Re: [Talk-us] Tagging historic US routes

Only one person cared about US 80 in osm. I have deleted portions of the route because parts of it are artificial ways to make the route render. These artificial ways interfered with other mapping. You can do what you want with the route including deleting. On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 6:47 PM Tod

Re: [Talk-us] When is your doctor a clinic?

Brian, That's my US American understanding of a clinic. A clinic is not a hospital and not a "doctors office". But If I cannot get into my doctor or if an individual does not need to go to the emergency room of a hospital, then a clinic is a place to go. For example, Honor Health is part of a

Re: [Talk-us] Alt_names on counties

Please don't remove the alt_name tags. They are useful and not that much of a distraction or an error For example, a new freeway was just renamed for a congress person that helped with many AZ transportation projects. I added the alt_name tag so that the South Mountain Freeway can still be

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER-completeness visualizer?

On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 2:03 PM stevea wrote: > As the ITOworld TIGER-completeness visualizer at > > > https://product.itoworld.com/map/162?lon=-121.88=37.04=12=true_sidebar=map_key > > is no longer supported, does anybody know of a similar "product" that we > can use to visualize how well we

Re: [Talk-us] New United States Bicycle Routes!

gt; this ACA route, so yet another significant ACA route segment now deleted > from OSM (as it is USBR now). > > > > Thanks again for your work to enter this, and keep up the great entry > I'm guessing you are doing with USBR 21. > > > > Steve > > > >

Re: [Talk-us] New United States Bicycle Routes!

Kentucky USBR 23 is done. https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8843677#map=10/37.4960/-85.4712 On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 12:30 PM OSM Volunteer stevea < stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > AASHTO has completed it's "Autumn 2018 round" of national route numbering > approvals (almost) and there

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Importing Addresses in Orange County North Carolina

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Tommy Bruce wrote: > I agree I don't see anything wrong with keeping the state and country tag. > > 2018-06-23 14:50 GMT-07:00 Greg Morgan : > >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 2:34 PM Clifford Snow >> wrote: >> >&

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Importing Addresses in Orange County North Carolina

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 2:34 PM Clifford Snow wrote: > A couple of things First you have two tags that are not needed, > addr:state and addr:country. > I have a different opinion on this subject. I always add these two tags. We are an international map. If he has the data already, I don't see

Re: [Talk-us] Slack: Do we need an Alternative (was Planning an import in Price George...)

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > I would argue that it is a good thing that people converge on one platform > to talk about OSM. Whether Slack remains the right choice is something we > can debate. It was really the only feasible choice that was available to us > at

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Undiscussed mass-revert by user Nakaner-repair

On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 7:40 PM, Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com < jacknst...@sprynet.com> wrote: > I fully support the efforts of Nakaner. There are 6-8 users creating a > mess in the Denver, Colorado area. > > See here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?node= >

Re: [Talk-us] Edit war after MapRoulette motorway downgrading task

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Clay Smalley wrote: > > > I'm... shocked. This is a really confrontational way of addressing things, > and it really doesn't make me feel good contributing here. I'm just gonna > take a break from editing for a bit. I don't want to add fuel

Re: [Talk-us] Amtrak network=Amtrak tagging

Thank you for the detailed response. Greg On Mar 25, 2018 11:57 PM, "OSM Volunteer stevea" wrote: I should have included: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States_railways as that is a better starting place (for your flavor of question) than

Re: [Talk-us] Help fight advertising

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > * Contact the mapper responsible and politely ask them to fix it and/or > stop adding advertising. In most cases, since these are throwaway > accounts created by professional spammers, you won't receive a

Re: [Talk-us] Comparing Tiger 2017 dataset with OSM in a automatedway.

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:00 AM, OSM Volunteer stevea < stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > Thank you, Tod. Yes, I MIGHT find a VERY SELECT SUBSET of these data > SOMEWHAT useful, as minor amounts of them seem to be accurate and > more-up-to-date enough to introduce into OSM. But certainly not

Re: [Talk-us] Comparing Tiger 2017 dataset with OSM in a automatedway.

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 2:40 AM, Badita Florin wrote: ... > Did not had time to look at each individual state, but i will share the > insight for Arizona : > Feel free to look at the other states. > And please, if you want me to run this on any public dataset, just tell >

Re: [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Tod Fitch wrote: Tod, Thank you for your help in Arizona--mostly metro Phoenix. I think that we need to ask MapBox to revise the 2017 Tiger layer. There were short ways without names in Tiger 2017 that both the Tiger 2014 and Tiger 2015

Re: [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

On Oct 10, 2017 8:13 AM, "Tod Fitch" wrote: I have started trying to clean up some of the redactions in Arizona, starting with the town of Maricopa. As Ian pointed out, these were “pre-redacted” and rather than deleting the road name, the name was changed to

Re: [Talk-us] guidelines regarding roads access

On Sep 24, 2017 8:33 AM, "Greg Troxel" wrote: Adam Franco writes: > One additional note is that at least in my area, the TIGER import > incorrectly added access=private to many driveways and privately maintained > residential roads. Upon surveying these

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 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] 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

Re: [Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Zoe Gardner wrote: > Dear OSM talk subscriber > > > > I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the > University of Nottingham in the UK, interested in participation biases in > geospatial crowdsourced projects such as

Re: [Talk-us] Phoneix, Arizona open data

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 2:17 AM, Horea Meleg wrote: > Hello all, > > Me and my Telenav colleagues, are planning to start editing in Phoenix, > Arizona. We are thinking of adding some map features like road geometry, > name, one way or turn restrictions. We’ve made a

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > I don't understand what people mean with 'verifying' objects. We're > not trying to find factually-incorrect data. The data is legally > tainted. It's questionable whether looking at the current names >

Re: [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Happy to help. All we'd need for MapRoulette is a list of locations and a > proper description of the work we'd expect people to do. Anyone can create > the challenge but I'd be happy to do it. > > Martijn >

Re: [Talk-us] Contacting local mappers or posting a note to "mappers in area". How to. Etiquette. Horseshoe Bend, ID,

On Aug 25, 2017 10:39 PM, "Tod Fitch" wrote: Mozilla Location services and open cell ID share data. You can down load the Mozilla database as a CSV file. That will have the lat/lon and identification of every cell tower they know about. You can also download it from open

Re: [Talk-us] Contacting local mappers or posting a note to "mappers in area". How to. Etiquette. Horseshoe Bend, ID,

On Aug 25, 2017 5:36 PM, "Bryce Nesbitt" wrote: I know about map notes. Are there other ways I could post a bulletin message mappers in a given region might see and react to? Here it is not directly an OSM mapping task, so a map note seems inappropriate. But it's a task a

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

On Aug 25, 2017 1:59 PM, "Brian May" wrote: Calling all TIGER fixup junkies. I've been poking around the coastal areas of Texas where Hurricane Harvey is expected to make landfall and seeing a lot of TIGER fixup needed. More and more websites depend on OSM so it would be nice

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] [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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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

[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 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] [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] 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] 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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[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] 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] 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

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