[OSM-talk] camouflaged cell towers & the mimics key

[Eric Theise]

Hi everyone,

A colleague'd been informally mapping disguised cellphone masts and towers.
I suggested that OSM should be able to accommodate her data plus cough up
information about said structures that had already been mapped but, in
fact, it wasn't so. I proposed a new key, mimics, and it's been voted upon
and approved (21 zip, 3 abstentions).

  https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:mimics

I'd appreciate your help in making the use of this key more widespread.

Two things to do existing masts or towers :
  - tag them with mimics=*.  Initial values are: eucalyptus, oak, palm,
pine, or tree; saguaro or cactus
  - remove tower:construction=concealed. After discussion this use of
tower:construction has been deprecated as these towers & masts are most
definitely not concealed even if the telecom equipment they contain is.

If you are willing to contribute a photo of a cellphone mast or tower
camouflaged as a eucalyptus, oak, saguaro, or cactus, it would be most
welcome as a companion illustration for that Value on the wiki page.

Early solstice greetings to you all.

Eric
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Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Converting 350 lat/lons from ITM to decimal degrees (Irish Libraries)

[Eric Theise]

Hi Brian,

If no one's emailed you off list, I'd be happy to do that transformation
for you later today.

Eric


On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Brian Hollinshead 
wrote:

> I have received from the Library Development Section of the LMGA the ITM
> co-ordinates of about 350 Irish Public Libraries with permission to use the
> data for OSM. When I called to request the data they were unaware of OSM
> but are now highly impressed that such a sizable and varied resource had
> been produced both  locally and voluntarily.
>
> They arranged to have the list updated and I now have the excel file. I am
> familiar with the OSI convertor from ITM to degrees decimal on a one by one
> basis but hope one kindly soul can please email me to send the file to them
> for wholesale conversion. I can then put it on one drive and post a notice
> to that effect.
>
> I look forward to an email.
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[Talk-us] seeking named highway nostalgists for aag chicago session

[Eric Theise]

A group of us are exploring the possibility of proposing a session for
the upcoming Association of American Geographers annual meeting (21-25
April 2005 in Chicago, IL). Talks need to have some relationship to
named highways (such as Route 66 or the Lincoln Highway) and what
could be called the nostalgia industry.

Write me off list if you'd like to discuss further, thanks!

Eric

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Re: [Talk-us] seeking named highway nostalgists for aag chicago session

[Eric Theise]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Eric Theise ericthe...@gmail.com wrote:
 April 2005

2015, in case it wasn't obvious, sorry!

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Re: [Talk-us] Statistics of board candidate edits

[Eric Theise]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
 Il giorno 03/ott/2014, alle ore 20:13, Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.org 
 ha scritto:

 There are many, many ways that someone could be experienced with OSM and a 
 valuable contributor while never having made a single edit.


 I'm not sure, how would someone  know what it is about without having done it?

I'm not going to go quite as far as Darrell in saying that it's a
meaningless measure, but we're talking about the Board here. I'll
argue that a well-functioning Board should have representatives
skilled in such things as publicity, outreach, fundraising,
accounting, activism, perhaps some amount of legal. It's great if
Board members are actively editing, but people can get an effective
understanding of what OSM is about without being an active editor.

Other measures that I mentioned over IRC yesterday would be things
like GitHub activity, which includes both code to OSM projects (e.g.,
openstreetmap-carto or the rails port) and OSM-US-related process.
State of the Map US is planned via GitHub issues, and the valuable
work of gathering sponsors, scheduling, organizing sessions, selecting
scholarship winners, etc. is buried there, and lost in google
hangouts.

And with all these measures, assessing quantity is a lot easier than
assessing quality.

Eric

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Re: [Talk-us] US Chapter board elections - time is running out!

[Eric Theise]

Thanks, Martijn, for your detailed paragraph.

As someone who's served on the boards of cultural non-profits, I'd add
to Luis' list of common questions: are board members expected to
fundraise and do board members take on fiduciary responsibilities?

I think I know the answers in this case, but others might be
wondering. And I don't know if that'll be impacted by the 501(c)(3)
status.

Longer (a two year commitment?) and staggered terms are a great idea
for the reasons mentioned.

Eric

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Martijn van Exel
mart...@openstreetmap.us wrote:
 I do agree that that is a challenge, and we have lost valuable time with the
 loss of institutional knowledge. We do have systems in place that should
 make the transition to a new board easier, but I agree that staggered terms
 make sense. We did actually discuss this with the current board, but I
 believe it would require a change to the bylaws which we just haven't gotten
 around to yet. Something for the next board to pick up!

