Re: [Talk-us] Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US

2013-07-26 Thread Alex Barth
Inspired by this discussion, I've written up a blog post on why we at the OSM-US chapter love calling editathons: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ Like I mentioned before, I think they're a great tool to create an excuse or an impulse for people around the US to get together in

Re: [Talk-us] converting .osm to a particular shapefile schema

2013-07-25 Thread Alex Barth
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: With osmosis there comes a little utility called osmjs You mean Osmium, right? With osmosis there comes a little utility called osmjs ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] New technology ...

2013-07-22 Thread Alex Barth
With the arrival of a 'new' set of controls, and the discussion on front page, I feel that it IS necessary to open this discussion a little wider. Having been using the new interface on mobile devices I find it much less usable than the older set-up. But that is not to say that the old one was

[Talk-us] How did this weekend's editathon go? (was Re: Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US)

2013-07-22 Thread Alex Barth
Snow wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: The local dimension of OpenStreetMap was exactly why OSM US decided to do #editathons. There's one happening this weekend, join us. http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/july-summer-editathon/ Our group is signed up

Re: [Talk-us] Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US

2013-07-19 Thread Alex Barth
+1 to just get going in your city or in your community. Let nothing stop you. The local dimension of OpenStreetMap was exactly why OSM US decided to do #editathons. There's one happening this weekend, join us. http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/july-summer-editathon/ Well I've been promoting this

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Releasing my data into Public Domain

2013-07-18 Thread Alex Barth
Fantastic. You could use cc0 http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/ On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Elliott Plack elliott.pl...@gmail.comwrote: Great news! First of all, I saved my 1000th edit the other day. Secondly, my organization is release all of its data into the public domain! That

[Talk-us] This coming weekend, July 20, 21: summer #editathon

2013-07-16 Thread Alex Barth
, but you can of course always join from home. Here are all the details you need to know: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/july-summer-editathon/ I'll be in DC at the Open Gov hub on Saturday. Hope to see you there and / or online! Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc

[Talk-us] California geo data open

2013-07-10 Thread Alex Barth
FYI: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jul/08/local/la-me-adv-map-ruling-20130709 ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Add your location to the summer editathon!

2013-07-10 Thread Alex Barth
We have already 7 participant locations for the upcoming Summer #editathon on July 20/21. Join us and add your city, too! Ideally until Friday, this way we have you in the upcoming announcement blog post. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Summer_Editathon_2013 -- Alex Barth Secretary

[Talk-us] An editathon in your city!

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Barth
-- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] A new openstreetmap.us

2013-06-30 Thread Alex Barth
Like that idea. On the backlog. On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: The instructions currently read: *1. Create an account on OpenStreetMap.org* *2. Click on “edit” and pick one of the editors to edit the map* Which seems a bit sparse and perhaps

Re: [Talk-us] A new openstreetmap.us

2013-06-28 Thread Alex Barth
directly. Hope this makes sense! Cheers - Alex On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/5/20 Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us OpenStreetMap.us relaunched today. Head over to http://openstreetmap.usand check it out. I think it really looks

[Talk-us] Call for locations: Summer editathon July 20-21!

2013-06-27 Thread Alex Barth
/US_Summer_Editathon_2013 Last #editathon was fun, they are an awesome excuse to get your local OpenStreetMap friends into one place and pull in new folks. I hope many local organizers will join us again this time around. Cheers - Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc

Re: [Talk-us] dirty2osm

2013-06-25 Thread Alex Barth
LOVE IT!!! This should be a Chrome plugin. Open any map in OSM at the right zoom level at a single mouse click or keyboard shortcut. Just throwing this out there, I _have_ read the GitHub sign :-) On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote: Before I whine about what

Re: [Talk-us] SOTM-US compared

2013-06-19 Thread Alex Barth
Frederik - Thank you for taking the time to write up your impressions (and for coming out to San Francisco in the first place) - this is really helpful for creating better conferences. tea, chocolate and delicate mini cakes during practially all the breaks ;) You can't beat that :) On the

Re: [Talk-us] SOTM-US compared

2013-06-19 Thread Alex Barth
Serge - You're not doing yourself justice as initiator and organizer of what are the first sprint days at a US State of the Map. I actually think the sprint days went very well - we had amazing turn out for both days and great work happened. So: I see absolutely no need to feel badly and thank

[OSM-talk] Videos of State of the Map US are up!

