Re: [OSM-talk] Feb India Workshops

2008-02-02 Thread Mikel Maron
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mikel Maron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Talk Openstreetmap talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Friday, February 1, 2008 2:58:49 PM Subject: Feb India Workshops Schuyler, Mikel Was just looking at your India workshops schedule on the wiki.freemap.in pages. Hope it goes

Re: [OSM-talk] How to import shapefile into OSM

2008-02-03 Thread Mikel Maron
in the details here please) Are there any other imports not listed there. Under Import/Software, we can start gathering information particularly about importing shapefiles. - Original Message From: Mikel Maron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Niccolo Rigacci [EMAIL PROTECTED]; talk@openstreetmap.org Cc

Re: [OSM-talk] representing OSM to data providers

2008-02-12 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi Maning If you become a member, you would be able to say that you are a member of the OSMF, which should be sufficient to demonstrate your affiliation to potential data donors. And I do encourage you to join! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Foundation#Membership This is something

Re: [OSM-talk] Stares

2008-03-10 Thread Mikel Maron
P.S. Schuyler, and Mikel nearly got arrested while mapping Ludhiana in India. No no not at all. We simply got asked a series of rapid, intense, probing questions from a representative of Ludhiana's police department. I'm sure she was just curious about OSM.

[OSM-talk] we are a google summer of code project

2008-03-17 Thread Mikel Maron
http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=284 wooo ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread Mikel Maron
From: Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In part it's an entirely selfish attitude in as much as that Adobe show no signs of wanting to support flash on 64 bit linux which means that I am left having to rely on the free players or struggling to use the 32 bit flash plugin via a kludgy wrapper

Re: [OSM-talk] AfricaMap

2008-05-23 Thread Mikel Maron
We're in the early stages of planning some OSM action after FOSS4G in Cape Town. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenMappingAfrica2008 All help, references, suggestions, links, welcome. -Mikel - Original Message From: John McKerrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: OSM Talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi From: elvin ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] This topic reminded me of some thoughts I had about time-based tagging but did not pursue. I have a professional interest in planned features but a leisure interest in historic features such as ancient roads. The OSM database could include both

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi From: elvin ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] This topic reminded me of some thoughts I had about time-based tagging but did not pursue. I have a professional interest in planned features but a leisure interest in historic features such as ancient roads. The OSM database could include both

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi From: elvin ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] This topic reminded me of some thoughts I had about time-based tagging but did not pursue. I have a professional interest in planned features but a leisure interest in historic features such as ancient roads. The OSM database could include both

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetBugs : RSS

2008-06-16 Thread Mikel Maron
Nice How bout GeoRSS? :) - Original Message From: X [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 8:53:48 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetBugs : RSS Hi There is now a RSS link for the visible area. (It's not perfect but it works) Know bug : the links

Re: [OSM-talk] who moved Mumbai?

2008-07-05 Thread Mikel Maron
this data to OSM, and we now have devoted funds from UNDP [4] which we plan to use in support of OSM as an infrastructure for our research and design practice. Earlier this year Mikel Maron and Schuyler Erle organised a series of Freemap/OSM workshops [5] which seeded new communities in cities

Re: [OSM-talk] First village mapped in Northern Cyprus

2008-07-12 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi David Great! Coincidentally, here at State of the Map, we were discussing disputes generally and in Cyprus. How have things been in this regard, as you've finished this village? Mikel - Original Message From: David Janda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk@openstreetmap.org Sent:

Re: [OSM-talk] What should the OSMF be doing?

2008-08-10 Thread Mikel Maron
can you go into some more detail how you aim to achieve those? they're all worthy aims; i particularly think osm needs to spread beyond europe, for a variety of reasons Personally, this past year I've been doing a great deal of outreach, training in promotion in the developing world.