 On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:30 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net
 wrote:

 this sort of thing happens from time to time. i wouldn't worry about it
 much. i was at one time the only holdover from one board to the next.


 Again, outsider/lurker, take with grain of salt, IANYL, etc., etc., but in
 my past experience this sort of turnover is hard for an org to handle - you
 lose a lot of institutional knowledge. The next board might consider either
 growing (which reduces the odds of everyone burning out at once) or moving
 to longer, staggered terms so only some seats are up for election in any
 given year. Or both. :)

 Luis

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Re: [Talk-us] Locations for State of the Map US 2014

[Eric Theise]

No question DC could host SotM US in style, but I'd be thrilled to see
it move to the heartland. Too big of a stretch for it to be in
Chicago?

Eric

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com wrote:
 Ok well don't let me get in your way! DC is always just a pretty easy
 default location and Boundless (OpenGeo) has organized conferences there
 before with MapBox. Happy to help if we can.

 On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:37, Kathleen Danielson kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 If we're going to be getting proposals from folks, I think I'd like to see
 that within a week, so 11/20 at the latest. We're moving very quickly on our
 end to come up with viable solutions, so I don't want to delay. I hope you
 understand!


 On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ok, let me ask a few folks what they think, including Bonnie, and I'll get
 back to the list. What are the preferred dates?

 On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:29, Kathleen Danielson
 kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Jeff,

 If you or someone at Boundless (or someone else in DC) would like to put
 together a proposal for DC, those of us on the board would be happy to read
 it! What we need in a proposal can be found here:
 http://openstreetmap.us/2013/09/call-for-locations-sotm-us/

 We'll need a very quick turnaround, but let us know if you start working
 on a proposal and we'll give you a sense of our timeline.

 Thanks!
 Kathleen


 On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 What about DC that time of year? I'd really like to see more cooperation
 among USG agencies using and contributing to OSM and that may be a great
 time/place to kick that off. I'm sure Bonnie et al wouldn't object ;) I
 believe my employer (boundless) would be willing to help organize if it was
 close to home.

 On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:14, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Jeff,

 We didn't receive any location proposals, so we're working on locations
 and will announce when we have something set up.

 Since the global SotM event is usually held in the second half of the
 year we've moved the time frame for SotM US up to Spring so that it's not
 too close to the global event. This puts us in March-May and FOSS4G is in
 September. Also, we've already had a SotM in Portland and while it was
 pretty darn great, we're trying to spread the love to other cities, too.

 -Ian

 On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 According to the CfP, the decision should have been made by the end of
 last month. Anyone have any idea where the decision making progress is at?
 Also curious why it couldn't be held in the fall in conjunction with FOSS4G
 in Portland? Haven't heard much of anything on the global event either at
 this point.

 Thanks in advance!

 Jeff

 On Friday, September 13, 2013, Bonnie Bogle wrote:

 Hi everyone,
 The call for locations for State of the Map US 2014 is open! Find out
 all about it on the openstreetmap.us blog:

 http://openstreetmap.us/2013/09/call-for-locations-sotm-us/

 State of the Map US is a great opportunity to bring US and
 international mappers together with folks from government, business,
 nonprofit, education, and more. It's about coming together and discussing
 the future of OpenStreetMap, and about bringing OpenStreetMap to a wider
 audience to grow it in numbers and diversity. This coming year we're 
 aiming
 for a Spring date in March through May.

 We look forward to your submissions!

 Cheers,
 Bonnie


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Re: [OSM-talk] Annoucement: Poup layer beta reworked

[Eric Theise]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.dewrote:

 Actually, I think a solution

 4. enhance Leaflet such that popups on the upper part of the viewport open
 downwards.

 is the preferrable solution and likely attractive for most other Leaflet
 popup
 users. I've no idea whether that is technically feasible, but 1 and 2
 cannot
 solve the problem if I get just close enough to the upper brim, although
 they
 are good ideas otherwise.


Take a look at my Rrose plugin for Leaflet, it may do what you need.

http://erictheise.github.io/rrose/

--Eric
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Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

[Eric Theise]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:
 Following up on this  as a reminder, let's get together at 5PM Pacific /
 8PM Eastern to see how we can make this happen. Again, I am willing to put
 in time, but I will need help. I prefer a Google hangout but IRC works for
 me as well.

I'll join in the hangout. Happy to do some work towards this. Anyone
have a sense of which states are in the worst shape?

--Eric

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