[OSM-talk] Trying to find Russian user Usm78

If anyone’s able to connect me… https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Usm78 Last edited around 2015. thanks… Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] SOTM Africa

I’m confused why you think all board members are volunteers? That feels like a convenient fiction. Best Steve From: Jorden Verwer Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2019 11:52:00 PM To: Steve Coast Cc: talk@openstreetmap org Talk ; osmf-t...@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] SOTM Africa

Today I attended SOTM Africa in Grand-Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire. It was a genuinely wonderful experience both for me personally and for OSM. It was organized by both locals and many francophones. People attended from a diverse set of African countries and beyond, and they’re doing an enormous

[OSM-talk] Addressing SIG

Hello Maps have three basic components: Display (does it look nice?), Routing (Can I get from a to b?) and Geocoding (Where is this address?). OSM is extremely good at the first one, and pretty good at the second one. But it’s pretty deficient in the third area: address data. The question is,

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapzen is shutting down

A few of us are working on this - https://www.maphaven.com Map services with the profits going to open mapping. Steve On Jan 7, 2018, at 4:04 PM, Tobias Zwick > wrote: Hey guys Some of you already read it on weekly, Mapzen is shutting down.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Stats site kickstarter

kickstarter to either fund or kill the variety of little sites I have. It seems like an efficient way to do it, but maybe I’m wrong. Best Steve On 4/12/17, 10:57 AM, "Hakuch" <hak...@posteo.de> wrote: On 12.04.2017 18:45, Steve Coast wrote: > Ten years ago, I’d p

[OSM-talk] OSM Stats site kickstarter

I’m attempting to raise $1k in a week via Kickstarter [1] to fix the OpenStreetMap Stats site[2] I built last year. The site lets you explore OSM data by country, time and data type: Sadly, it’s suffered bit rot and some countries are broken and not updating. The $1k goes toward fixing, open

Re: [Talk-us] Communications manager

> On Apr 1, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Luis Villa <l...@lu.is> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:55 AM Steve Coast <st...@asklater.com > <mailto:st...@asklater.com>> wrote: > > > On Apr 1, 2016, at 12:42 AM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com > > <mail

Re: [Talk-us] Communications manager

> On Apr 1, 2016, at 12:42 AM, Paul Norman wrote: > > On 4/1/2016 12:22 AM, Greg Morgan wrote: >> I would think that the US Board should add another board member to be a >> communications manager. I now understand why corporations have paid staff >> that do nothing but

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Slack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software)> > On Mar 27, 2016, at 12:02 AM, Maarten Deen <md...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On 2016-03-26 20:59, Steve Coast wrote: >> Ok so look, Slack took over the world. And it tu

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software)> > On Mar 27, 2016, at 12:02 AM, Maarten Deen <md...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On 2016-03-26 20:59, Steve Coast wrote: >> Ok so look, Slack took over the world. And it tu

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

hat can connect slack and IRC. Not > sure how well they work when there is a lot of traffic on both sides. > But is it something we would want to look at? > > Toby > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Steve Coast <st...@asklater.com> wrote: >> Thanks I added it to the wi

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

. > > On Mar 26, 2016 9:05 PM, "Steve Coast" <st...@asklater.com > <mailto:st...@asklater.com>> wrote: > Ok so look, Slack took over the world. And it turns out it’s pretty good and > useful. Let’s have an official OSM slack. > > — > > Due Dilige

[OSM-talk] Slack

Ok so look, Slack took over the world. And it turns out it’s pretty good and useful. Let’s have an official OSM slack. — Due Diligence: https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:wiki.openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Slack

Ok so look, Slack took over the world. And it turns out it’s pretty good and useful. Let’s have an official OSM slack. — Due Diligence: https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:wiki.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

> On Feb 23, 2016, at 9:11 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Paul Norman > wrote: > On 2016-02-22 12:38 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > As has been mentioned before, the LWG and OSMF were and are involved in this >

Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

> On Feb 21, 2016, at 5:27 PM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Steve Coast <st...@asklater.com > <mailto:st...@asklater.com>> wrote: > Ian > > I was just emailed privately to say there's h

Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

oundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/2016_Law_Clinic > > <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/2016_Law_Clinic> > On Feb 21, 2016 18:16, "Steve Coast" <st...@asklater.com > <mailto:st...@asklater.com>> wrote: > It sho

Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

It should be pointed out again that this research, based on a - still secret - brief by a company, didn’t happen via the LWG. Hopefully one day we’ll be able to build an open process using real lawyers, instead of secret agendas pushed via students. Best Steve > On Feb 21, 2016, at 3:58 PM,

[OSM-talk] license changes

Any license change process, or anything remotely close to it, should be open and transparent. It should involve the community from the start and any company that wants to participate too. This is painful, and it takes a long time to do. But it’s the right way to do it. And it’s what we did

[Talk-us] license changes

Any license change process, or anything remotely close to it, should be open and transparent. It should involve the community from the start and any company that wants to participate too. This is painful, and it takes a long time to do. But it’s the right way to do it. And it’s what we did

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Law clinic

Thanks Ian Could you please share with the community the full briefing document, since OSM US is the client? Best Steve On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:08 PM -0800, "Ian Dees" <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Steve Coast <st...@asklater.com&g

Re: [Talk-us] Law clinic

Thanks Ian Could you please share with the community the full briefing document, since OSM US is the client? Best Steve On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:08 PM -0800, "Ian Dees" <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Steve Coast <st...@asklater.com&g

[OSM-talk] Community Conference

I’ve heard from a few people thinking of organizing an OpenStreetMap conference focused on the community, very different from what SOTM has become. I’m curious what people here think of the idea? Best Steve ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

> On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:19 AM, Tom Lee wrote: > > > He’s clearly not suggesting that. > > > > He’s suggesting that if you want to put geocodes in OSM that you go do > > that, and create a community around it, rather than this method of “change > > the license or we won’t do

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

Tom looks like I misread Fred a little, apologies. Steve > On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:28 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > Martin, > > On 10/14/2015 11:18 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >>frankly, if there was a halfway usable repository of open >>addresses that could be

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

> On Oct 14, 2015, at 8:30 AM, Tom Lee wrote: > > Frederik. I think it's a bit ungenerous to suggest that getting open address > data into OSM constitutes "hijacking" the project. He’s clearly not suggesting that. He’s suggesting that if you want to put geocodes in OSM that

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap US elections: October 12 townhall with candidates

Picking up on the SOTM point - SOTM US isn’t for the community, it’s a corporate showcase. That’s not a bad thing, it’s just probably not what OSMFUS should be focused on. A more interesting question is what should OSMFUS try to do to build editors in the US, and what metric should we use

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

I actually really like the idea of State mailing lists, could work, worth a try. Steve > On Oct 14, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > > To me, one of the biggest things is about having all mappers act > reasonably toward each other. We have some people that I'd

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

Tom Isn’t the problem one of imports? The debate on importing 200M points would be entertaining. Steve > On Oct 13, 2015, at 10:12 AM, Tom Lee wrote: > > > I think I agree with everything but this - I still don’t think it’s good > > enough. Of course, I also want it to be

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

2, 2015 at 12:32 PM > To: "Licensing and other legal discussions." <legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > <mailto:legal-talk@openstreetmap.org>> > Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline > > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Steve Co

[OSM-legal-talk] OSM's future Was: Re: Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

> On Oct 12, 2015, at 1:32 PM, Alex Barth wrote: > "our problems" would of course need more definition and I'm running the risk > here of misinterpreting what you said. I'm thinking about all the cases where > OSM isn't used yet, all the mapping that isn't happing in OSM yet.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

> On Oct 12, 2015, at 3:03 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > At the time, no-one was doing serious geocoding off OSM data - it wasn't > good enough. I think I agree with everything but this - I still don’t think it’s good enough. Of course, I also want it to be better - but

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM's future Was: Re: Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

> On Oct 12, 2015, at 4:24 PM, Alex Barth wrote: > How is it a bad thing that OSM is used in more places where it can't be used > today and hence grows? It isn’t, as we discussed before. It’s - again - a question of what changes at what cost as discussed. In the past it’s

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

> On Oct 9, 2015, at 3:22 PM, Alex Barth <a...@mapbox.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Steve Coast <st...@asklater.com > <mailto:st...@asklater.com>> wrote: > If you want all these rights, you can just pick up the phone and pay HERE or > TomTom f