[OSM-talk] Mapping the West Bank

2008-08-14 Thread Mikel Maron
http://brainoff.com/weblog/2008/08/14/1345 Right now, our first group of mappers are out surveying Bethlehem! I’m here in the West Bank working with JumpStart International, a NGO that has accomplished amazing things in some of the toughest parts of the world. JumpStart organized programs

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-in] Coastline changes at different zoom with yahoo map

2008-08-22 Thread Mikel Maron
There's possibly inaccuracies in the original coastlines. I'd suggest reading about how coastlines are handled (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Coastline) and then making an inquiry to the main [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. -Mikel - Original Message From: Shajeer Mohammed [EMAIL

Re: [OSM-talk] Diaries via a GeoRSS Box Filter

2008-09-01 Thread Mikel Maron
Or perhaps try GeoPress http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/geopress/ -Mikel - Original Message From: Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: OSM talk talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:55:00 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Diaries via a

[OSM-talk] SOTM scholarships update

2009-05-15 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi Nominations for the SOTM travel scholarships closed Wednesday. We had a great response, with 35 applicants from 19 countries. It was a hard decision picking the 15, and for sure, we're going to have an awesome crew flying into Amsterdam. The scholarship recipients are being contacted today,

[OSM-talk] SOTM Scholarship Recipients Announced

2009-05-28 Thread Mikel Maron
http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=496 Congratulations to the 15 scholarship recipients. We had 35 nominations, from 19 countries, so no easy choice. Thanks to all the nominations .. we hope you can all attend as well. Will be extremely great to have all these mappers together in Amsterdam!

Re: [OSM-talk] Open*Map.* ?

2009-06-09 Thread Mikel Maron
I contacted OpenGreenMap about this after you brought it up, mostly because I thought the name was confusingly similar given the naming convention used by various sites rendering OSM data. I received a response at 4:20PM local time from a Wendy E. Brawer. She indicated that OGM has

[OSM-talk] accessibility mapping and OpenStreetMap

2009-06-12 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi Anyone working on accessibility projects with OpenStreetMap? Please get in touch, would like to talk more. Thanks Mikel ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Is OpenAerialMap service dead? Down, but not out

2009-06-14 Thread Mikel Maron
From: Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com It's pretty dead. Combination of questionable copyright over the base data plus a lack of resources to really do it right.

Re: [OSM-talk] Thousands of small changesets by Tim Proegler

2009-06-29 Thread Mikel Maron
Has anyone contacted this user to ask about the source, and to discuss improvements to this import process? -Mikel From: Christoph Böhme christ...@b3e.net To: Thomas Wood grand.edgemas...@gmail.com Cc: S Knox roxyk...@yahoo.co.uk; talk@openstreetmap.org; Shaun

Re: [OSM-talk] Making an offline OpenStreetMap CD/DVD ?

2009-07-02 Thread Mikel Maron
Offline can mean a number of things - Offline accessible maps. The tiles are created and stored on the local computer or network. A laptop can be configured with the OSM stack (mod_tile+mapnik), or any number of other stacks that work with OSM data files (OpenGeo, Sahana). Or the software

Re: [OSM-talk] i18n-rich areas on the map

2009-07-22 Thread Mikel Maron
From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com The rest are now up at http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/ These are great!! (though I think we may just have crashed your renderd with loads of requests) I realize this is just a proof of concept, but

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicate place=city capital=yes and other place nodes

2009-07-24 Thread Mikel Maron
It looks like many of these dupes are being cleaned up by user Mala http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mala/edits Thanks Mala, as I was the cause of at least one set of those bad imports! This was an import of Arabic placenames globally, in a changeset pushed through the bulk_upload.py.

Re: [OSM-talk] i18n-rich areas on the map

2009-07-24 Thread Mikel Maron
From: Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk On 23 Jul 2009, at 09:17, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:34 PM, 80n80n...@gmail.com wrote: ti...@home uses this technique of a basemap with no captions and a text layer for lowzoom tiles (z1 through z6) .

Re: [OSM-talk] i18n-rich areas on the map

2009-07-24 Thread Mikel Maron
From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Stefan Baeblerstefan.baeb...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any further plans to translate the maps based on wikipedia data? Would that various names be better imported into main OSM db or just into the DB for

Re: [OSM-talk] i18n-rich areas on the map

2009-07-28 Thread Mikel Maron
Very good point, and feature suggestion. I've started a wiki page on this project. Please contribute! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Translation_Interface From: Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com To: Subhodip Biswas subhodipbis...@gmail.com; Mikel Maron

[OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

2009-08-17 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi I'm again working this year on mapping for the Burning Man arts festival, coming up in two weeks. This makes urgent a growing theme in OSM, with several presentations at this year's SOTM .. how to handle historic data. Here's the current map of Burning Man for 2009. I haven't added Camp

