[Talk-us] Islands in Lakes/Rivers

2008-02-28 Thread Ian Dees
Hi list, I've been casually working on the Minneapolis area, and one of the problems I keep running in to is how to tag islands in the Mississippi river so that they come out as land in the tiles and not more water. Take a peek at the following area:

Re: [Talk-us] Islands in Lakes/Rivers

2008-02-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Bone Killian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Dees wrote: The view is centered on Nicollet Island, which should be rendered as a land mass, not water. The island's perimeter follows the water to the right rule and is tagged as follows: natural = coastline

[Talk-us] highway tags in the US

2008-02-28 Thread Ian Dees
Hi again list, Has someone decided how the American road types should be mapped to the OpenStreetMap highway tag values? There are quite a few roads that are incorrectly marked as secondary or primary by the TIGER importer, and I'd like to make sure that I'm picking the correct highway value for

Re: [Talk-us] braided streets

2008-04-07 Thread Ian Dees
I've done this before by: For two split roads intersecting, I make all 4 ways intersect with nodes. For one split road intersecting with one non-split road, I make 2 nodes for the intersection. Does that make sense? On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Alan Millar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so I

[Talk-us] Google Street View Data?

2008-04-14 Thread Ian Dees
Hi list, What sort of attempts have been made at convincing Google to release the GPS data that they acquired while driving around for Street View? I was going to do some asking and wanted to make sure I wasn't asking questions that have already been answered. -Ian

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-05-02 Thread Ian Dees
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is starting to show the data I uploaded yesterday: http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/?x=1971y=2935z=13layer=tile It looks like the water bodies aren't given name tags. On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm 80 minutes away from finishing

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-05-07 Thread Ian Dees
I am the proud recipient of 42GB worth of hydrology data. It appears that the data is in several .tar.gz files. I am working on unpackaging the data right now. I imagine the next step would be to extract the subbasins from the overall dataset, make sure the NHD - OSM script works as we want it,

Re: [Talk-us] Counties Data Import

2008-05-09 Thread Ian Dees
lines. Water does not respect political boundaries and I don't see any real reason to process the data as if it did. - matt On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, While I was trying to figure out how to divide the massive NHD dataset into more

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: shape files of US states and great lakes

2008-07-08 Thread Ian Dees
Would it make sense to add lakes and political boundaries (perhaps only country and state/province) to the lower zoom levels of mapnik rendering? It seems silly (and not representative of our data set) to use an external shapefile when we've got the data in there. On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:52 PM,

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: GIS datasets for openstreetmap.org - FTP

2008-07-14 Thread Ian Dees
This past weekend I wrote a generic shapefile to OSM converter (based on specific converters from Dave and Matt). I was playing with it for my NHD data and realized that my NHD-PostGIS import missed half the water bodies, so I got distracted by that. Anyway, if you have a relatively small area's

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-07-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Mark Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am a new subscriber to this list. I live in the Atlanta, GA area. I have been adding to OSM a little in my spare time but now it seems to be getting closer to my work life. I have worked a bit on adding OSM as a

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-07-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Mark Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to speak up before finding that the thread was older than I realized. I have now gone back and found the whole conversation that has been taking place. I wasn't trying to be mean :). Just making sure you saw it. It

Re: [Talk-us] Portland data

2008-07-17 Thread Ian Dees
Adam says: I called Metro today, and they say their data is not public domain, so I think that makes it unusable on OSM. Oh well. Adam In the US at least, I didn't think works paid for by the government could have a restrictive copyright claim placed on them. Maybe this is data

Re: [Talk-us] Clark County, Nevada Street Center Line data

2008-07-24 Thread Ian Dees
Joseph, before you embark on this endeavor, make sure that the data is better than the data that was already imported from TIGER. More than likely, it is. I can help you with the convert shapefile to .osm step, as I am slowly working on the SHP - OSM script mentioned previously on this list. On

Re: [Talk-us] US GPS Set for Mapping Parties

2008-09-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would there be any interest in getting together a box of GPS devices to be sent around for North American mapping parties similar to what they have across the pond? [1] Maybe Garmin would sponsor something? [2] I

Re: [Talk-us] US GPS Set for Mapping Parties

2008-09-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would there be any interest in getting together a box of GPS devices

Re: [Talk-us] MSP mapping party Oct 4-5

2008-09-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Richard Weait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, We're building a mapping party for the MSP area for next weekend, Oct 4-5. I'd love to have help from a local expert to make this one huge. Are you an MSP local? Where should we host? What local cycle,

Re: [Talk-us] US GPS Set for Mapping Parties

2008-09-26 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Etienne [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Looks good. I think you need to spell out what's in it for Garmin. Something like: A significant number of new users at mapping parties will go on to be regular OpenStreetMap contributors. They will want to purchase their own

Re: [Talk-us] NHD status?