2013-06-11 Thread Alex Barth
with each other / write more code with each other and more. There's tons of stuff to be figured out in OpenStreetMap. I walk away inspired. Thank you for everyone coming out. -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ talk mailing list

[Talk-us] Videos of State of the Map US are up!

2013-06-11 Thread Alex Barth
with each other / write more code with each other and more. There's tons of stuff to be figured out in OpenStreetMap. I walk away inspired. Thank you for everyone coming out. -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing

[OSM-legal-talk] Clarifying Geocoding and ODbL

2013-06-06 Thread Alex Barth
With two State of the Map conferences coming up now and plenty of opportunities for face time, I'd like to restart our conversation around clarifying the ODbL's implications for geocoding and get to a result. Over here at MapBox we're hoping to use OpenStreetMap soon as much as possible for

[OSM-talk] MapBox's support for new OSM infrastructure

2013-06-03 Thread Alex Barth
Over here at MapBox we've decided to support the OpenStreetMap foundation's funding drive for hardware upgrades with $20,000. http://www.mapbox.com/blog/openstreetmap-funding-drive-2013/ The operations working group team is doing awesome work to maintain OpenStreetMap's server infrastructure. It

Re: [Talk-us] Take another look at notes!

2013-05-31 Thread Alex Barth
Craigslist had added a feature to their OSM powered maps to submit map problems back to OSM Have you found that feature actually on craigslist? On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: As I'm sure a lot of you are aware, osm.org has a new notes [1] feature

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US session schedule is out

2013-05-24 Thread Alex Barth
on June 7 and sprint days on June 10 and 11 (yes, this got extended :). The one-day OSM Plus conference will take place on June 10. Workshops and OSM Plus require separate registration. Looking forward to seeing you in San Francisco! -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc

[Talk-us] State of the Map US session schedule is out

2013-05-20 Thread Alex Barth
on June 7 and sprint days on June 10 and 11 (yes, this got extended :). The one-day OSM Plus conference will take place on June 10. Workshops and OSM Plus require separate registration. Looking forward to seeing you in San Francisco! -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc

[Talk-us] Virtual Mappy Hour is on!

2013-05-20 Thread Alex Barth
Please join to hang out and chat OSM: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/0f0987e320fa9462c8d1e0834c1945682974c40d?authuser=0hl=en-GB -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

[Talk-us] A new openstreetmap.us

2013-05-19 Thread Alex Barth
for site building, @iandees for deployment and migration planning, and my colleagues from the OSM US chapter board for reviews and guidance. Alex * join.openstreetmap.us is pointed to the actual join form as we speak. -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc

Re: [Talk-us] New member

2013-05-16 Thread Alex Barth
Hey Amy - Welcome! Great to see you work on college campuses. Just post any questions you might have here on the list. Alex On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: Amy, Welcome! Mike On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:33 AM, amy.dani...@gvltec.edu wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] OSM St Louis MeetUp Page

2013-05-16 Thread Alex Barth
+1 for using meetup. You'll get a lot of visibility from it for free. Here in DC we boosted our node.js meetup attendance by factor 2 just by switching from a custom site + twitter to meetup + twitter. That was a bit over a year ago. Also just tweeted you:

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-15 Thread Alex Barth
So... This thread went on some tangents, but nevertheless, thank you for your feedback. John Firebaugh just posted a new roadmap for the next release of iD [1] and it focuses on the key issues discussed here: relations support and suboptimal performance on Firefox. Please report any issues you

Re: [Talk-de] ID Editor zerstört mit einem Klick tagelange Arbeit.

