Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap tile server

2012-12-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: The OpenStreetMap Foundation is pleased to announce new OSM infrastructure, in the form of a new tile server, located in Pau, France. Details on the OSMF Blog. ... to which I had intended to link. :-) http

[OSM-talk] State of the Map 2013 - Call for Venues

2012-12-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, The Call for Venues for State of the Map 2013 is now Open. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2013/Call_for_venues Please prepare your teams and bids and let's get another awesome State of the Map underway. Best regards, Richard (for the Communication Working Group)

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

2012-12-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Chris Barham cbar...@pobox.com wrote: Hi, some Australian places have changed from cities to towns on; changeset was: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/14217241 I've emailed to the editor to ask the source for the change as I believe some are now

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

2012-12-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:16 PM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: Absolutely. When I'm planning a trip, I like to look at OSM maps online. There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a few towns (obvious from the network of streets), but not a town name to be seen. Sure, I can zoom

[Talk-ca] Canadian Developer event (pre-planning)

2012-12-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, We're getting ready for the next Canadian OSM Developer event, and we want you to be part of it. The first Canadian Hack Weekend was in March 2012. I expect that we'll repeat many of the things that worked last year. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Toronto_Hack_Weekend_March_2012

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Waterloo Open Data codefest Saturday

2012-11-30 Per discussione Richard Weait
I only found their reference to the code fest in March[1], do they have their license published for review? I know that I keep beating this drum, but I really wish that governments would stop trying to write their own open data licenses (even by modifying relatively benign licenses) and JUST USE

Re: [OSM-talk] fences, trees and houses

2012-11-20 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Robin Paulson ro...@bumblepuppy.org wrote: i've done some quite detailed editing near where i live, i'd appreciate anyone who is interested taking a look and responding. i'm not sure what to make of the result. for one, my partner, a non-mapper, has told me

Re: [Talk-ca] GPS inaccuracy

2012-11-19 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Tom Taylor tom.taylor.s...@gmail.com wrote: I had a frustrating experience last night, sorting out an area in my neighbourhood. I laid down a GPS track totalling some 4 km. The whole track was about 10 meters to the west of the Bing and Canvec data already in

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Ignite Talk - N. Colorado

2012-11-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have signed up to do an Ignite talk on Open Street Map in Fort Collins Colorado on Thursday Feb 28th 2013. For those of you not familiar with Ignite talks, you get 20 slides and five minutes to talk about

[Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

2012-10-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
opinion that this very limited number of difficult mappers are a large net-negative to the US mapping community and that the difficult behaviours must be stopped for the benefit of OSM. Best regards, Richard Weait on behalf of OSMF Data Working Group [1] http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki

[OSM-talk] (another) New tile server

2012-10-24 Per discussione Richard Weait
The OSMF are pleased to announce another donation to OSM infrastructure. http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/10/24/new-tile-server-in-moscow/ Thank you, Yandex. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping an Area

2012-10-19 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Frans Thamura fr...@meruvian.org wrote: hi all a lot of POI Discussion around, and i am planning to link between node become area. so, we can have an area implementation rather just a node for POI like building, etc, we have square, and why we implemen in

[OSM-talk] User fluent in ASL and English?

2012-10-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
I'm having difficulty communicating effectively with a user who has ASL as a first language. Do we have anybody fluent in ASL and English who would be willing to help me out with subtleties I might be missing? ___ talk mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Burlington, Vermont road classification

2012-10-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Andrew Guertin andrew.guer...@uvm.edu wrote: Hi, There are two active mappers in the Burlington, Vermont area, and we disagree about how the roads should be classified, so we're looking for more opinions. If you are both local mappers, I suggest that you

Re: [Talk-us] Burlington, Vermont road classification

2012-10-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
Y'all have three local mappers in Burlington? That's great. I did an Intro to OSM talk in Burlington in Autumn of 2008. You have to have a Mappy Hour or local event to get more students interested in OSM. Because once they go back home, they'll be mappers in other towns. :-) Grow the

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal: New Working Group Welcome WG

2012-10-17 Per discussione Richard Weait
The second meeting for the proposed Welcome Working Group is today at 1800H UTC (1900 London) on #osm-strategic http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rw/Proposal:Welcome_Working_Group/2012-10-17_agenda The group still requires some key volunteers / participants to become viable. Please join

Re: [talk-au] Lots of amenities ?

