http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Data_Working_Group
From: Jeff Meyer [mailto:j...@gwhat.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 9:47 PM
To: Paul Norman
Cc: impo...@openstreetmap.org; OpenStreetMap US Talk
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MassGIS Building Import Start
IMO, the process
From: Toby Murray [mailto:toby.mur...@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MassGIS Building Import Start
I'm not sure if this page is actually linked to from anywhere but all
account blocks and the reasons they were put in place are viewable by
everybody on this page:
of the consultation.
From: Mike Dupont [mailto:jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 6:05 AM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org; Paul Norman
Subject: [Talk-us] shawnee county landuse
Hi,
Paul Norman pointed out that I forgot to mail people about my work on
topeka. I have
From: Greg Troxel [mailto:g...@ir.bbn.com]
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import - process
Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org writes:
Paul - I've added a few comments and questions about changeset size
and revert policies on the Import Guidelines Plan Outline wiki
pages.
Are
on it but the person doing so
would probably be okay since they didnt make the K.S.A. 45-220(c)(2)
certification.
From: Mike Dupont [mailto:jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 9:51 AM
To: Martin Koppenhöfer
Cc: Paul Norman; imports; talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re
...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 6:51 PM
To: Paul Norman
Cc: imports; talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Imports] [Talk-us] shawnee county landuse
Well we can remove the names of the lbcs codes, I left them for now because
it is very useful for editing. I am using them
help clarify guidance moving forward.
(my take on the answers are: no (2 weeks minimum), no (that page is a
disaster), and no clue.)
Thanks, Jeff
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote
From: stevea [mailto:stevea...@softworkers.com]
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 12:31 PM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-us] An admin_level for CDPs?
I have been pondering the use of the admin_level key in the USA, and
have come to the realization that while values 2, 4, 6
to
connect town boundaries to them). I'd be interested to know how well
that data source matches others for the state boundary, too, though.
Paul Norman got me thinking about the BC/Washington State border. Comparing
Washington State's border files with TIGER data you'll find discrepancies. I
On 2013-01-09, at 7:38 PM, Sailor Jerry sailorje...@scmarinetech.com wrote:
Looks I like barged straight to the committee boat and now I need to do my
720 turns :-)
Here is what I've done so far:
1) Reverted all my previous submissions ( see
Darn - I'm out tonight (and every Tuesday)
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From: Serge Wroclawski [mailto:emac...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:56 AM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-us] Import Committee Meeting tonight on Google+
Hey all,
A quick reminder that
I'm working on a presentation and was wondering if anyone had some examples
of use of OSM for maps in the recent US election. I know there were some,
but I can't find them
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From: Brian Cavagnolo [mailto:bcavagn...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:29 PM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-us] parcel boundaries and associated data in OSM
Is parcel data useful to OSM?
Parcel data in of itself has not found a use in OSM. Parcel data bounds
Nothing in that presentation says that Google sourced the data from
Wikipedia, just that Wikipedia and Google had the same coordinates, which in
this case would be from some official source. The current data on Google
also differs from Wikipedia.
From: Michael Patrick
A us-only taginfo. Frequently the tag usage distribution varies between
regions which is why there local taginfo instances for a few countries
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Taginfo/Sites)
The taginfo sqlite databases total about 4GB for the planet so this
shouldn't take much space, but
Both of those relations describe areas. In fact, I believe osm2pgsql uses
the exact same code for building type=boundary as type=multipolygon.
From: stevea [mailto:stevea...@softworkers.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 3:38 PM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Park
I'm not exactly following the logic in the code. Could you produce a .osc
file result with the changes that it would make?
From: Eric Fischer [mailto:e...@pobox.com]
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 7:11 PM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Cc: Michal Migurski; Alex Barth
Subject: [Talk-us] Updating
With all the address stuff I've completely dropped NHD off my plate.