2008-09-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:40 PM, David Carmean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I begin to manually import some NHD shapefiles for my area, will I be wasting my time/others' time? How is the bulk import work progressing? How do you effect a freeze so we don't end up with duplicates? I think it

Re: [Talk-us] NHD status?

2008-10-01 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:08 PM, David Carmean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 07:52:38AM -0500, Ian Dees wrote: I think it might be a good idea to standardize on FCode - tag mappings Is Matthew Perry still working on this as well? I don't think so. He made a great first

[Talk-us] Creating Rules to Auto-OSM-Tag Shapefiles

2008-10-01 Thread Ian Dees
I've been seeing more and more requests for help in importing local government shapefiles. I have several shapefile - osm converters, the best of which converts multipolygons, linestrings, and points into OSM data very reliably. The only issue is how to take the information contained in the

Re: [Talk-us] NHD status?

2008-10-02 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:25 AM, John Callahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I am also very interested in getting the NHD data into OSM. We have a few people here with plenty of experience working with USGS data, especially NHD, and I'll try to get their reactions. I am new to tagging and OSM in

Re: [Talk-us] NHD status?

2008-10-02 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Doug Morrison-Cleary [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Nooo. I live in northern MN and all we have around here are lakes! I really want them in yesterday grin. Please :-) Ok I suppose I should have been more explicit. The lakes and river areas seem to be the easiest

Re: [Talk-us] NHD status?

2008-10-02 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:55 AM, David Carmean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we need to be careful about the flowlines and in particular the artificial paths; I'm not yet convinced that any of the flowlines should be depicted on the map. Artificial paths should be thought about (since

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-24 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Russ Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Hocking writes: Can you confirm that any bulk upload of Tiger 2007 date will not erase or be overlaid over/under/alongside any existing user edits. I'm not Dave, but I'm quite sure that 1) he won't be smashing

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger 2008 Data

2008-10-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Paul Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does the census bureau publish any sort of a diff, or delta dataset? i'd think that just in terms of raw crunching that having just the differences from year to year would save a lot of work, both manual and CPU-cycles. I

Re: [Talk-us] US Route Tagging With Relations

2008-12-24 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Alan Brown writes: 3) There should be a place for people to contribute highway shields - as metadata. To make life even more interesting, New York State renders placenames in the Adirondack Park using beige on brown,

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Dataset

2009-02-16 Thread Ian Dees
It looks like the solution is to use Advanced Multipolygons: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Relation:multipolygon#Advanced_multipolygons Does anyone want to start writing an algorithm to nicely slice up polygons into small enough chunks? On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Rev. Theodore

[Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Ian Dees
Hi everyone, I completed the GNIS node import yesterday. Please see the wiki page [1] for more details. As several of you have messaged me and posted on this list, there are some problems with this data. Let me try to explain my thought process: 1. Since the resolution of the information is

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Ted Mielczarek ted.mielcza...@gmail.comwrote: Yeah, I deleted quite a few POIs for things that no longer exist. Sorry if I sounded mad in my message. :) I still question the value of this data given my (brief, informal) survey of what it brought to my local

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Matt Maxon o...@mattmaxon.com wrote: Ian Dees wrote: that we can send back to the GNIS board, who has the option of putting it back into their data set. 3. If there are already OSM features in your area for a certain node that I imported, feel free

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:43 AM, David Lynch djly...@gmail.com wrote: Another thing I'm seeing as I look around is duplicates and near-duplicates (Zavala School vs. Zavala Elementary School, for instance.) For now, I'm putting both feature IDs into one point, separated by a semicolon. Does

Re: [Talk-us] Province / State borders

2009-03-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: They weren't duplicated. Ian (I believe?) imported the borders for the New England and Mid-Atlantic states and I imported the rest. It might be the county border imports. I imported those without doing any

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.

