[Talk-us] Why OpenStreetMap US elections should use Single Transferable Vote (STV)

The 2016 OSM US elections aren't even over yet, but it's never too soon to start thinking about 2017. :) To that end, I wrote a diary post about why OSM US should switch to using Single Transferable Vote for its elections, like OSMF does. All of the current OSM US candidates support STV to

[OSM-talk] Merging Offline Edits with the POSM Replay Tool (blog post)

Hello everyone! Many of you probably heard about the Portable OSM project that SpatialDev and Stamen have been working on with the American Red Cross. Here's an introductory blog post if you missed it: https://hi.stamen.com/introducing-portable-openstreetmap-bff9b04c0e16

Re: [Talk-us] Caliparks re-tagging paths?

For now, I'm happy that Paul retagged the ways in question as highway=path, access=no. That's a fine compromise until we've gone through the RFC process for the new tag, and had an up or down vote. Looking forward to the rest of the discussion, Alan McConchie Stamen Design > On Mar 25, 2

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] RFC: LA County building import

Hi Frederik, > On Feb 12, 2016, at 11:33 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > How many of your team are local to LA, and how are you cooperating with > the OSM community in LA? Of the four of us who have been preparing the data and who will be overseeing the import, two of us

Re: [Talk-us] Get your early bird ticket to State of the Map US!

We (the Maptime organizers) are also planning a Maptime summit/conference that will happen in conjunction with State of the Map US, so we hope that will also bring a lot of individuals (especially new mappers) who might not otherwise attend a State of the Map. Alan On Feb 4, 2015, at 3:49

[diversity-talk] moderation committee

Hi all, I think there is more to be said over in the recent unpleasantness thread, and I don't want to derail that discussion. So I thought we could start a parallel thread to talk about one of Darrell's concrete proposals for moving forward: a moderation committee. I don't know how

Re: [Talk-us] Rand McNally is using OSM

On the help page there is a link to http://www.randmcnally.com/legal/doc/tripmaker-attribution http://www.randmcnally.com/legal/doc/tripmaker-attribution, which has attribution for OpenStreetMap. However, I can't actually get to that page from the Help window: there is some javascript

Re: [Talk-us] Rand McNally is using OSM

Yes, the map will show updated OSM data within minutes, like all of Mapbox's maps that are based on their Mapbox Streets vector data tiles. https://www.mapbox.com/blog/vector-tiles/ https://www.mapbox.com/blog/vector-tiles/ Alan On Nov 22, 2014, at 7:51 PM, Clifford Snow

Re: [OSM-talk] Status of Field Papers

(or anyone) would like to help, please get in touch! We hope to get Field Papers back online very soon. Thanks for your patience, and we're sorry for any inconvenience! Alan McConchie Design Technologist Stamen Design 1 (415) 558-1610 On Nov 9, 2014, at 3:45 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Status of Field Papers

at a...@stamen.com or file an issue on github here: https://github.com/stamen/fieldpapers/issues https://github.com/stamen/fieldpapers/issues In the meantime, if you get any atlases with black tiles, try regenerating the atlas. Usually this takes care of the problem. Alan McConchie Design Technologist

Re: [Talk-us] OSMF AGM election results

Richard, thanks for the great work you and the other election monitors did to make this election run so smoothly. And thanks particularly for your series of blog posts explaining how STV (the Single Transferable Vote) works. I’ve been a supporter of election reform for a long time (something

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap and the Ada Initiative #osm4ada

The Ada Initiative [1] is an organization doing important work supporting women in open technology and culture, and right now they're raising money to fund their work for the next year. Thanks to Kathleen Danielson (diary entry here [2]) there is now an OpenStreetMap campaign to donate to Ada

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap and the Ada Initiative #osm4ada

The Ada Initiative [1] is an organization doing important work supporting women in open technology and culture, and right now they're raising money to fund their work for the next year. Thanks to Kathleen Danielson (diary entry here [2]) there is now an OpenStreetMap campaign to donate to Ada

