[OSM-talk] Project of the Week: Meta. :-)

2011-07-16 Thread Richard Weait
Project of the Week is on hiatus during State of the Map EU but we can still talk about Project of the Week. Have some thoughts? Which was your favourite so far? What future projects would interest you? Help with the survey (5 questions, 3 minutes). http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KRVC2YN

[OSM-talk] Project of the Week: Vienna, and future PotW

2011-07-07 Thread Richard Weait
h2This week/h2 We're on the way to Vienna for a href=http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_Europe_2011;State of the Map-EU/a, so the Project of the Week is to map those things that will help you get to Vienna. a

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week: Stationery

2011-03-03 Thread David Murn
I think this could even be extended to newsagencies too? Most newsagencies in Australia are often dominated by stationary supplies. David On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 08:16 +0100, Matthias Meißer wrote: This week, we suggest to put your eyes on the local stationery shops

[OSM-talk] Project of the week: Stationery

2011-03-02 Thread Matthias Meißer
This week, we suggest to put your eyes on the local stationery shops http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week Again, this is just a look what we can add and not a add XYZ immediately!. Feel free to notify your local groups if you like the idea. regards Matthias

[OSM-talk] Project of the week: Tunnelsbridges

2011-02-23 Thread Matthias Meißer
This week, we suggest to put your eyes on bridges and tunnels in your area http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week Again, this is just a look what we can add and not a add XYZ immediately!. Feel free to notify your local groups if you like the idea. regards Matthias

[OSM-talk] Project of the week: Food banks

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Meißer
This week, we suggest to put your eyes on the local food banks http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week Again, this is just a look what we can add and not a add XYZ immediately!. Feel free to notify your local groups if you like the idea. regards Matthias

[OSM-talk] Project of the week: Florist

2011-02-09 Thread Matthias Meißer
This week, we suggest to put your eyes on the local florist shops http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week Again, this is just a look what we can add and not a add XYZ immediately!. Feel free to notify your local groups if you like the idea. regards Matthias

[OSM-talk] Project of the Week and Tutorials for OSM beginners

2010-09-16 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, I'd like feedback on some recent tutorials for OSM Beginners. If you are a beginner, would you have a look and let me know if they work for you, or how to improve them? Intermediate users, what would be good topics for intermediate tutorials?

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week and Tutorials for OSM beginners

2010-09-16 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I'd like to see some of these guides with maybe some more pictures turned into something printed that I can buy ala on lulu.com or something? - Serge ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Project of the Week

2010-08-02 Thread Shoaib Burq
Hi all, Kashif just added Pakistan's Flood affected areas to the project of the week. If you are in the mood for tracing Yahoo Imagery it would be great to get some of these towns listed in the wiki page for the Pakistan floods traced

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week

2010-08-02 Thread Toby Murray
I'm kind of new here so I wasn't around for Haiti. Is there a general here is how to help map disaster areas page on the wiki? I would be willing to help out but the mapping I have done so far here in the US is a little different thanks to TIGER data that at least gives you a point to start from.

[OSM-talk] project of the week

2010-05-22 Thread Liz
http://opengeodata.org/project-of-the-week-22-may-2010-pushing-up-da Pushing up daisies Not a well chosen name. It turned out to be about gardening, but here pushing up daisies is a saying which means dead and buried (hence turned to fertiliser and making the daisies grow).

[OSM-talk] Project of the Week 04 April 2010 - Play Ball!

2010-04-04 Thread Richard Weait
This week marks the beginning of the 2010 Major League Baseball season in the USA.[1] Let's get out and map the major league parks and their surroundings. Get the ball park to be sure, but let's also make sure that the points of interest to a visiting ball fan are mapped as well. That means

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-30 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 28 March 2010 08:00, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: Richard Weait wrote: Many of the coastlines in OSM came from an import of the PGS coastline data.  It was a fantastic benefit to be able to add this coastline data to OSM, and we're better off having had it.  And there are many

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-30 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El 30/03/2010 15:10, andrzej zaborowski escribió: And while in the process: have a look at the islands of Ibiza and Formentera. These landmasses have vanished. I have argued on the talk-es list that it might be caused by the addition of place=island to the coast line on Mar 19. I have not

