Re: [Talk-GB] URGENT: potential stand at Linux Expo Live

2008-10-22 Thread SteveC
Guys just to say this is awesome work, good luck and hope to see pictures? Best Steve On 20 Oct 2008, at 02:01, Grant Slater wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: I guess we need to work out a schedule of whose doing which days.

Re: [Talk-GB] Announcement: Second City, Birmingham, and its surrounds completed

2008-12-23 Thread SteveC
Seriously, super, awesome cool. On 23 Dec 2008, at 09:37, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: It is with great pleasure, and not just a little excitement, that I can announce that the mappers in Birmingham having set the task of completing the whole of the city by Christmas have

[Talk-GB] Fwd: climate bubbles environment 2.0

2009-05-06 Thread SteveC
Begin forwarded message: From: Drew Hemment d...@futureeverything.org Date: 1 May 2009 12:55:14 PDT To: Steve Coast st...@asklater.com Subject: climate bubbles environment 2.0 Hi Steve Please can you send details of these projects to your networks, announcement attached and link here

[Talk-GB] fings in london innit

2009-06-30 Thread SteveC
Biggin' up the LDN. I'm at Geomob tonight http://twitter.com/osbornec/status/2387356451 Guardian tomorrow http://www.guardian.co.uk/activate OpenTech on Saturday http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2009/ if anyone is around... Best Steve

[Talk-GB] Anyone in Newport

2009-07-02 Thread SteveC
Can fix this? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8129695.stm If not already :-) Best Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] St Kilda

2009-07-30 Thread SteveC
Anyone fancy a mapping trip... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8175119.stm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland http://osm.org/go/e4atZrr1- Yours c. Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Announcement re new 'moderation' email list to develop effective responses to vandalism and mistakes

2009-09-28 Thread SteveC
On 28 Sep 2009, at 06:33, Peter Miller wrote: To avoid spam subscriber's the first posts will be moderated so don't expect them to appear immediately. Subsequent posts will not be moderated. How... recursive! :-) Yours c. Steve ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Inaccurate Sea Boundary of England

2009-10-14 Thread SteveC
Familiar with sealand... passing on to talk-gb Yours c. Steve On 14 Oct 2009, at 02:36, Paul wrote: Steve, First of all, what a great job you are doing. I know this may sound trivial to you, but Sealand is a a legal entity on a old WW2 platform 6 miles off the coast of Suffolk,

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey response

2010-01-18 Thread SteveC
Richard your views on the rasters seem a little bizarre, harking back to a golden era where cartography was respected by the good folk of the land and had pride of place... etc. Basically you're shamelessly protecting your own pretty small industry from competition with a lot of waffle about

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey response

2010-01-18 Thread SteveC
On Jan 14, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Andy Allan wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Though custom cartography is the right answer for many applications, it will find it difficult to compete with the free, universally-recognised cartography of the OS. Are

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey response

2010-01-18 Thread SteveC
On Jan 14, 2010, at 11:40 AM, David Earl wrote: On 14/01/2010 18:27, Dave F. wrote: Andy, The taxpayers have already paid for it, many times over. I resent having to pay £7.50 for a map I've already financed to construct. As I've paid for it, I think it should be given to me free of charge.

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey response

2010-01-18 Thread SteveC
On Jan 18, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: SteveC wrote: Basically you're shamelessly protecting your own pretty small industry What, magazine publishing? :p No, carto Looking forward to your, and others', response to DCLG. Yeah, it's very cool you've put it together and I

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey response

2010-01-18 Thread SteveC
On Jan 18, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Andy Allan wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:21 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I think you have the wrong vision that you'll be competing with free maps, just the same as the big guys are terrified of competing with a free OSM. The value just moves

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey response

2010-01-18 Thread SteveC
On Jan 18, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Andy Allan wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:33 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Richard's a socialist so I can see him arguing for weird government monopolies on making pinball machines for one-legged immigrants living in wales or whatever, but what

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey response

2010-01-18 Thread SteveC
On Jan 18, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Andy Allan wrote: This isn't me saying that I disapprove of a commercial company giving away a whole load of raster maps for free, I'm saying I don't think the government should be funding it. Okay so you feel rasters are a special case, different to vectors.