I had been working on a NHD to OSM conversion and had gotten so far as to
get a Potlatch2 instance with it as a background layer, see
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-November/009515.html
and
From: Ben Supnik [mailto:bsup...@xsquawkbox.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:52 PM
To: Paul Norman
Cc: 'Mack Stanley'; OpenStreetMap US Talk
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Questions about bsupnik's NHD OSM files
Hi Y'all,
I've been out to lunch re: NHD for a while..Paul, a stupid q
It's worth noting that source:maxspeed=sign is the most common value. I
looked at the last-touched authors for a couple of the country:region values
and for sign and survey and it was my impression that sign and survey had a
wider distribution of users using them.
From: the Old Topo Depot
From: Bob Eddings [mailto:eddi...@mac.com]
Subject: [Talk-us] Need an OSM dev in PDX to make a custom vector map
file
I'm working on a local design project and need to meetup with someone in
Portland with the tools skill to create a custom vector map of the
Portland metro area (minus
I was wondering who the workshops on Friday before SOTM would be of interest
to. Advanced mappers? Developers of OSM software? Developers of software
using OSM data?
I'm trying to figure out what days to fly in/out on.
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Thanks for the proposal, I have a few comments
From: Matthew Petroff [mailto:openstreet...@mpetroff.net]
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 9:03 PM
Subject: [Imports-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import
Using QGIS, I assigned approximate street addresses to each building
using a parcel map [3]
From: Jason Remillard [mailto:remillard.ja...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import
Hi,
If you carefully read the original mail, you will see two download
links. Both of those links it says the data is public domain I
I've started a table at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_U.S._2013#Room_share for
SOTM-US room shares.
Anyone considering a room share should plan it soon because the Holiday Inn
Civic Center special SOTM-US rate requires booking by the 10th. Other hotels
don't have a hard
From: stevea [mailto:stevea...@softworkers.com]
Cc: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] misuse of the landuse=forest tag for national
forests
Hello Torsten:
Please see our wiki pages at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dforest and
How can we get more effective press coverage from events? Part of it is
probably more people volunteering for the communications working group, but
is there more?
Note: If you want to help with the CWG, email
communicat...@osmfoundation.org.
From: James Mast
From: Mike Dupont [mailto:jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 8:45 PM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org; Toby Murray; the Old Topo Depot; Paul
Norman
Subject: Mass deletion in shawnee county, ks
Hi all, I would like some help here. I have spent the past 6 months
working
From: Richard Welty [mailto:rwe...@averillpark.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:22 PM
To: Talk Openstreetmap
Subject: [Talk-us] deleting misleading CDPs
my feeling is that if there's a named town then including a much smaller
CDP with the same name is quite misleading. i think the same
. This covers both
his NE2 and NE3 accounts.
Paul Norman
For the Data Working Group
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We lost track of this case when Richard Weait stepped down, but I placed a
0-hour block about the complaints and pointing out that changeset comments are
helpful.
The 0-hour block has expired so Cam4rd98 has read it, but have they stopped the
behavior that was the problem? I don’t have the
[mailto:tom.taylor.s...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 8:56 AM
To: Russell Deffner
Cc: 'Murry McEntire'; 'Paul Norman'; 'hot'; 'OSM US Talk'
Subject: Re: [HOT] [Talk-us] Black Forest Fire Update
natural=wood is the obvious way to me. It's what I use here in Ottawa,
Canada.
On 14/06
I've been doing some California landuse and have come across a lot of
landuse=residential imported from FMMP which is clearly wrong. The
landuse=residential covers entire cities, including commercial, industrial,
retail, parks, schools, golf courses, airports, and pretty much anything
within city
From: Bryce Nesbitt [mailto:bry...@obviously.com]
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Cleaning up California FMMP residential
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
I've been doing some California landuse and have come across a lot
probably need to have a bigger look at cleaning up California landuse
imports, there is some weird and wrong stuff there, but that's a wider
discussion that doesn't need to stop us from removing the clearly wrong
stuff.
