[Hidden-tech] Open Streetmaps, and Hidden Tech

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Are you familiar with the Waze social gps maps & traffic app/software?

It seems to be doing a lot of what you're discussing and is hugely popular / integrates google map info...

Regards,

Tom Adams, Director/Owner
Reelife Productions & Folktography
www.ReelifeProductions.com
(from my virtual office/iPhone)
413.575.9707

> On Oct 10, 2014, at 5:38 PM, Jim Chevalier <jchevalier at gmail.com> wrote:
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> This might actually a fairly big issue, if I'm understanding you correctly...
> I've been working with Open Street Map data quite a bit while building CityStrides, and I've found that there are a lot of cities that aren't officially/usefully present yet.
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> For example, Springfield MA is present in a useful way in Open Street Map:
> http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=158858662
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> But on the other hand, Glastonbury CT is not present in any usable way:
> http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=533197
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> The key difference between the two is that Springfield's 'type' classification is "Type: boundary:administrative". This means that its boundary has been traced out, and has been categorized at the (hopefully) correct admin level.
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> When a city is properly present in Open Street Map as an Administrative type with a Relation ID, *so much more* can be done with it. In my case, it's the difference between being able to programmatically collect a city's streets vs having to manually trace out the city borders in a site like http://extract.bbbike.org/. Effectively: having access to data (that's present!) or not having access to it.
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> Unfortunately, the answer to 'How can I create an OSM Relation Area if it doesn't exist?' is typically "don't". So, I don't know if/how this can be corrected.
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> -Jim
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>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Town Websites <townwebsites at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Ack, pfft.   I guess it is just an issue of ajax search not kicking in without being prompted at least for Hidden Tech towns in MA.  Still maybe a modest project enhancement but not needing a collaboration, sorry for the bandwidth –
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>> Charlie
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>> From: Town Websites [mailto:townwebsites at gmail.com] 
>> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 10:35 PM
>> To: 'Hidden Tech'
>> Subject: Open Streetmaps, and Hidden Tech
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>> I notice that Open Streetmaps as conveyed through the popular free Droid apps doesn’t know that most of the smaller towns in Hidden Techlandia exist.  I suspect this is probably a global problem for small towns but one would imagine there would be a solution, and some Hidden Techies might care enough to help facilitate getting it incorporated into the popular open source data and applications.  Anyone else care enough to fill in with what they know and what they’d like to consider collaborating on?  Either on list or private email fine.  I’m pretty well occupied but might find time for an interesting collaboration.
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>> Charlie
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