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey response

2010-01-18 Thread SteveC
On Jan 18, 2010, at 11:19 AM, Tom Chance wrote: Wading in (though for the purposes of a putative OSMF response, we can just leave this whole argument to one side and focus on the data)... 2010/1/18 Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com I didn't say I wanted a monopoly. I'd rather either a)

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey response

2010-01-18 Thread SteveC
On Jan 18, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Andy Allan wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:20 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jan 18, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Andy Allan wrote: This isn't me saying that I disapprove of a commercial company giving away a whole load of raster maps for free, I'm saying I

Re: [Talk-GB] OS DG Vanessa Lawrence on the Future of mapping

2010-01-20 Thread SteveC
I think we should organise an OSM crowd to go. Who's up for it? On Jan 20, 2010, at 2:53 AM, Steve Chilton wrote: UK GEOforum is pleased to announce its forthcoming UKGEOforum 2010 Lecture featuring guest speaker Vanessa Lawrence, Director General and Chief Executive, Ordnance Survey

Re: [Talk-GB] OS DG Vanessa Lawrence on the Future of mapping

2010-01-23 Thread SteveC
nice, can anyone do it? On Jan 23, 2010, at 2:29 AM, Nick Austin wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:43 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jan 21, 2010, at 5:34 PM, Robert Scott wrote: Perhaps it would be good to downplay Haiti, as it could give her a handle to say 'Of course projects

[Talk-GB] BBC Lincolnshire live interview this evening

2010-02-08 Thread SteveC
6:30pm or so, you can listen over the interwebs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/programmes/schedules Anything local I should try and mention? Yours c. Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Kent County Council Highways Gazetteer

2010-02-27 Thread SteveC
WHy excluding Medway? Isn't KCC HQ in Chatham? On Feb 26, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Colin Smale wrote: I applied to KCC for permission to use data from their Highways Gazetteer in OSM. They have approved on the condition that the data is attributed to them. My request and their official reply are

[Talk-GB] Sheffield / Nottingham

2010-03-09 Thread SteveC
Anyone in Sheffield or Nottingham want to meet up next week drop me a line, doing a talk on OSM in Nottingham too at the uni. Yours c. Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] GB Chapter

2010-03-23 Thread SteveC
All I've talked to a few people recently in the UK geo-scene about various partnerships and other bits and bobs that would make sense for OSM. Unfortunately they don't make a whole lot of sense to do anything official with OSMF. It would make a lot more sense if there was a GB/UK chapter of

[Talk-GB] Announce: OpenOS

2010-03-27 Thread SteveC
As you've probably heard the Ordnance Survey is going to open some data next week. We don't exactly know what data or what license it will be under but there's a reasonable chance it won't be importable in to OSM because either the data will be low scale or released with an incompatible

Re: [Talk-GB] GB Chapter

2010-04-24 Thread SteveC
don't think so On Apr 24, 2010, at 5:07 AM, Christopher Osborne wrote: Did we get anywhere with starting a GB Chapter? -- Christopher Osborne www.itoworld.com ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] an estimate of data loss under relicensing

2010-07-22 Thread SteveC
On Jul 22, 2010, at 10:42 PM, 80n wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 22 July 2010 18:23, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: There''s also signs that the project is starting to splinter. Experimental forks are beginning to appear...

Re: [Talk-GB] an estimate of data loss under relicensing

2010-07-22 Thread SteveC
On Jul 22, 2010, at 10:45 PM, 80n wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Robert Whittaker (OSM) robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com wrote: Graham Jones grahamjones...@googlemail.com wrote: I am quite surprised there are many 'personal' contributors who would want to refuse to have their data

Re: [Talk-GB] an estimate of data loss under relicensing

2010-07-23 Thread SteveC
On Jul 22, 2010, at 11:28 PM, 80n wrote: Does CloudMade as a corporate body have an existing OSM account? I doubt it. How would a corporation indicate that their ODbL licensed derivative databases can be imported back into OSM? An excellent question for the LWG. Can you now drop the dark

[Talk-GB] friday thing

2010-08-18 Thread SteveC
Will anyone at the event have anything capable of, for example, skype video? I'd love to join virtually, pint in hand. Steve stevecoast.com ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Contributor Terms vs OS OpenData Licence

2011-04-18 Thread SteveC
On Apr 18, 2011, at 2:42 PM, TimSC wrote: On 18/04/11 22:23, Frederik Ramm wrote: I'm an outsider to all this OS business but if you guys in the UK should really have been uploading data that requires attributing OS in every downstream product then we have a problem which has nothing

Re: [Talk-GB] Are you coming to London on Sunday?

