@K01umbus and they also used maps to plan transportation for both the Japanese Internment. Hitler also used extremely detailed ones to transport people to the concentration camps…

With that argument you would basically have to halt science because just about everything that science creates can be used for good or evil. Look at atomic energy, bacterial research, and the list goes on.

I don’t know what is up with all this fuss about captchas these days but it seems to be getting more and more ridiculous. I can understand changing it if there is a technical reason (Or hugely better method) to do so but otherwise don’t fix things that aren’t broken.

That’s my two cents.

Personally I’d be against this as in most cases verification in most places would be difficult and there is really no way to check this on the ground. On the other hand I support adding phone numbers but that isn’t usually verifiable on the ground. I guess personally I don’t see the usefulness in this but if there is a reason to I don’t see a huge issue.

Cheers, ingalls

Wow, I’ve been playing around with it and can see it being very useful!! Really great job

Welcome to openstreetmap!

Okay will do!

I second that, nice to have you! Feel free to give a shout if you need any help.

Feel free to send any of us a shout if you need any help / questions answered

http://fieldpapers.org/ is actually the next generation replacement for walking papers. It is made by the same people but allows for much more visual creation of the papers. If you try them both you’ll see the difference pretty quickly!

Cheers & Happy mapping, ingalls

Nice to have you back :)

Actually I’ve already asked that question to the mapbox staff. They said they are focusing on getting their service up and running at the moment but they “look forward to involving the openstreetmap community”

Okay well I have some progress on this.. I spent a bunch of time coming up with a spreadsheet for the data. It can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ar0iC0thXzOjdFc4c3diOGZiNlNtX2ZoOVNacTE3R3c

I have listed every city that you have a data file with. Using a public spreadsheet instead of the wiki tends to make things less complicated I have found with previous large scale imports.

I’m going to take a look at the data for a couple of the cities I have work on in the past in MA. If it looks good I’ll probably the city a go. I took a quick look this morning and the data appears to be very high quality and well which is what I would expect from massGIS. Could you post the link to the list? I currently lack email access as it is blocked by my work.

Okay sorry about the double posting. Looks like there is a glitch in the commenting system. When I post it I can see the post but when I refresh the last post gets cut off.. So When I post this one I will be able to see the first three posts but this will be cut off.. To Trac I go!

As in has the license been hashed out?

Or are we still waiting for a decision to be hashed out?

Have these been cleared to start importing?

I think there is a bit of a misunderstanding going on here. I have to agree with the other users in that it is usually a bad idea to improve it. I do agree with you in that I wouldn’t want my driveway to be listed as a road!! What was suggested above is to tag it as highway:service service:driveway and then access:private is better than removing it! This tells computers using the data that it is private and should not be accessed unless the computer is told specifically to do so. In Owensboro (One of my current projects - I have mapped hundreds of driveways - see here osm.org/export/embed.html?bbox=-87.08154,37.7478,-87.07363,37.75269&layer=mapnik

Since a driveway is visible from the street it should be mapped!! As long as it is marked as highway:service service:driveway, a computer would have no reason to ever route users up the street. (ie why send a user up a dead end street?).

Welcome to OpenStreetMap! If you have any questions just give a shout! There is always someone to answer them! If you get really into OSM, I would suggest that after you get the hang of potlatch you give a more advanced editor like JOSM a shot. I found that it was much faster and easier after you figured out the basics!

Cheers!

Yeah I second that. Gatekeeper is really a content control system, another way that apple is trying to get dominance through their app store. They can’t create a completely closed appsystem as they have with their iOS products but they are going to go down trying with their desktop software now too. All I can say is thank goodness I run linux!

That makes a lot more sense! Thanks, I’d never actually tried potlatch for more than the occasional minor edit, being an avid JOSM user. I’ll have to go check it out.

Cheers, ingallsn

Just make sure you only name them from memory, no using pre-made maps :)

Cheers
Ingalls