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On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 12:54 AM <talk-us-requ...@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > Send Talk-us mailing list submissions to > talk-us@openstreetmap.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > talk-us-requ...@openstreetmap.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > talk-us-ow...@openstreetmap.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Talk-us digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2018-08-31 (Dave Hansen) > 2. Re: Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", > etc. (Nathan Mills) > 3. Re: Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", > etc. (Kevin Kenny) > 4. Re: Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", > etc. (Paul Johnson) > 5. Denver RTD's public_transport growth (OSM Volunteer stevea) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2018 14:34:59 +0000 > From: Dave Hansen <d...@sr71.net> > To: <d...@sr71.net>,<talk-us@openstreetmap.org> > Subject: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2018-08-31 > Message-ID: <e1fwtst-0007bs...@errol.openstreetmap.org> > > 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 are, someone else will have the same questions, and by > asking on the talk-us@ list, others can benefit. > > Downloads: > > http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2018-08-31 > > Map to visualize what each file contains: > > > http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2018-08-31/kml/kml.html > ---- > > FAQ > > ---- > > Why did you do this? > > I wrote scripts to joined them myself to lessen the impact > of doing a large join on Lambertus's server. I've also > cut them in large longitude swaths that should fit conveniently > on removable media. > > http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2018-08-31 > > Can or should I seed the torrents? > > Yes!! If you use the .torrent files, please seed. That web > server is in the UK, and it helps to have some peers on this > side of the Atlantic. > > Why is my map missing small rectangular areas? > > There have been some missing tiles from Lambertus's map (the > red rectangles), I don't see any at the moment, so you may > want to update if you had issues with the last set. > > Why can I not copy the large files to my new SD card? > > If you buy a new card (especially SDHC), some are FAT16 from > the factory. I had to reformat it to let me create a >2GB > file. > > Does your map cover Mexico/Canada? > > Yes!! I have, for the purposes of this map, annexed Ontario > in to the USA. Some areas of North America that are close > to the US also just happen to get pulled in to these maps. > This might not happen forever, and if you would like your > non-US area to get included, let me know. > > -- Dave > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2018 16:16:43 -0400 > From: Nathan Mills <nat...@nwacg.net> > To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", > "Interstate X", etc. > Message-ID: <80a31c08-0990-446f-aa49-172fc3d87...@nwacg.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > The New Sapulpa Road situation is in practice a road with a secondary > name. Just like Flagler Street in part of Miami (FL, not OK) is defined by > the state legislature as being "Natan A Rok Boulevard" (or similar, working > from memory here). > > My personal opinion is that if local practice and the USPS continue to use > the old name, that name should stay in the name tag, while the > Legislature's political name should be tagged as an alt_name. That said, > there are situations in which most/all signage refers to the new name, in > which case switching them makes sense. (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in > Fayetteville, AR being an example. Most still call it 6th Street, but the > city, nearly all signage, and the USPS' preferred name are all "Martin > Luther King Jr Boulevard," and they are going to keep it up until everyone > gets with the program) > > Sometimes, the name really is "Highway 66" or "Route 22." Admittedly, it > can sometimes be hard to tell for sure without local knowledge. As long as > people do their best and aren't dogmatic about it when someone who knows > better comes along in the future it will all work out in the end. > > -Nathan > > On September 1, 2018 5:28:11 PM EDT, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> > wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 12:01 PM Peter Dobratz <pe...@dobratz.us> wrote: > > > >To cite a specific example of how we might map something, consider the > >town > >> of Waldport, Oregon. > >> > >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/44.42718/-124.06667 > >> > >> As you can see, there is a US Route 101 running north-south through > >town. > >> Roads north of Northwest Hemlock Street include Northwest as part of > >their > >> names and roads south of Northwest Hemlock Street include Southwest > >as part > >> of their name. US Route 101 is currently mapped in OSM with > >> "name=Northwest Highway 101" for the portions north of Northwest > >Hemlock > >> Street and "name="Southwest Highway 101" for the portions south of > >> Northwest Hemlock Street. If we drop the name tag from this road in > >OSM, > >> then we lose the Northwest and Southwest directional prefix. I think > >we > >> should retain the name tags on roads like this. > >> > > > >I don't. While it is uncommon, there's other ways of handling this. > >The > >way should still be noname=yes in this case. > > > > > >> Here is an examples of a POI along this route: > >> > >> https://www.grand-central-pizza.com/ > >> Grand Central Pizza > >> 245 SW Hwy 101 > >> Waldport, OR 97394 > >> > >> USPS standard format of the address: > >> 245 SW HIGHWAY 101 > >> WALDPORT, OR 97394-3036 > >> > >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/463377211 > >> addr:housenumber=245 > >> addr:street=Southwest Highway 101 > >> addr:city=Waldport > >> addr:state=OR > >> addr:postcode=97394 > >> > > > >And this is how you would handle addresses along such a highway. This > >also > >comes up (uncommon but still happens) where the USPS has decided to > >consider addresses with a different name than the street that frontages > >it. In an extreme example, there's a road in my region that has the > >name > >"Officer Larry W. Cantrell and Mister Charles L. Cantrell Memorial > >Highway". The addresses along it are all "New Sapulpa Road", the > >road's > >old name, presumably due to brevity. > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/attachments/20180902/d3ada5a3/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 19:28:31 -0400 > From: Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> > To: Nathan Mills <nat...