2011-06-08 Thread SteveC
:-( sorry Steve stevecoast.com On Jun 8, 2011, at 2:14, Chris Fleming m...@chrisfleming.org wrote: On 07/06/11 19:18, Steve Coast wrote: or saturday night http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Board_Meeting_June_2011 Would be awesome to see you there Steve With a

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-09 Thread SteveC
On Jun 9, 2011, at 7:42, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Generally, I am still opposed to a bot. There is a substantial body of evidence that automated imports damage the ability to recruit and nuture new mappers. Could you cite the evidence? Is it just hand waving

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-10 Thread SteveC
Or as close to it as possible, yes. I don't care what the result is, it's just too fashionable to automatically believe the imports are bad thing. Steve stevecoast.com On Jun 10, 2011, at 7:05, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 06/09/11 18:01, SteveC wrote: I know it's

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-10 Thread SteveC
There are tons of things. People drive in the US so pubs are difficult to arrange things around. Mapping in the US is boring because of the big gridded cities. I map much less in the US than the UK. It's not just that there are roads there already, which by the way is a good thing because I

Re: [Talk-GB] Landuse polygons created by TimSC: delete them?

2011-06-13 Thread SteveC
I think the original email makes more sense as a discussion point if instead of being about deleting data it's more about getting started early on the problem of re-surveying data which might be removed. Steve stevecoast.com On Jun 12, 2011, at 18:16, Adam Hoyle adam.li...@dotankstudios.com

[Talk-us] LUGRadio Live, SF, 12-13th April

2008-03-12 Thread SteveC
Anyone here? http://www.lugradio.org/live/USA2008/ Will be there... have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Talk-us] braided streets

2008-04-08 Thread SteveC
On 8 Apr 2008, at 10:13, Dave Hansen wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 23:55 -0700, Alan Millar wrote: The only thing I might do differently is not have the node shared between the railway and the streets. That's what I did for the TIGER upload: created two nodes at the same location. One for

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] virtual san francisco mapping party?

2008-04-12 Thread SteveC
On 12 Apr 2008, at 02:00, Peter Miller wrote: I started cleaning up around the San Francisco area a week ago in preparation for the Where 2.0 conference (Burlingame: May 12th- 14th) and WhereCamp (Mountain View: May 17th – 18th ). ...and the mapping party next Staurday? I've been

Re: [Talk-us] [Talk-ca] Great Lakes - coastlines / lakes

2008-04-18 Thread SteveC
it would seem they just dont render on mapnik for some reason On 18 Apr 2008, at 10:08, Gerald A wrote: On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Jason Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SteveC wrote: The great lakes are missing off the map! Anyone here able to import them or something magically

[Talk-us] more parties in Denver, Portland, Seattle

2008-07-09 Thread SteveC
All have apping parties in the next 2-3 weeks. If you know anyone near Denver, Portland or Seattle that might be interested, or have suggestions for groups to contact to kick off the community in these (or other!) areas lemme know... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Denver

Re: [Talk-us] more parties in Denver, Portland, Seattle

2008-07-09 Thread SteveC
://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/870867/ Will On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:59 AM, SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All have apping parties in the next 2-3 weeks. If you know anyone near Denver, Portland or Seattle that might be interested, or have suggestions for groups to contact to kick off the community

[Talk-us] Portland data

2008-07-16 Thread SteveC
Dear all Adam wrote to me about possible Public Domain Portland, Oregon data that we could import: Thanks for emailing me again. I talked to someone with the city, and he seemed to think I needed to contact Metro ( http://www.metro-region.org/ ), about GIS datasets. Metro has a page

Re: [Talk-us] Portland data

2008-07-17 Thread SteveC
thanks :-( On 16 Jul 2008, at 17:03, Dave Hansen wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 07:57 +0100, SteveC wrote: Can anyone (especially anyone local to Portand but it's not crucial) take some time to look and see? Adam says: I called Metro today, and they say their data is not public domain

[Talk-us] Dallas Mapping Party 1/2 November

2008-10-17 Thread SteveC
Anyone in TX or near Dallas want to come along to a mapping party 1/2 November? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Dallas Or lemme know if there are people nearby to contact... Best Steve ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Interview with me online this evening

2008-12-09 Thread SteveC
Watch listen online: 5:30PM PST tonight http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-wftl-show Best Steve ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] [Talk-ca] Reminder: Toronto, ON mapping party - Jan 31st.