2013-05-15 Thread Alex Barth
Danke für input an alle. @jfirebaugh, mein Kollege und iD Programmierer hat soeben eine neue iD Roadmap für 1.1 gepostet [1]. Sie beinhaltet auch umfangreicheren relations support. Viele der Bedenken die hier aufkamen sollten also mit 1.1 befriedigt sein. Genaue release Daten werden sich in den

Re: [Talk-de] ID Editor zerstört mit einem Klick tagelange Arbeit.

2013-05-15 Thread Alex Barth
://github.com/systemed/iD/issues 2013/5/15 Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com Danke für input an alle. @jfirebaugh, mein Kollege und iD Programmierer hat soeben eine neue iD Roadmap für 1.1 gepostet [1]. Sie beinhaltet auch umfangreicheren relations support. Viele der Bedenken die hier aufkamen sollten also mit

Re: [Talk-de] ID Editor zerstört mit einem Klick tagelange Arbeit.

2013-05-09 Thread Alex Barth
Tirkon oder Simon - Könntet ihr dazu ein ticket auf iD verfassen? Offensichtlich wurde das Problem von John in dem ticket das Simon linkt nicht ganz verstanden oder es handelt sich hier einfach um ein anderes Problem. Jedenfalls wäre jeder input um iD robuster zu machen sehr willkommen. Danke!

[Talk-us] H. R. 1604 bill looking to force US government to contract out much of its mapping activity

2013-05-08 Thread Alex Barth
earlier today. -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-04 Thread Alex Barth
Matthew - Awesome you're working on this. My only qualm with the data is that some buildings have more nodes than they need, but I'm not sure what can be done about it besides manually reviewing and simplifying all 200k+ outlines. ogr2ogr -simplify ? I assigned approximate street addresses

Re: [Talk-us] SOTM-US Friday pre-sessions

2013-05-03 Thread Alex Barth
There will be a track for advanced and one for beginners, there will also be social events and opportunity to connect with people who are early in sf. Workshops to be announced early next week. On Friday, May 3, 2013, Paul Norman wrote: I was wondering who the workshops on Friday before SOTM

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

2013-05-01 Thread Alex Barth
but should just offer it as an alternative to (c) OpenStreetMap contributors. On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Hello everyone - I'd love to start pushing again on the OSM attribution mark. This is an updated proposal based on an initial RFC from earlier this year

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

2013-05-01 Thread Alex Barth
Paul - sorry, yeah. Not talking to ODC but I'll make sure to run by LWG. On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: From: Alex Barth [mailto:a...@mapbox.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER Expansion Bot Complete

2013-04-30 Thread Alex Barth
Street vs Main St in the database: http://ksmapper.blogspot.com/2011/05/main-attraction.html I think out west the new bot was mostly fixing a bug in the original TIGER import that put two spaces next to each other on certain types of roads. Toby On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Alex Barth

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER Expansion Bot Complete

2013-04-29 Thread Alex Barth
. It looked at specific TIGER tags and only changed ways where those tags matched what was in the name tag. But it did expand a vast majority of them. The rest may be looked at in the future. Toby On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: That's amazing, Serge. Should we

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

2013-04-25 Thread Alex Barth
Paul - On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I can’t see any legal justification in the ODbL for allowing a mark or the example notice, but not something between. Not sure I follow. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER Expansion Bot Complete

2013-04-25 Thread Alex Barth
That's amazing, Serge. Should we blog about this on OSM.us? On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: On 04/25/2013 02:31 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: Hi all, The TIGER expansion bot is complete. Great, that is excellent news! Congratulations. Finally no

[Talk-us] State Department releasing imagery to OSM and growing use of OSM in the government

2013-04-24 Thread Alex Barth
not on this list but should've been? Any other suggestions? Alex -- Tweet: https://twitter.com/OpenStreetMapUS/status/327179005419745280 Related discussion: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-March/010614.html -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US: Upcoming deadlines

2013-04-23 Thread Alex Barth
Hello everyone - Quick reminder: There are two upcoming deadlines for Sate of the Map US: - **Today** - last opportunity to submit a scholarship application - **Sunday** - last opportunity for submitting a talk If you know someone who you'd love to see speak at the State of the Map US in San

[OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

2013-04-22 Thread Alex Barth
Hello everyone - I'd love to start pushing again on the OSM attribution mark. This is an updated proposal based on an initial RFC from earlier this year titled Contributor Mark [1, 2]. Sorry for the delay in following up with adjustments based on feedback on the original thread. Again, the goal

[Talk-us] Virtual Mappy Hour is on - now!

