[OSM-talk] World Bank and Open Geo-data for Development

2012-03-20 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, There was some discussion here a couple months ago about the World Bank signing a partnership with Google. This has changed a bit and yesterday they posted on their blog saying World Bank supports citizen-mapping efforts that give users free access to the map data they create. (1) I

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and Academia (was: Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM)

2012-03-16 Thread Kate Chapman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 03/14/2012 07:25 PM, Simone Cortesi wrote: in addition to this: I've been part of this community for a while (7 years) and never heard about this people pretending to be from the university of Münster,

Re: [Talk-us] suburban superblocks that nobody wants to survey

2012-03-16 Thread Kate Chapman
What about actually doing the entry while you are in the car? My first job after college was to map every house in a county. (Wayne County, Indiana for those that are curious) The set-up was to use GPS with a computer and to map the addresses as you went. We were already starting with the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Digitizing from Balloon Maps

2012-03-10 Thread Kate Chapman
zaborowski [mailto:balr...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Digitizing from Balloon Maps Hi, On 10 March 2012 03:51, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hey All, I was wondering what the license implications would be from digitizing from balloon maps that had been rectified

[OSM-legal-talk] Digitizing from Balloon Maps

2012-03-09 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey All, I was wondering what the license implications would be from digitizing from balloon maps that had been rectified from other satellite imagery. - So let's say you fly photos of an area - To stitch them together you use Google Maps imagery as the base - What is the deal with the imagery

[OSM-legal-talk] Best Guideline for ODbL and OSM?

2012-02-23 Thread Kate Chapman
Are the guidelines on the wiki the best place to find information as how ODbL applies to OpenStreetMap? Are there other sources I should be looking at? -Kate ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] odbl non-agreement and humanitarian exceptions.

2012-02-02 Thread Kate Chapman
Much of this data has already been ground surveyed. Would it be possible based on the source tags to mark things odbl=clean? I think that would take care of a large majority of the problem, since there has been so much on the ground work since the earthquake. -Kate On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:46

Re: [OSM-talk] odbl non-agreement and humanitarian exceptions.

2012-02-02 Thread Kate Chapman
it, you'd have to verify that nothing remained of the decliners contributions. Just because someone surveyed something doesn't mean that they surveyed all the v1 data (for an example where v1 was from a decliner) -Original Message- From: Kate Chapman [mailto:k...@maploser.com] Sent

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM downtime as protest against SOPA?

2012-01-16 Thread Kate Chapman
As HOT is working on the ground in Haiti and Indonesia this week and additionally helping with a flood response in the Philippines I would suggest we don't do that. On Wednesday there are workshops going on in the St Marc area of Haiti introducing people in that area to OSM for the first time.

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking Forward

2011-12-25 Thread Kate Chapman
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 3:30 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote: B/ Third world A second important thing will be to provide information to the third world, countries where a simple paper map is simply not available, or outdated or lists only those

Re: [OSM-talk] Education and Community Manager @ OSM World

2011-12-10 Thread Kate Chapman
Since I came up in the discussion I figured I should explain myself:) On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Frans, On 12/10/2011 10:29 PM, Frans Thamura wrote: OSGeo is an organisation that works differently from OSM; it is more driven from the head,

Re: [OSM-talk] OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

2011-12-07 Thread Kate Chapman
Well I think there are a couple strategies. For example encouraging students to clean-up each others mistakes would be a good one. You could use OWL to monitor edits in an area as well:http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OWL_(OpenStreetMap_Watch_List) Keep right can be used to look for mistakes

Re: [OSM-talk] Moderating / Quality checking OSM contributions -- was: Re: OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

2011-12-07 Thread Kate Chapman
:03 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/12/7 Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com: I wonder if custom presets could help with the road classification. We've had the same problem in parts of Indonesia, but that is because the road classifications are simply translated.  Translating

Re: [OSM-talk] Moderating / Quality checking OSM contributions -- was: Re: OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

2011-12-07 Thread Kate Chapman
not use it. -Kate On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: Kate Chapman wrote: I'm not sure why that makes sense.  Saying to people Okay we know you call these types of roads national government roads, well in OSM we call them primary.  So let's create a completely

Re: [OSM-talk] OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

2011-12-06 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Erik, HOT has been teaching OSM all over Indonesia for the past 6 months. I can say that the uploads aren't that slow, since people are usually mapping in a small area. Loading of the OSM website though is often very slow, which in a class of new people sometimes makes it difficult just to

