I have attempted to contact user Sunny using the OSM messaging system.
Sunny was an active user about 4 years ago. Since I haven't heard back,
how do I know if their email address is still valid? Does OSM give a
reject message if the message bounces?
One other question. Sunny added streets
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
I have completed another coastline generation and it has uploaded. This
version respects odbl=clean.
The shapefiles are in their normal place at
http://pnorman.dev.openstreetmap.org/coastlines/
Included is a .osm file
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:
Hi all,
We (the OSM US Chapter Board) are extremely excited to officially
announce SOTM US 2012! We told you a while ago that it was going to be
Portland, Ore., but we finally ironed out all the details. So here it
is:
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Renato renn...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I'm very new to OSM and not sure if this is the best place to
ask, so sorry if I'm off topic.
I'd like to view pubblic gps traces on my android phone, and possibly
record some new ones with its gps... is it possible?
So
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote:
I can only speak for myself, but I'm happy that TIGER was imported. I
grumble about its quality problems and quirks all the time, usually while
I'm fixing them, but I think the US is much better off with that import
than it
The US Forest Service offers geotiff images for the US. These topo images
contain creeks, rivers, Forest Services Road and other features desirable
in OSM The images are a better quality than the ones available in josm.
They are easily imported into josm for tracing. However, they are not
I like my eTrex 20 but it hasn't been error free. Most of the time it
provides good tracks. However at times it is off more than what I expect.
(the tracks to and from the same location should be close. At times they
differ more than 10m.) I have lost one long hike. It recorded just the last
half,
I've been a mapper for just a short while. A little over 1 and a half. I'm
surprised how much I like mapping in OSM. There is a real empowerment. For
example, at our last mapping party, I met the mayor of the town we held the
meetup. He was getting ready to kick of their Centennial celebration. I
I agree. We have so much good data, we just need to improve the map
interface so more people come to OSM first.
My friend Jeff Meyer just commented the other day that he wondered why we
don't have an easy way for businesses to add their establishments to OSM. I
know that Yahoo and Bing have it.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
Nope. It's just us. All of us. What do the Foundation (us) need to do
to make you (us) feel like it is okay for you (us) to build this vision and
act on it? Join the OSMF. Serve on a Working Group or two. Lend the
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Paweł Paprota ppa...@fastmail.fm wrote:
Sure, that's always good but note that another thread about OSM's future
ends in basically no conclusion. Or rather the conclusion seems to be
that all is fine and the future is secured with the current approach.
I've
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
I think that many suggestions would receive a much warmer welcome if they
were worded more like a call to action and less as a complaint.
Compare:
Hey folks, I've been thinking it would be great if there was a way to
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
For example, Wikipedia being as well known as it is has lead them to
create relevance criteria - you can't create an article on a living
person or a geographic feature, for example, unless that person or feature
fulfills
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Tanveer Singh tanveer1...@gmail.comwrote:
I was looking at some roads in the himalayas which pass through high
mountain passes(marked by signboard).
I want to select a point or node on the road, and then mark it as
mountain pass. In the left menu which opens,
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Strategic thinking is long-term thinking, and in our case requires to get
a lot of pepole on board in a suitable process, including those who think
that we shouldn't have a strategy (we can't just kick them out and say
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
The future SWG will face some of the same challenges as the previous
version. IMHO. Firstly, OSM can mean different things to different
people. We are a diverse bunch. SWG is unlikely to put every diverse
interest as
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, what does strategic planning even mean in the context of OSMF?
OSMF currently operates under the strategy of keeping its influence pretty
much as minimal as somehow possible. It mostly limits it self to operating
Can help me better understand the naming of junctions. Do junction names
have a direction attribute? How are they used to give directions with no
street names?
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:22 AM, Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:57:56 Hans Schmidt wrote:
Recently I had the opportunity to visit Costa Rica. When attempting to add
detail to a hotel/hot springs I discovered that Bing didn't have images for
the area. The images were missing from Potlatch/JOSM as well as Bing Maps.
Bing personal confirmed with me that they had no images for the area.
That's really odd. Looking at the NW corner, I couldn't find any nodes,
ways, or multipolygons. It appears to only be broken in Mapnik. The other
styles render fine. I'd suggest a bug report - trac.openstreetmap.org
Clifford
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Pavel Melnikov positro...@gmail.com
How do you tag roads that are out of service. We have a section of Widbey
Island that was wiped out by a landslide. It will be out of service for
some time.