2009-01-30 Thread SteveC
I can't make it but just a note that this is superb it's happening On 30 Jan 2009, at 11:24, Colin McGregor wrote: Just a quick reminder note, there will be a mapping party in Toronto, Ontario When: Saturday, January 31, 2009 1:00 PM Where Aroma Espresso Bar 500 Bloor St W Toronto ON

Re: [Talk-us] Addresses and Tiger

2009-06-01 Thread SteveC
On 1 Jun 2009, at 01:57, Alan Millar wrote: Has anyone actually done ANY implementation of a relation-based addressing system in OSM yet? I've yet to see any actual examples of either data collection or use; I've only seen wiki proposals so far. Matt loves Karlsruhe relations In any case

[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER

2009-07-07 Thread SteveC
Hi Just want to highlight to people here some neat things to help fixing TIGER. There's now a map layer highlighting what needs help: http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=626 as well as some HOWTOs on what needs fixing http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_fixup Best Steve

Re: [Talk-us] Deletion of unnecessary TIGER node tags will commence this week-end

2009-08-06 Thread SteveC
Frederik Good plan. One thing though - what order is this being done in? There might be arguments for doing geographic areas or some number ranges, or something, before others. Yours c. Steve On 6 Aug 2009, at 12:34, Frederik Ramm wrote: Dear all, Andy Allan has made a convincing

[Talk-us] Calling Coloradans

2009-09-04 Thread SteveC
Hi I'm speaking at Location Intelligence http://www.locationintelligence.net/index.php in Westminster. It's on 5-7 October or so. There's a good chance we will have a OpenStreetMap booth so I'm looking for volunteers to help man it and get people interested. Anyone wanna help?

[Talk-us] Fwd: Thompson Ave in Croton on Hudson, NY (10520) is not a through street!

2009-09-08 Thread SteveC
anyone want to fix? Begin forwarded message: From: ROBERT WINTERMEIER winterme...@prodigy.net Date: 7 September 2009 08:41:04 PDT To: st...@asklater.com Subject: Thompson Ave in Croton on Hudson, NY (10520) is not a through street! It stops about 20-30 feet before the PVC Middle school at

[Talk-us] Location Intelligence in Denver

2009-09-14 Thread SteveC
I've been asked by those running the conference if anyone here is able / willing to do a talk Break out Session: For Solution Developers – Open Source Technology. It's on Tuesday, Oct. 6, in the afternoon. Yours c. Steve ___ Talk-us mailing

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. Local Chapters

2009-09-16 Thread SteveC
Playing devils advocate a bit - what will the chapter do that we can't or aren't already? Does the aura of having an incorporated body somehow change everything? It certainly didn't with the OSMF, it was more that we needed a body to hold independent control of things like the domain

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. Local Chapters

2009-09-23 Thread SteveC
On 16 Sep 2009, at 13:56, Sarah Manley wrote: As listed by Kate in her second email (and being built out on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States ) A local chapter will do more advocacy within their own nation. OK That's a lot more filled

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. Local Chapters

2009-09-30 Thread SteveC
Really interesting post, thanks On 29 Sep 2009, at 20:10, Bill Ricker wrote: If your are going to incorporate at a national level, please look at examples of good and bad examples in the FOSS community. GrokLaw linked to this discussion, which has relevance outside its own niche.