Re: [OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

2009-08-18 Thread Mikel Maron
...@googlemail.com To: Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com; talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:43:23 AM Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now! here's my thoughts. If object is no longer present we need some sort of ghost tagging, and the ghost tag take precedent

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM videos

2009-08-20 Thread Mikel Maron
+1 that presentation was amazing, and could have a huge impact on OSM use in government. From: David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com To: osm talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 5:30:41 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] SOTM videos I'd like to be able

Re: [OSM-talk] New dimension of vandalism

2009-08-26 Thread Mikel Maron
Thanks Mike, wise council. What I think we have here is a disagreement, a deep seated discussion which has been taking place over the entire history of the project, and in many forums. IMO, the wiki should reflect the current collective thinking. If the collective thinking is in disagreement,

Re: [OSM-talk] New dimension of vandalism

2009-08-26 Thread Mikel Maron
From: Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com 2009/8/26 Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com: Whatever historically the Tag:Highway page has recommended should continue to be the main recommendation, for the time being. Discussion on changes can take place in the Talk page

Re: [OSM-talk] map requirement for a large pubishing/media group

2009-09-14 Thread Mikel Maron
Joe Have you checked out GeoPress? It's a WordPress plugin which has many of these features. Currently undergoing a round of development for compatibility with the latest versions of WordPress. Best Mikel From: Joe Richards joefis...@yahoo.com To:

Re: [OSM-talk] UserActivity / Vandalism etc.

2009-09-18 Thread Mikel Maron
Nice start! Agreed that filtering for users outside the social network of OSM is going to be incredibly useful. These are new users, who are (most unintentionally) causing issues, and folks who haven't earned trust in the community yet. Would it be possible to give a whitelist of trusted users

Re: [OSM-talk] Own aerial photos

2009-09-23 Thread Mikel Maron
Map Warper http://warper.geothings.net/ open source, and uses OpenStreetMap for setting of control points. - Original Message From: Bev M Ewen-Smith b...@coaa.co.uk To: talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 6:36:23 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] Own aerial photos Hi, I

Re: [OSM-talk] Satellite for OSM

2009-09-23 Thread Mikel Maron
Note OSM can qualify for non-profit pricing on imagery, which can take the cost down to $12/km2. This is what we arranged for the Gaza imagery. - Original Message From: paul youlten paul.youl...@gmail.com To: John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com Cc: Talk Openstreetmap

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] The OpenStreetMap website is now translatable at Translatewiki

2009-09-23 Thread Mikel Maron
From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: But which OSM components does this cover? I'm assuming this only covers the

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping a favela (slum)

2009-11-23 Thread Mikel Maron
. Cheers Mikel == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org From: Arlindo Pereira nig...@nighto.net To: osm-talk talk@openstreetmap.org Cc: Claudomiro Nascimento Junior claudom...@claudomiro.com; Mikel Maron mikel_ma

[OSM-talk] MapMaker competitions

2009-11-29 Thread Mikel Maron
Google are resorting to bribes to improve their map http://maps.google.com/help/mapmaker/competitions/ We can respond. How about a global OSM competition during the same time? We can raise funds to fly top contributors to SOTM next year. == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0

Re: [OSM-talk] Dominican Republic

2008-09-22 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi, I was in the Dominican Republic 2 years ago. Did a little intro to web mapping workshop workshop with the Environment Ministry there. http://www.medioambiente.gov.do/mapasworkshop/ Blogged a bunch on DR http://brainoff.com/weblog/index.php?s=dominican+republic Looks like there's

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-20 Thread Mikel Maron
Anyway, it seems that the new data is substantially better than the old in some places. What I'd like to do is twofold: 1. regenerate .osm files for all the new TIGER data 2. Compare new .osm files to old TIGER data plus stuff edited in OSM Then, decide how if/when it is appropriate to

Re: [OSM-talk] Using images as a backdrop for editing OSM data

2008-11-17 Thread Mikel Maron
With Map Warper http://wrp.geothings.net/ you can rectify the image use ground control points against existing OSM data, or Landsat. There's a WMS end point for the warped image you can configure for use in JOSM. From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OSM-talk] Make Messaging public, or other changes?