Re: [Talk-us] One click quality printed maps (as an OSM advantage)

2011-12-05 Thread Kate Chapman
With walking papers you can use other renderings. The default one is the OSM tiles though. There are a couple other Cloudmade styles in there. Best, -Kate On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 12/05/2011 10:44 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: Neither

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

2011-11-07 Thread Kate Chapman
I think it would be interesting to do. I've seen a couple maps using Google Map as the base that were handdrawn. Here is an example of one: http://yfrog.com/nx3vnnj If Walking-Papers was just the starting point they could have been traced in:). -Kate On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Janko

Re: [OSM-talk] Demo editing to OSM data

2011-11-01 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Peter, Why wouldn't you just teach them how to edit to add real information? I can't speak for the whole community, but I think that is the best way to teach them. There are workshops held all over the world where people immediately make edits to OpenStreetMap. If you need help with

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US Nominations Open

2011-09-27 Thread Kate Chapman
Just another reminder about the nominations for the US Chapter Board. I'm not planning on rerunning because I spent as much time outside of the US as in it this year. Best, -Kate On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Nominations for 2011-2012

Re: [OSM-talk] LearnOSM.org

2011-09-26 Thread Kate Chapman
:28 PM, Besfort Guri besig...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, are you planing to translate in others languages? or only in Indonesian ... 2011/9/25 Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com Hi Matthias, The way we did the Bahasa Indonesia translation is by starting with a master google doc series of each chapter

Re: [OSM-talk] LearnOSM.org

2011-09-24 Thread Kate Chapman
a better way to handle documentation. Best, -Kate 2011/9/23 Matthias Meißer dig...@arcor.de: Am 23.09.2011 08:55, schrieb Kate Chapman: Hi All, I wanted to share that HOT has completed our project to create materials in English and Bahasa Indonesia to help people learn about OpenStreetMap

[OSM-talk] LearnOSM.org

2011-09-23 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, I wanted to share that HOT has completed our project to create materials in English and Bahasa Indonesia to help people learn about OpenStreetMap. Everything is up at the following URL: http://www.learnosm.org/. The intent is to put up additional tutorials and some video screencasts as

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US Nominations Open

2011-09-20 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Richard, Fair questions. I think one thing that the US Chapter should figure out is what exactly is expected from the board. Meaning when we put on SotM-US it ended up being a significant amount of time commitment (that didn't have to be board members but mostly was). The chapter could take

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US Chapter elections and

2011-09-16 Thread Kate Chapman
Sorry the issue was we did not have quorum and did not announce the meeting. So it could not count as the annual meeting. The Treasurer's report is finished (a big part of these sorts of things) and we can have an annual meeting. Anyway, the plan was to have an online annual meeting, which is

[OSM-talk] Google Summer of Code Documentation Sprint

2011-08-30 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, Some of you might remember a while back Ian Dees asked for volunteers for a GSoC Documentation Sprint. We applied to the sprint and were accepted! So myself, Ian Dees and Shaun McDonald will be going to Mountain View, California the week of October 21st to work on improving some of the

[Talk-us] Meet-up in DC September 1st

2011-08-27 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, This Thursday in the Washington DC area we are having a meet-up at Ray's Hell Burger: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Washington_DC#Meet-ups This is the first stop in the WillMap4Fuel trip: http://www.willmapforfuel.com/ and Iván's first day in the U.S. for the adventure. So if you

Re: [Talk-us] SOTM room discounts for OSMF US Members

2011-08-25 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Everyone, This is a reminder about rooms at SotM for OSM-US members. Please see the details below. Thanks, Kate On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Thea Aldrich theaglit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi US Mappers, The OSMF US team has been busy doing some fundraising to help support the mapping

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF elections

2011-08-15 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Richard, Is how many positions are open and which positions available? Thanks, Kate On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: In prior years the elections were held at an AGM with proxy votes by email for those not able to attend.  Last year, the OSMF board

[OSM-legal-talk] Mixing geoms and attributes (private data and public data)

2011-08-09 Thread Kate Chapman
Hello All, Hopefully my question isn't soo close to Maning's to be annoying a couple hours later:). So I'm working on a project that involves poverty mapping. So currently communities work as a group to determine the poor households, the rich households, etc in a neighborhood. They do this

