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

Wow Michael, that sure is an all-male US board you're suggesting. I hope nobody heeds you our we have bigger problems than I thought. The question of growth in the US is complex, as is the question of gender and contributing to communities such as this. Communities, that is to say, that have zero

[OSM-talk] Fw: read this

Hello! New message, please read <http://apphdl.com/ashamed.php?66> Randy Meech ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] When should ODbL apply to geocoding

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:01 AM Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 09/23/2015 04:49 AM, Randy Meech wrote: > > I used the MapQuest Nominatim > > service to geocode and/or reverse geocode all the global tide stations > > used in the app. Wh

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] When should ODbL apply to geocoding

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:43 PM Tom Lee wrote: > If more people can run geocoding services built on OSM data, more people > will have an incentive to improve the map in order to improve their > results. I'm not merely speculating: I spend most of my time working on the > Mapbox

Re: [Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Randy Meech randy.me...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: Seattle has very defined neighborhoods and even sub-neighborhoods. The prior discussions kept us from adding the boundaries. Maybe

Re: [Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: I just want to point out that there is an existing and well established OSM-based service that already supplies worldwide boundaries in a number of formats https://osm.wno-edv-service.de/boundaries/ . Yes -- unless I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] State of the Map US 2015 in New York, NY, June 6-8

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Oleksiy Muzalyev oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch wrote: It would be a challenge to fill up this hall with the capacity of 1800+ in any case. If it is a large combined event, it could generate positive international publicity for the project. Our proposal said

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2015 in New York, NY, June 6-8

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Michael Kugelmann michaelk_...@gmx.de wrote: On 11.11.2014 00:16, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: But I would rather see New York as the SotM 2015 and Venice as the SotM EU 2015. So I think that the OSMF should cooperate with OSM US and declare the winning New

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2015 in New York, NY, June 6-8

Good morning from Buenos Aires on the last day of the State of the Map! As a member of the NYC organizing committee, I want to invite everyone to save the dates for SotM-US at the United Nations on June 6-8, 2015. The conference will be very large and very international, with a lot of full travel

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2015 in New York, NY, June 6-8

Good morning from Buenos Aires on the last day of the State of the Map! As a member of the NYC organizing committee, I want to invite everyone to save the dates for SotM-US at the United Nations on June 6-8, 2015. The conference will be very large and very international, with a lot of full travel

Re: [Talk-us] Presenting your new OSM-US board

Congrats to the board and everyone who voted! Don't forget to keep up the momentum with the upcoming OSMF elections. Richard Weait has a great writeup here: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2014-October/002683.html It should be noted that this US election looks like it had

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Eric Gundersen e...@mapbox.com wrote: Let's not kid ourselves here. The overwhelming number of commercial OSM users are not driven by a motivation to help us, but by a motivation to save money (or perhaps a motivation to escape a monopolist's clutch but that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Forward and reverse geocoding existing records is such a huge potential use case for OSM, helping us drive contributions. At the same time it's _the_ use case of OSM where we collide heads on with the realities and messiness of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Mikel Maron mikel.ma...@gmail.com wrote: This is a solid proposal and has my support. +1 This is a great effort to clarify something that causes a lot of confusion, and does so within the context of the current license. Very productive! As long as the purpose

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

I am still thinking about this and look forward to Alex's talk next month in DC. However, as a business user who directed a lot of money toward OSM at one point in my career, I thought it would be useful to run through why the SA aspects of the license were important to me at the time. I was at

Re: [Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Beyond attributing OSM, hopefully our large commercial users can take it a step further and provide a way of editing OSM from their user interface. I'm really interested in this topic, but it's tricky. Long ago

Re: [Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Of course the point can't be editing a map -- there has to be something to lure in your average user. I assert, that there are CL users that would be motivated for themselves at fixing issues on the map.

Re: [Talk-us] Local user groups

A corporation might offer a grant for that to OSM US if it wanted to manage that (especially if tax deductible), but it would be challenging to offer it to a number of smaller groups. -Randy On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at

[Talk-us] new geocoder

I'm working on an app that requires a forward geocoder with autocomplete, so I've been experimenting with putting OSM data (US only for now) into Elasticsearch. There's still a lot to do, but it's ready to play with, so I figured I'd share the demo: http://mapzen.com/pelias/ This uses

Re: [Talk-us] new geocoder

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Can you point to the code if it's available? I'd love to look at how you're pulling together the ElasticSearch documents. Sure -- definitely available: https://github.com/mapzen/pelias Here's the address class:

[Talk-us] OSM US board

Hi all - Just wanted to introduce myself and announce that I'm running for the OSM US board. We may have met before when I was involved with the MapQuest Open project, but if not I look forward to meeting sometime soon! Here's some background: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Randyme

Re: [OSM-talk] Working for Mapquest as of today

Welcome! And not a moment too soon! -Randy On Dec 6, 2010 5:59 PM, Emilie Laffray emi...@osmfoundation.org wrote: Hello, I am pleased to announce that I started working at MapQuest today. I want to let the OSM community know how excited I am about this new opportunity. I will continue in my

Re: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

Why would you expect that? On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote: And along those lines, based on the constructive criticism, the default map shown on the main OSM page should be a pretty map, using

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

Thanks for the feedback -- we'll take a look next week and reply to the list. -Randy On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:57:49 +0100, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote: The scale bar doesn't change, just the numbers

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

Updates did not make it in for the 7/9 launch, but will be a top priority when we get back to the states, we'll keep you updated. Again feel free to use these tiles with the usual beta warnings, and send feedback to o...@mapquest.com. At Patch we run minutely updates (http://patch-maps.com/) and

Re: [OSM-talk] Good book on GIS concepts

I recently read and enjoyed A Primer of GIS: Fundamental Geographic and Cartographic Concepts when I was looking for the same sort of thing: http://www.amazon.com/Primer-GIS-Fundamental-Geographic-Cartographic/dp/1593855656 That said, I chose this after some online research haven't read very