen this mapper's efforts. However, another mapper has complained to me about the problem as this mapper has removed both of our work. Change set

Re: [Talk-us] Advice On Data Removal Problem

Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Have you spoken with the offending mapper about your concerns? In particular, I'd remind him of the maxim of Don't torque the data for a specific renderer. On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.comwrote: So there is a fairly new

Re: [Talk-us] South Carolina State Highways - primary overload

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Martijn van Exel mart...@openstreetmap.uswrote: I think discussion can only be useful if and when we have a common understanding of what 'trunk', 'primary', 'secondary' etc. mean to us. I don't think we're anywhere close to that, looking at the various and

Re: [Talk-us] Telenav giving away iPad Mini or Galaxy Note to Editor with the Most Edits Made By March 10

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:28 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.comwrote: Thanks for doing this Steve. However, is there a way to report script kiddies who are running a script to just rack up points that aren't doing anything to help out OSM and just want to win the prize? Should I just

Re: [Talk-us] importing zip codes

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com wrote: The USPS has a web site for giving ZIP and ZIP+4 values for specified addresses at https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action?mode=0refresh=true

Re: [Talk-us] importing zip codes

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com wrote: The USPS has a web site for giving ZIP and ZIP+4 values for specified addresses at https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action?mode

Re: [Talk-us] When is a copyrighted map Easter egg not an Easter egg?

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Kerry Irons irons54vor...@gmail.comwrote: Not sure about present practice but the State of Michigan certainly did this exact same thing in the past, and it was explained to me in the same context - the state would know if someone was copying their maps if these

Re: [Talk-us] attribution

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: The KDVR iOS app has OSM and zero attribution sadly. Steve In a similar experience, I went to usatoday.com for a news story a year ago and all I saw see was terms of service. That's not very good product placement or

Re: [Talk-us] Osm rending problems

You could submit a problem on the github page. It may be hard to pin point where the problem is. I run some old junk for editing. The browser says that piwik.js is really slow. I click to the kill button and move on. I can't tell if it is my equipment or something with the script. I can't say

Re: [Talk-us] IR boundary tagging

, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: I'd say make the changes at the city admin level for these reasons. The tribal nations are viewed by the courts as territories but they tend to act

Re: [Talk-us] East Coast Greenway updated as ncn

What a great job! Not only that but there are concrete examples of how all the cycle network tags are used. I was aware that these routes existed based on my friend's kids trek across the country.[1] I didn't realize how extensive the routes were. Thanks, Greg [1]

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

Here's my concern with the discussion. After 6.5 hours of driving for 129 mile round trip, you can type in 13030 east crown king road and find a valid location along a dirt road. There are posted speed limits, mile markers, two lanes of travel, addresses and the like. I saw more traffic on

Re: [Talk-us] Prima Facie Speed Limits

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com wrote: Thus far I've only applied the maxspeed tag to roads with a posted speed limit. But here in California most residential roads are not posted, instead there is a state wide prima facie limit:

Re: [Talk-us] Prima Facie Speed Limits

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:31 AM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote: I wonder if 15 mph in a school zone and 25 mph in a residential area are some sort of federal standard? The source tag might be useful but not much different than other states. The federal government doesn't have

Re: [Talk-us] Prima Facie Speed Limits

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking more like a stop sign is red and eight sided. A traffic engineer told me that there is a federal standard governing how

Re: [Talk-us] Prima Facie Speed Limits

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com wrote: I've been off on other things so I haven't done more than make sure that the roads tagged with maxspeed=* that I have done in my area also have a source:maxspeed=sign. I think I am comfortable enough with this discussion

Re: [Talk-us] Vandalism

I think this is still a question for the DWG. I agree that it would be great to look at case from a positive perspective. In that respect, It would have been great if they just added a poi for the business, address, etc However, when you look at the user page,

Re: [Talk-us] New I.D Feature

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 12:33 PM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote: Without getting all political on people, I do wish to remind everybody that Arizona is not AZ. The former is one of the fifty sovereign states of the union, the latter is a (federal) corporate entity created by the Buck

Re: [Talk-us] New I.D Feature

I believe that the is_in tag has what you may be looking for and it appears to have a well thought out structure.[1] You can still use addr:city to reflect the correct postal city.[2]. The tag has the same concern as addr:state When a region has a well developed set of boundary polygons the

Re: [Talk-us] Arizona Mappers

Clifford, I really wanted to try and get down to see you last week. The challenge is that it would have been a four hour round trip at 65 to 75 mph. It is another two hours south to the border. Likewise, it is another four hours heading north to Page Arizona from Phoenix. You still have more