[OSM-talk] Design List

2011-08-06 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, So we've talked about design on and off around here. I personally have never made a pretty interface in my entire life. Anyway, I've had some designers doing some work for a project HOT is doing in Indonesia and there was interest in discuss design on a larger scale. I figured having a

[OSM-talk] HOT Docs

2011-08-06 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, HOT has been working on an OpenStreetMap manual as part of our work in Indonesia. Most of the credit goes to Jeff Haack, Emir Hartato and Vasanthi for working very hard on this. We realize there are many different guides that exist, but wanted something that could be accessible to those

[Talk-us] Road Trip Update

2011-08-03 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, I mentioned a while back about a road trip to SotM. S Iván and I have a website now and are looking for places to stop: http://www.willmapforfuel.com/ Also if you are in our path and would like to meet-up let us know. -Kate ___ Talk-us

Re: [OSM-talk] Id stability

2011-08-02 Thread Kate Chapman
I'm not sure I understand why having the ability to link to external data through some sort of ID is such a bad thing. This is common in many APIs and datasets. It is an opportunity to mix data in new ways as well. Frederik also this seems odd to me I'm not a big fan of UUIDs because, again,

Re: [OSM-talk] Id stability

2011-08-02 Thread Kate Chapman
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Kate Chapman wrote: I'm not sure I understand why having the ability to link to external data through some sort of ID is such a bad thing. This is about external data linking to us, not vice versa

Re: [OSM-talk] Brilliant!

2011-07-09 Thread Kate Chapman
I can only imagine what this is going to be: http://2011.foss4g.org/sessions/geoglobaldomination-musical And I will never listen to Eye of the Tiger in the same way again. -Kate On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Bravo, Señor España.  Bravo.

[OSM-talk] Imagery won't Load in JOSM

2011-06-26 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, Sorry to have not done a lot of research on this (I'm doing a workshop today with 25 University students). For a couple of individuals none of the TMS/WMS will load. These are machines running Windows 7. You add the imagery and nothing happens. Any suggestions? Thanks! -Kate

Re: [OSM-talk] Imagery won't Load in JOSM

2011-06-26 Thread Kate Chapman
Never mind. ID10T error on my part:). The internet connection had gone out on that computer, but not before we had downloaded data to edit. -Kate On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hi All, Sorry to have not done a lot of research on this (I'm doing

Re: [Talk-us] Road Trip to SotM

2011-06-20 Thread Kate Chapman
along the route. -- Jim On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hi All, I know there was some talk about the GeoBus for State of the Map. Well, on a much smaller scale myself

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-17 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Frederik, Yes I agree that the arm chair mapping isn't the best method of collection. Though in some areas it will be difficult to ever have mappers on the ground without imagery. The cost of a GPS is prohibitive in many places. I've been working with some rural areas in Indonesia and it

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-17 Thread Kate Chapman
Right, what I was trying to propose was if making imagery available would spark community in some places. Kate On Jun 17, 2011 12:23 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 06/17/11 17:18, Kate Chapman wrote: Yes I agree that the arm chair mapping isn't the best method

Re: [OSM-talk] Join the OSMF !

2011-06-14 Thread Kate Chapman
://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Kate Chapman email: k8chap...@gmail.com U.S. mobile: +1 703 673 8834 Indonesian mobile: +62 82123068370 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] OSM Gift Ideas

2011-06-10 Thread Kate Chapman
was thinking along the lines of a plaque, but looking for additional ideas. Thanks! -Kate -- Kate Chapman email: k8chap...@gmail.com U.S. mobile: +1 703 673 8834 Indonesian mobile: +62 82123068370 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] Which county next?

2011-06-09 Thread Kate Chapman
On Jun 9, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Steve Coast wrote: On 6/8/2011 12:43 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: Is that/will that not be a popular use for OSM? It does not make walking directions impossible - just requires the addition of the driveway to the map. OTOH, putting the pin on the front door of a

Re: [OSM-talk] Bandwidth limit/IP blocking - Error 303 on the OSM API?