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. Local Chapters

2009-10-01 Thread SteveC
yeah I can set up a call, just gimme the word On 1 Oct 2009, at 12:06, Serge Wroclawski wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Is too much to ask for to have everyone interested in the conference call set up Skype? I would much, much prefer a standard

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-13 Thread SteveC
Dave - super awesome. As I said on IRC the other week, but I'll repeat here for all - I think dumping the addressing for all 3,000 counties and then letting people import them one by one will be the best way to do it. Another random thought - should the addressing ways be one long way with

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-13 Thread SteveC
On 13 Oct 2009, at 09:26, Simone Cortesi wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 18:20, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: As I said on IRC the other week, but I'll repeat here for all - I think dumping the addressing for all 3,000 counties and then letting people import them one by one

[Talk-us] chapter call

2009-11-04 Thread SteveC
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States needs updating with details of next call Yours c. Steve ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] US SOTM

2009-11-04 Thread SteveC
Dear all On the US chapter call this week we briefly discussed doing a SOTM in the USA a couple of weeks before or after the main SOTM. If you'd like to be involved with this, the first call will be at Monday Nov 9th 5:30PM PST/8:30PM EST (immediately after the US chapter

Re: [Talk-us] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-13 Thread SteveC
Can I have SF county, CA please and Arapahoe County, CO...? Yours c. Steve On Nov 13, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: So, just like the original TIGER import, I'm now grossly stealing someone else's code:

Re: [Talk-us] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-13 Thread SteveC
Dave I've looked at the two you sent me and they're both basically fine but for two things. In Denver the houses are all set back a lot further, so some way to say 'on north-south roads, set back X feet' might help a lot. Or, in JOSM just search for all the ways that make up the addressing on

Re: [Talk-us] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-13 Thread SteveC
On Nov 13, 2009, at 11:11 PM, SteveC wrote: Dave I've looked at the two you sent me and they're both basically fine but for two things. In Denver the houses are all set back a lot further, so some way to say 'on north-south roads, set back X feet' might help a lot. Or, in JOSM just

Re: [Talk-us] deletion of talk-us-bayarea?

2009-11-13 Thread SteveC
it got killed after consensus from people On Nov 12, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Sarah Manley wrote: Hello All, Did someone delete the talk-us-bayarea list? From the last email discussion on talk-us there was never a full or agreed upon decision. I just tried to announce an upcoming event and got

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-14 Thread SteveC
On Nov 14, 2009, at 5:49 AM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: Hi, 2009/11/14 SteveC st...@asklater.com: In Denver the houses are all set back a lot further, so some way to say 'on north-south roads, set back X feet' might help a lot. Or, in JOSM just search for all the ways that make up

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-15 Thread SteveC
On Nov 14, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Dave Hansen wrote: What really needs to be done for TIGER addresses import is match the streets from TIGER to those in OSM (which should be easy since they all still have the TIGER id's) and generate the address geometry based on these. Otherwise someone will

[Talk-us] SOTM call today CANCELLED

2009-11-16 Thread SteveC
I'm unfortunately on a plane for the scheduled time. Will reschedule shortly. Yours c. Steve ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] addressing format

2009-11-16 Thread SteveC
Thinking about this 'numbers on nodes' schema... let's say it's perfect and we all agree, then who's going to do the import work for it? It requires matching up past and present geometries to find the correct nodes to update, and, er, that's the hard bit of coding with the Karlsruhe schema

Re: [Talk-us] Non-Integer addresses

2009-11-16 Thread SteveC
any idea where...? maybe we could get some locals to investigate what they are? On Nov 15, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: So, it seems that the TIGER data have some interesting addresses like: Non integer address: 9-35 Non integer address: 9-01 Non integer address: K200 Non integer

[Talk-us] SOTM US Call

2009-11-29 Thread SteveC
Resuming the weekly call, tomorrow after the US Chapter call: Monday Nov 30th 5:30PM PST/8:30PM EST (immediately after the US chapter call) +1 218-486-3891 x 224699644 Main topic is finalizing location and date. Yours c. Steve ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] San Francisco / Bay area projects

2009-12-03 Thread SteveC
-- Message: 4 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:18:57 -0800 From: SteveC st...@asklater.com Subject: Re: [Talk-us] San Francisco / Bay area projects To: Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net Cc: Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com, talk-us@openstreetmap.org Message-ID: eb9f7ae1-b080-4092-86aa-a65229fdd

Re: [Talk-us] San Francisco / Bay area projects

2009-12-04 Thread SteveC
my mistake On Dec 4, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Sarah Manley wrote: No just talk-us, not the actually lists were contacted. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:43 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I thought I mailed all the talk-us-* lists when I asked for input? On Dec 3, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Sarah Manley