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-31 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu 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

Re: [Talk-us] Historical locations

2009-04-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: I'd prefer to see them left in, but with a :historic appended to the name of the tags. In some cases, there remains evidence of the historical

[Talk-us] GSoC09 - Need Mentors

2009-04-05 Thread Ian Dees
Hi everyone, As a reminder, we have some great student applications waiting for mentors to look them over and be able to spend time with them. I have not heard from anyone willing to mentor. It would be very disappointing to have to turn away all of our applicants! Please let me know if you are

Re: [Talk-us] Tools for importing National Hydrography Dataset?

2009-04-09 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: Do any tools exist for importing data from the National Hydrography Dataset? It'd be nice to have creeks/rivers/lakes in OSM instead of blank spaces, especially when I generate maps for my Garmin GPS. Jefft, we've been

Re: [Talk-us] Tools for importing National Hydrography Dataset?

2009-04-09 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Chris Lawrence lordsu...@gmail.com wrote: Also included is my script that merges duplicated nodes in the shapefile, which are common along shared boundaries. It's not quite as good a solution as using line-based borders, but I couldn't wrap my brain around an

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Nicholas Vetrovec nickvet...@yahoo.comwrote: Posted on the US Page to help coordinate US Interstate relations. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Interstate_Highways_Relations Since interstate highways are usually two separate one-way ways, which way (or

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Scripts

2009-04-20 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Theodore Book tb...@libero.it wrote: The problem with the table, though, is that the NHD fcodes apply to point, line, and area data, while the OSM tags might be specific to only one or two of those types. That requires a little bit of flexibility in actually

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Scripts

2009-04-20 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Theodore Book tb...@libero.it wrote: To be thorough, I think we would have to break it up. For example, we list a Canal/Ditch (33600) as waterway=canal, but the OSM tag is only for use on ways, while the NHD applies it to areas. At the same time, the NHD

Re: [Talk-us] Americans going to the state of the map

2009-04-24 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Sarah Manley sa...@cloudmade.com wrote: Hello All, I am curious if anyone has signed up or has submitted a presentation to SOTM? I have been thinking about topics to submit, and thought maybe the SOTM of the US (including americanizing terms, TIGER data,

Re: [Talk-us] Blame me for JOSM yellowness

2009-04-24 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: On Apr 24, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 09:40 -0700, Alan Millar wrote: If you don't like the tag, you don't have to use it. But I have been waiting for this highlighting feature for a

Re: [Talk-us] Mysterious 403s on TIGER place bulk uploads

2009-04-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Chris Lawrence lordsu...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a good reason why my TIGER place bulk uploads keep getting blocked with 403s? I'll gladly add further backoffs and more reuse of existing changesets (currently I've set the uploader to chunks of 250 elements

[Talk-us] Load Test For Me?

2009-04-29 Thread Ian Dees
Hi US Mappers, I'm toying with using Google's AppEngine to serve up map tiles. Could you guys try browsing the following slippy map to do a load test for me? http://opentiles.appspot.com/static/index.html?zoom=12lat=42.36782lon=-71.04361layers=B000 Thanks to Lars for the tiles -- they look

Re: [Talk-us] Temporarily Deleting Relations from Interstate Ways

2009-05-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Watch out in northern Oregon, as I've already added relations to some of I-5 and I-84, and I think the entire length of I-205. You might want to see if those are suitable for re-purposing. Is everyone aware of the wiki

Re: [Talk-us] Tidying up TIGER data

2009-06-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Ted Percival t...@midg3t.net wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: 4) Remove abbreviations TIGER imported. Sometimes, I really wonder if TIGER was such a hot dataset to import... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name#Abbreviation_.28don.27t_do_it.29 I wrote a

[Talk-us] openstreetmap.us

2009-08-03 Thread Ian Dees
Does anyone here have openstreetmap.us parked? It would be good to try and use it for US-related OSM projects... ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] openstreetmap.us

2009-08-03 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone here have openstreetmap.us parked? It would be good to try and use it for US-related OSM projects... Well look at that, some guy named Steve Coast owns it. I wonder if he'd be willing to point the DNS records