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I'd first asked the person that created the polygon before deleting.
BTW - We don't have complete hi-res coverage from Bing. While many areas it
may not matter, I've mapped in areas where better imagery would have been
very helpful. Maybe we need to explore other avenues to obtain imagery in
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Stephan Knauss o...@stephans-server.dewrote:
How much of your mapping shall I tolerate? It's always the same answer.
Pay respect to other mappers. If the data is of use to other mappers,
respect it. Even if you would not map it this way.
I personally thing that
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:56 PM, yvecai yve...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm proud to announce a new website, for all winter sports :
http://www.opensnowmap.org
It's a bit more than an update of www.pistes-nordiques.org.
Tile server :From fresh data, every morning
Pistes informations with a single
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote:
Looking at the profiles of nearby mappers displayed on my profile page's
map, I am astonished to find that most of them have made zero edits.
Those people went through the effort of registering (some even added an
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:41 PM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.ukwrote:
I suspect that a totally automatic way of doing that might be frowned
upon, but a semi-automatic way would b to load something like
http://resultmaps.neis-one.**org/oooc?zoom=12lat=53.21292**
Looking at the wiki for help understanding why we don't have boundaries
reservations has left me confused. Can someone explain why they are not
there and if there is any plans to add them at some point in the future?
From personal experience, it is important to know when you are on tribal
lands.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
As previously stated, admin levels 3 and 5 depending on status as a nation
or reservation, respectively.
Looking at the admin levels, I agree 3 and 5 would appear to fit. But
boundary=domestic_dependent_nation (not a
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
It's a little bit of a chicken/egg thing right now. As far as I'm aware,
rendering of tribal nations went offline in mapnik around the time I
pointed out the overly broad tagging and that having most of Oklahoma and
big
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
I can’t speak for the US, but tagging of them in BC was set back by people
pushing the view that they should be tagged as provinces. There were also
issues that someone imported a bunch without geometry or tag cleanup.
In
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
Are there any reservations on or near the I-5/I-405 between Canada and
Bellevue? I can divert on my way to Issaquah to attempt to ground truth
some
of this.
You'll drive next to the Tulalip Indian Reservation starting at
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
I wonder if someone would be willing to make a proper proposal for 3 and 5.
I'd be willing, but not after more research. I think we need to fully
understand the autonomy of tribes and how exactly they fit into the
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
I still maintain Scotland, North Ireland and Wales are analogous situations
You might then include Iraqi Kurdistan. I don't know how it is rendered,
but it sounds very similar.
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote:
It'd be good to release Leaflet/OpenLayers plugins to do the attribution.
If
I were feeling Machiavellian I'd suggest we consider hosting them on our
servers (load permitting) so we get an automatic heads-up of
Congratulations to all of the developers and contributors to iD!
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:41 AM, tmcw t...@macwright.org wrote:
Hi all!
Today, we've tagged iD editor v1.0.0 and integrated it into
openstreetmap.org, thanks to Tom Hughes, Ansis Brammanis, John Firebaugh,
Saman Bemel-Benrud,
Let's forget about Google Maps for a moment that give thanks to the
contributors who updated I-5 on OpenStreetMap. Alan, rickmastfan67,
Sundance and katpatuka have all contributed to the update.
It is dedicated mappers like these that make OSM great.
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Clifford
OpenStreetMap: Maps with a
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.comwrote:
To date OSM is run by a group of mappers that caters to mappers. There is
an unlikely but burning desire to somehow turn more ordinary muggles into
mappers. It is as if the map was meant to be made, not used:
and it's
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Rob Nickerson
rob.j.nicker...@gmail.comwrote:
Personally, I'm loving the work Saman (and team) is doing - there are some
really nice ideas shown in his slides.
I agree it looks elegant. I can't wait to see him implement the rest of his
proposals.
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On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote:
I think such highscores don't belong (yet) to the main website os OSM.
So what I still like to find out, is, what triggered the opposition to
gamification. I can't find Saman mentioning gamification in his
presentation
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote:
t really is a brilliant peace of software.
+1
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On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Jason Remillard
remillard.ja...@gmail.comwrote:
Everybody has these rules of thumb about what OSM is and isn't. I
could write a couple of pages with all of my rules about imports.