Re: [Talk-us] New I.D Feature

Thanks Minh. I did not know that. I thought that they were a convention of USPS. I always hear about the codes relating to mailing concerns. Regards, Greg On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us wrote: On 2014-11-07 22:35, Greg Morgan wrote: In contrast

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging a seasonally closed roads with uncertain spring opening

I am wondering what can done to provide travelers planning information via OSM. You have to rely on local news while you are in a foreign area. How can a gated road be tagged so that travelers know to plan an alternate road or think about hotel reservations for the night? I am not happy with my

Re: [Talk-us] Can not upload a change set‏

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Mike Henson mikehen...@hotmail.com wrote: Last night I was editing Stillwater, OK with JOSM and everything was working great. I was uploading change sets with out issue. My wife pulled me away from the computer for a while. I came back made some edits and

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 2/4/2015 11:25 PM, Greg Morgan wrote: addr:housenumber contains both the number and the building letter in the same field. The map is useful because you can find the building. How have other people tried to handle

[Talk-us] Who's Using OSM - Super Bowl Central

As soon as I saw the email I knew what was up. The 2015 Super Bowl Experience is in Downtown Phoenix. The Valley Metro transportation group is using MapBox/OSM tiles for detours and such http://www.valleymetrosb.com/super-bowl-central/ http://www.valleymetrosb.com/downtown-phoenix-detours/ Those

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:29 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: On 1/13/2015 5:34 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: It looks like most of the place=city/town/village/hamlet POIs from GNIS are tagged with 2000 Census populations in the population tag. These population tags allow renderers to label

Re: [Talk-us] fun with tagging: it's a raceway and an airstrip

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: not sure how to tag this one. Inde Motorsports Ranch is near Willcox, AZ, a multi configuration road course complex, plus the straight away on the south edge of the complex doubles as a private airstrip:

Re: [Talk-us] Duplicate Ways (or portions of ways)

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 01/27/2015 05:33 PM, Dave Nesbitt wrote: Is there a standard way to identify and remove ways that are duplicates (or portions which are duplicates)? The OSM inspector displays overlapping roads (but not other

Re: [Talk-us] Get your early bird ticket to State of the Map US!

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: Hello everyone! Early bird ticket sales for State of the Map US are open, find out all the details on our web site: I looked but could not find an agenda. Are any of the details available yet?

Re: [Talk-us] For comment: import of amenity=bicycle_repair_stations

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: Dero does not happen to have a ref or primary key for their data. Some other vendor or site may have an actual value here Much as emergency phones or some institutional assets. I finally get what you are doing with

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: ... The addr:housenumber doesn't render anyway if the building has also been

Re: [Talk-us] For comment: import of amenity=bicycle_repair_stations

Oh! How soon I forget: key key=ref value=none / change to key key=ref value=lt;nonegt; / and that parses OK. Regards, Greg On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: To summarize

Re: [Talk-us] For comment: import of amenity=bicycle_repair_stations

://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3345300838 . The total trip took 9:15 hours and 168 miles! Man has the east valley grown. Regards, Greg On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:23

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.org wrote: It seems to be addr:unit, though it’s not widely used. It’s what I’ve been using, though. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:unit d. On Feb 3, 2015, at 12:28, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: What's

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: The editor visits a site which accesses the JOSM remote control protocol. They fix up the TIGER date and indicate Yes, I'm done or Needs more work,

Re: [Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: My initial reaction to any automated edit is to break out in a rash. I don't have the same reaction. A long time ago I added building=entrance to buildings. That tag was deprecated in favor of entrance=* at some point.

Re: [Talk-us] Weigh stations on Interstates

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-03-16 17:33 GMT+01:00 Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com: In continuing mapping destination tag on highways based on Mapillary imagery, I've come across the problem of how to tag weigh stations on

Re: [Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com wrote: I wouldn’t. The USPS doesn’t recognize it, so mail can not be delivered there. There are no signs either. The USPS is not an always a good choice. I did some googling to see if it is a historical name, but all the

Re: [Talk-us] user damages administrative boundaries around Rapid City

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:13 PM, arch_a...@t-online.de arch_a...@t-online.de wrote: Hello, I've detected a user who damages administrative boundaries around Rapid City. I've tried to contact the user but I got no reaction. I've told the mapper that iD editor is inappropriate, as it has no

Re: [Talk-us] Tesla Supercharger import

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Charles Samuels o...@charles.derkarl.org wrote: I now have the software and the data to do a complete import of every global Tesla Supercharger station. node version='5' id='2327799782' lat='37.024450' lon='-121.565350' tag