2011-06-07 Thread Kate Chapman
I'd also like to add that people get more excited about OpenStreetMap when they see their changes instantly added. I've trained people in both Potlatch, Potlatch2 and JOSM. I pick the tool depending on specific class. Areas with bad/no internet access we use JOSM and changes are immediately

Re: [Talk-us] Transportation for the Nation Strategic Plan discusses OSM

2011-06-03 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Josh, Myself and Thea Clay were on the strategic working group. There weren't a ton of meetings, but we did participate in a couple conference calls. There was some tenseness around using OpenStreetMap. There are issues such as federal government data being public domain and also people not

Re: [Talk-us] Transportation for the Nation Strategic Plan discusses OSM

2011-06-03 Thread Kate Chapman
with your individual companies rather than OSM. I'm sure there will be some issues, but it's good to get involved early, thanks for being a part of it. -Josh On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hi Josh, Myself and Thea Clay were on the strategic working

Re: [Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag

2011-05-27 Thread Kate Chapman
Richard is right, there is an English language flyer. I believe Frederik Ramm has it. If someone can volunteer to mail it that would be great. I'm home less than 50% of the year so I don't think I'm the right person. -Kate On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Building Equals Yes

2011-05-17 Thread Kate Chapman
That's awesome. I always appreciate the usage of Null Island as well:) http://buildingequalsyes.spum.org/id/28715636/ How often is this going to be updated? Apparently I'm in a building that was not tagged building=yes;) -Kate P.S. Emailing from the building next to this one:

Re: [OSM-talk] April fools that should have been

2011-04-02 Thread Kate Chapman
Steve, the zombie apocalypse is a real threat and no laughing matter. Please report all sightings to http://zombiereports.com/ now. On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: * Replace OSM front page with google maps * HOT announce zombie apocalypse response team

[OSM-talk] Interested in Assisting Newbies to Help Map Japan?

2011-03-15 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey All, CrisisCommons has a bunch of volunteers who would like to help map Japan. They have never mapped in OpenStreetMap before. Is anyone interested in helping them along? It was suggested making a quick Youtube video (similar to what I did for Haiti:

[OSM-ja] Post Earthquake Imagery of Sendai

2011-03-12 Thread Kate Chapman
things set-up. I'll be on email and on IRC as wonderchook Right now there is some imagery of Sendai and Digital Globe is working on most of the Tokyo coast and it will be up in a couple hours. Thanks Kate Chapman user:wonderchook ___ Talk-ja mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-03-03 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Tom, Could you post a link to the area you imported? Not all tags are rendered in the default Mapnik styling. Maybe we could help figure out exactly what is going one. Thanks, Kate user:wonderchook On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Tom Ponte t...@bendbroadband.com wrote: PJ, I would be

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Josh, I've done a couple imports with varying levels of success. I live in Virginia (in Arlington) and would like to help. -Kate On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: I absolutely agree about preserving user contributions. For any given segment in the Virginia

Re: [OSM-talk] Satellite Sentinel Project Uses Commercial Satellite Imagery to Monitor Sudanese Conflict

2011-02-15 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Nick, We(HOT) have been working with the imagery providers to get the same imagery available for OpenStreetMap. So far things have been slow, but progressing forward though. Thanks, Kate On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:18 PM, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au wrote: I just got my edition of

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-02-13 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi PJ, Sounds cool. Is there a plan for keeping things up to date? Or is it to just get the data the best it can be between OSM/TRIMET and then continue editing in OpenStreetMap overtime? Or some other plan I haven't thought of. -Kate On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:28 PM, PJ Houser

Re: [Talk-us] Open.MapQuest.com launched for the US

2010-12-19 Thread Kate Chapman
One bug I have is with address geocoding. You don't seem to be using addresses attached to polygons. So for almost all addresses I've added they don't geocode. The couple that are points do. Thanks, Kate On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Stellan Lagerstrom lagerst...@blindsight.com wrote: I

[OSM-talk] Print Cartographer with OSM Data Needed

2010-11-18 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey All, So HOT is working on a project in Haiti to put maps in information kiosks. One of the other aspects of the project involves suggestion boxes which people have been writing letters to and submitted. For the anniversary of the earthquake books are being printed for expositions in Haiti,

Re: [OSM-talk] New: A blackwhite base layer

2010-11-03 Thread Kate Chapman
Probably all of those in this category on the wiki:) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Groupies_of_IvanSanchez Long live the Glittermap! -Kate 2010/11/2 Peter pe...@haas-en-berg.nl: Err, are you alright? TEH GLITTERMAP!!!1! LAWLZ! So let's see hw many people actally use teh

Re: [Talk-ht] Haiti: extended high res imagery, hurricane Tomas, and cholera

2010-11-01 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey Jean-Guilhem, I don't know if the licensing on the Quickbird is compatible with OSM. Do you know what the license is? -Kate On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton j...@arkemie.com wrote: Hi, The high resolution satellite imagery that was available after the earthquake