But, my number one rule is that if there is a individual or group that
want to
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
Having edited over a thousand of them, I would not be sad to see admin
boundaries removed from the general OSM database. I think Russ is on to
something with his ClosedStreetMap concept although that is some terrible
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
It really depends on the legal situation, sometimes sharing nodes is the
right thing to do (if the boundary is defined as being the river for
instance), sometimes it is to be seen distinctly (when the boundary
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote:
- I do not see how filters in editors do anything more to this issue
than make it worse, particularly in the case when the border has been
merged with an other object. Do you make the object immutable? Or do you
simply hide
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Martin Koppenhöfer
dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote:
Do you mean borders are a problem in general, or are there specific
problems related to specific borders like those mentioned in this thread?
I was responding to the thread. Sorry for the confusion
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On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Sebastian Arcus s.ar...@open-t.co.ukwrote:
2. All across these fields: http://osm.org/go/TY2PBU33 there are
numerous roads - some of them even with names and/or codes. On satellite
view they appear to be nothing more than dirt tracks at best - some of them
Congratulations to you and all the mappers and developers who made this
possible.
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On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the criterion has to be physically, not registered. Many
business are registred but don't exist physically excepted on a named
postbox.
Physical fits better. There are many unregistered businesses that have
physical
Eric,
A big help would be to have an understanding of how ways are displayed on
the overlay. I see different shapes and colors. What do they represent?
I can help with the name expansion. I have a fair number of abbreviations
that I've used in Washington State.
BTW is your code at
existing, but were flagged as being outdated.
Is it because they are not exactly the same as the tiger data?
BTW, I really appreciate the work you are putting into helping us fix
streets along with Martijn's Battlegrid.
Clifford
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Clifford Snow cliff
Found this website this morning, http://coinmap.org/ that displays all of
the bitcoin tags in OSM. The page has instructions on how to add a bitcoin
location in OSM. The instructions did caution against adding a location
with no physical presence.
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OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human
businesses wanting to be added to
OSM for visibility. I wonder how that could be transferred to all the shop
owners?
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Michael Reichert naka...@gmx.net wrote:
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Hello Clifford,
Am 10.12.2013 15:42, schrieb Clifford Snow
An airport recently closed. How should it be tagged? The airfield is still
there, it just not operational.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/107422#map=15/46.2171/-119.2058layers=N
website of field announcing closure:
http://www.vistafield.org/
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@osm_seattle
OpenStreetMap: Maps with
I've been asked to submit a proposal to teach iD at an upcoming conference.
Rather than reinvent the wheel, I'm hoping to steal/borrow
syllabus/proposal for teaching iD.
If you know of one, please point me in the right direction. If you do, I
promise to name an upcoming changeset after you.
--
When searching for a point of interest, such as Guild 45th Theatre in
Seattle, Nominatim return the following:
Cinema Guild 45th Theatre, North 45th Street, Fremont, Wallingford,
Seattle, King, Washington, 98103, United States of America.
But the POI is also contained within a building outline
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:15 AM, hbogner hbog...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll always make polygon separate from the road.
One of the reasons is that we mark road only with it's centerline and not
whole dimensions, shape and width.
And if we connect the polygon to that centerline we create false
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote:
The edges of some polygons are truly coincident with road centerlines. For
example, many municipal boundaries.
That may be true, but it doesn't mean we need to connect roads with
polygons. As was stated in a post from a
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote:
I think we can divide features to virtual and physical features.
Virtual: highway centerlines, waterway centerlines, administrative
borders, industrial and residental landuse, parks
Physical: riverbanks, buildings,
Why do I see so many new mappers make edits without a commit comment? Is it
because iD doesn't prompt for a commit message? iD issue 1488 is open but
not acted upon. I wonder why. Is it because the developers don't think
commit comments are needed?
I'm wondering what the community thinks. Are
Toby, this is great data. Thanks.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
Here, let's have some numbers. As of the last changeset dump (Feb. 28th)
iD:
total changesets: 1,744,610
changesets with a comment: 745,774
43% comment rate
What got me first was the
I'm curious how OSM handles this dispute. I expect Russia's parliament
ratify the annexation and I expect that Ukraine will continue to disagree.
