Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for dealing with old TIGER tags?

On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 13:21:07 -0700 Dion Dock wrote: > I think the rural residential roads are either “highway=service”, > “highway=track” or “highway=path”. I think “highway=residential” > should always have a name. Service might or might not have a name, > same for path

Re: [Talk-us] .... finding areas that are underserved

On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 22:22:06 -0500 Russ Nelson wrote: > Markus Fischer writes: > > I am new to this and the area where I live is very well mapped > > (probably due to high density of tech workers). Where do I go to > > start mapping areas that are less well mapped (me

Re: [Talk-us] Speed limit editing in Detroit

On Fri, 5 May 2017 12:55:55 + Horea Meleg wrote: > Hello all,, > Me and my Telenav colleagues are planning to start editing speed > limit in Detroit area and we found the following situation: > > 1. There's a trunk road which continues with a motorway but we >

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 22:40:16 -0700 Bradley White wrote: > If we can determine importance (which is what the 'highway=' tag > fundamentally represents per the wiki) solely by what's on the ground, > why not just tag what's physically there, ditch the 'highway' tag >

Re: [Talk-us] Recent Aerial Photo Imagery Changes

On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:07:55 +0300 Rihards wrote: > On 2017.09.26. 03:09, David Wisbey wrote: > > Fellow mappers, > > > > So what's up with the recent changes in our aerial photo imagery? > > > > It used to be so simple and I followed the rule(?) of making sure > > features

Re: [Talk-us] Missing imagery in JOSM

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 12:14:03 -0400 "Mark Bradley" wrote: > What happened to the USGS topographic map imagery that was available > in JOSM until a few days ago? Still there for me, though something's changed: when you zoom out, it no longer switches away from the

Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 15:11:06 +0700 Dave Swarthout wrote: > "Second, many entries have their coordinates specified using the old > NAD 27 datum, but somewhere along the line, that fact was lost and the > coordinates were assumed to be in either NAD 83 or WGS 84. This >

Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 06:56:31 +0700 Dave Swarthout wrote: > Glad you mentioned that GNIS import, Ian. > > This isn't a pressing issue but I've been doing considerable mapping > in Alaska and encounter GNIS features constantly. Many of them are > nodes and refer to mines,

Re: [Talk-us] Multipolygonizing

On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:15:01 -0800 Evin Fairchild wrote: > (I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to add a way to a > relation!) Select a way currently part of the relation. Shift-click on the way you want to add. Select "Update multipolygon" from the "Tools"

Re: [Talk-us] Maximum number of tasks on US tasker

What I've observed is that MapRoulette works well with tasks that are highly localized and don't require much thinking. "A road crosses a railroad here: should it be a crossing, or a bridge?" is a good MapRoulette task, because unusual situations are rare, and the user doesn't need to consider

Re: [Talk-us] Rural US: Correcting Original TIGER Imported Ways

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:11:29 -0800 OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: > Remember, after you review tags and alignment of TIGER data, REMOVE > the tiger:reviewed=no tag, don't change its value to yes. I don't remove the "tiger:reviewed=no" tag unless I've verified the name

Re: [Talk-us] Rural US: Correcting Original TIGER Imported Ways

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:25:02 -0800 OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: > On Feb 12, 2018, at 1:07 PM, Tod Fitch wrote: > > Anyway, what is the current best practice dealing with TIGER tags > > once the road has been surveyed and corrected? Remove all

Re: [Talk-us] Satus CDP

Satus has a population of 750 people scattered across 70 square miles of farmland. The largest population center I've been able to find from aerial imagery has ten buildings, three of which look rather abandoned in Google Street View. Looking through Google Books results, it definitely *was* a

Re: [Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

On Sat, 5 Jan 2019 21:19:10 -0600 Ian Dees wrote: > Hi Brad, thanks for proposing this import and posting it here. > > I would strongly prefer that we not import boundaries like this into > OSM. Boundaries of all sorts are almost impossible to verify with > OSM's "on the ground" rule, but BLM

Re: [Talk-us] Address data for Miami Florida United States

On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 02:13:46 -0500 Aaron Forsythe wrote: > zip codes – Zip codes are USPS routing codes. They do not align to > cities and may even cross over each other often. USPS only uses the > city field on mail as a backup to zip codes. They fudge the cities > intentionally to make it

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove objects that are not existing according to source of GNIS import that added them

On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:46:59 -0600 Martijn van Exel wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2019, at 9:01 AM, Mateusz Konieczny > > wrote: > > > > I plan to run an automated edit that will revert part of the GNIS > > import that added them and delete objects that never had any reason > > to appear in the OSM

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove objects that are not existing according to source of GNIS import that added them

On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:23:48 -0600 Martijn van Exel wrote: > > On Mar 21, 2019, at 12:35 PM, Mark Wagner > > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:46:59 -0600 > > Martijn van Exel mailto:m...@rtijn.org>> wrote: > > > >>> On Ma

Re: [Talk-us] Typical maxweight signs in USA? (editor developmnent question)

On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 08:47:39 -0700 Peter Dobratz wrote: > > Reading this page, I see the potential ambiguity extends deeper than I > realized (short ton, metric ton, long ton) > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne > "Ton" in the United States is *always* the "short ton" of 2000 pounds. --

Re: [Talk-us] Jefferson Notch Road and latest "GPS made me do it" in the news

On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 14:47:35 -0500 Bill Ricker wrote: > Kevin asks, > > is Jefferson Notch Road actually closed to wheeled vehicles in > > winter or > just not maintained? > > Per copyright news reports, it is signed as closed to wheeled > vehicles, open to snow-machines only, in winter. > (As

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

The problem with "suburb" is like the problem with "football": there are two meanings, and a very large population that doesn't know about the other meaning. That guarantees widespread misuse. -- Mark On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:55:55 -0400 Brian Stromberg wrote: > If suburb is a commonly

Re: [Talk-us] USGS Topos, "Draw", "Gulch", etc.

On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 11:56:57 -0600 Mike Thompson wrote: > Do the names on the USGS Topo Maps that end in "Draw", "Gulch", and > similar terms refer to a stream, or a valley? I have always assumed > a stream, and applied the name to waterway=stream in OSM, but perhaps > that is not correct. What

Re: [Talk-us] Cycleway Crossings

On Fri, 07 Aug 2020 07:11:01 -0400 (EDT) "Doug Peterson" wrote: > I have noticed in my area where some people have been adding > crossings to a designated cycleway (named and signed as a bike > trail). The crossings are fine. It is that the crossing is then been > changed to a footway. > > I

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Import of Addresses for Thurston County, WA, USA

On Sun, 09 Aug 2020 03:53:55 -0700 Raven King wrote: > Hello: > > I discovered that Thurston County, WA publishes a database of > addresses stored as gps pins inside a shape file. > The data can be found here: >

Re: [Talk-us] Labeling county roads (Idaho)

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 21:45:19 +0900 tj-osmw...@lowsnr.net wrote: > Newby here. > > Started mapping an area of the Idaho panhandle around the Kootenai > river. I notice that currently minor roads have a "County Road nn" > name but TIGER2019 data also has names such as "Acacia Avenue". I > think