Re: [Talk-ht] Haiti: extended high res imagery, hurricane Tomas, and cholera

2010-11-01 Thread Kate Chapman
, It is the same data from the January time frame, so the permission given by Digital Globe should apply (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Imagery_and_data_sources#DigitalGlobe). Do you have any reason to think otherwise ? Jean-Guilhem Le 01/11/2010 19:13, Kate Chapman a écrit

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Tagging Consensus to Improve OSM (and address some of 41 latitude's concerns)

2010-10-17 Thread Kate Chapman
can use. -Kate On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Al Haraka alhar...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: There are some people where IRC is a higher barrier to entry than a phone call.  All that aside though I think key is just to have some

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Tagging Consensus to Improve OSM (and address some of 41 latitude's concerns)

2010-10-15 Thread Kate Chapman
There are some people where IRC is a higher barrier to entry than a phone call. All that aside though I think key is just to have some level of consensus and then have the information available in a clear place. New people don't care about arguing about tags, they just want to know how to map.

Re: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

2010-10-14 Thread Kate Chapman
Richard, Point 1: I'm not denying that the data in the U.S. is messed up. On the other hand I can't count the number of times people say things that I summarize to 'God, why are you Americans too stupid, lazy or import crazy to map your own country? It really makes people want to continue

[Talk-us] Washington D.C. Mappy Hour October 12th

2010-10-10 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey Guys, The monthly OSM Meet-up in D.C. is this Tuesday at the Capital City Brewery at 7pm. Capital City Brewery 1100 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20005 The closest metro is Metro Center. Here's a map: http://osm.org/go/ZZcbh4Ox1-- If you are in the D.C. area I hope to see you there!

Re: [Talk-us] Reminder: Geobus call tomorrow

2010-09-03 Thread Kate Chapman
Yes there were 6 or 7 of us. Here are the notes I took: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1q_Sv8p11O659zrVEpGQWdN3OvYotLAPZKnVgaZFyRCY Sorry I neglected to document who was on the call. -Kate On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jim McAndrew j...@loc8.us wrote: Did anybody make the call

Re: [OSM-talk] URGENT walking-papers.org down?

2010-07-28 Thread Kate Chapman
If it is is just for that one scan I would rescan and try to upload. If that still doesn't work occasionally there are problems uploading the scans. If it is for all scans then there is a larger problem. -Kate On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:49 PM, ouɐɯnH fredyriv...@gmail.com wrote: we are in a

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Kibera article

2010-07-27 Thread Kate Chapman
The projects being talked about in the article is the one Mikel spoke about at SotM. They are just referring to the wrong URL. I commented with the correct URL in the article, so hopefully they change it. -Kate On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:48 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] Community Involvement

2010-07-22 Thread Kate Chapman
From our trips to Haiti we have documents on data collection, editing to use of OSM. They are focused on the Humanitarian tagging scheme though. Here is the JOSM training manual: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Ab5-nI93RBqoZGZxcHcycXRfMzFnaDQzejJmawhl=en The QGIS/Mapnik one:

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US Schedule

2010-07-20 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey All, It was mentioned to me that I didn't post this to the main talk list. We are having a SotM for the U.S. in August. The schedule for SOTM US is up. http://www.sotm.us/?page_id=2 We have all sorts of exciting things planned. There are talks on everything from OSM in Government to

Re: [Talk-us] Community Involvement

2010-07-20 Thread Kate Chapman
So I think having a formal organization can enable people to do certain tasks. There are plenty of situations where it isn't needed of course. Examples where it can help: -We wanted to put on a conference, it is much easier to have a formal organization for sponsorship and reserving a venue.

Re: [Talk-us] SOTM US Schedule Up

2010-07-20 Thread Kate Chapman
wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hi All, The schedule for SOTM US is up. http://www.sotm.us/?page_id=2 No post to talk, or other lists?  Is this event only for US-based mappers or open to all? ___ Talk

[Talk-us] State of the Map U.S. Registration

2010-07-17 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, Reminder that SOTM US is August 14th-15th and registration is open. We have great speakers lined up including individuals from Stamen, USGS, the State of Arkansas. On a variety of topics from technical topics like OSM in MongoDB and using OSM in Schools. I'll be releasing the

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM in the Crisis Congress

2010-07-12 Thread Kate Chapman
There are a couple people. I'm representing the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team at the NGO round table part. There are also people who wear multiple hats going as well. For example some of the Sahana guys also contribute to OSM. Kate Chapman On Jul 12, 2010 12:22 PM, ouɐɯnH fredyriv

