On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Sebastian Arcus s.ar...@open-t.co.uk wrote:
All of that doesn't really exist in the US, if my knowledge serves me right.
Even the smallest of settlements (bigger than a farm) seemed to have started
in the US around a group of facilities, such as shops,
On February 1, 2014 7:04:43 PM CST, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net
wrote:
On 2/1/14 3:59 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
I have some trouble though with the notion of village in the US.
Looking back to what I know about US (which could be partially
wrong),
I'm not sure they really have
Note that if you delete the node, the city name will no longer be
rendered on osm.org http://osm.org or Mapquest Open. Not sure about
other renderings but I'm guessing a lot of them do the same thing.
Another way of fixing the nominatim problem is to create a boundary
relation for the city.
On 2/1/14 3:59 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
I have some trouble though with the notion of village in the US.
Looking back to what I know about US (which could be partially wrong),
I'm not sure they really have the true notion of village as per many
other places in the world. In the US, it
If a search is done for Fortuna, CA in OSM, two different entities
show up at the top, for the same thing. One is from a TIGER import, one
is from a GNIS import. One is a node the other one is for the boundaries
of the place. I assume a place doesn't need to have both a node and a
way. If I
I generally copy the tags to the boundary (in JOSM copy the node, then
paste tags into the way).
The tiger and gnis tags do not overlap. The GNISID is a particularly
useful tag to preserve.
Town vs. City is a matter of opinion. You can visit the municipal website
and use whatever term they use
On 1/29/14 2:14 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
If a search is done for Fortuna, CA in OSM, two different entities
show up at the top, for the same thing. One is from a TIGER import,
one is from a GNIS import. One is a node the other one is for the
boundaries of the place. I assume a place doesn't
On 1/29/14 2:23 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
I generally copy the tags to the boundary (in JOSM copy the node, then
paste tags into the way).
The tiger and gnis tags do not overlap. The GNISID is a particularly
useful tag to preserve.
gnisid may be the only one worth saving, most of the GNIS:
Note that if you delete the node, the city name will no longer be rendered
on osm.org or Mapquest Open. Not sure about other renderings but I'm
guessing a lot of them do the same thing. Another way of fixing the
nominatim problem is to create a boundary relation for the city. Move the
tags from
From: Richard Welty [mailto:rwe...@averillpark.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:32 AM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Merging a GNIS node with a TIGER way - for a town
On top of it, one of them claims Fortuna, CA is a town, while the
other claims it is a
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net
wrote:
terms like town and city generally have specific legal meanings in
the US, and those meanings vary from state to state. this is one where
in all likelyhood you should leave it to a local mapper, or consult with
a
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net
wrote:
terms like town and city generally have specific legal meanings in
the US, and those meanings vary from state to state. this is one where
in all likelyhood you should leave it to a local mapper, or consult with
a
On 1/29/14 4:48 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net
wrote:
terms like town and city generally have specific legal meanings in
the US, and those meanings vary from state to state. this is one where
in all likelyhood you should leave
Am 29/gen/2014 um 20:14 schrieb Sebastian Arcus s.ar...@open-t.co.uk:
I assume a place doesn't need to have both a node and a way.
Actually having both a node and a polygon is the best. If you delete either
you'll loose information.
cheers,
Martin
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