[Talk-us] Looking for a US OSM extract

2009-08-19 Thread Ian Dees
I'm thinking about setting up a keepright instance for the US, but I don't see a United States extract from the planetfile. Does anyone out there have such a thing running? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Looking for a US OSM extract

2009-08-19 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: since US data accounts for something like 70% of the planet, an US extract does not actually help you a lot in terms of saving download/processing time. I know I won't save much time when running keepright on the US

Re: [Talk-us] Prototype of newbie-safe semi-automated edits available

2009-08-24 Thread Ian Dees
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Mark Gray mark-os...@hspf.com wrote: OpenStreetMap Quick Check: http://vatavia.net/mark/osmqc/ A quick and easy way to help improve the OpenStreetMap database If you can look at a satellite photo and answer a simple question, you can help. The first

Re: [Talk-us] Need help with SHP2OSM Rules file

2009-08-26 Thread Ian Dees
I was working on those exact same files and accidentally released a version of shp-to-osm that uses contains instead of equals for string comparison. Download the 2nd-newest version of shp-to-osm and when your rules.txt line looks for a certain key, it will pick it up if the shapefile contains

[Talk-us] MN/IA border

2009-08-27 Thread Ian Dees
With the state boundaries showing up on the mapnik rendering, I thought I would make sure that my home states had their boundaries in tact. I fixed the MN/IA border, but it doesn't appear to be showing up on Mapnik, even after waiting overnight. Can someone check my work along the border to make

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger Lakes

2009-09-02 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Ben Supnik bsup...@xsquawkbox.net wrote: Hi Y'all, From my examination of the map, it appears that TIGER water is not imported into the map. Is anyone working on a wide-scale water import from a superior dataset? Yes, take a look at the NHD dataset

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger Lakes

2009-09-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote: On 9/3/09 12:18 AM, Ian Dees wrote: Yes, take a look at the NHD dataset import: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NHD as a relatively new guy, i decided to jump off into the deep end and signed up to do

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM Colorado

2009-09-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com wrote: There's also the size of the data sets. The entire hi-res NHD and NED would probably be many, many TB. Unpacking, preparing and indexing that data requires plenty of additional disk space as well. One would probably have to

Re: [Talk-us] Garmin OSM map for whole US

2009-09-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: Does anybody else have some nice USA extracts that could be used for making garmin maps? I'd like to have a lower-48 OSM planet file extract for a keepright mirror, as well. ___

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Thompson Ave in Croton on Hudson, NY (10520) is not a through street!

2009-09-08 Thread Ian Dees
Fixed. Google: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=qsource=s_qhl=engeocode=q=thompson+10520sll=41.205829,-73.888593sspn=0.012527,0.015707ie=UTF8ll=41.204261,-73.882831spn=0.001566,0.001963t=hz=19 OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=41.204352lon=-73.882934zoom=18layers=B000FTF On Tue, Sep 8, 2009

[Talk-us] Broken Changeset

2009-09-08 Thread Ian Dees
Could someone please revert the changeset below? I accidentally quit JOSM during an upload. Since the API defaults to accepting a changeset after timeout instead of throwing it away, all of the nodes that were uploaded as part of the changeset were added to the DB. Could we perhaps change that in

Re: [Talk-us] Procedures for Bulk Uploading Road Centerline Data

2009-09-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Spencer Riddile riddile_spen...@yahoo.comwrote: If someone wanted to upload public domain, state road centerline data to OSM, what procedures could they take? It seems like what we would like to do is overwrite Tiger data but preserve user contributed data. I

Re: [Talk-us] Lot boundaries

2009-10-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: I noticed that when Google rev'd their maps, they also magically got lot lines when you zoom in. http://maps.google.com/?ll=44.952442,-123.027169spn=0.001619,0.002044z=19 Would using those kind of data be better than using

Re: [Talk-us] hillshade

2009-11-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Don Lambert dlamb...@frontiersurveying.net wrote: Hello group Lars, I notice when zooming into some of the mountainous regions in Colorado that the hillshade is not there. Why is that and how could we fix it? Also, is there any interest or possibility of

Re: [Talk-us] hillshade

2009-11-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Don Lambert dlamb...@frontiersurveying.net wrote: The problem seems to be with the color relief tiles between 106.6 long and 107.3 long at the approx 1:34,285 and 1:17,142 scale levels. Ian, how soon do you think these servers might become available? As I