Re: [Talk-us] Boundaries and verifiability (was Re: Retagging hamlets in the US)

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us wrote: tl;dr: I'm against a blanket rule when it comes to administrative boundaries. They're really nuanced, and so should we. On 2015-03-22 04:32, Serge Wroclawski wrote: Imagine if Bob and Alice conflict on where a

Re: [Talk-us] perceptions of OHM and other similar projects

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: so one of the things from recent discussion that concerns me are perceptions out there about projects parallel to OSM that are designed to complement it, specifically OHM. here is an outline of the view from OHM, and

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Tesla Superchargers

Oh my goodness. Once again we have the alleged notion that imports will drive off mappers without examining any real data. If we look at the Buckeye Charger we see that fredo_p, a A Hit-and-Run Mapper, added the original node. He's still a mapper. Theodin a German mapper added something. AndiG88

Re: [Talk-us] Am I doing this right? Houses w/ addresses

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com wrote: In areas with detached houses, the Android app Keypadmapper has worked pretty well for me. Once house numbers get too dense (worst case: Montreal, where each apartment in a duplex or triplex will have it's own house

Re: [Talk-us] Importing Tesla Superchargers

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Charles Samuels o...@charles.derkarl.org wrote: On Monday, April 13, 2015 03:35:20 PM Bryce Nesbitt wrote: Having done a few up to dating scripts: I recommend looking for nearby amenity=charging_station, not name= Supercharger. In fact you may want to

[Talk-us] Better Than OSM was Your opinion about SOTM US

://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/lxbarth.647bc246/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoibHhiYXJ0aCIsImEiOiJFVXdYcUlvIn0.bbaHTEWlnAwGgyVwJngMdQ#18/33.28802/-111.88678 http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/33.28829/-111.88644 Thanks, Greg On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Eleanor Tutt eleanor.t...@gmail.com wrote: Side note relevant to this conversation: I would love to hear from mappers in the US who are collecting data on the ground - either by themselves or by organizing mapathons and building community. I can think of quite

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Martijn van Exel mart...@openstreetmap.us wrote: It would be nice if we could have SotM US this June be a venue to dispel some of the assumptions that seem to exist abroad about the U.S OpenStreetMap community. Reducing the U.S. community to a bunch of couch

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us wrote: On 2015-04-03 22:25, Russ Nelson wrote: Greg Morgan writes: * In my case, TIGER isn't all the that bad. In some NY counties, TIGER is very good. In other places it is like Stevie Wonder was in charge

Re: [Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us wrote: On 2015-03-31 00:36, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 03/31/2015 08:04 AM, Natfoot wrote: There is so many situations where to his naked eye on the ground he may not be able to see it. To a person like myself I

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap US elections: October 12 townhall with candidates

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Michael Reichert wrote: > Dear US electorate, > > Am Thu, 08 Oct 2015 20:16:50 -0700 schrieb Alex Barth: > > And - it's not to late to run for elections! Get your name up on the > > list by October 10th. > > > >

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Find missing roads

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > I'll look into it. > I don't know if this is the same issue. I noticed that there was a disconnect between the web map, http://www.improve-osm.org/missingRoads/#7/34.611/-109.797 , and Josm. The website showed just a

[Talk-us] Android Phone App that Uses Garmin Format -- Was Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2015-09-30

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > These are based off of Lambertus's work here: > > http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl > > If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel > free to ask. However, please do not send me private mail. The > odds

Re: [Talk-us] Railway crossing challenge for MapRoulette

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: Matijn, By the way, what is the difference between crossing and level_crossing? I treat highway=crossing the same as railway=crossing. That would be a place where a horse, bike, skateboard, foot path,

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER tracing layer updated to 2015 release

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Eric Fischer e...@pobox.com wrote: Last week the US Census Bureau released the 2015 version of TIGER. This afternoon I updated the data in the set of tracing tiles that Mapbox hosts. As before, at zoom level 16 and up, it shows the complete TIGER streets, and

Re: [Talk-us] New JOSM RasterFiltersPlugin

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Alan Bragg alan.d.br...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Blake, When I went to the page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins RasterFilters was not listed. Even after refreshing the page. I'm glad you sent the link

Re: [Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Tom Bloom wrote: > Summary, sort of. Thanks for all comments! > > There is no consensus, but what I've gleaned is that: I believe you are reading into what was said to prove your point. > > -If the driveway is long and wrong, or short and

Re: [Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Toby Murray wrote: > I run into this as well. If I don't see anything close to the way on > imagery I definitely have very little problem deleting them. > > I also question the access=private tagging although not because of the > rendering.

[Talk-us] GPS Tracking and the Most Novel Use of OSM data that I have seen.