2013-04-22 Thread Alex Barth
Join for an hour of catching up on OSM: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/7b779c5ab08ff07cfb936d11b85fdd6d12060276?authuser=0hl=en No specific topic today. Looking forward - Alex ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Visualizing editathon edits

2013-04-22 Thread Alex Barth
Ian and Ruben (both copied here) are working on a visualization. Expect to hear more from us soon. On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:43 PM, william skora skorasau...@gmail.comwrote: Hey everyone, Good chatting (or miming) on the google hangout. A question I forgot to ask: A couple of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Re : Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ?

2013-04-15 Thread Alex Barth
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: However, a newsletter type mail out, reminding people they registered, and explaining a little bit about how cool OSM is ... that could be useful to get people involved for the first time, or again. We could roll out

[OSM-talk-fr] Le Monde goes OSM

2013-04-09 Thread Alex Barth
Le Monde just went OSM via MapBox: http://mapbox.com/blog/le-monde-goes-mapbox/ (scroll down for French) This is particularly great as Le Monde's team is genuinely excited about OpenStreetMap https://twitter.com/ogrange/status/321668843191808003 Thanks to the incredible existing body of French

[Talk-us] Apply for a scholarship to State of the Map US

2013-04-02 Thread Alex Barth
/scholarships Cheers, Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Carte OSM utilisée par un ministère sans respecter la clause d'attribution

2013-03-27 Thread Alex Barth
I just reached out to them and asked them to add an attribution link. 2013/3/27 Pieren pier...@gmail.com Vu sur twitter, une carte interactive par le ministère des droits des femmes: http://carte-droits-des-femmes.fr/ Manquent les mentions OdbL et OSM contributeurs. Quelqu'un pour

Re: [Talk-us] 8 locations for spring editathon, where is yours?

2013-03-27 Thread Alex Barth
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.orgwrote: 12:00-17:00 at the Lucky Lab Brewery, 915 SE Hawthorne Great, I added you: - http://www.openstreetmap.us/2013/03/april-spring-editathon/ - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2013

Re: [Talk-us] Examples Gov using OSM

2013-03-27 Thread Alex Barth
___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[Talk-us] 8 locations for spring editathon, where is yours?

2013-03-26 Thread Alex Barth
Ian Dees just added Chicago as city number 8 on our list for the spring #editathon: http://www.openstreetmap.us/2013/03/april-spring-editathon/ LA, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Boston, Portland, San Francisco, [your city here] = what about you? Let's grow this! -- Alex Barth

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US San Francisco: Register now at early bird rate

2013-03-25 Thread Alex Barth
forward to catching up in San Francisco. -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[Talk-us] State of the Map US: Register now at early bird rate

2013-03-25 Thread Alex Barth
the conference, please get in touch if you'd like to get involved in either of them. -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [OSM-talk] Imagery talk ideas

2013-03-23 Thread Alex Barth
Are they much into UAVs? Would be fun to talk up how OSM could benefit from widely and openly available flyover imagery and how the data won through OSM would benefit the imagery space by providing great contextual information. http://twitter.com/lxbarth On Mar 23, 2013, at 2:27 PM, Paul

Re: [Talk-es] LearnOSM em español

2013-03-22 Thread Alex Barth
Acabodo de crear un branch (rama?) 'spanish' y un ticket para coordenar la traducción: https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/issues/63 2013/3/22 Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas js...@osgeo.org ¿Alguien ha pensado en traducir alguna de las guías de LearnOSM? La que está en la web para principiantes

