Re: [Talk-us] [josm-dev] Poor JOSM Yahoo imagery solution?

2009-11-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, andrzej zaborowski wrote: I have heard on IRC that Potlatch bends the API slightly to get these images. Ooh, evil... guess we'll have to ban it! However, the only area Yahoo has better resolution than z=1 is the US where the imager comes from another source (calles USGS I think) that

[Talk-us] San Francisco / Bay area projects

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Jarratt
Hi All I have a journalist from the San Jose Mercury News writing an article about OpenStreetMap who is keen to connect with mapping parties in the bay area that are carrying out specific projects. Is anyone organizing anything in the next few week or know about something that has been

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

2009-11-24 Thread Sarah Manley
Paul, Your in luck: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gilroy_Mapping_Party ; http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-OpenStreetMappers/ Now that the bay area list was deleted the meetup is really the best place to fine events (although I do make sure its on the wiki as well). This is in conjunction

[Talk-us] Thanks for a great call

2009-11-24 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I wanted to thank everyone who was on the call yesterday, and a special thanks to the folks on the after-call. I think sometimes we get so caught up in the process that we lose sight of the invididuals and what we're doing, what we're working on that we can loose sight of the shared effort and

Re: [Talk-us] Thanks for a great call

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Nakor nakor...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of the after call, is there some place (wiki maybe) where the US SOTM effort is documented? Also on the after-call, there was a questions about one-page documents for beginners. This arrived in my email this morning.

Re: [Talk-us] Thanks for a great call

2009-11-24 Thread Steven Johnson
Very good. I know several folks who have an immediate need for something like this and I'm going to pass it on to them. Nice work, Detectist! SEJ Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands from beans. -Empedocles On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:39, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On

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

2009-11-24 Thread David ``Smith''
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: forget the technical aspect for a minute and think about motivation, how a community works and all that. no one is interested to cleanup crap after a bad import. That's exactly what I've been gladly doing around

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

2009-11-24 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:34 AM, David ``Smith'' vidthe...@gmail.com wrote: I'll concede that there's a me too aspect involved with trying to make OSM work for geocoding like the big names do.  But that doesn't mean there aren't legitimate motivations.  OSM's street map is arguably better than