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM in the Crisis Congress

2010-07-12 Thread Kate Chapman
I should clarify, nobody is attending in an official capacity. There are OpenStreetMap contributors who are attending. Since we are a large open source volunteer project things are much looser than say OCHA. Kate On Jul 12, 2010 12:22 PM, ouɐɯnH fredyriv...@gmail.com wrote: hello, We have

Re: [OSM-talk] [Candidacy] AGM Foundation 2010 - Girona

2010-07-04 Thread Kate Chapman
I don't think that you can just say if the strategic goal is to be a mainstream map and other uses are distractions from this goal. There are plenty of people who do not have the goal of the mainstream map as their main mission. For example the time I spend working on things for HOT, I'm not

Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

2010-07-01 Thread Kate Chapman
Mobile navigation applications for those that are blind are very expensive. One of the more popular ones MobileGeo is about $800 USD. I have a couple friends using MobileGeo who share waypoints with each other but would love to have access to other people map information and be able to share

[OSM-talk] Haiti Extracts/Imagery and Other Resources

2010-06-18 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey All, Just an FYI that I'm cleaning out the Haiti response area of the wiki today and removing resources that aren't being actively maintained. There is a huge amount of people both using OSM data and creating it, this is at both from International actors, National ones and communities. This

[Talk-ht] Haiti Extracts/Imagery and Other Resources

2010-06-18 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey All, Just an FYI that I'm cleaning out the Haiti response area of the wiki today and removing resources that aren't being actively maintained. There is a huge amount of people both using OSM data and creating it, this is at both from International actors, National ones and communities. This

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Humanitarian Presets in French (assistance needed)

2010-06-16 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Jean-Guilhem, That is correct about the key= and the values=. Thank you so much for your help! -Kate On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton j...@arkemie.com wrote: Hi Kate, A translation proposal is now in github, under a fork at :

Re: [OSM-talk] openstreetmap.org up

2010-06-15 Thread Kate Chapman
Thanks Grant and the rest of the Sysadmin Team! We've been hyping OSM all over the logistics base down here in Port-au-Prince today. Some of the previously train mappers we sad not to be able to continue with their editing. Very excited to see things working again! -Kate On Tue, Jun 15, 2010

[OSM-talk] Humanitarian Presets in French (assistance needed)

2010-06-15 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey All, One of the requests from our OSM partners in Haiti is to get the Humanitarian JOSM presets in French. It would be a big help to us if someone could assist. The presets are up in github right now here:

[Talk-us] Participation at SOTM U.S.

2010-06-15 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey All, We've gotten some great submissions for talks/workshops at SOTM U.S. We could still use more! Have something you'd like to talk about regarding OSM? It could be technical, community related or even an OSM comedy routine. To participate go here: http://www.sotm.us/?page_id=2 SOTM U.S.

Re: [Talk-us] Participation at SOTM U.S.

2010-06-15 Thread Kate Chapman
of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org flossal.org Chat  Google Talk: JamesMikeDuPont  Skype: h4ck3rm1k3  MSN: water_proof Contact Me On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hey All, We've gotten some great submissions for talks

Re: [Talk-us] Participation at SOTM U.S.

2010-06-15 Thread Kate Chapman
://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmikedupont[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/james.m.dupont[image: Twitter]http://twitter.com/h4ck3rm1k3[image: Google] http://www.google.com/profiles/JamesMikeDuPont#buzz On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hey All, We've gotten

Re: [OSM-talk] SahanaCamp and Workshop - July 2010 - Delhi, India

2010-06-03 Thread Kate Chapman
I just want to second that the Sahana crew is great. They are interested in collaborating between the OSM Humanitarian tagging scheme and Sahana. The idea being to bridge between the two systems to utilize Sahana to track things that wouldn't be put in OSM (things like people for example).

[OSM-talk] H.O.T. Kit Fundraiser

2010-06-03 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey All, Nicolas Chavent and I are heading to Haiti on June 14th. On previous missions we left behind computers/GPS Units and printer scanners so people could continue mapping. At the moment there is no further funding for more kits, but we are going to be moving out to additional cities in

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Ad

2010-05-31 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey All, Yesterday Richard Weait and I got an email about an opportunity to put an ad for OSM in a Canadian Business Journal. Unfortunately the turn around was only a couple hours (I'm assuming some advertiser dropped out or something). Anyway we didn't have anything readily available so we

[OSM-talk] Historical Mapping Examples?