2008-11-23 Thread Mikel Maron
Sebastian Hohmann wrote: I don't think that making the messaging system public is a good idea. It all has the feel of private messaging, that should still be possible. Agreed, why change this .. it's useful and expected (what's the law about all websites growing to support their own email

Re: [OSM-talk] Unification of OpenStreetBugs an Trac

2008-11-26 Thread Mikel Maron
I'd suggest bypassing Trac and looking into RedMine http://www.redmine.org/ Trac is wonderful, but convoluted. RedMine is built in Rails and quite easy to modify. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] ERDAS Titan chooses OpenStreetMap as its default basemap

2008-12-04 Thread Mikel Maron
http://erdastitan.blogspot.com/2008/12/erdas-titan-client-932c-released.html Erdas is part of Leica Geosystems. Titan is an infrastructure for sharing geodata, especially targetted for coordination in emergencies. They latest relase of their client has OSM as the default basemap. - OSM is

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Gaza appeal

2009-01-05 Thread Mikel Maron
Anyone interested to help map Gaza, please read this, reply, get in touch http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/01/05/1385 -Mikel ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Err, what?

2009-01-07 Thread Mikel Maron
What exactly are you referring to? All I can see there is Black Rock City, aka the site of Burning Man. My first impression when clicking the link in Jonathan's mail was that somebody was making a map for their computer game using JOSM and accidentally uploaded it, heh. Excellent. Not

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Trust

2009-01-12 Thread Mikel Maron
Say I'm monitoring an area for unusual changes. There are people I trust -- people who've been on OSM a while, or OSM newbies I know personally .. perhaps they are marked as friends in osm.org. I don't want to look at every edit. The edits I want to give special attention to are from those

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and Linked Data, and W3C, etc ...

2009-01-13 Thread Mikel Maron
OSM in 2009 Took so little time For the lists to get so pissed But mercury is in retrogrades (and I don't believe in that, ok, anyways) Nothing a beer among comrades Wouldn't fix, mighty quick So welcome to all mappers and T B Lee A new year of maps, open and free! -Mikel (I'm not saying that

[OSM-legal-talk] licensing working group report

2009-01-15 Thread Mikel Maron
Hello Yesterday we held the first meeting of the Licensing working group. At the last Foundation Board meeting before the holidays, we decided to convene a working group to expedite the final process of moving OSM to the new license. In attendance were Steve Coast and myself from the Board,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] licensing working group report

2009-01-19 Thread Mikel Maron
From: Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Open_Issues And I'm also particularly interested to see how the license deals with http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_Licence/Use_Cases#Having_to_grant_access_to_pgsql_data_base

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] licensing working group report

2009-01-19 Thread Mikel Maron
Peter, Possibly you could update timeline article to explain clearly how this license will be implemented, and then we can assist you with that process. The plan is to work on the timeline at the next meeting. To be clear, I would expect that a number of people within OSM and the

[OSM-talk] Surveying OpenStreetMap in Africa

2009-01-21 Thread Mikel Maron
I receive an inquiry from a colleague at the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs on the current state of OSM in Africa, and I wrote up this brief survey in response. For certain many cool activities are missing, so please fill in the blanks. The results will be shared with UNOOSA directly and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing Working Group report, 2009/01/22

2009-01-23 Thread Mikel Maron
To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-t...@openstreetmap.org Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:36:47 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing Working Group report, 2009/01/22 On 22 Jan 2009, at 23:05, andrzej zaborowski wrote: 2009/1/22 Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com: Hi

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing Working Group report, 2009/01/22

2009-01-23 Thread Mikel Maron
From: OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: The license won't be perfect, but there will be a process for feedback and improvements, and the license will get there. This phraseology

[OSM-legal-talk] Licesne Working Group Report, 2009/02/02

2009-02-03 Thread Mikel Maron
This morning Steve, Grant, Jordan and myself met in the licensing working group. The main order of business was to get an update on the drafting of the text of the license. Jordan and WSGR had a productive discussion last week, and Jordan has allotted time this week for incorporating those

[OSM-talk] gps data logger recommendation

2009-02-09 Thread Mikel Maron
I'm looking for a gps tracking solution for wildlife monitoring. We're looking to go as low tech as possible, simply a device recording position locally. Position can be recorded every hour, or even every few hours. The key feature is that the device should be able to theoretically run for

Re: [OSM-talk] News blog link - to blogs.openstreetmap.org?