2012-10-17 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:10 AM, dban...@internode.on.net wrote: Thanks Ben, but maybe I'm a bit slow today ? If there are multiple nodes all on (about) the same spot, then the rendering engines show only one. I guess its the 'top' one. If they are just a bit further apart, then you might

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: Fun: Collect your favourite mappers

2012-10-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: I want one! mikelmaron. have a profile image up on my user page I'd love to make printed collector sets. I had hoped to have the current board members cards as a special premiere version. In an abundance of caution,

Re: [OSM-talk] Activity Stream (a.k.a. social OSM) - demo instance

2012-10-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
The rss feed looks great. http://suncobalt.dyndns.org:/activities?format=rssbbox=17.05,48.81,27.83,54.25 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Importing CanVec better?

2012-10-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
Three-part lakes. Canvec data is split at canvec (NTS) tile boundaries, so a lake the crosses such a boundary will be split in several pieces on those straight lines. There are other reasons to split lakes and other large objects. We split roads when the name changes, or when the highway

Re: [Talk-ca] Someone's fantasy city

2012-10-14 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Account blocked. The fake town has now been reverted. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13500941 (plus others) ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

[OSM-talk] Fun: Collect your favourite mappers

2012-10-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
I've wondered what a baseball card for a mapper would look like, if mappers had baseball cards. Now, we do. I've taken some mapper statistics and added them to a mapper avatar, then printed them in the format of a baseball card. Now what? Collect them all Trade them with your friends Play

Re: [OSM-talk] Who is a good mapper? Who isn't?

2012-10-11 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Kevin Peat k...@k3v.eu wrote: On 10 October 2012 21:22, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: What are the results? ... The most common comment quality is 18. Half of all accounts have comment quality from 13 to 36. Bots usually have comment quality under

Re: [OSM-talk] Who is a good mapper? Who isn't?

2012-10-11 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 2012-10-10 22:22, Richard Weait wrote: What are the results? I've taken a go at graphing comment quality. This is not science of course. Try it yourself; how would you measure comment quality? The question is: how do

Re: [OSM-talk] Who is a good mapper? Who isn't?

2012-10-10 Per discussione Richard Weait
What are the results? Some respondents mentioned that close-but-not-touching ways made for a bad mapper but were generally very understanding on this point. It was seen more as an indication of inexperience. The Big Pet Peeve that identified bad mappers was poor or missing comments. I've taken

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal: New Working Group Welcome WG

2012-10-10 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Oh darn, I missed it. I had the wrong time in my head and have been trying to do too many things at once this week. :-(( I hope it was a productive meeting. Logs? I am still committed to this group - any plans for a f'up?

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal: New Working Group Welcome WG

2012-10-08 Per discussione Richard Weait
Date and time have now been set, via poll. Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 1800H UTC. with a duration of 90 minutes Meeting on irc.oftc.net #osm-strategic Find your local time, http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Initial+WWG+meetingiso=20121010T18ah=1am=30 So far I've seen no

Re: [OSM-talk] Who is a good mapper? Who isn't?

2012-10-07 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Dave Sutter sut...@intransix.com wrote: I like the idea of an automated quality checker for map edits. That can be seen as an advancement to the simple rules based checking done when a commit is done in JOSM. It might be easier to train the classifier if it

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal: New Working Group Welcome WG

2012-10-07 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Dear All, I recently discussed an idea for a new OSMF working Group on the OSMF talk list[1]. The reaction seemed favourable, so now I'm looking for key volunteers to staff the working group and for broader support from

[OSM-talk] Who is a good mapper? Who isn't?