From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com]
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 3:29
From: Richard Welty [mailto:rwe...@averillpark.net]
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] what do we mean by geocoding?
On 6/21/13 9:39 PM, Mike N wrote:
On 6/21/2013 1:42 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
Surveying postal addresses by opening mailboxes (illegal) or knocking
on doors doesn't seem feasible.
Neither of those is public domain. I know for individuals there can be
issues releasing data into the public domain, but if a government's lawyers
feel their data is public domain, I generally just take them at their word.
If the data is public domain then a simple statement that the data is
Of Josh Doe
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 11:59 AM
To: Paul Norman
Cc: Ian Dees; Elliott Plack; Imports US; OSM US Talk List
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Releasing my data into Public Domain
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
Neither of those is public
From: Maarten Deen [mailto:md...@xs4all.nl]
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 2:57 AM
To: t...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls
On 2013-07-20 11:29, Paul Norman wrote:
From: Andrew Errington [mailto:erringt...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 11:42 PM
From: Shawn K. Quinn [mailto:skqu...@rushpost.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 9:59 PM
Subject: [Talk-us] Trunk vs motorway for rural Interstates with grade
crossings
As an example of what I am referring to:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/145137749/history
I noticed that
From: Simon Poole [mailto:si...@poole.ch]
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Spammy-sounding survey sent to my OSM inbox today.
This knowing everything about everybody has gone too far. You don't
know about padeshahekhoban? Neither do I. And I really don't care to:
From: Serge Wroclawski [mailto:emac...@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal
There was another, gnis:fcode, I believe, which people wanted preserved.
My solution to this ambiguity is to explicitly list the tags to remove,
rather than say All gnis tags except X,Y ,Z
To recap and hopefully move forwards, I'm bringing this up again.
From: Serge Wroclawski [mailto:emac...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 1:55 PM
Subject: [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal
Hi all,
I've been looking at the GNIS data and it's quite a mess.
As a step towards
From: Serge Wroclawski [mailto:emac...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 1:39 AM
Cc: talk-us@openstreetmap.org; OSM Imports List
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal
Paul,
Agreed- and most of why I put this away was that I felt the discussion
had gone off the
From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com]
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore County GIS Data is now public domain
Your use of public domain in the subject is potentially confusing,
since there is no reliable method for you to declare that the data
I threw together a set of links to OSM-US candidates editing heatmaps for
edits in the US, as one of the criteria I'm using for deciding whom to vote
for is editing history.
Edits in Alaska or Hawaii are outside the window, but were not significant.
Martijn van Exel:
From: stevea [mailto:stevea...@softworkers.com]
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2013 Places shapefile for PA?
Now, is there a method (as neat and easy as using itoworld) that renders
both ways and relations? I mean for admin_levels, especially, as they
I happened across http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1205150, a
relation with name=Lake Erie.
My recollection is that last time this came up we decided that as the Great
Lakes are large lakes by any reasonable standard they are best represented
as natural=coastline. Thousand-member MPs
I delete all of those but gnis:feature_id and source when I'm editing if
I'm confident that the OSM tags are right.
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From: Jason Remillard [mailto:remillard.ja...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 5:57 PM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap
Subject:
From: Richard Welty [mailto:rwe...@averillpark.net]
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Admin borders in the US: CDPs
the latter, i think. there are parts of the US where the CDP boundaries
do contribute to the map.
I think there's two different cases that need to be distinguished between.
One is where
From: Serge Wroclawski [mailto:emac...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Currently available good GPS for use with OSM
mapping in the USA?
It's also worth mentioning that the type of environment you're in makes
a huge difference. When you're in a
From: Florian Lohoff [mailto:f...@zz.de]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [josm-dev] Relation editor support for north/south and
east/west similar to forward/backward
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 03:57:40PM -0600, Ian Dees wrote:
No, these aren't compass directions.