Re: [Talk-us] HI: Hawaii GIS Data

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
Shaun it's simply not that clear cut, there are plenty of people in the US who would never have gotten involved without TIGER. I met one yesterday and it was the first thing he said. On Dec 4, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Shaun McDonald wrote: Why oh why oh why do some people insist on wasting time

[Talk-us] NHD Data in CO

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
I was asked yesterday if/when the NHD would be imported around CO. Anyone know? Yours c. Steve ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Fwd: [Geowanking] RT @ardevcamp: #AR #Layar fans/enthusiasts join us Friday 7pm at the Epicenter Cafe www.epicentercafe.com 4 a pre #ARDevCamp

2009-12-07 Thread SteveC
Will be of interest to those in the bay area... Begin forwarded message: From: Anselm Hook ans...@gmail.com Date: December 3, 2009 4:38:12 PM MST To: ardevc...@googlegroups.com, geowank...@geowanking.org Subject: [Geowanking] RT @ardevcamp: #AR #Layar fans/enthusiasts join us Friday 7pm

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Data in CO

2009-12-07 Thread SteveC
Yeah if you could that would be super level 5 awesome. Yours c. Steve On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Ian Dees wrote: On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:59 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Are the NHD import people on this list? Yes. I am one of them, but it appears that we're distributing

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Data in CO

2009-12-07 Thread SteveC
On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Ian Dees wrote: Are we talking about all of Colorado or just a certain high-priority section? I think around the populous would be good, that basically comes down to Boulder/Denver/Colo. Springs. AFAIK. But the whole state also awesome. Yours c. Steve

Re: [Talk-us] US OMSF proposal mission statement v2

2009-12-18 Thread SteveC
One of the things we did in the beginning of OSMF is say, roughly, what the budget would be spent on. Therefore, if you prioritized the list of goals and assigned rough budget %'s to them you avoid a lot of problems over what to focus time, money and effort on 1, 2 or 5 years down the line.

[Talk-us] openstreetmap.us

2010-01-24 Thread SteveC
Hi I own openstreetmap.us There are other community sites like openstreetmap.nl and openstreetmap.de If anyone wants to set up something similar, just tell me the IP address of your box and I will point the domain at it. Yours c. Steve ___

Re: [Talk-us] Incorrect Summit Elevations - Colorado

2010-02-10 Thread SteveC
On Feb 9, 2010, at 8:35 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: It appears that there is a systematic error in the summit elevations in OSM, at least in Colorado. Well I was given a map, a guide book and a diary for xmas all for climbing every 14er, so... I can go fix those :-) Talking about CO it's this

[Talk-us] hyrdography imports

2010-02-10 Thread SteveC
any way the importer can a) go back and fix all the millions of duplicated nodes b) not do it in future? :-) Yours c. Steve ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] hyrdography imports

2010-02-10 Thread SteveC
On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Mike N. wrote: any way the importer can a) go back and fix all the millions of duplicated nodes b) not do it in future? I'm working on both points - a) Happens in several cases: 1. At the joining of streams to waterbodies. The duplicate happens

[Talk-us] NHD accuracy on ski slopes (Winter Park, CO)

2010-02-10 Thread SteveC
How accurate is NHD data? I have a lot of streams going approximately down ski runs in CO here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.8671lon=-105.7518zoom=14 (yes the ski runs need mapping too) There's no streams for many of those there in winter. I'm pretty sure summer is the same

[Talk-us] SCALE OpenStreetMap booth in LA next weekend

2010-02-12 Thread SteveC
Hi Want to help promote OSM and happen to live in or be in LA? We have a booth at SCALE http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/ Weekend 20/21 Feb. For helping, you get a warm fizzy feeling and entry to the conference and tshirts and stuff. Ping me if you can help out. Yours c.