[Talk-us] Examples Gov using OSM

2013-03-22 Thread Alex Barth
love to talk to you. At the OSM US chapter we're getting off and on a question around who in Gov is using OSM, and I'd like to point folks to great allies. -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

[OSM-talk] LearnOSM relaunched

2013-03-20 Thread Alex Barth
LearnOSM relaunched today with a new design and hosted from GitHub: http://learnosm.org/en/ You can read more here in this blog post by Jue Yang who's been the driving force behind design and implementation: http://mapbox.com/blog/learnosm-with-new-design/ It was really rewarding to work with

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Version française du projet LearnOSM ?

2013-03-20 Thread Alex Barth
Pierre (and others) - I just created a 'french' branch on hotosm/learnosm and incorporated your first changes. Please continue work in a french branch that we can then continuously merge into the french branch of hotosm/learnosm and finally merge into gh-pages with all other people contributions.

Re: [Talk-us] OSM St Louis Announcement

2013-03-14 Thread Alex Barth
Like Steve said: awesome you ran an event. In case you're looking for an excuse, April 20 / 21 is a great opportunity to run one again, maybe this time with ASPRS folks invited ;-) http://www.openstreetmap.us/2013/03/april-spring-editathon/ On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Steve Coast

Re: [Talk-us] OSM St Louis Announcement

2013-03-14 Thread Alex Barth
rick.marsh...@verticalgeo.com http://www.verticalgeo.com http://www.culturescapes.net Vertically Thinking Blog: http://verticalgeo.wordpress.com On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Like Steve said: awesome you ran an event. In case you're looking for an excuse

Re: [OSM-talk] Updated Geofabrik Download Server

2013-03-11 Thread Alex Barth
Frederik - This is an awesome service. Should this or a similar shapefile export live one day on openstreetmap.org/export ? On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com jaa...@helleranta.com wrote: Thanks in general for these updates and MD5 sums are now supported, as are

Re: [Talk-us] US Bicycle Routes in KY, TN, AL, MS, and GA

2013-03-11 Thread Alex Barth
This is a concern about there being no active project to develop a route but having a route showing on OSM/OCM. If that's the situation it seems we have a clear cut case at hand: the routes in question just aren't `proposed`. Kerry - have you reviewed the OSM data in question and tried to get

Re: [Talk-us] US Bicycle Routes in KY, TN, AL, MS, and GA

2013-03-11 Thread Alex Barth
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:12 AM, KerryIrons irons54vor...@sbcglobal.netwrote: I am in contact with the mappers involved as they have responded to my initial message. This discussion with your mappers group has been very constructive. I am not familiar with your wiki and will look into that.

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Spring Edit-a-thon in the US, April 20-21 2013

2013-03-11 Thread Alex Barth
Let us (OSM-US chapter) know if you'd like to host a local event, just post back here to the thread. If you've been thinking about bootstrapping or breathing new life into your existing local OSM group, this is a great day to do it. I'm offering to host again at the MapBox office here in

[Talk-us] Virtual Mappy Hour on Map Roulette starting now, please join us

2013-03-11 Thread Alex Barth
http://www.openstreetmap.us/2013/03/march-11-virtual-mappy-hour-lets-talk-maproulette/ ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Workshop ideas for State of the Map US June 2013

2013-03-05 Thread Alex Barth
analytics on it, how to set up your own tile server or how to map more complex things like public traffic. What would _you_ like to learn at this year's OpenStreetMap conference? Or what would you like to teach? Please post your ideas here. http://stateofthemap.us/ -- Alex Barth Secretary

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-01 Thread Alex Barth
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: The fact that you can’t mix OSM + proprietary data and then distribute it as some kind of “OSM but better” without releasing the proprietary data is a feature of share-alike licenses, not a bug. Not every feature is a good