2009-02-15 Thread Mikel Maron
we also have the twitter account, which could be added as a widget on opengeodata.org/blog.openstreetmap.org From: 80n 80n...@gmail.com To: OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 9:29:28 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-10 Thread Mikel Maron
Actually it's March 13. I can't take the lead, but am willing to mentor again, and support whoever makes the application. -Mikel From: Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com To: OSM talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:32:03 AM Subject:

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-10 Thread Mikel Maron
Yes, need to get this page up to date. Everyone, throw in new ideas for GSoC projects. Ideally they are well contained, non-essential, interesting and deep, but doable by a student who may be new to OSM. If you're interested to mentor, add your name too

Re: [OSM-talk] Last Chance for GSoC 2009 Ideas

2009-03-12 Thread Mikel Maron
I may be misinterpreting but .. we should be able to continue to add ideas to our list of projects beyond tomorrow. And students who want to apply for GSoC with OSM can contribute their own ideas .. in fact, we should welcome those ideas and encourage students to hash out the details of

[OSM-talk] OSM is a Google Summer of Code 2009 project!

2009-03-18 Thread Mikel Maron
http://socghop.appspot.com/org/show/google/gsoc2009/openstreetmap ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-legal-talk] just feels like time for a poem

2009-03-26 Thread Mikel Maron
ooo-dee-bee-ell sure does feel like hell! lightning rods, lengthy flames where we going to assign the blame? hey! forget the naming names finger points all out of joint again eye-aaa-enn-aaa-ell doesn't that ring your bells? a little courtesy, tip of the hat forget the fail, go lolcat we have

Re: [OSM-talk] just feels like time for a poem

2009-03-26 Thread Mikel Maron
I will not confirm or deny the cake rumor! -Mikel (phone) On Mar 26, 2009, at 16:40, Łukasz Jernaś deej...@srem.org wrote: 2009/3/26 Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:31:51PM +, John McKerrell wrote: edible map? nom nom nom Cake! \o/ The cake is a lie! -- Łukasz

Re: [OSM-talk] Placeopedia replacement

2009-04-23 Thread Mikel Maron
Placeopedia is a project by mySociety, allies to OpenStreetMap. They've used OSM in the Time Travel Maps project .. http://www.mysociety.org/2007/more-travel-maps/ So, I'd suggest approaching them on one of their mailing lists and suggesting the change. Or I believe the code is open source, so

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for advice

2009-04-24 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi Andres I'd say that storing this kind of statistical information is beyond the scope of OSM.org .. though you're free to argue and use otherwise. Probably for your use, you want your own system. It could possibly be based on the OSM codebase. Might make more sense to build a quick custom

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging dangerous areas

2009-04-24 Thread Mikel Maron
I am currently available for hire to survey police-state roads (following a recent success in London, see http://www.livingwithdragons.com/2009/04/high-vis-authority-and-stealth-mapping). Not sure I'm upp for rough areas yet, although being a student money and beer could tempt me.

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Gaza WMS server unavailable?

2009-05-06 Thread Mikel Maron
Aevar, The server changed, I'll send you the details directly. Note that this server is not public, because of restrictions on the imagery. Mikel From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com To: openstreetmap talk@openstreetmap.org; Simone Cortesi

[OSM-talk] Nominations for State of the Map Travel Scholarships

2009-05-06 Thread Mikel Maron
The OpenStreetMap Foundation is excited to announce a program to cover full travel and accomodations costs for 15 mappers to attend State of the Map. We're seeking nominations from the community for potential mappers. Generally, we are seeking people from places where costs would prohibit

[OSM-talk] Fw: [ppgis] Invitation for expressions of interest for Ordnance Survey Think Tank Session on Crowd source data capture, geospatial mashups and its impact on NMAs - 13th July 2009 (Tuesday

2009-05-07 Thread Mikel Maron
- Forwarded Message From: Suchith Anand suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk To: Open Forum on Participatory Geographic Information Systems and Technologies pp...@dgroups.org Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2009 5:02:25 AM Subject: [ppgis] Invitation for expressions of interest for Ordnance Survey