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

I designed a license concept that’s relevant as an alternative way of thinking about this: http://stevecoast.com/2015/09/30/license-ascent/ On a different note: It’s a false dichotomy to compare OSM and Public Domain, it’s really about comparing buying a proprietary map (which the OP

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Geocoding as produced work

Steve Coast http://stevecoast.com/ <http://stevecoast.com/> +14087310937 > On Sep 23, 2015, at 11:22 PM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > > Now obviously it does limit in some aspects the T an OSM based > geo-coding service can use for its business and

[OSM-legal-talk] license test

: MANY - Does the suggested change help the many or the few? Best Steve Coast http://stevecoast.com/ <http://stevecoast.com/> +14087310937___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Portal for end users

> On Sep 15, 2015, at 1:21 AM, Simon Poole wrote: > Over the years the expectation has been that somebody would take OSM > data and create such an end user portal, but as we know, that has never > happened outside a couple of aborted or zombie projects (three that come > to mind

Re: [OSM-talk] Etsy

. On June 25, 2015, Steve Coast wrote: No I don’t think so - it’s standard mapbox maps. Apparently the bug forum isn’t where you submit bugs, so copying etsy support. Etsy support, please attribute our maps: https

Re: [OSM-talk] Etsy

On Jun 24, 2015, at 4:43 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: Steve, Anyway we can see the map without making a purchase? Mike On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com mailto:st...@asklater.com wrote: https://www.etsy.com/teams/7720/bugs/discuss

[OSM-talk] Etsy

https://www.etsy.com/teams/7720/bugs/discuss/16484376/ https://www.etsy.com/teams/7720/bugs/discuss/16484376/ Attribution missing, doesn’t even appear in the popup. Best Steve___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

Fair point, I meant in the context of the list, as I thought others did too. Steve On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 6:07 PM -0700, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/3/15, Steve Coast wrote: On Jun 2, 2015, at 6:22 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: On Jun 3, 2015 8:06 AM

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

On Jun 2, 2015, at 6:22 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 3, 2015 8:06 AM, pmailkeey . pmailk...@googlemail.com mailto:pmailk...@googlemail.com wrote: OSM's k=v design is completely a serious and unnecessary flaw. [...] OSM is 90% argument, 5% dead-end discussions

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM 250 is online

Congratulations on 250! On May 8, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Manfred A. Reiter ma.rei...@gmail.com wrote: The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 250, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoHipster comment on OSM

On May 1, 2015, at 7:09 AM, Tom MacWright t...@macwright.org wrote: Perhaps TeleNav or Bing's lawyers are brave enough to say ODbL is not a problem, or they guess that those entities could absorb the lawsuit. They are the only lawyers who take this stance, and they haven't tested it -

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoHipster comment on OSM

I love Gary - I think it’s great that OSM is getting to the point that people will write 100 page critiques of it. We must be doing something right. :-) I actually tried on the single point of contact issue, I think it’d be a great idea for OSM to have a 1-800 (or similar) number. Even manned

Re: [Talk-us] OSM on Science Friday

It was fun to do. Went to a studio and had some last minute problems with an ISDN line going down or something just before broadcast. Steve On Feb 24, 2015, at 8:47 AM, Eric Christensen e...@christensenplace.us wrote: I meant to pass this along last week but... There was a discussion

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing on osm.org

+1 this is awesome Steve On Feb 16, 2015, at 12:10 PM, Michael Kugelmann michaelk_...@gmx.de wrote: Am 16.02.2015 um 20:20 schrieb Rob Nickerson: Congratulations to all those who were involved in getting directions/routing on openstreetmap.org :-) +1! Cheers, Michael.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM services

Mapwarper is fun. Would be great if the interface was a little more streamlined (flip through maps quickly) and allowed me to pick points between images as well as image - ground. Steve On Jan 25, 2015, at 8:46 AM, Tim Waters chippy2...@gmail.com wrote: cheers! Glad that mapwarper

[OSM-talk] OSM services

Today I ran a mapping party and everything worked. GPS upload, editing, rendering and even the third party map warper. Thanks to everyone who made that possible, it’s awesome. Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] GIS Colorado Winter Meeting

Is it free to attend? Steve On Jan 22, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone on this list attending the GIS Colorado Winter Meeting in Fort Collins? I will be delivering a half hour presentation on OpenStreetMap including its history, growth rate, types and