I had autoplay enabled on YouTube. Somehow, I ended up listening to this legal discussion on GPS Tracking. It was one of the most engaging discussions that I have heard on the surrounding issues. Some of you may have used d3js.org for data presentation. The iD editor uses d3js to present OSM

Re: [Talk-us] Gosh ... something about mapping ...

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Harald Kliems wrote: > Very useful, Simon. Thanks! > > Slightly OT: Can anybody explain what R5-5, "No vehicles with lugs" means? > I'm assuming it doesn't refer to vehicles like this >

Re: [Talk-us] SunCertPathBuilderException

Checking the certificate[1] via a web browser says that the certificate for https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/StartupPage is valid from ‎Friday, ‎December ‎09, ‎2016 1:37:29 PM until 12/9/2016. If you haven't used this computer for awhile you might check your JOSM version. I had no problems

Re: [Talk-us] Smartphone App that searches OSM addresses?

I am using the Android version of Maps.ME and there is a IOS version. I just tried an address in Maps.ME. If found an address that I knew was there. You have choices to load state by state files. High zoom tiles come by default with the application so that you have reference roads. You will

Re: [Talk-us] GeoBadges 1.0 for OpenStreetMap

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Steven Johnson wrote: > Hello list, > > Just in time for #OSMGeoweek, TeachOSM with support from Mapstory.org and > American Geographical Society, has released the first OpenStreetMap > Surveyor I badge.[1] > > The badge is aimed at the

Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 4:58 PM, alyssa wright > wrote: > >> We're also accepting nominations for next year's OSM US pet mascot. > > > I nominate me ! > Paul,

Re: [Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 101, Issue 10

proceed. There are many mappers cheering on your efforts. Regards, Greg Morgan Brentwood Historic District https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/124871379#map=17/33.46098/-112.04512 [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/33.41555/-112.04048 _

Re: [Talk-us] Communications manager

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:42 AM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > On 4/1/2016 12:22 AM, Greg Morgan wrote: > >> I would think that the US Board should add another board member to be a >> communications manager. I now understand why corporations have paid

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Slack

getting this organized. Let me tweet out a link to the wiki so folks are aware of it. Feel free to post to talk-us / talk-ca too of course. On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 12:13 AM Greg Morgan wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > >> Thanks Greg! I took the liber

Re: [Talk-us] Restoring bus routes in Portland

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote: > Luckily, I saved a link to all of these bus routes on a wiki page as it's > impossible to download a relation with zero members (unless you happen to > know the ID): >

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:28 AM, OSM Volunteer stevea < stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > Bradley White writes: > > Just to add my two cents, I do not think that "landuse=forest" should be > tagged with national forest boundaries. > > > I would like to be clear,

Re: [Talk-us] Improving coverage of exit numbers and destinations on motorways

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:46 AM, Jinal Foflia wrote: > There has been a recent push to improve the coverage of exit numbers and > destination signs on the motorways in the US by the data team at Mapbox. > Some context here [1][2][3][4]. The primary sources of data were DoT

Re: [Talk-us] OSM attribution on website store locator pages

provided the CL map because it has the proper attribution. Again thank you for the response. Regards, Greg > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:40 AM, Greg Morgan <dr.kludge...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Martijn van Exel <m...

Re: [Talk-us] OSM attribution on website store locator pages

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Interesting, a bit troubling, to see an increasing number of layers — > abstraction — between the end user and the OSM data. Now it’s three — the > web site itself, Mobify (never heard of them), Mapbox — between the end

Re: [Talk-us] Optimal / preferred checkin sizes

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Steve Friedl wrote: > Hi everybody, > > > > I spend way too much time in JOSM mapping my local area, but I’ve never > really known how to best batch changes. > > > > Sometimes it’s obvious: if I work on a certain feature (say, adding > details

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Meg, > >sidewalk tagging in OSM is a complex issue. The fact that sidewalks > are not tagged as individual geometries is not purely a shortcoming, it > is a compromise that keeps OSM data editable. Having individual

Re: [Talk-us] Mappers in Idaho!

On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > To add to the confusion created by me: someone pointed out that there is in > fact a Teton County in both Idaho and Wyoming. The person I have been in > touch with is from the Teton Co. in Idaho. So no Jackson

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Greg Morgan <dr.kludge...@gmail.com> wrote: >> look at the recent turn lane work that MapBox is performing. They >> have done a wonderful job of finding issu

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

> Again this seems to be is the "I'm waiting for someone else to do something" > line. If you want a map rendering that shows stop signs, create one, like I I am not standing in any line. If I find an issue that I don't think has been addressed or the original author did not understand is an

Re: [Talk-us] Deleting / Closing / Renaming all places in a chain

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 09/06/2016 11:01 PM, Elliott Plack wrote: > > Should we launch an automated edit, or some kind of batch process on OSM > > to clear the database `name=ITT Tech` (or similar) worldwide? > For one I had to go

Re: [Talk-us] Mappers in Idaho!