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap US Local Chapter Election Ballot

2010-02-15 Thread SteveC
Guys all the SOTM votes are run by independent parties with additional independent verification, you doing any of that here? It's a bias for one of the people on the ballot sheet to be emailing asking for the your 5 votes. ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap US Local Chapter Election Ballot

2010-02-15 Thread SteveC
On Feb 15, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 2/15/10 3:45 PM, SteveC wrote: On Feb 15, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 2/15/10 3:27 PM, SteveC wrote: On Feb 15, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Richard Welty wrote: keep in mind that this is for a 6 month term

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap US Local Chapter Election Ballot

2010-02-15 Thread SteveC
Good point - I should have caught this in the '[Talk-us] Feburary 4th Minutes and Election Update' email. Too many fricking emails. I'm cool that kate is also overseeing Good luck all! On Feb 15, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: Steve, Thanks for the interest in the US Local

Re: [Talk-us] New List: osm-professional

2010-03-03 Thread SteveC
On Mar 3, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Serge Wroclawski wrote: Most people know what professional behavior is, and if things get out of hand, we'll talk to them. Semi-moderated means at first, all post and all people will be moderated. Over time, we'll probably get go of

Re: [Talk-us] New List: osm-professional

2010-03-03 Thread SteveC
On Mar 3, 2010, at 11:53 AM, SteveC wrote: If we're throwing the 1st amendment out the door, can the moderators at least post to the list when you decide something is not allowable on your arbitrary(?) scale of bad speech, and why? Then we all have transparency. /me waits to see if I get

Re: [Talk-us] meeting minutes, March 4th 2010 conference call

2010-03-04 Thread SteveC
can't you just copy it in to your email? Not a lot of text after all. On Mar 4, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Richard Welty wrote: the minutes for tonight's conference call may be found here on google docs: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc9fx534_2fk694xc3 richard

Re: [Talk-us] meeting minutes, March 4th 2010 conference call

2010-03-04 Thread SteveC
I think so - better than the extra click. We should do this in OSMF too, I don't think we do... Mike? Yours c. Steve On Mar 4, 2010, at 8:50 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 3/4/10 10:37 PM, SteveC wrote: can't you just copy it in to your email? Not a lot of text after all. well, yes, i

Re: [Talk-us] US Local Chapter Temporary Board Update

2010-03-11 Thread SteveC
Congrats to all who made it in and everyone else too for all the efforts made. On Mar 5, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Kate Chapman wrote: Hi U.S. Mappers, Since the election of the temporary OSM U.S. Chapter board we have chosen positions, which are as follows: President: Kate Chapman Vice

[Talk-us] Fwd: Invitation to the Flourish 2010: Mini Exposition

2010-03-11 Thread SteveC
Anyone near Chicago that can help? Begin forwarded message: From: Aisha Halim aishaha...@gmail.com Date: March 11, 2010 2:29:42 PM GMT To: SteveC st...@asklater.com Subject: Re: Invitation to the Flourish 2010: Mini Exposition Oh I'm sorry-- sure, anyone local around Chicago, IL who could

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

2010-03-23 Thread SteveC
we've done it before at wherecamp over 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,

Re: [Talk-us] New car dealer uses OSM in TV spot

2010-03-24 Thread SteveC
awesome let us know when it's up! On Mar 24, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Alex S. wrote: I am watching a re-run tv show, and mere minutes ago saw an ad for a local new car dealership - they are touting their location in this one, and used imagery from OSM mapnik in their spot. They made a few minor

Re: [Talk-us] Bylaws for OpenStreetMap US Chapter

2010-03-24 Thread SteveC
On Mar 24, 2010, at 7:08 PM, Kate Chapman wrote: 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

Re: [Talk-us] Bylaws for OpenStreetMap US Chapter

2010-03-25 Thread SteveC
On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:05 PM, Kate Chapman wrote: All good comments. The one I did want to address Thanks.. but how are the other ones going to be addressed then?? is the incorporating in the District instead of Delaware for example. The reason everyone incorporates in Delaware partially

Re: [Talk-us] CA: Mapping Party this weekend suggestion for draft foundation comments

2010-03-25 Thread SteveC
On Mar 25, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Sarah Manley wrote: Hey All, Just a reminder (esp to anyone who may be coming in early for where 2.0), there is a mapping party this weekend:http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-OpenStreetMappers/calendar/12726887/ Can I request that comments to the foundation

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

2010-04-13 Thread SteveC
odesk.com or 99designs ? On Apr 12, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Kate Chapman wrote: 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

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-30 Thread SteveC
FYI I am in cooperstown speaking at a thing next month, getting there via Albany. On Apr 28, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 4/28/10 1:59 PM, Richard Weait wrote: Any US OSM meetups other than these three? Any other fixed addresses for local US OSM meetings?

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