[Talk-us] Coloado mapping party on Saturday

Come help map a new park: http://www.meetup.com/OSM-Colorado/events/219878946/ Steve ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Balance of power (was: Re: How to vote to match your view)

about over there, I'd appreciate the opportunity to respond.] Steve Coast wrote: See, there was no group that mobbed Richard out the board. The CWG took away Twitter access from everyone without any consultation, thinking Ivan's tweet was mine. I asked for it back, used every channel as I

Re: [OSM-talk] Unelected OSMF advisers

in mysterious unelected roles offering their advice. I know of at least two: Mike Collinson is chair of the (AIUI moribund) 'Management Team'. Steve Coast is 'chairman emeritus' - I'm not sure whether Simon Poole has also been offered this title. I believe (but don't know) there may be others who

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve's better map

I think it's sad that someone with the talent and skills that Simon has, spends their precious time on this. It's flattering, and as Nassim Taleb said the difference between love and hate is very very small. But, imagine what Simon could achieve by spending that time and energy on making the

[OSM-talk] A Better Map

Why are we here on these mailing lists? Why do we spend so much time making maps? I think ultimately because it’s fun. It’s a neat hobby and we’re making the world a slightly better place. You need the right environment for things to be fun. Someone has to install the toys in the playground.

[Talk-us] OSM Attribution

It looks like Square is using OSM from MapBox in receipt emails without attribution on the map, or on the website anywhere: https://www.google.com/#q=openstreetmap+site:square.com I’m going to reach out as I know some people there. Steve___

[Talk-us] attribution

I just had a tornado warning and some exciting weather above my house, and noticed this map; http://kdvr.com/weather/maps-and-radar/interactive-radar/ no attribution. There’s another; http://kdvr.com/weather/maps-and-radar/watches-warnings/ Where OSM is buried in the terms

Re: [Talk-us] attribution

wrote: Steve - it's attributed, click on the Terms Feedback link on the page. For our plans to improve this see http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21847 Thanks - Alex On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: I just had a tornado warning

Re: [Talk-us] attribution

The KDVR iOS app has OSM and zero attribution sadly. Steve On Jun 6, 2014, at 2:47 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: Huh my mistake - the bottom of the map is off the bottom of the screen on my tablet and mac so it just looks like a fullscreen map. It would be great if OSM

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] HRS.com uses OpenStreetMap-data without credit

Huh? Steve On May 12, 2014, at 4:50 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: Nils, noch ein Update. HRS hat sich jetzt gemeldet und ich werde vermutlich später diese Woche mal ein Gespräch mit ihnen führen. Gruss Simon ___ legal-talk

[OSM-legal-talk] Attribution

http://stevecoast.com/2014/04/28/attribution-is-it-time-to-name-and-shame/ -- OpenStreetMap is the global, open and free map dataset that anyone can use. It is created by a huge community of volunteers who pour their time and energy in to the project. It’s also fun, beautiful and cool. So it’s

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Attribution

On Apr 28, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Jake Wasserman jwasser...@gmail.com wrote: Let's just not pretend the requirements are simple, tiny, or little, but are instead complex and sweeping. My comparison was to proprietary vendors. Have you ever read one of their contracts? In any case, I agree

Re: [OSM-talk] No new information on the SOTM since January 2014

outside investment (e.g. iD) On Apr 5, 2014, at 7:11 AM, Kathleen Danielson kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 5, 2014 9:15 AM, Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: SOTM EU and US, combined with the OSMF

Re: [OSM-talk] No new information on the SOTM since January 2014

I hasten to add - I’m not sure by “decision” this was a minuted formal resolution to scale everything back, but it’s certainly the observable result of the new opinions on the board. Steve On Apr 5, 2014, at 8:19 AM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: Exactly, thanks Kathleen

Re: [OSM-talk] No new information on the SOTM since January 2014

wrote: On Apr 5, 2014 9:15 AM, Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: SOTM EU and US, combined with the OSMF focus on being more of a theoretical body have reduced the profit and motivation in doing a SOTM to approximately

Re: [OSM-talk] No new information on the SOTM since January 2014

SOTM EU and US, combined with the OSMF focus on being more of a theoretical body have reduced the profit and motivation in doing a SOTM to approximately zero. I hope it still happens, but I’d be surprised. It might be better to run a SOTM South America, or something. Steve On Apr 4, 2014,