Do we have a documented process in place to determine when the border is
changed? I couldn't find anything on the wiki after a quick search. If it
is
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote:
The DWG has an OSMF approved process for handling political disputes.
There's no reason to start a flamewar about this.
Serge,
Rather than start a flamewar, I was looking for the process. A well
document process is a
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote:
Actually our policy on such matters (not on edit wars) is documented
here http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Policies_and_other_Documents
Simon,
Thanks - That helps. I didn't think of looking at the Foundations wiki.
While not
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Johan C osm...@gmail.com wrote:
Open data initiatives will help in acquiring address data: for example by
July 2015 close to 200 million addresses in the EU will be available for
OSM because of a change in the national laws. For me having addresses and
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Felix Delattre m...@delattre.de wrote:
I was going over the departmentos (admin_level=4) in Nicaragua
yesterday. And it does not explain to me why the names of them not
getting rendered in Mapnik. Please compare:
* Province (admin_level=4) in Costa Rica:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.comwrote:
GoMap!! is a really good app even for editing.
+1 GoMap!! is the best editor for OSM. I only wish I had an iOS device!
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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson j...@betra.iswrote:
I personally subscribe to new OSM users feed for two countries which I'm
focused on and check out their first edits, these are not high activity
countries so perhaps others have more problems but so far none appears
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote:
Taginfo got an update with lots of new features: Maps for tags, easy
comparison
of keys/tags, better integration with overpass turbo and Level0 editor, and
more...
Thanks for the update. Taginfo is one of my most used
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote:
The area of interest is a small town called Talasari, north of Mumbai [2].
The students had very low experience with computers and most had to start
from creating email ids. The area was blank a couple of months ago, so
I need help with a street name. In Leavenworth, WA there is a street named
Edelweiss Weg that I want to add. Is Weg an abbreviation for something?
It will be tagged highway=service service=alley. Google translate doesn't
help.
If it is an abbreviation, should it be expanded as we usually do?
Smalley claysmal...@gmail.com
wrote:
Weg is German, approximately means way. It's right as it is, no
abbreviation.
Funny though that it's outside of the German Sprachraum. Is Leavenworth a
town with a lot of German heritage?
On May 29, 2014 4:37 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Alan McConchie alan.mcconc...@gmail.com
wrote:
Leavenworth is a former logging town that has been turned into a mock
Bavarian village as a tourist attraction. So I'm not surprised that they
are adding Weg to their streets to seem more Germanic.
I've been to
Two recent events seem to have gone beyond reasonable discourse. The Dutch
address imports and the addition of 5 US Bike Routes (USBR.)
Unfortunately, these are not isolated instances. The mailing lists
discussions have spiraled down to include personal attacks. I've chosen to
use the subject
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
I think we should extend this a bit, and instead of having a Code of
Conduct we shold have a document that says How to be a good mapper.
This would include the standard elements of a code of conduct - e.g.
about
OpenStreetMap Code of Conduct
===
I'd like to keep this effort going. Who out there is interested in helping
taking the draft CoC through to acceptance?
Clifford
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
Before actually conducting the edit, I want to see what editors were used,
and submit bug reports if there's any regular problems.
I'm curious, can you get a count of empty relations by editor and age?
Basically, current,
Open Historical Map which already has a website www.openhistoricalmap.org
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com
wrote:
A few OSM members interested in historic maps are working on our own
version of the New York Public Library Building Inspector. If you've
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson j...@betra.is
wrote:
I'm curious to know if any OSM groups are currently running their own
drones for imagery. In Iceland we have been looking longingly at the eBee
https://www.sensefly.com/drones/ebee.html but so far haven't started
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com
wrote:
I'd say make the changes at the city admin level for these reasons. The
tribal nations are viewed by the courts as territories but they tend to act
more at the city[4] to county[3] COG [1] level. The squabbles feel
I'm looking for some images of early OSM maps. Thanks to Martijn Exel, we
have http://mvexel.github.io/thenandnow/#10/52.2644/5.2899, the Then and
Now from 2007 to current. But I'd really like some images of the very
earliest OSM maps.