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-30 Thread John Smith
2010/3/30 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/536255 ... but the problem persists. anything tagged natural=coastline only updates intermitently, I'm not sure if there is a regular schedule or not, however shape files are produced from the

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-30 Thread Grant Slater
2010/3/30 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: anything tagged natural=coastline only updates intermitently, I'm not sure if there is a regular schedule or not, however shape files are produced from the coastline segments and so on and so forth. Coastlines updating is currently a manual

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-30 Thread John Smith
2010/3/31 Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com: Do it properly. Not using some dirty hack. :-) The problem is everything except the coastlines update within minutes, so now people assume everything does and when it doesn't they complain on mailing lists or diary entries or

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-30 Thread Jon Burgess
On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 16:45 +0100, Grant Slater wrote: 2010/3/30 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: anything tagged natural=coastline only updates intermitently, I'm not sure if there is a regular schedule or not, however shape files are produced from the coastline segments and so on and

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-30 Thread John Smith
On 31 March 2010 08:34, Jon Burgess jburgess...@googlemail.com wrote: place=island should have no effect on it. Other than being used to display the name does that tag get rendered at all? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-28 Thread Richard Weait
Many of the coastlines in OSM came from an import of the PGS coastline data. It was a fantastic benefit to be able to add this coastline data to OSM, and we're better off having had it. And there are many places that have aerial imagery that is now good enough to improve on PGS coastlines. So

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-28 Thread Maarten Deen
Richard Weait wrote: Many of the coastlines in OSM came from an import of the PGS coastline data. It was a fantastic benefit to be able to add this coastline data to OSM, and we're better off having had it. And there are many places that have aerial imagery that is now good enough to improve

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-28 Thread Roman Neumüller
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:48:16 +0300, talk-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:17:28 -0430 From: Richard Weait rich...@weait.com Subject: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data To: talk@openstreetmap.org, newb...@openstreetmap.org Message-ID

[OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread SteveC
Hi Thought I'd try to put this together: -- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week Every week, OSMers everywhere are invited to help in this weeks project. This is inspired by the huge amount of effort that went in to mapping Haiti by people all over the world. -- So please

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
by the news events ! Gert Gremmen -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] Namens SteveC Verzonden: dinsdag 9 februari 2010 19:42 Aan: Talk Openstreetmap Onderwerp: [OSM-talk] Project of the week Hi Thought I'd try to put

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread Joseph Reeves
] Namens SteveC Verzonden: dinsdag 9 februari 2010 19:42 Aan: Talk Openstreetmap Onderwerp: [OSM-talk] Project of the week Hi Thought I'd try to put this together: -- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week Every week, OSMers everywhere are invited to help in this weeks

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread Ciprian Talaba
Hi, On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:44 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote: Ok , nice idea, But Denver ...???!!?? Why Denver..of all places And House numbers ??? Who needs a house number in Denver ? I believe a lot of people asked the same questions about

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread SteveC
- Van: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] Namens SteveC Verzonden: dinsdag 9 februari 2010 19:42 Aan: Talk Openstreetmap Onderwerp: [OSM-talk] Project of the week Hi Thought I'd try to put this together: -- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread Dave F.
SteveC wrote: Hi Thought I'd try to put this together: -- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week Every week, OSMers everywhere are invited to help in this weeks project. This is inspired by the huge amount of effort that went in to mapping Haiti by people all over the

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread SteveC
On Feb 9, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Dave F. wrote: SteveC wrote: Hi Thought I'd try to put this together: -- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week Every week, OSMers everywhere are invited to help in this weeks project. This is inspired by the huge amount of effort that

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread Grant Slater
On 10 February 2010 00:43, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Steve, I've got something for you to do. Why don't you design a logo for the OSM foundation instead of arrogantly lazily expecting others, outside of the foundation, to do it for you. Dave chill out, that is over the top. Even

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: ...Tracing just doesn't cut it. Cut it? Cut what? I think it's perfectly suitable for what Steve's suggesting. There's a time and a place for tracing. ___ talk mailing list