[Talk-us] Azavea Summer of Map fellowships

2013-03-01 Thread Alex Barth
year. Take a look: http://www.azavea.com/a/summer-of-maps/ -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Alex Barth
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Jake Wasserman jwasser...@gmail.comwrote: 'It makes no difference whether you store the data sets separately, or together in the same database software, whether that is a RDBMS, NOSQL, filesystem or anything else. So long as the other data isn't derived from

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Alex Barth
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I think that the OSM community is already very open towards commercial use; This is bigger than just commercial use. The ODbL is an obstacle to contribute to OSM for anyone - business or not - who is bound by the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-27 Thread Alex Barth
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: My understanding is you are saying I would like it to be this way, but at the moment it is not. Correct? Correct. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-27 Thread Alex Barth
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: My understanding is you are saying I would like it to be this way, but at the moment it is not. Correct? Actually to be more specific: I'm saying I would like geocoding-like use cases to be clarified, at the moment it is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-27 Thread Alex Barth
Rob - as long as you don't mix ODbL data and other data in the same database, ODbL's share alike cause doesn't kick in. So using the OSM tiles on your web site doesn't mean that data in your web site is affected. I recommend reading the ODbL, it's pretty clear that way

[Talk-us] Virtual Mappy Hour starting in 30 minutes

2013-02-25 Thread Alex Barth
Quick reminder that this week's Virtual Mappy Hour is starting in 30 minutes. Elliott Pack will talk about mapping bus routes in Baltimore. Swing by! http://www.openstreetmap.us/2013/02/february-25-virtual-mappy-hour-bus-route-mapping/ ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Virtual Mappy Hour starting in 30 minutes

2013-02-25 Thread Alex Barth
We're starting now! Join us: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/bee610ba18046d4ea90d36eb005ef1e2037c0257?authuser=0hl=en On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Quick reminder that this week's Virtual Mappy Hour is starting in 30 minutes. Elliott Pack will talk

Re: [Talk-us] Virtual Mappy Hour starting in 30 minutes

2013-02-25 Thread Alex Barth
Also on Youtube right now: http://www.youtube.com/embed/0vgIIdiWOpk On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: We're starting now! Join us: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/bee610ba18046d4ea90d36eb005ef1e2037c0257?authuser=0hl=en On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:59 PM

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

2013-02-22 Thread Alex Barth
Interesting. How does parcel data work? What does it cover and what's the data interesting for OSM in it? Is this about sourcing address data? On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Brian Cavagnolo bcavagn...@gmail.comwrote: Hey guys, In a previous thread on parcel data, some people expressed

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-21 Thread Alex Barth
I think all of these use cases should be ok and we should adjust the community guide lines to clarify that ODbL's share alike clause shouldn't kick in here. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Olov McKie o...@mckie.se wrote: Hello all! I have a few usecases for OSM where I do not know if I can

Re: [Talk-us] Chicago Buildings Redux

2013-02-21 Thread Alex Barth
Awesome. NYC used to have the same retraction clause, luckily sane forces did away with it there, too. Bit by bit US city governments are outrunning OSM in openness :) On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Skye Book skye.b...@gmail.com wrote: That is incredibly encouraging news, congrats on the

[Talk-us] State of the Map US 2013, June 8-9 in San Francisco

2013-02-08 Thread Alex Barth
/State_Of_The_Map_2013/Call_for_venues -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-02 Thread Alex Barth
On Friday, February 1, 2013, Simon Poole wrote: If you find use of the term “geocode” on our wiki or help site please replace it with a generic term (for example search), or report it to my e-mail address. Hey Simon - I find this hard to believe. Can you confirm that OSMF was requested to

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-02 Thread Alex Barth
On Feb 1, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Simon Poole si...@osmfoundation.org wrote: If you find use of the term “geocode” on our wiki or help site please replace it with a generic term (for example search), or report it to my e-mail address. Hey Simon - I find this hard to believe. Can you confirm

[OSM-talk] ;-)

2013-01-30 Thread Alex Barth
http://xkcd.com/1167/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[Talk-br] Favela mapping