[Talk-us] Addressing Question

2009-11-11 Thread Ian Dees
Hi everyone, I'm looking at some donated street centerline data that has addressing data in the form of Right/Left From Addr and Right/Left To Addr on each street centerline. Is there an accepted way of applying these tags to the road ways? It doesn't really make very much sense to create and

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Addressing Question

2009-11-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:55 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.comwrote: Hiya, 2009/11/12 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com: I'm looking at some donated street centerline data that has addressing data in the form of Right/Left From Addr and Right/Left To Addr on each street centerline

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Addressing Question

2009-11-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:47 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.comwrote: That's a pretty pessimistic view. Sorry, I am pretty grumpy today. The area I'm looking at actually has quite a few mappers already, so I imagine this data would probably get updated quickly. For the record an

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Addressing Question

2009-11-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.comwrote: On 12 Nov 2009, at 6:14 , Andy Allan wrote: I disagree there. It's much better to put the effort in during the initial import, than to import things badly and try to fix it up later. We've been working on lots

Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

2009-11-13 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Kate maps2w...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: Going back to the original question, each shop should be it's own node or area, thus the problem of multiple names isn't an issue any more. You

Re: [Talk-us] Non-Integer addresses

2009-11-16 Thread Ian Dees
As an example, we have WxyzNabc addressing in the western suburbs of Milwaukee: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8ll=43.208108,-88.161442spn=0.003003,0.003428z=18iwloc=lyrftr:m,15548394324319276506,43.208382,-88.162156 The W203N10466 value is the actual numerical address (and appears on post boxes

[Talk-us] Admin Level for Neighborhoods?

2009-12-01 Thread Ian Dees
Has anyone decided on a admin_level to tag for neighborhoods in a city? I'd like to import some neighborhood boundary data that my local municipalities have given out. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Data in CO

2009-12-07 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:59 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Are the NHD import people on this list? Yes. I am one of them, but it appears that we're distributing the work load of uploading, so I'm not sure who is taking that section. If no one else is doing it, I would be happy to start

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Data in CO

2009-12-07 Thread Ian Dees
Are we talking about all of Colorado or just a certain high-priority section? On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:08 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Yeah if you could that would be super level 5 awesome. Yours c. Steve On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Ian Dees wrote: On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10

[Talk-us] Revert 2 changesets?

2009-12-09 Thread Ian Dees
Hi list, It appears that the bulk_upload_sax.py script doesn't correctly detect successfully closed changesets, so it retried a few times before I could stop it and duplicated a bunch of data. Could someone please delete/rollback the following two changesets?

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:29 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:22 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: The current NHD

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:15 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: For the US, I found also a national name register, like the GNS database. This has been imported already. ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Issues in New Mexico

2009-12-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:07 AM, James Umbanhowar jumba...@gmail.comwrote: Does anyone know why the area around around Raton, NM looks like it is melting? I don't think it even renders in Osmarender. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.93134lon=-104.46384zoom=16layers=B000FTF There will

Re: [Talk-us] US Chapter and SOTM calls tomorrow

2009-12-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.comwrote: Just a quick reminder to US folks, the US Chapter call is tomorrow and afterwards is the US SOTM call.

Re: [Talk-us] openstreetmap.us

2010-01-24 Thread Ian Dees
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:36 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Hi I own openstreetmap.us There are other community sites like openstreetmap.nl and openstreetmap.de If anyone wants to set up something similar, just tell me the IP address of your box and I will point the domain at it.

Re: [Talk-us] openstreetmap.us

2010-01-24 Thread Ian Dees
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.comwrote: Just so the rest of the community knows, I'm working on lining up hosting for openstreetmap.us based on donated servers (from WIkimedia) and donated rack space. It's slow going, so I haven't really been

Re: [Talk-us] Conflicts of Interest

2010-02-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:29 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Hi One of the things we found at the OSMF is that you really need to be open about any potential conflicts of interest, like where you work or if you hold shares in TeleAtlas... that kind of thing. Anything a reasonable

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Where 2.0 OSM Booth

2010-03-03 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:13 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 4 March 2010 10:55, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Also we need ideas for the booth. I was thinking having a computer set-up where people could edit immediately in OSM. Essentially 'Heard of OSM and