@nwacg.net> > Cc: talk-us <talk-us@openstreetmap.org> > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", > "Interstate X", etc. > Message-ID: > <CALREZe-uj9BmiBfQ2Ma78t6_adK=172ckpr9OaRRkjV= > drg...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 4:18 PM Nathan Mills <nat...@nwacg.net> wrote: > > My personal opinion is that if local practice and the USPS continue to > use the old name, that name should stay in the name tag, while the > Legislature's political name should be tagged as an alt_name. That said, > there are situations in which most/all signage refers to the new name, in > which case switching them makes sense. (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in > Fayetteville, AR being an example. Most still call it 6th Street, but the > city, nearly all signage, and the USPS' preferred name are all "Martin > Luther King Jr Boulevard," and they are going to keep it up until everyone > gets with the program) > > Heh. Sometimes you have to wait a long time. The signage on 'Avenue of > the Americas' in New York City has said that since the 1950's. The > Postal Service prefers that name on street addresses. New Yorkers > call it Sixth Avenue, which confuses the tourists no end. Likewise, > to a New Yorker, Bruckner Boulevard goes over the Triboro[ugh] Bridge > coming out of the Bronx. The signs say I-278 and Robert F. Kennedy > Bridge. The locals never do. When asked about them, the likely > response will be something like, 'oh, yeah, they renamed one of the > bridges for Bobby Kennedy, didn't they?" > > > Sometimes, the name really is "Highway 66" or "Route 22." Admittedly, it > can sometimes be hard to tell for sure without local knowledge. As long as > people do their best and aren't dogmatic about it when someone who knows > better comes along in the future it will all work out in the end. > > ^ This. The name of a geographic feature is what the locals call it. > Why should 150th Street be a name, but County Road 34 have to be > relegated to noname=yes if it has no other name? (Then again, I come > from a part of the world that has settlements named Number Four, > Township 40, and Thirteenth Lake. Those things all started out as > reference numbers but are now established names.) > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 20:16:23 -0500 > From: Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> > To: OpenStreetMap talk-us list <talk-us@openstreetmap.org> > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", > "Interstate X", etc. > Message-ID: > <CAMPM96o1eqBi= > pde5qoexevo_1kcr+27qwqxgnhvw0roupp...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 6:29 PM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Heh. Sometimes you have to wait a long time. The signage on 'Avenue of > > the Americas' in New York City has said that since the 1950's. The > > Postal Service prefers that name on street addresses. New Yorkers > > call it Sixth Avenue, which confuses the tourists no end. Likewise, > > to a New Yorker, Bruckner Boulevard goes over the Triboro[ugh] Bridge > > coming out of the Bronx. The signs say I-278 and Robert F. Kennedy > > Bridge. The locals never do. When asked about them, the likely > > response will be something like, 'oh, yeah, they renamed one of the > > bridges for Bobby Kennedy, didn't they?" > > > > Reminds me of how long it took Portland to phase in Martin Luther King, > Junior Boulevard, and old timers for various reasons (many of them rather > reprehensible) that still call that street "Union Avenue" or even it's even > older name, "Railroad Avenue"... > > > > > Sometimes, the name really is "Highway 66" or "Route 22." Admittedly, > it > > can sometimes be hard to tell for sure without local knowledge. As long > as > > people do their best and aren't dogmatic about it when someone who knows > > better comes along in the future it will all work out in the end. > > > > ^ This. The name of a geographic feature is what the locals call it. > > Why should 150th Street be a name, but County Road 34 have to be > > relegated to noname=yes if it has no other name? (Then again, I come > > from a part of the world that has settlements named Number Four, > > Township 40, and Thirteenth Lake. Those things all started out as > > reference numbers but are now established names.) > > > > It's pretty common for county roads to not have names, only refs, though. > Why tag twice? > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/attachments/20180902/2d6d1dab/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 21:52:16 -0700 > From: OSM Volunteer stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> > To: talk-us <talk-us@openstreetmap.org> > Subject: [Talk-us] Denver RTD's public_transport growth > Message-ID: <1d8ef772-a9f1-46e2-b60a-f030abd62...@softworkers.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I "found something rectangular" and sketched in > http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Colorado/Railroads which we might agree (as a > useful, communicative wiki) is "alpha-1" or so. > > Denver's FasTracks Lines grow, let's sync OSM and this wiki with another > up-to-date light_rail table. This strategy works: Portland TriMet, meet > California/Railroads, meet Miami/BrightLine, meet San Francisco BART, meet > Denver RTD...and so on. > > Rail mapping feels like solving a crossword, good for the mind and then > there's that volunteer spirit part, too. Go! > > SteveA > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Talk-us Digest, Vol 130, Issue 3 > *************************************** >
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