Re: [Talk-us] Call for Nominations of US Local Chapter Board
Serge Wroclawski wrote: As per the wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States#Board_Member_Proposals The process for nominating a the US Chapter temporary board is to post your nominations on this list and edit the wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=USOSMTempBoardElections Nominations will end next week, so please nominate soon! - Serge ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us I have added a few names to the list. Sarah Manley Richard Weity I'm not sure if Richard Weait is in the US or Canada or if that makes a difference but it he qualifies I would like to nominate him also. Richard ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Marking closed bridges
Jeff Barlow wrote: Zeke Farwell ezeki...@gmail.com wrote: There are many roads through the mountains in Vermont that are generally closed from Nov 1st through May 30th each year due to snow. These could be tagged as: closed = Nov-May or closed = yearly closure_dates = Nov-May The hard part would be getting Mapnik to render this information. It would either have to be smart enough to change to the closed rendering during the specified dates, or have a different rendering for roads that are closed seasonally with the dates indicated after the name. Out here in the west we have many highways over mountain passes that are regularly closed during the winter. On typical paper maps there is text along them that says closed in winter. Seems to me we need something similar. Or chains required is something else you will see. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] U.S. SOTM Call for Venue Bids
I see from the notes that Charlotte suggested going into an area with an established community. I would like to throw out the idea of the opposite approach. It might help to jump start activity in an area that is currently inactive by having the SOTM there. I don't know which cities would qualify, but I wanted to throw that idea out. Richard Kate Chapman wrote: Hi All, The U.S. SOTM Working Group would like to announce a call for venue bids. We will be discussing bids and deciding on the Jan 4th US SOTM call. Please link you bid to this page in the OSM wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States/US_SOTM/BIDS The criteria for bids is available here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States/US_SOTM/BIDS/CRITERIA Thanks, Kate Chapman ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] U.S. SOTM Call for Venue Bids
Serge Wroclawski wrote: On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Richard Shank deve...@zestic.com wrote: I see from the notes that Charlotte suggested going into an area with an established community. I would like to throw out the idea of the opposite approach. It might help to jump start activity in an area that is currently inactive by having the SOTM there. Richard, There are two major reasons for this as an included criteria. The first reason is that by having an area with an existing OSM community, US SOTM will attract locals. An area without a mapping community may have interested parties (as you mention) but it would be difficult to spread the word effectively. The other reason is connected with the organizing team. A local community would make it easier to create/maintain an effective organizing team on the ground who is able to both plan the conference (selecting a venue, selecting accommodations, etc.) and also be able to effectively run the conference. Without locals, finding volunteers to do this would be difficult, especially as this is the first US SOTM conference. In the end, if you feel strongly about it, I'd put your reasoning into your proposal. Serge, I don't have a strong feeling about it, it was more of just tossing an idea out there. I completely understand what you are saying and I would say that having a SOTM at a city without support should probably wait until we get the first one under our belts. Richard ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup guidance wanted
Dave Hansen wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 15:50 -0800, Jeff Barlow wrote: I'm new here and a little unsure of how best to proceed. I'm having some issues getting JOSM to run but I expect to get those sorted out soon. Then I want to start working on TIGER fixup. I'm located in central Oregon, near Bend. I see a lot of mapped roads around here, imported from TIGER, that are clearly very wrong. Cool, more Oregon mappers! :) Hear, hear! Welcome! Should I simply delete these or just change their tags so they don't render as roads? If the latter, how should they be tagged? If you've been there and can confirm that there's nothing there, or they're bad enough that you can't figure out what they correspond to, delete them. But, I personally don't want people deleting everything that doesn't appear on aerial imagery. I think part of the question here was also about irrigation canals. If you are certain that the way is for a canal, it can be changed to waterway=canal http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Dcanal I would second what Dave said here, deleting can be a problem, especially since the aerials aren't always up to date or even clear. I do find the aerials are very helpful in adjusting the locations and ending points for the TIGER data. I would also suggest using OpenStreetBugs when you see something in the TIGER data that looks odd but you can't get to the location to check it for yourself. Here is the link http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/?lon=-120.12704lat=43.89472zoom=8layers=B00T Richard ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag
So it the general consensus to use name = first name, name_1 = second_name, name_2 = third name instead of name=first name;second name; third name? I've be adding names to motorway_junctions and I've see the semicolon format, so I started do the same myself. Richard Shaun McDonald wrote: The semi colon approach has been a method in use for many years now, but it's generally avoided. Unfortunately we don't have database normalisation with our tagging system. The Keys must be unique. Previous version of the API allowed keys that were not unique, however nothing used it as the editors generally didn't support it, and it would give unpredictable results when coming to things like rendering, as either one would be used. Shaun On 13 Nov 2009, at 04:09, Chris Hunter wrote: That's what database normalization addresses. BTW, this is the first time I've heard of the semicolon approach. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com mailto:nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Unfortunately, that doesn't work. The tags must be unique on the name side. That's why you see name, name_1, name_2. -- --my blog is athttp://blog.russnelson.com http://blog.russnelson.com/ Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-323-1241 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org mailto:Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org mailto:Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions
Matt Amos wrote: as a concrete example, let's pretend i have a site, beerintheOSM, which rates pubs and allows commenting and photo uploads. if i'm storing the reviews linked against pubs linked against OSM (name/location/ID), i definitely have to release the (name/location/ID) records - that's not up for discussion. should i also have to release the reviews, comments and photos records despite the fact that they have no OSM-derived data in them? should i have to release my entire database, including my users table? I sincerely hope this is not the case. It would greatly restrict what people could do with the data. That really doesn't sound like free data, if that is the case. Richard ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [Talk-us] Tiger US address importing
Apollinaris Schoell wrote: - more and more counties make their data available for the public. I hope such data is authoritative and much more useful. wherever possible this should be used instead. Is there a complied list of these counties? Since everything is handled county by county anyway, this may be the place to start. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Status of TIGER update
Are you heading that effort up Chris? Richard Chris Lawrence wrote: On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Chris Hunterchunter...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like the 2008 data for my area (TN) just got uploaded about 5 hours ago if I did the time conversion right. That was just the place boundaries data, which didn't exist in OSM until this upload. Updating the TIGER street data and adding addressing is going to be a far more involved problem... Chris (aka TIGERcnl) ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Status of TIGER update
I was wonder what the status is of the update with the 2008 TIGER data. Who is handling that? Also, will part of this include adding address data to OSM from the TIGER data. Richard ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