From: Eric H. Christensen [mailto:e...@christensenplace.us]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 2:25 PM
To: impo...@openstreetmap.org; talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Imports] Importing building data for Anne Arundel County MD
I recently found that Anne Arundel County (Maryland) licenses
It's important to remember that meetup.com is selling two services in one:
their calendaring and organization software, and listing on their site which
involves publicity with their substantial list of members for which they
have both locations and interests. The first one is easy to reproduce,
name:lang tags are for the name in lang, not for the name translated to
lang. My neighborhood name could be translated into many languages, but that
doesnt mean it has anything other than an English name.
Its also important to remember that English is not a default in OSM names
From:
From: Richard Welty [mailto:rwe...@averillpark.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:32 AM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Merging a GNIS node with a TIGER way - for a town
On top of it, one of them claims Fortuna, CA is a town, while the
other claims it is a
If there are users conducting undiscussed mechanical edits, please contact
the data working group at d...@osmfoundation.org.
Please include links to changesets, changed objects, and whatever we need to
investigate.
Remember that this contest is not directly affiliated with the OSMF or OSM,
For those who don't know, there's a place on
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_U.S._2014 for people to
indicate if they want to arrange a room share. Washington is fairly
expensive, so a room share is one way to save money.
Disclosure: I'm on the list of people looking to split
From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frede...@remote.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:06 PM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap
Subject: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name
I wonder: Is OSMI correct in flagging this for correction, or is this
something that
On Tuesday May 6th I'll be giving a talk in the evening at the Seattle
Postgres Users Group on optimizing the Postgres side of an OpenStreetMap
tile rendering server. This is an adapted version of the talk I gave at the
regional conference in April, which you can see at
From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 6:09 AM
To: Martijn van Exel
Cc: OSM US Talk
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Local groups on the map!
a) A polygon indicates an area of exclusivity, and no other OSM groups
are permitted within the area without the
there's
a legitimate reason behind creating an alt explicitly created
for vandalism.
Reverted and http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/468
Paul Norman
For the Data Working Group
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The standard tag for where a road is misnamed in some other commonly
referred to source is not:name.
How to deal with well-intentioned mappers damaging the map by re-introducing
bad data is an open question. They can actually cause quite a lot of damage
without intending to, and the systematic
On 2014-06-23 8:41 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
Supreme Court rules for a second time that indian nations are domestic
dependent nations with inherent sovereign authority. This affirms
that indian reservations are higher than the state level, lower than
the federal level.
This sounds like the
On 2014-06-24 6:50 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
Do you propose cutting the areas out of the states, i.e. so that IRs
are not in any admin_level=4 relations? That's what you have to do if
you're fitting IRs into the admin_level hierarchy.
No, since the states often have agreements for limited
On 2014-06-25 3:36 PM, Steve All wrote:
Paul Norman wrote:
I took TIGER data and produced data showing what some states would look
like: https://gist.github.com/pnorman/30244b2984216285735d
Those are truly excellent visualizations, Paul. Thank you for
producing them. Whether right
On 2014-06-30 9:59 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
Hey all!
I created the Mappy Hour event for tonight! But I won't be able to
make it, unfortunately... Who can be there at 5:30 PDT / 8:30 EDT to
get it started? All that means is that you show up so there's someone
there :) If you have a few
On 2014-07-03 7:13 PM, Bill R. WASHBURN wrote:
I like how clearly you explain the differences. Since destination= is
so much more intuitive and so much more widely used, should we
depreciate exit_to, indicate on the wiki that exit_to is depreciated,
and make a concerted effort to migrate
On 2014-06-23 4:16 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
We should approach automated edits with a great deal of caution - but
that's a separate discussion. I think converting exit_to to
destination would be hard to do anyway because exit_to is added to the
motorway_junction node, whereas destination
On Jul 07, 2014, at 11:22 PM, Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us wrote:
Potlatch 1 lets you undelete ways you've deleted: follow the
instructions at [1] to open Potlatch 1, then press U. You'll see deleted
ways in red: select one and press the Unlock button in the tagging
area to
I added to the events calendar (http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Current_events), which
is on the Wiki front page.