2013-01-29 Thread Alex Barth
Is anyone here in touch with the Favela mapping project by Redes da Maré featured in the Huffington Post? I'd be curious to learn how they do it and whether they use OpenStreetMap. http://www.huffingtonpost

Re: [Talk-us] Import Committee Meeting tonight on Google+

2013-01-29 Thread Alex Barth
Serge - thanks for reminder. Won't be able to make this. Looking forward to you guys' notes. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Darn - I'm out tonight (and every Tuesday) -Original Message- From: Serge Wroclawski [mailto:emac...@gmail.com] Sent:

[Talk-us] Join us for Mappy Hour

2013-01-28 Thread Alex Barth
Join us for Mappy Hour with Ian Dees on OpenStreetMap US community server resources right now. Original announcement: http://www.openstreetmap.us/2013/01/osm-us-servers/ Youtube broad cast: http://youtu.be/w0sF_jvbqtE Interactive hangout on Google plus:

[Talk-us] #editathon DC started

2013-01-26 Thread Alex Barth
We're well started here in DC with over 20 people who've turned out. Here are some pictures - where are people hanging out? #osm-us on irc.oftc.net? http://instagram.com/p/U9S2CzjjCg/ http://instagram.com/p/U9SoPjjjCQ/ ___ Talk-us mailing list

[Talk-us] Next Mappy Hour: Jan 28, Ian Dees on OSM US server resources

2013-01-25 Thread Alex Barth
We continue with our biweekly Virtual Mappy Hour on Monday January 28th 8.30PM Eastern. This time Ian Dees is going to join us and walk us through the community server resources maintained by the OSM US chapter: http://www.openstreetmap.us/2013/01/osm-us-servers/ Come with your questions,

Re: [Talk-us] OSM-edit-a-thon, Growing US User Groups/Communities

2013-01-24 Thread Alex Barth
OpenStreetMap Cleveland! On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 5:16 PM, william skora skorasau...@gmail.comwrote: Great discussion so far and perfect timing for us in Cleveland, we're having our first event of 2013 tomorrow. http://www.meetup.com/cleveland-civic-hacking/members/23087451/ Given

Re: [OSM-talk] POI display on osm.org

2013-01-23 Thread Alex Barth
If we're talking about upping expectations, let me toss in: speed. If we do POIs we should do them right and that includes instant response in my mind. On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Ilya Zverev zve...@textual.ru wrote: Hi. I'd like to put the discussion of Roland's POI feature in

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Edit-a-thon January 26th

2013-01-23 Thread Alex Barth
We should definitely have 1 - 2 months lead time next time around. I know John's been looking at this as a casual first stab at something like that and we're all piling on now :) Let's make some more noise around this: Tweet and facebook that shiz, post here so we can amplify each other.

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Edit-a-thon January 26th

2013-01-23 Thread Alex Barth
All good points, Serge. I'd definitely would like to see more outside activity as the seasons are changing. I want to particularly emphasize your last point: If you're attending or organizing a local event, let everyone know how it went. Take pictures, write up a quick comment with links to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Working Group 2013

2013-01-18 Thread Alex Barth
-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] New website style sheet

2013-01-16 Thread Alex Barth
://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New website style sheet

2013-01-16 Thread Alex Barth
___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] New website style sheet

2013-01-16 Thread Alex Barth
vertical rhythm. Cheers, Joseph [0] https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4745 On 16 January 2013 13:17, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: For reference, this is the relevan ticket on openstreetmap-website: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/150 On Jan 16, 2013

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - OSM contributor mark

2013-01-16 Thread Alex Barth
are: - Feedback on this thread - Adjustments based on feedback - Ideally: launch on osm.org A hat tip to Young Hahn who developed the concept and design for this proposal. -- Alex Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - OSM contributor mark

2013-01-16 Thread Alex Barth
the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - OSM contributor mark

2013-01-16 Thread Alex Barth
a textual reference to OpenStreetMap in the contributor mark, that's at least a given adjustment in my mind. Right now, I think we're all speculating. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: The edit concept is very interesting. This was something crossing my mind

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