[diversity-talk] OpenStreetMap and the Ada Initiative #osm4ada

The Ada Initiative [1] is an organization doing important work supporting women in open technology and culture, and right now they're raising money to fund their work for the next year. Thanks to Kathleen Danielson (diary entry here [2]) there is now an OpenStreetMap campaign to donate to Ada

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM completeness

You should also check out a few academic research groups that have done studies on completeness in OSM: * Muki Haklay and his collaborators at University College London * Peter Mooney and Padraig Corcoran at National University of Ireland * Pascal Neis and Alexander Zipf at Heidelberg

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Name

Leavenworth is a former logging town that has been turned into a mock Bavarian village as a tourist attraction. So I'm not surprised that they are adding Weg to their streets to seem more Germanic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leavenworth,_Washington Alan On May 29, 2014, at 4:41 PM, Clay

Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon

We had a big turnout in San Francisco, with about 40 people showing up over the course of the day. We think we had a peak of about 30 people all at the same time in the early afternoon, around 2-3pm. By the end of the day the numbers dwindled to about a dozen. Big thanks to Telenav for buying

[OSM-talk] Where should OSM announcements happen? Was: Upgraded map controls

So, I finally caught up on the long Upgraded map controls and Bringing new life to OSM.org threads. I was especially interested in the discussion about where major changes to OSM should be announced, whether on talk, or rails-dev, or github, or IRC, or the blog, etc. As far as I can tell,

Re: [Talk-us] Edit-a-thon promotion

Great idea, Martijn! Another site that might be useful for contacting people at the neighborhood scale is Nextdoor.com. It's not quite the same concept as Neighborland, but the people who have signed up for the site are similarly concerned with what's going on in their local area. Alan On

Re: [OSM-talk] #Occupy camps in OSM?

Hi Frederik, On Nov 8, 2011, at 5:34 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: I was just pointing out that if a number of people decide to put up tents somewhere, that place might be a camp but not a camp site, certainly not one in the sense of tourism=camp_site. (Hint: A camp site is still a camp site

Re: [OSM-talk] #Occupy camps in OSM?

Hi Gregory, That was me tweeting about Occupy Vancouver (the perils of having a twitter handle that's unrelated to my real name). I would like to map the internal structure of the camps in detail, although I am still uncertain if that much detail makes sense to include in OSM. But I figured

[OSM-talk] #Occupy camps in OSM?

Hi everyone, I mooted this question on the IRC, but I also wanted to ask it here, too. Should the temporary camps of the #OccupyWallStreet movement be mapped in OSM? Clearly these are temporary and rapidly changing structures, but some of the camps have remained relatively stable for several

Re: [Talk-ca] Alberta? Quebec? BC? Where are you?

Would a compromise location like Metrotown work for you mappers in New West, Tri-Cities and South of Fraser? I'm out at UBC and the westside of Vancouver, and I also feel too busy to organize a meetup, but I recognize we ought to start one anyway! Alan On Sep 18, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Paul

Re: [Talk-ca] Alberta? Quebec? BC? Where are you?

I've never attended an OSM local user group, but I assumed we were just looking for somewhere central that we can regularly meet, not someplace that necessarily needs the attention of a mapping party. But I'm flexible. I'll start messaging some of the active mappers in the area and see if they

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Wiki page on meetup

If we want a location really close to the OSGeo meeting, we could go to Waves at 1198 W Pender Street. Free WiFi, probably a lot of power outlets. Alan On Jul 17, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Adam Dunn wrote: Sam was replying to an off-list message, so here's the wiki link:

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Wiki page on meetup

or 6 to show up. I'm sure some of us would buy drinks, of course... Adam On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Alan McConchie alan.mcconc...@gmail.com wrote: If we want a location really close to the OSGeo meeting, we could go to Waves at 1198 W Pender Street. Free WiFi, probably a lot