On Jul 07, 2014, at 08:01 PM, Elliott Plack elliott.pl...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll be there! I'll see if I can get some of the other OSM locals out there too.
https://flic.kr/p/n5HyuZ
a Turing machine to make an automated edit of this (esp
where there's center exits, or more than one in the same spot left and right).
On Jul 5, 2014 4:31 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
On 2014-06-23 4:16 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
We should approach automated edits with a great deal
On 2014-07-15 10:37 AM, Scott Rollins wrote:
I think we hit a divided by a common language situation here. From
the dictionaries I found, launchpad appears to be perfectly
acceptable (and, it appeared to me, the preferred spelling) in
American English.
Although I'm not commenting on the
On 2014-07-18 10:53 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
I should add that I do not intend on changing state boundaries, just
mapping indian nations where I know the boundaries to lie on the
ground, as higher than state, lower than the country, inside the US
only, if that wasn't clear on the admin level
On 2014-07-19 2:46 PM, Mike N wrote:
I suspect that most of the unusual cases would be too complicated for
MapRoulette because of the need to consult with a governmental reference.
Or actually survey them. Aside from first-hand knowledge being superior,
there tends to be a high error rate in
On 7/15/2014 3:00 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
I will follow up with some numbers, unless Paul changes his mind about
this not having much interest and crunches the numbers before me.
Of the approximately 28k exit_to nodes, 24k are children of two or three
ways with exactly one of those ways
On 7/30/2014 1:45 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
So if you have expertise in Tilemill, I'd love the help in setting up
some tiles that show probable abbreviations.
I have the databases to do this, but it's not clear to me how to
visualize this. Just color roads in that have abbreviations?
On 7/30/2014 6:18 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
Paul,
Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out where the problems are- not trying
to dig deeply into them yet- I'm looking for clusters of problems (ie
San Diego), or I heard about a problem in Michigan where someone
decided to revert a bunch of the
On 8/28/2014 10:56 PM, Hans De Kryger wrote:
Is this abandoned railway really need at all? The last person to touch
it was NE2.
If there's no trace on the ground, delete it. If it's still there but
without tracks, use railway=dismantled (e.g. a bed).
By the looks of it, a lot of it goes
On 8/29/2014 9:41 PM, Russ Nelson wrote:
And then I can point you to oddly connected roads, and a
lack of buildings, or new buildings.
Those things should certainly be mapped, but there are other projects to
put historical data.
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On 9/15/2014 7:03 PM, Jack Burke wrote:
As the wiki doesn't specifically say *don't* put a space after the
semicolon, I didn't see a problem with doing it. [1]
The standard is to use ; without a space as a delimiter. This is what
both iD and JOSM use.
On 9/19/2014 7:00 AM, Bryan Housel wrote:
We really should come up with a good way to make authoritative data
harder to edit in the various editors.
All that a particular data source can be authoritative for is what that
data source says something is. What is authoritative for OSM is the
On 9/19/2014 6:19 AM, Reilly, Colin wrote:
A single building cannot straddle two tax parcels.
This seems incorrect. If I build a structure on two tax parcels, it can
exist as a single building. It may not be legal, or may require planning
tricks that make it two buildings in the eyes of the
On 9/26/2014 9:57 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
This is not really appropriate since the main map rendering stylesheet
still takes ref tags from ways to paint the route number shields.
There is work underway to take that information from route relations
I decided to conduct an rudimentary analysis on the edits of the current
OSM
US board candidates, similar to something I did last year. When considering
the qualifications of someone on the board which sets direction for the
local chapter, it is certainly useful to their experience as an OSM
On 10/3/2014 8:28 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
Paul, did you take alternate accounts into consideration, or only one
uid per candidate?
