[Talk-lv] Fwd: [Talk-us] We have less than a week left to remap!

[Raitis U.]

ok, tātad according to this:
http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=9&lat=56.78476&lon=24.1001&layers=00B0
Jelgava, Saldus un Skrīveri faktiski aiziet pa pieskari?
Kas tur notiek ar Krievijas robežām?

p.s. izskatās ka Polija būs visai patukša...

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Rich <richlv at nakts.net> wrote:

> dazhi linki uz varbuut deriigiem tuuljiem. artdru veiksmiigaa kaartaa
> piekrita (paldies :) ), bet tagad var meegjinaat satiiriit kaadu dalju no
> paareejaa - diez vai atlikushie piekritiis...
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Talk-us] We have less than a week left to remap!
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:59:07 -0500
> From: Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com>
> To: talk-us <talk-us at openstreetmap.org>
>
> I don't think this has been reposted to talk-us yet. According to the
> latest license change rebuild plan, the database will enter read-only
> mode on March 27th for the license rebuild:
> http://www.osmfoundation.org/**wiki/License/Rebuild_Plan<http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Rebuild_Plan>
>
> So that gives us a matter of days to do any more remapping. It seems
> like the US hasn't seen a concerted effort to remap dirty data like
> some other countries have. So here is my attempt to get that started.
> I'm not sure if some people still don't know about the license change
> of if people think someone else will take care of the important
> things... But *everything* is on the chopping block!
>
> Some highlights:
>
> 1) State/county borders. I've actually cleaned up a good chunk of
> these and hope to finish in the next few days. I may have to reimport
> some of the remaining ways. Anyone have thoughts on the best source
> for this information?
>
> 2) The interstate system. I've taken care of about 4 or 5 states here
> in the midwest but there is a large swath from Illinois down to South
> Carolina that will become unroutable on April 1st. This will set OSM
> back immensely in the eyes of anyone actually trying to use our data.
>
> 3) Specific cities: Los Angeles, Ausin, Seattle. Most major cities
> have some unclean blobs in them but these are particularly nasty. User
> blars has not responded to repeated requests for contact and I have
> reason to believe he is intentionally ignoring anything OSM related.
> His contributions are beyond huge in the LA area and really along a
> lot of the west coast. Seattle is mostly affected by user Sunny who
> has proven to be unreachable despite my best cyberstalking attempts.
> Austin, TX is also largely affected by one prolific user but it has
> actually gotten some attention so it isn't entirely doomed.
>
> 4) Shorelines. These were imported from a public domain source by an
> anonymous user. I'm tempted to largely mark this with odbl=clean and
> call it a day. Thoughts?
>
>
> In light of this, I would strongly encourage everyone reading this
> list to suspend your current mapping efforts and concentrate entirely
> on license remapping for the next few days. It's not the most fun work
> but it needs to get done.
>
> Tools to use:
>
> JOSM license change plugin. Select everything in an area and hit the
> "License Check" button. Start deleting red things and replacing them
> from clean sources:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/**wiki/JOSM/Plugins/**LicenseChange<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/LicenseChange>
>
> Potlatch2 I think now has the license change layer enabled by default.
> If not, go into the options and make sure "Show license status" is
> checked. Again... remove anything with a red halo and replace.
>
> Badmap. Dirty interstates are clearly visible:
> http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?**zoom=5&lat=41.12823&lon=-99.**
> 48465&layers=00B0<http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=5&lat=41.12823&lon=-99.48465&layers=00B0>
>
> OSM Inspector. Good for drilling down and finding individual objects to
> remap:
> http://tools.geofabrik.de/**osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=-100.**
> 24219&lat=40.17384&zoom=4<http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=-100.24219&lat=40.17384&zoom=4>
>
> TIGER 2011 road name tiles. Used as a background imagery layer while
> editing. Good to pull street names while remapping residential areas.
> Just be sure to expand the abbreviations while you're at it.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/**wiki/TIGER_2011<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_2011>
>
> I have also written two blog posts on my own remapping efforts. The
> first focuses on interstates where there is existing clean data to
> work with. The biggest trick here is making sure you don't break the
> route relations. But honestly I wouldn't worry about it too much. As
> long as the ways are intact, routing will continue to work. We can
> come back later and clean up the route relations after the license
> change.
> http://ksmapper.blogspot.com/**2012/01/license-change-**mapping.html<http://ksmapper.blogspot.com/2012/01/license-change-mapping.html>
>
> The second post is quite a bit more technical and I don't expect many
> others to follow it really. It was useful in that area of LA but it
> involves some traditional GIS tools, data analysis and a little python
> coding. For this type of work, most people would be better off using
> the TIGER 2011 road name tiles listed above.
> http://ksmapper.blogspot.com/**2012/03/remapping-using-tiger-**2011.html<http://ksmapper.blogspot.com/2012/03/remapping-using-tiger-2011.html>
>
> Honestly, it is kind of late to be sending out this email... I
> probably should have done it a couple of weeks ago but hopefully we
> can still make a meaningful dent in the dirty data. At least this
> whole process is almost over...
>
> Toby
>
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