[Talk-us] TIGER 2010 rollout

The TIGER 2010 rollout has begun. They will trickle out by state over the next 2-3 months. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/tgrshp2010.html As of today, only Louisiana, New Jersey, Mississippi, and Virginia are available. ___

[Talk-us] One in a million. Are you that mapper?

Are you one in a million? Just how unique are you? The US has 52 cities of over 1 million population[1] and 50 states, but only fourteen have local OSM user meetings. Find the list of US local OSM meetings here. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States Know of another

Re: [Talk-us] One in a million. Are you that mapper?

The OSM German community has a ton of local meetings. They also have a wiki template http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Lokale_Gruppe that is scraped by a web site to place all of the local meetings on a map. http://openstreetmap.de/ Wouldn't it be cool to have something like that for

[Talk-us] Panhandling access?

I'm wondering if there's any good tags for whether a location allows or prohibits panhandling. I've discovered a serious need for that in Tulsa lately, as I would rather shop at places that bar the practice entirely (including bell-ringers) than be bothered by vagrants who can't be arsed to find

Re: [Talk-us] Panhandling access?

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I'm wondering if there's any good tags for whether a location allows or prohibits panhandling.  I've discovered a serious need for that in Tulsa lately, as I would rather shop at places that bar the practice entirely

Re: [Talk-us] One in a million. Are you that mapper?

Hi Richard, we're working on migrate this template to a international one http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:User_group used as a test here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rostocker_Treffen Jochen is working on a offline wiki harvester framework (for taginfo) that can be used to