I only used the user that was linked from the candidate list. I
considered multiple IDs, but I didn't expect it to make a significant
difference for my uses. E.g.
On 10/5/2014 6:26 PM, Alan McConchie wrote:
All of the candidates have made more than zero edits
While true that all candidates have edited OSM at some point in the
past, two of them have zero edits in the last year, and one of those has
no US edits ever.[1]
While a candidate may have other
On 10/7/2014 10:51 AM, Charlotte Wolter wrote:
Also, all have editing experience with OSM, whether
in the United States or outside.
I would not consider someone who has not made a single edit in the last
12 months to have editing experience in the context of a local chapter
election. This is
On 11/11/2014 10:29 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
I've created a set of tiles from US Forest Service road data for the
155 US National Forests.
It's worth noting that a green area denotes a US National Forest, which
does not imply it's got trees, which is necessary for an OSM forest.
Thanks
On 11/24/2014 5:00 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
I wonder why US States are tagged as admin_level=4, wouldn't it be
more consistent with the rest of the map to have them tagged as level 3?
admin_level=4 is consistent with Canada and Australia at the very least.
I believe it's also consistent
On 12/31/2014 2:14 PM, stevea wrote:
OSM uses WGS-84 as its default, and I erred in not realizing these
data are in NAD 27, so a conversion does seem to be necessary.
Not just by default - OSM is defined as only being in WGS84.
When you open them as-is with JOSM (+ Shapefile plug-in), you get
On 10/8/2014 8:49 PM, Jo Walsh wrote:
Okay, my gloss on this is that the Code of Conduct is a kind of
shibboleth and a kind of insurance policy.
You need one in order to be seen taking this stuff seriously
The argument raised recently was that having a CoC helps diversity, and
is not a
On 10/11/2014 3:48 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
Here’s my question, and this needs to be clarified (probably deserves its own
thread):
Who is responsible for deciding what action needs to be taken in the case of
CoC violations?
A CoC without a body willing and able to enforce it is just
On 12/2/2014 3:22 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Your justification for this seems to be behaviour outside of this list
and/or, and this is the bit I take particular offense with,
The private responses to me have generally expressed that is part of a
pattern of behavior, and not an isolated incident.
On 12/2/2014 5:04 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
Am I to understand that felt Serge's comments were acceptable
behavior? I was expecting to find that you at least didn't condone it.
but sadly no where did you say Serge's comments were unacceptable.
No where did I say that his comments were acceptable
On 2/4/2015 2:43 PM, Alex Barth wrote:
Yup, that cutoff number is going to be somewhere beyond 1,000 - and we
are fully planning to sell out the conference :)
Any idea what portion will be mappers and what will be companies or
other organizations? The feedback I've gotten is that the US
On 1/14/2015 10:17 AM, Alex Barth wrote:
To all OpenStreetMap US members:
Our new proposed bylaws are open for comments until **January 20th 3PM
Eastern**.
Will these new bylaws be compatible with getting Local Chapter status?
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On 2/10/2015 4:32 PM, Andrew Harvey wrote:
I've completed their survey from a individual level, however will OSMF
be submitting an OSMF response? I'm not 100% across what exact
licensing conditions the data would need to be released under to leave
open the possibility of incorporating it
Paulo
(osm.org/relation/4551468) and in the south (osm.org/relation/4551469).
The tracksource redaction is temporarily paused, but should now be much
faster as it doesn't have to work with that mega-relation.
Paul Norman
For the OSMF Data Working Group
On 1/6/2015 11:01 AM, Karel Charvat wrote:
Are the developers of Be-On-Road fullfilling their ODbl license
obligations by providing their data only in files with unknown format?
It depends. If they are not adding any data, they can simply point to
the source (planet.osm.org).
If they are
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