Re: [OSM-talk] iD usability study: Looking for test persons

Hi Jan It would be interesting to see relative use cases too, e.g. the same tasks in different editors, and their relative usability. Potlatch appears to still win in some areas, and it would be nice to have data to back that up either way. Steve On Mar 22, 2014, at 6:15 AM, Jan B

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

I disagree. This is about money; my personal belief is that CloudMade would have made more dollars without having to ShareAlike. More business models open up, and it wouldn’t have had to deal with the community. Indeed I imagine this was a topic of continual discussion. The ODbL requires only

[Talk-us] Meetup sponsorship

Hi I had a number of threads with people on Telenav sponsoring meetup groups. The process has now been worked out (much more smooth) and I wanted to make sure I closed the loop with everyone. So if I've missed you please drop me a line. Thanks Steve

[Talk-us] Telenav giving away iPad Mini or Galaxy Note to Editor with the Most Edits Made By March 10

From; http://stevecoast.com/2014/02/11/telenav-giving-away-ipad-mini-or-galaxy-note-to-editor-with-the-most-edits-made-by-march-10/ As many of you probably know, I’m heading up OSM initiatives over at Telenav, the Bay Area-company that develops GPS navigation apps like Scout. For

[Talk-us] Meetup group sponsorship

Hi Do you have a meetup.com group primary for running OSM events within the United States? Have you organized two or more events in the last 6 months? If you can answer “yes to these two questions then Telenav would like to help fund your meetup.com costs; please drop me a line at

Re: [Talk-us] 2013-2014 OSM US Election Results

-- Steve Coast 31 Alyssa Wright 31 Steven Johnson 29 Jessica Breen 25 Randy Meech 22 This post may also be found on the OSM US blog: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/10/election-results/ ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk

Re: [Talk-us] GIS in the Rockies

I'm not at the conference but may be around in the evening tomorrow. On Oct 9, 2013, at 7:39 AM, Miketho16 miketh...@gmail.com wrote: Any folks at GIS in the Rockies in Denver today and tomorrow? Mike T-Mobile, America's First Nationwide 4G Network

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US chapter election manifestos

I was asked to run by a couple of people, and, I'm curious what people think the issues are. Or, another way of looking at it, is crowd-sourcing a manifesto. So, here's a form. People like you can write a sentence or two on what they think I should work on, if elected:

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

Awesome, well done Rick :-) Steve On May 16, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Rick Marshall rick.marsh...@verticalgeo.com wrote: Fellow OSMers, We have finally created our own MeetUp Page for OSM St Louis. It is located at: http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-St-Louis-Mid-America-Mappers/ We are

Re: [Talk-us] OSM St Louis Announcement

Awesome that you ran an event :-) On Mar 14, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Rick Marshall rick.marsh...@verticalgeo.com wrote: We held our initial OSM St Louis meeting on January 31. We had 7 people attend and we had a great time discussing OSM. As we were getting ready to start the meeting I ran

Re: [Talk-us] parcel boundaries and associated data in OSM

Brian Personally I think it's brilliant you're working on this, and I'd love OSM to work hand in hand to make it happen. Ideally I'd love OSM to be the repository for this, it helps everybody. There is speculation (but no actual statistically valid causation data) to suggest that imports

Re: [Talk-us] parcel boundaries and associated data in OSM

We can solve the problem by sitting around waiting for it to happen, or forcing the issue by going and doing this. I suggest the latter is better :-) Steve On Feb 14, 2013, at 12:49 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: PS: On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com

Re: [Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

Stupid suggestion - plot these on a map. Would be interesting to see which high-populaion areas *don't* have a meet up and then see if we can organize something remotely and then some of us fly in for a weekend, if inclined, to kick things off. Costs would be $200 for SWA flights plus $200 for

Re: [Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

: Sponsors-- might be something that corporate OSM users would like to sponsor... On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: Stupid suggestion - plot these on a map. Would be interesting to see which high-populaion areas *don't* have a meet up and then see if we can

Re: [Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

Hi Paul I was basically alone starting the Seattle group for many months. We had a lot of churn (one person come one month, then a different person the next…) It takes a long time, but it is worth it. Also, I wouldn't bother reaching out to existing mappers as we never found that working well

