[OSM-talk] Fwd: OSM country interviews
oops. Must remember to list-reply. :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Weait Date: Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM country interviews To: Ed Freyfogle Hi Ed, Yes, I enjoyed the State of the Country presentations as well. I remember many in Limerick, and several in Amsterdam. I think State of the Country talks transitioned to the Lightning Talk tracks in Girona and so have been less prominent since then. The wide difference between what the German community and Canadian community had to present in Limerick was stark. :-) It was inspirational to see countries that were further along the OpenStreetMap curve and mapping street furniture and infrastructure like lamp posts, while others were a long way from completing a basic road network, or even major bodies of water. Best regards and happy mapping, Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] OSM country interviews
Hi, many years ago at SotMs there used to be a track of talks in which the speaker would present the state of OSM in their country or region - the community, the unique challenges, etc. I always really enjoyed those talks because they were a chance to learn about the diversity of the world while also reminding us that we're all the same in our desire to create a great and open map. Like the vast majority of OSMers I won't be able to attend SotM this year (though I will be at WhereCamp Berlin please say hello if you're there), but I'm fortunate to have a job that lets me work on OSM. I'm one of the people behind the OpenCage geocoder: http://geocoder.opencagedata.com We thought we'd revive the country report tradition by interviewing people from the different communities on our blog. We've done a few now, listed below. Hope you enjoy them, and if you'd like to tell the world about OSM in our part of the world we'd love to hear from you enjoy, Ed The interviews so far: Indonesia: http://blog.opencagedata.com/post/100941606733/country-profile-state-of-openstreetmap-in-indonesia Basque Country: http://blog.opencagedata.com/post/100820580653/country-profile-state-of-openstreetmap-in-the-basque Bangladesh: http://blog.opencagedata.com/post/99749986348/country-profile-state-of-openstreetmap-in-bangladesh Ireland: http://blog.opencagedata.com/post/99554636383/country-profile-state-of-openstreetmap-in-ireland Chile: http://blog.opencagedata.com/post/98916200238/country-profile-state-of-openstreetmap-in-chile Scotland: http://blog.opencagedata.com/post/98216589988/open-geo-interview-series-state-of-osm-in-scotland We also do interviews in general with anyone doing interesting things in open geo data generally or OSM specifically. See http://blog.opencagedata.com Final note - would especially love to interview anyone who's done on the ground mapping in Antarctica or similarly remote place. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Postponing elections, or other alternatives (Was: Modus operandi of the board)
Hi, I've raised the idea of postponing AGM and election with the board but it appears that there is no board majority for postponing/cancelling anything. Of course you or any other OSMF member is welcome to coordinate plans for members to make a (non-binding) recommendation about how they would like the board to proceed. I'll avoid the word 'resolution' here because a resolution is something that would be binding and have to be properly put on the invitation when the AGM was announced and it is too late for that. This would really need some champion from the membership drawing up some wording and getting the necessary support behind it. I find the whole thing interesting but personally I have taken a very explicit position in the whole affair and it would polarize too much if I were to spearhead a "reboot" effort. I guess the 100% proper and legal way would be to not rush anything into this AGM. Instead (and IANAL etc, just a reader of our AoA and Companies Act) 1. Draw up a proposal for a reboot, for example saying that the whole board is sacked and re-elected and nobody with more than X years on the board is eligible. 2. Find 26 OSMF members who like the idea. Or better 30. You need 5% of voters. This is complicated by the fact that you don't know who the voters are but if you fish among osmf-talk participants you have a good starting point. 3. Write to the board requesting a general meeting as per the paragraphs I mentioned earlier, with the agenda consisting of the sole item of passing the drafted resolution. The board then has 21 days to announce that a general meeting takes place, and the meeting must take place between 14 and 28 days after that announcement. This means that the meeting will take place between 14 and 49 days after board receives your request. 4. At the meeting, you'll then need a simple majority of all votes to get the resolution passed. That would create a binding resolution, and would also be the only way that works should individual board members refuse to comply. If on the other hand you can assume that all board members will support the effort, a simple declaration of intent by a large enough group of members could be sufficient. But if that intent should contain that the whole board is to quit and one member then were to refuse, the only way to force them would most likely be the above GM process. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Questions for 2014 OSMF Nominees
Folks, Just a reminder to all nominees that there are questions posed for you at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM14/Election_to_Board that are awaiting responses. For those that have already answered some questions, I'd advise you to review the page again as a few new questions have appeared. Thanks, Dave (DaCor) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap ten years on, and why it's time for a fresh slate
>I can recite a few of them. We have very little mobile presence, even >though smartphones are ideal surveying devices; a 5% intervention here >would bring so many more people to our 95%. Interesting points. I'd hope most of us, though, remain idealistic beyond our 20s and don't turn into some sort of technophobic Farage-loving bore. ;-) Regarding your point here, I've always wondered (and I think I mentioned this some time ago) whether there would be room for an "easy" footpaths editor (sorry to go on about footpaths but it's my "pet" OSM thing). The user simply records their GPS trace on their phone via a custom app, and selects, via a simple dropdown etc, the current right-of-way type (footpath, bridleway etc). The trace is simplified (e.g. Douglas-Peucker) and converted directly to an OSM file (I think this is what I did way back with osmeditor... anyone remember that?) When back home the data is uploaded. This could be done in a number of ways e.g. OSM data could be downloaded and then some sort of algorithm applied to detect which part of the trace is new. Those segments which are new are then joined - initially automatically but with option to change - to existing data and then uploaded to the server. Alternatively, one could "throw" some OSM data at the server and have the server figure out which parts are new and which are not - though that would of course involve an extension to the API. Is this something that could be of interest? (cc to talk-gb as it's slightly UK-centric but could be used elsewhere potentially) Nick___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Applications to the Local Chapter Agreement
Thanks Jói, I was never seriously expecting there to be any conflicts over geographic "territory" and I'm confident that you are best placed to know of any other groups in your area. My question was more out of curiosity - I'm glad I asked because I've discovered new groups I was unaware of :-) All the best, Rob *Jóhannes Birgir Jensson* *Thu Oct 23 08:47:05 UTC 2014* -- On behalf of the Icelandic applicants we are fairly sure that we are the only ones representing our area and we will strive hard to include others who will be or are interested in the area. We have a small blurb in English about us on our webpage, the OSM affiliation would be presented under OpenStreetMap á Íslandi (in Iceland) where applicable. http://www.hlidskjalf.is/english/ Regards, Jói, current chairman ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] weekly issue 222
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue 222, is now availalbe in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu Special thanks to Martijn van Exel for his help this week:) Enjoy! ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