Re: [OSM-talk] Keep up with the SOTM 2010 progress

2009-12-17 Thread Mikel Maron
My suggestion is for some coordinated session between SOTM/Wikimania .. perhaps a live stream of a presentation on the OSM maps in Wikipedia from Wikimania to SOTM? == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org From

Re: [OSM-talk] New Google Map Maker promotion

2009-12-17 Thread Mikel Maron
We could hire a Mapping Matatu :). A matatu is the main form of public transport in Kenya, described as a cross between a sports car, a minibus, and a night club http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi#Matatu_.28Kenya.2FUganda.29 == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi

[OSM-talk] Burning Man (was: revert changesets??)

2009-12-18 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi As the mapper for Burning Man, let me explain a little bit about the festival, and how I've attempted to represent it in OSM. But first... Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com should be deleted then. Burning man follows a no trace policy. as alternative it must be at least tagged

Re: [OSM-talk] revert changesets??

2009-12-18 Thread Mikel Maron
From: Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com Apollinaris Schoell wrote: Burning man follows a no trace policy. Who says this why? Burning man policy I'm definitely intrigued by this. I thought they were all peace love! Do you have a link to this policy? I explained in my

[OSM-talk] Map Kibera import needs some mapper love

2010-01-12 Thread Mikel Maron
/01/12/1513 Thanks Mikel == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Kibera import needs some mapper love

2010-01-12 Thread Mikel Maron
I'd be happy to upload .. are there any tools to help with automated GPX upload? Anyone interested to help? Current GPX is archived at http://kibera.maps.jsintl.org/traces == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org

[OSM-talk] Haiti Earthquake mapping response

2010-01-12 Thread Mikel Maron
You have likely heard about the massive quake that has hit Haiti OpenStreetMap can contribute map data to help the response .. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#2010_Earthquake_Response Thanks Mikel == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi

Re: [OSM-talk] Haiti Earthquake mapping response

2010-01-13 Thread Mikel Maron
based chat ... automatically generate chat space with users editing in the same vincinity == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org From: simone gadenz s.gad...@geologyx.it To: Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com Cc: talk

[OSM-talk] need frequent updating Haiti extracts

2010-01-13 Thread Mikel Maron
== Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org From: Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com To: Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com Cc: simone gadenz s.gad...@geologyx.it; talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Wed, January 13, 2010 9:05:14 AM

Re: [OSM-talk] need frequent updating Haiti extracts

2010-01-13 Thread Mikel Maron
From: Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Mikel Maron wrote: We want to have up to data planet and Shapefile extracts available for other groups and responders to download. Can anyone help and set up a process to automate these extracts? I'll see if I can come up with something. Anyone

Re: [OSM-talk] Field Requirements from Haiti for spatial imagery-based work (processing digitizing): NEED to map any spontaneous camps appearing in the imagery with size in area

2010-01-13 Thread Mikel Maron
, then this is certainly the kind of thing we can look for in the imagery. -Mikel == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org From: nicolas chavent nicolas.chav...@gmail.com To: talk@openstreetmap.org Cc: CJ Hendrix hendrix

[OSM-talk] GeoEye Haiti imagery Ok'd

2010-01-14 Thread Mikel Maron
OSM has permission to use the imagery, as long as we give credit. I suggest using the source tag for this. Tiles are needed from the GeoTIFF. Details at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#GeoEye == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Field Requirements from Haiti for spatial imagery-based work (processing digitizing): NEED to map any spontaneous camps appearing in the imagery with size in area

2010-01-14 Thread Mikel Maron
tourism=camp_site is rendered, which is important right now. we can add refugee=yes to indicate the difference. clean up later if we come up with a better scheme == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org From: Jean

[OSM-talk] Monitoring and coordination tools, Haiti

2010-01-14 Thread Mikel Maron
systematic in analyzing pre- and post- disaster imagery for damaged buildings. -Mikel == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] new GeoEye imagery

2010-01-14 Thread Mikel Maron
don't know if this is new to us or not... == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org - Forwarded Message From: Chris chrisgnicho...@att.net To: CrisisMappers crisismapp...@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, January 14, 2010 3:51:12 PM Subject