Re: [Talk-us] UX Review

2010-03-09 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:02 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: * Once in some very small sample size (perhaps between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 10,000 signups) a popup appears * The popup says something like Hi! We'd really like to know why you came to OSM and they say simply why. This is open

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [gvcc-members] Google Goes Bike with Directions

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Dees
Has anyone set up a routing engine that prefers biking paths? On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.comwrote: G... But you cant print Google Maps in Books, nor can you create custom Garmin Maps Iphone apps with the data ... or print mugs. Or create

Re: [Talk-us] [US] NHD04090004

2010-03-17 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Nakor nakor@gmail.com wrote:   Hello, I was importing NHD data in my area and found some issues in the data I downloaded: The Rouge River in Detroit area (http://maps.google.com/?ll=42.450077,-83.303661z=16) is visible on the NHD map (see attached

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap U.S. Inc

2010-04-19 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hey All, Just wanted to let you know OpenStreetMap U.S. Inc exists now. This is so we can eventually become a chapter of OpenStreetMap. We'll be moving forward with getting an EIN (tax number) from the IRS, working

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

2010-04-19 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote: From an old message: I take the point that 'road realignment' may require the boundary also to move, but the word is MAY and so what ever happens to the road, the location of the boundary needs to be checked separately!

[Talk-us] Community Mapping in Minnesota Sponsored by NAVTEQ

2010-04-28 Thread Ian Dees
This is pretty interesting. NAVTEQ is sponsoring a community mapping project in Minnesota communities. It sounds like they're working with the University extension folks to get people to wander around with GPSes and record data for NAVTEQ. Sounds suspiciously familiar...

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Any US OSM meetups other than these three? Any other fixed addresses for local US OSM meetings? http://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-OpenStreetMap/ http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Columbus/

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-29 Thread Ian Dees
Keep in mind that we have openstreetmap.us and a couple servers sitting around waiting for a use. Perhaps we could set up a similar thing for the US-based meetups and events? Or maybe we just need a shared Google Calendar... upcoming and meetup both already have communities around them, though...

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Thea Clay t...@cloudmade.com wrote: If I remember correctly we have donated servers re Ian and SteveC has the domain openstreetmap.us ( http://www.mail-archive.com/talk-us@openstreetmap.org/msg02623.html). That way we can serve the needs of current members

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Thea Clay t...@cloudmade.com wrote: If I remember correctly we have donated servers re Ian and SteveC has

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jim McAndrew j...@loc8.us wrote: What are the goals for the openstreetmap.us web page? That's a good question that we should probably all discuss. My opinion is that it should be a one-stop-shop for growing the US OSM community. Not entirely sure what that

Re: [Talk-us] Civil Defense Sirens?

2010-05-03 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: With the start of Tornado season in the Midwest upon us, I thought it would

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Months-old vandalism needs to be taken care of

2010-05-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Just to be safe - this user has been active on 10 days between 13 September 09 and 22 April 10, uploading over 100 changesets altogether. All these edits are to be removed, regardless of whether someone else touched the

[Talk-us] Skobbler Navigation Released For United States

2010-05-25 Thread Ian Dees
Hi talk-us, It appears that Skobbler released their iPhone navigation app using OSM data several days ago. I didn't see an announcement on the mailing list here, so I thought I'd pass it along. I'm downloading it now, but it appears that user-entered bugs are already showing up in their

[Talk-us] On-the-fly Rendering Library? (Was: Re: Whole world files)

2010-05-28 Thread Ian Dees
It seems that for situations like this it would be nice to have a simple on-the-fly rendering system that consumed the OSM data and then rendered your viewbox on the fly rather than creating raster tiles. If the iPhone can do a passable realtime rendering job for Skobbler, then a heftier machine

Re: [Talk-us] On-the-fly Rendering Library? (Was: Re: Whole world files)

2010-05-31 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Dane Springmeyer bl...@hailmail.netwrote: On May 28, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Ian Dees wrote: It seems that for situations like this it would be nice to have a simple on-the-fly rendering system that consumed the OSM data and then rendered your viewbox

Re: [Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in the US

2010-06-10 Thread Ian Dees
I would say that at least 1/3 of the post office drop boxes nationwide have been removed or pulled out of service since this data has been released, making an import of the data both inaccurate (due to geocoding) and old. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kirk Ireson palmerstat...@gmail.comwrote:

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