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<p>Thanks to everyone who replied - I've reverted the change in
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/66672189">https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/66672189</a> .<br>
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Do the latest NGS topographical maps show the city limits
properly? Those are public domain<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 10:16 AM OSM Volunteer
stevea <<a href="mailto:steveaOSM@softworkers.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">steveaOSM@softworkers.com</a>>
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2019, at 4:00 AM, Andy Townsend <<a
href="mailto:ajt1047@gmail.com" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">ajt1047@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> A mapper has recently changed this to "cut the corner
off" north of the 880 between San Jose airport and Stevens
Creek Mall / Westfield Valley Fair. You can see the change at
<a
href="http://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=66619223&zoom=18&lat=37.33883&lon=-121.93327&layers=B0TTTFT"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=66619223&zoom=18&lat=37.33883&lon=-121.93327&layers=B0TTTFT</a>
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> <br>
> Some of this mapper's previous changes have had to be
undone, so I did check the node change made here to see if it
might be one of them. However, according to the node history
<a
href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/373647840/history#map=13/37.3600/-121.9066"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/373647840/history#map=13/37.3600/-121.9066</a>
the original source of this node was a changeset quite a while
ago with a description "adjust boundaries based on san jose
city map, bing, and common sense ". It therefore would be
great if a local could check it if possible.<br>
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I'm fairly local (SJC is my "home airport") yet I'm not
finding easily-available San José City Limit boundaries in an
ODbL-compatible format which I could use to relatively quickly
repair the damage. (The user mk408 has a history of "making
it up as he sees fit" OSM data entry which many have disputed
or redacted, for example, many years ago he made MANY roads in
the entire South Bay region — Campbell, Los Gatos, Monte
Sereno, southern San José —into highway=tertiary roads, and
that remained very questionable until it slowly but surely
"healed itself," again, this took months-to-years). There are
some geo data at <a
href="http://csj-landzoning.appspot.com/index.html"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://csj-landzoning.appspot.com/index.html</a>
which indicate the present OSM data are "largely correct," the
exception being that the area directly over the northern part
of the airport do not include the "leg" that "covers" runway
12L/30R and that the acute angle over taxiways V, W and W1 is
more like "aligned with these taxiways, rather than cutting
across them." You really have to see them rather than expect
that I can describe them with text. They are, again, "mostly
correct" but could use some rather minor correction.<br>
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As I bumped into somebody on a plane on my way back from
SOTM-US Seattle (2016) who works in the San José City Hall and
when she met me was bowled over at the coincidence that I was
the very person sitting next to her drinking gin and tonic who
entered into OSM most of Santa Clara County's bikeways/bicycle
infrastructure and network=lcn routing (which the city office
found "extremely helpful" — her words), it's conceivable that
I might be able to use that to sway release of some data which
could be forthcoming. While I don't know quite who to call,
exactly, if somebody wants to "release to me" ODbL-compatible
data which need to be harmonized with what are now in OSM,
I'll volunteer to be the "nexus of citizen entry" to assure
they find their way into our wonderful map. Send me a pointer
to the data, assure me they are ODbL-OK and I'll "merge" these
into OSM.<br>
<br>
SteveA<br>
California<br>
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