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:49 AM, OSM Volunteer stevea < stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > I wanted to chime in my great enthusiasm for Greg Morgan helping or > leading a good, chunky data effort in OSM like this. Greg took on the USBR > 90 effort in Arizona, hundreds and hu

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS Road Import - Lanes

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 2:30 AM, Greg Morgan <dr.kludge...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't live there but Mapillary user marc has nice coverage for some of > the roads in question[1]. I am _guessing_ that a formula was developed > based on the width value that Massgis had in thei

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS Road Import - Lanes

I don't live there but Mapillary user marc has nice coverage for some of the roads in question[1]. I am _guessing_ that a formula was developed based on the width value that Massgis had in their data. Looking at Mapillary while in JOSM, it almost looks like there is a one off error or a condition

Re: [Talk-us] Freeway exit tagging

> mapping the road markings seems extremely strange - what if they are very > faded, when do we map them ? is there a threshold of % of the paint left ? > what is there are no road markings but there are signs ? I encouraged MapBox to add some of their workflow information to the wiki page.[1]

Re: [Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 108, Issue 18

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Valerie Anderson < vale...@andersongeospatial.com> wrote: > Hello talk-us! > > > This is the area in question: http://www.openstreetmap.org/# > map=13/28.2929/-81.2331 > > I'm wondering why this building that I input into OSM: >

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging karaoke bars?

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Andrew Wiseman wrote: > Anybody know the best practice to tag it? I was thinking just tagging as a > bar (or restaurant, or whatever) then adding karaoke=yes , which seems to > be somewhat common on Taginfo, 166 uses. > I'd favor your bar;

Re: [Talk-us] An actual mini roundabout!

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Rihards wrote: > On 2016.12.09. 00:44, Elliott Plack wrote: > > You mean these things aren't?pasted1 > > no. here the road is physically making a circle, and you cannot cross > the middle section - it should be mapped as a separate way, not a

Re: [Talk-us] Sabotage or a really bad bot?

don't think that you are being respectful of the local customs by imposing your jurisdictions customs on their area. Regards, Greg Morgan ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 113, Issue 10

On Apr 6, 2017 12:25 PM, "Mark Bradley" wrote: > Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 15:56:02 -0700 > From: Charlotte Wolter > To: Bill Ricker ,Talk-US@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Response from TIGER about "driveways

Re: [Talk-us] Osmar and Ways

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Erik MARONEY, IEA wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > > > My name is Erik Maroney and I work for the International Energy Agency > (IEA). We are interested in using Open Street Map (OSM) for our road > infrastructure projections. We have

Re: [Talk-us] United States Bicycle Route 41 awaits OSM entry!

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 3:20 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea < stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > A brief reminder to any Minnesota (or Upper Midwest) mappers who may be > inspired to enter some rewarding OSM data: United States Bicycle Route > (USBR) 41 is a new national-level bicycle route from

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/30/2017 06:21 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > > Edits, from what appears to be a search engine optimization company > > (SEO), have damaged a number of ways in the US. > > Was it not possible to determine the

Re: [Talk-us] Edits in Phoenix, Arizona

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 1:49 AM, Horea Meleg wrote: > Hi Greg, > > We are editing in Maricopa and Pinal counties area, where we have tiger > and approved local data. Thanks for all input and advice. We already talked > with Hans about highway tags when we had some

Re: [Talk-us] guidelines regarding roads access

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 10:39 PM, Ionut Radu - (p) wrote: > Hi all, > > > > While editing road geometry in Phoenix we found some situations that are > arguable, considering the private districts/neighborhoods/trailer parks > and other strata-style developments, with/without

Re: [Talk-us] Requesting to remove stoplines in San Jose

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Vivek Bansal <3viv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, I noticed pfliers has added lots of unconnected ways w/ > `highway=stopline` all over San Jose. It’s really been cluttering up our > workflows in iD, and now it’s triggering JOSM’s validator as we’re adding >

Re: [Talk-us] Edits in Phoenix, Arizona

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 4:31 AM, Horea Meleg wrote: > Hi everyone! > > This is Horea and I am part of the mapping team at Telenav. > > To make OpenStreetMap more navigable and accurate in guidance, our mapping > team is planning to start editing in Phoenix. > Do you

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