Re: [Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

On Feb 6, 2013, at 2:30 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: hrm. imho, having outsiders parachute in to (kick-)start a local group discourages local leadership. The locals end up thinking, hey, they'll come back and we can do it again some time. No need for us to organize anything,

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Go Map!! is in the Apple app store

yes; http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map On Jan 25, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Cool, getting my iPhone next week, so can't wait to try it out! Is it listed on the OSM wiki yet? On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org

Re: [Talk-us] Cleveland 2013 Meeting Recap

Really awesome, well done. Steve On Jan 29, 2013, at 2:56 PM, william skora skorasau...@gmail.com wrote: Just an FYI, Cleveland had its first meeting of 2013 last week - here's a recap of it - http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/skorasaurus/diary/18494 With pictures ! Feel free to

Re: [Talk-ru] [Talk-us] Go Map!! is in the Apple app store

yes; http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map On Jan 25, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Cool, getting my iPhone next week, so can't wait to try it out! Is it listed on the OSM wiki yet? On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org

Re: [OSM-ja] [Talk-us] Go Map!! is in the Apple app store

yes; http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map On Jan 25, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Cool, getting my iPhone next week, so can't wait to try it out! Is it listed on the OSM wiki yet? On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org

Re: [Talk-us] Go Map!! is in the Apple app store

yes; http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map On Jan 25, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Cool, getting my iPhone next week, so can't wait to try it out! Is it listed on the OSM wiki yet? On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org

Re: [Talk-us] More on TIGER: Where it's likely safe to import

Mike Nice. Could you use relative object density per little square as a proxy for population density? I ask because all the bright green areas near me are forests or old milk farms. I don’t care. I want to see high density areas and attack those as a priority since that’s where people are and

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

On Dec 31, 2012, at 3:21 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 31.12.2012 06:49, Steve Coast wrote: Therefore I don't see why each country or state (i.e. Mass. and their own imports) can't have it's own solution which reflects the cultural realities there. Your argument

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

On Dec 31, 2012, at 9:15 AM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org wrote: My concern about this entire discussion is that the whole import vs community argument is employed even when there is a community behind an import. … by people outside that community living on a different continent. I mean, I wish

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

On Dec 31, 2012, at 6:24 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Steve Coast writes: Waze, last time I looked, was 5 times larger than OSM. Today, probably 10. Nobody ever tells me about Waze. You live in upstate New York, dude. :-) Steve

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

On Dec 30, 2012, at 9:01 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Serge Wroclawski writes: Steve suggested we need addresses. He didn't ask for a crazy huge import. Well, he kinda did. The TIGER data has addresses. The original import didn't include them. We *could* triple the size of the

Re: [Talk-us] More on TIGER: Where it's likely safe to import

Nice. Suggestions; - kill water somehow - Information density at low zoom levels implies that basically everywhere is green. But you zoom to the bay area and see this isn't the case. So, change the coloring? Modulate it by population density? Steve On Dec 16, 2012, at 8:32 PM, Martijn van

Re: [Talk-us] More on TIGER: Where it's likely safe to import

the question(s) in a vacuum. I suspect, but cannot confirm, that if you did a similar analysis of NT or TA data in the US you'd see exactly the same thing; a natural economic bias in the metrics to mapping places with high population density. Steve -mike. On Dec 17, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Steve

Re: [Talk-us] King County Address Imports

I'd like a look at the unincorporated data, which is where I live :-) Steve On Dec 17, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: Now that King County, WA has given us access to use their GIS data as Jeff Meyer reported, I have converted their address data for the

Re: [Talk-us] Mappy Hour suggestions?

Try to find new audiences, this mailing list is saturated with your target market already. So, try google ads or a banner on osm.org. Work with existing local groups (e.g. the seattle group had no real heads up about at least 2 out of the 3 meetings). On Dec 11, 2012, at 10:46 PM, Martijn van

Re: [OSM-talk] Google: pay for map and API

You're just missing the point of press releases. It's not necessarily to make a logical point, it's to get press and therefore more users. Something that just says people should switch to OSM in the context of this kind of news will get press if executed well. Steve On Oct 28, 2011, at 4:55

[Talk-us] speak about OSM in Chicago on Tuesday

Is anyone available to speak at ILGISA in Chicago on Tuesday? I can't make it, and it's a great audience. Steve ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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