[OSM-talk] Fw: new imagery

2010-01-17 Thread Mikel Maron
Notice of new GeoEye imagery for Haiti == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org - Forwarded Message From: Chris NICHOLAS chris.nicho...@unoosa.org To: Miller Steve miller.st...@geoeye.com Cc: Byrnes Tara byrnes.t...@geoeye.com; sg

[OSM-talk] Haiti Wiki Page Re-organizaiton; And Tasks and Ideas

2010-01-17 Thread Mikel Maron
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#Tasks_and_Ideas This is a list of non-mapping tasks, both developmental and organizational, that need attention. Please add your ideas here, and work on things which seems useful and relevant to you. Thanks all Mikel == Mikel Maron == http

[OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] OpenStreetMap: What needs mapping?

2010-01-18 Thread Mikel Maron
(pls add to wiki, and map :) - Forwarded Message From: Jennifer Leaning jlean...@hsph.harvard.edu To: crisismapp...@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, January 18, 2010 5:17:23 PM Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] OpenStreetMap: What needs mapping? Areas in the DR near the border with Haiti, and

[OSM-talk] Fw: Fwd: Has this Pier/Dock been evaluated for usage?

2010-01-18 Thread Mikel Maron
Another specific request for mapping help ... can someone create an area on the MappingCoordination subpage to capture these? ... == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org - Forwarded Message From: John Crowley j...@crisispatterns.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Haiti, Requests from Responders

2010-01-20 Thread Mikel Maron
Jonas, The change you suggest makes sense Mikel == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org From: Jonas Krückel o...@jonas-krueckel.de To: Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Wed

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] Need Positions of Cemeteries and Paths to Cemeteries]

2010-01-21 Thread Mikel Maron
The request below for location of cemeteries is Urgent ... please do focus on this if possible == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org From: Jean-Guilhem Cailton j...@arkemie.com To: OSM-talk talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Search interface on the Person Finder data

2010-01-21 Thread Mikel Maron
Some musings on geocoding in Haiti ... any possible improvements to our tools? == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org - Forwarded Message From: Talbot Brooks tbro...@deltastate.edu To: crisismapp...@googlegroups.com; crisismapp

[OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti PCodes

2010-01-21 Thread Mikel Maron
: http://brainoff.com/osm/Haiti_pcodes consolidated.xls About p-codes:http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/IMToolbox/08_Data_Standards/PCodes/Explanations_Presentations/P-Codes_web_text.htm == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org - Forwarded Message

Re: [OSM-talk] Haïti : [URGENT] Aide requise p our localiser les hôpitaux d'Haïti sur OpenStreetMap

2010-01-22 Thread Mikel Maron
Thanks Jean-Guilhem ... can you post to the wiki and link from the appropriate place(s)? == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org From: Jean-Guilhem Cailton j...@arkemie.com To: OSM-talk talk@openstreetmap.org Sent

Re: [OSM-talk] haiti: why not in the main-page

2010-01-24 Thread Mikel Maron
Jan why is the news-box not in the main-page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti That was me. The content/idea is great, but it was causing a layout problem in my browser (Firefox/Ubuntu). Can the layout be fixed so that the news box doesn't scrunch text in the first

[OSM-talk] Haiti Talk List

2010-01-27 Thread Mikel Maron
selective cross-posting over the next week or so. In the long term, we're going to set up an email list for Humanitiarian OpenStreetMap Team as well, probably h...@openstreetmap.org. Cheers Mikel == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org

[OSM-talk] Humanitarian OSM Team: Haiti Strategy and Proposal

2010-02-08 Thread Mikel Maron
Who, what, where, and how are all open questions. Why is simple … OpenStreetMap has demonstrated incredible value in Haiti and we need to make sure we are prepared for the long run there, and for future disasters. A couple weeks ago, Nicolas and I started digesting the Haiti response, and years of

Re: [OSM-talk] HOT ready? Concepción, Chile eart hquake

2010-02-27 Thread Mikel Maron
== Mikel Maron == +254(0)724899738 @mikel s:mikelmaron http://mapkibera.org/ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Haiti From: Andy Robinson ajrli...@googlemail.com To: talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Sat, February 27, 2010 12:24:04 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] HOT ready

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