As many others are doing, Seattle is holding an anniversary
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Nathan Mixter nmix...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any way we can start using the addr:unit tag for buildings? This
was approved several years ago but it still doesn't render yet. If both the
addr:housenumber and addr:unit tags are used, the housenumber tag is
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Osama Khalid osa...@gnu.org wrote:
I noticed that the maps on Saudi Arabia are fairly accurate and more
rich than I thought, but I couldn't find a mailing list for
contributors from Saudi Arabia and the self-identified users from
Saudi Arabia seem to be
I had the same issue. It stopped being about OSM. Which made me suspect
that his intent was other than what was announced.
I'd be willing to help the OP if he was agreeable to suggestions.
Clifford
Typos by tablrt
On Aug 19, 2014 11:15 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote:
On 19/08/14
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote:
http://openstreetmap.us/iD/release/#background=Bingmap=17.00/-83.15249/36.43657
is the one I'm currently on and leaving as it's impossible to see any
detail in iD ... how do people cope with the dark images?
Lester, I
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:51 AM, OSMR osm_resea...@mail.com wrote:
We understand that as a member of multiple lists some OSM contributors may
have received the survey invitation more than once and that may have felt
like a disrespectful attempt to impose on one's personal time and inbox
There seems to be two threads to this conversation. 1) Will the
import/mechanical edit be of high quality and 2) do we want a link to
Wikidata.
Skipping the technical aspects of connecting OSM with Wikidata I like to
focus on do we want to link to Wikidata. From the number of wikidata links
in
Thanks Paul and to all those that are working on this.
Clifford
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
After a delay for hardware reasons (a drive having issues in a rendering
server), the Standard stylesheet on OpenStreetMap.org has been
upgraded to v2.20.0 of
I want to pass along a fix I found for no gps on my Nexus 5. Neither
Mapillary nor OSM Tracker worked. Mapillary said it couldn't get a gps fix.
After searching it turns out that my back cover wasn't completely snapped
shut on one corner. Snapping it back in place fixed the problem. Just one
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote:
One issue is we really have no idea what the OSMF membership wants. We
know what some vocal people who write English well want. What a lot of
communities do to determine this is have a yearly community survey. Simply
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote:
It would be nice to know how many of the buildings and house numbers in
OSM were imported versus surveyed / drawn by hand. I have a bad feeling
about how feasible it is to crowd surf house numbers.
I think Steve is
Steve Coast suggested changing the mission statement of OSM to be something
like “The world’s best addressable map” I thought I'd separate out this
into a new thread. As some backup, I attended my first SOTM-US in 2012
where Steve proposed we build an addressable map. A group of us from
Seattle
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:56 AM, st...@asklater.com wrote:
I'm adding OSMF-talk since it concerns what I outlined in the
original “vision statement” email.
I was perhaps too specific and jumped ahead saying “world’s best
addressable map”.
What I really mean is the “world's most complete
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Kathleen Danielson
kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:
What if we had some sort of compromise, and we asked the membership if we
could hold another AGM in 3 months, followed 2 weeks (or so) later by an
election? We've already talked about decoupling it from
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
We'd still need to survey in order to do the maintenance work and correct
errors. That's the main reason why imports are often seen as problematic:
they will not create a comunity, rather there are indications
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
If we don't manage to get a board majority to postpone the whole thing,
there's something else we could do at least: Ask those who stand for
election to commit to calling a new GM within a certain time frame, and
offer
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote:
I actually don't think it makes sense for the membership to approach
things by passing a bunch of resolutions requiring the board to do things.
I think certainly a drastic resolution like dismantling the entire board
and
The answer is yes you need to be a member of the foundation. At least it
was when we were attempting to create a new group.
This for create problems for those that the annual dues are unaffordable. A
work around would be nice.
Clifford
On Oct 27, 2014 9:33 AM, Matthijs Melissen
or me line.
From my memory, (which can be suspect), Clifford, I think you may be
referring to the Future now aka Strategic Working Group? We felt that to be
a bit of an exception due to the nature of the remit.
Mike
On 27/10/2014 18:10, Clifford Snow wrote:
The answer is yes you need
Congratulations to the NYC mappers on a great proposal. I know it must have
been outstanding since you beat us out! Good luck. I look forwarding to
going to SOTM-US in NYC.
Clifford
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net
wrote:
Hope these are helpful, and let me know of any further suggestions.
Richard,
Thanks for doing this. The selection of color and lines make for quick
addition.
Suggestion - set the tile background to transparent so
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