[Talk-us] The San Jose / Santa Clara border

[Jack Burke]

Does anyone know someone who lives in the "disputed" area? If so, then one definitive information point is what local government elections he/she can vote in. 

-jack 
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On January 26, 2019 8:50:39 PM EST, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>Do the latest NGS topographical maps show the city limits properly?
>Those
>are public domain
>On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 10:16 AM OSM Volunteer stevea <
>steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 26, 2019, at 4:00 AM, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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
>>
>http://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=66619223&zoom=18&lat=37.33883&lon=-121.93327&layers=B0TTTFT
>> .
>> >
>> > 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
>>
>https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/373647840/history#map=13/37.3600/-121.9066
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>> http://csj-landzoning.appspot.com/index.html 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> SteveA
>> California
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