Re: [Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

2012-11-03 Thread Jeff Meyer
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Martijn van Exel writes: 1) I don't think it is a good idea to come up with a code of conduct as a response to particular cases. Hard cases make bad law, yes. But it's not a difficult decision to say Don't change other

Re: [Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

2012-11-03 Thread Russ Nelson
Anthony writes: I agree that DWG has the authority to act, here. But as I understand it, the authority of DWG comes from OSMF, not from the OSM community. The DWG is specifically asking if it should have the authority to act. Please read the beginning message of this thread. Additionally,

Re: [Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

2012-11-03 Thread Russ Nelson
Jeff Meyer writes: - An overarching code of behavior could be very helpful to empower the less aggressive mapper. Maybe something simple like: Pursue the truth agreement do no harm. It gives the oppressed some simple question to ask the difficult mapper. Each of the segments of the code

Re: [Talk-us] My personal Difficult USA Mapper situation update

2012-11-03 Thread Russ Nelson
Sam Iacullo writes: This email will be divided into two parts. The first contains specifics about the email that touched off the discussion about mapper issues, which I will call COMPLAINT'. If you want to skip this section for my opinion/commentary about the issue at large, you can scroll

Re: [Talk-us] What to do with unnamed NHD streams

2012-11-03 Thread Russ Nelson
Paul Norman writes: Does anyone have any thoughts on what should be done in a NHD translation with these streams? In a perfect world, we would be able to search by location and by name, and get back a single .OSM file containing all the waterway= segments with the same name. It would be

Re: [Talk-us] MapRoulette challenges wiki

2012-11-03 Thread Mikel Maron
MapRoulette is awesome! Had a bunch of thoughts on displaying stats, users, etc, and realized I was just pushing some of the features of HOT Tasking Server into MapRoulette   * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron From: Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com To:

Re: [Talk-us] MapRoulette challenges wiki

2012-11-03 Thread Mikel Maron
(hit send too soon...) MapRoulette is awesome! Had a bunch of thoughts on displaying stats, users, etc, and realized I was just pushing some of the existing features of HOT Tasking Server into MapRoulette. The differences between tasking and maproulette is 1) how tasks are created (tasking

Re: [Talk-us] MapRoulette challenges wiki

2012-11-03 Thread Alan Millar
Even in Map Roulette, there are some places where I could have taken a larger chunk, a single area with 5 connectivity errors is just as easy to fix; I just got one such roulette spin, and wasn't sure if I should fix the others or not, because there's no way to mark them fixed. Fix them