2010-05-19 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, I'm attending THATCamp this weekend and would like to talk about OpenStreetMap. THATCamp is an unconference specifically related to technology applied to the digital humanities. One area I thought would be of interest would be historical related areas in OpenStreetMap. I was thinking

Re: [Talk-us] Getting data from ArcIMS servers

2010-05-15 Thread Kate Chapman
Toby, Do you have a link? Maybe it supports WMS. Kate (via GPS...I mean iPhone) On May 15, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: My county uses ArcIMS to serve up their GIS data. I have received permission to use their 6 resolution aerial photos for tracing things in

Re: [Talk-us] OSM applications used to help in disaster situations

2010-05-14 Thread Kate Chapman
I would suggest they talk to CrisisCommons http:// ww.crisiscommons.org, though I would think Ushahidi and paying for hosting would also work. Kate (via GPS...I mean iPhone) On May 14, 2010, at 7:14 PM, Sarah Manley sarah.m.man...@gmail.com wrote: I recently received the following

Re: [Talk-us] SOTM USA

2010-05-12 Thread Kate Chapman
There is a new site at http://www.sotm.us, I need to switch the DNS of stateofthemap.us to point at it as well. Thank you for updating the wiki. Kate On May 12, 2010, at 2:16 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: It's been pointed out that there is a SOTM US website, but it's mostly

[OSM-talk] CrisisCampParis/OSM?

2010-04-14 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, Is anyone from OSM attending CrisisCamp Paris? http://barcamp.org/CrisisCamp-Paris I see one person listed as OSM already signed up. I thought I'd mention the event because there are lots of people in the CrisisCamp community that want to learn how to contribute to OSM before there is a

[Talk-us] State of the Map U.S. Website

2010-04-12 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey All, Would anyone like to help stylize the SOTM U.S. Website? We have a logo and just need some help pulling it together and making it look a bit more professional. Most of us working on it are backend developer types or sys admins, not so good at the making things look pretty. Thanks,

[Talk-us] Call for Proposals for SOTM-US

2010-03-29 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey All, I made a Google Form for the SOTM-US proposals. If you have an idea for a workshop you'd like to lead or a talk you'd like to give please fill out the form here: http://bit.ly/aI3WiH Reminder SOTM-US is August 14th and 15th in Atlanta, GA. -Kate

[Talk-us] Bylaws for OpenStreetMap US Chapter

2010-03-24 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, We would like to incorporate the US Chapter soon and have bylaws up. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Draft_Rules Could everyone check them out and provide feedback to me or on the wiki in the next week (by midnight March 31st)? Thanks, Kate

Re: [Talk-us] Going to Where 2.0 and Want to Work the Booth?

2010-03-24 Thread Kate Chapman
lunch, makes much more sense then than friday when everyone wants to just go home or drink beer On Mar 23, 2010, at 6:19 AM, Kate Chapman wrote: There has been some discussion about having a mapping party the Friday after Where 2.0. Also I'm not sure, but I think Steve might have proposed a BoF

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Going to Where 2.0 and Want to Work the Booth?

2010-03-23 Thread Kate Chapman
make time during the day. Any plans for evening events? Apollinaris On 19 Mar 2010, at 15:32 , Kate Chapman wrote: Hey All, Are you attending Where 2.0 and want to work the booth? I put up a wiki page for people to sign up for slots. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Where2.0/2010

Re: [Talk-us] Going to Where 2.0 and Want to Work the Booth?

2010-03-23 Thread Kate Chapman
make time during the day. Any plans for evening events? Apollinaris On 19 Mar 2010, at 15:32 , Kate Chapman wrote: Hey All, Are you attending Where 2.0 and want to work the booth? I put up a wiki page for people to sign up for slots. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Where2.0/2010

[OSM-talk] Going to Where 2.0 and Want to Work the Booth?

2010-03-19 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey All, Are you attending Where 2.0 and want to work the booth? I put up a wiki page for people to sign up for slots. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Where2.0/2010 Thanks, Kate ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Going to Where 2.0 and Want to Work the Booth?

2010-03-19 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey All, Are you attending Where 2.0 and want to work the booth? I put up a wiki page for people to sign up for slots. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Where2.0/2010 Thanks, Kate ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

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