2012-10-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
Ever wanted to 'dish' on another mapper? Like to gossip? Or do you just want to help improve the OSM data and community? Here is your opportunity. :-) I've created a survey. You can tell me who you consider to be a good mapper and who you consider to be a bad mapper. And you can do this

[OSM-talk] Proposal: New Working Group Welcome WG

2012-10-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, I recently discussed an idea for a new OSMF working Group on the OSMF talk list[1]. The reaction seemed favourable, so now I'm looking for key volunteers to staff the working group and for broader support from the community to encourage the official approval of this working group

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal: New Working Group Welcome WG

2012-10-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:12 PM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: Richard Weait wrote: Dear All, I recently discussed an idea for a new OSMF working Group on the OSMF talk list. Like many other people, I've contacted new local mappers over the last couple of years and can

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal: New Working Group Welcome WG

2012-10-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Also, a data point. I sent some welcome emails last week. Of the replies (3), one was thanks and the other two were thank yous with some conversation. Of 38 contact emails 5 have mapped since. We might find that early

Re: [talk-au] Present for keen OSMer

2012-10-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Ben Johnson tangarar...@gmail.com wrote: It irritates me the OSMF doesn't have a shop that sells merchandise. If marketed properly, it can be another means of financial support for the project. It would need a volunteer(s) to run it. With all of those lovely

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Olivier Croquette m...@ocroquette.de wrote: If no, it doesn't make any sense to me that a vector based process for the cadaster is an import, and a raster based is not. Everything is the same : kind of data, license, provider… There seems to be a

Re: [Talk-us] Consensus on SR for state route versus state abbreviation?

2012-09-26 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote: Just a random observation: containment in a state does not necessarily mean that a 'state highway' is a state highway of that state. There are a few spots in the Alleganies where NY-17 veers into Pennsylvania to avoid a

Re: [OSM-talk] Street/POI Index from OSM data

2012-09-23 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alex Rollin alex.rol...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am rather new to OSM data. I've enjoyed doing edits on the map and now I'd like to start learning how to arrange it on a printed page. I know there are lots and lots of tools out there. Could I receive a

Re: [OSM-talk] [possibly OT] Apples IOS 6 Maps and the response

2012-09-21 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:03 AM, pavithran pavithra...@gmail.com wrote: That raises some interesting questions because ODBL planet was available only recently , Did apple wait till last minute to get them ? Or are they mixing the old planet(CC by SA) with new datasets(ODBL) They'll never

Re: [OSM-talk] Improved coastline view in OSM Inspector

2012-09-21 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: I have just added a change to the OSM Inspector which now shows even more potential coastline errors in the new Questionable category. Very nice. Thank you for this. The questionable category is pointing out some reversed

Re: [talk-au] Blocks of land - residential housing

2012-09-21 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Leathal leatha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I was just wondering what the tagging standard is for residential housing in suburbs? I can't find anything definitive, and most of the common methods such as landuse=residential is set aside for large scale areas (which

Re: [OSM-talk] diversity amongst DWG members

2012-09-20 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Lucas Nussbaum lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net wrote: Hi, Following the discussion on the infamous french Cadastre 'imports', I've tried to find the country of living of the DWG members You might also have a look at other working groups and opportunities to volunteer

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-19 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Pieren wrote: I thought that such issue is not possible anymore with ODbl. No, the Contributor Terms simply say You are indicating that, as far as You know, You have the right to authorize OSMF to use and

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-19 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote: Before we go further with policy edits, perhaps we should make sure that everyone understands the goals and that there is a consensus about them... That will make the resulting rules or guidelines more acceptable. Since

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr wrote: There are more then 500,000 contributors. How many do you think know about the DWG group and follow his guidelines? Those who aren't aware, and are contacted by DWG, generally switch to an import account when they

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Marc Sibert m...@sibert.fr wrote: I'm still not agree with this policy : I do not ignore your messages. You don't agree? You created your import account, I think? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Round at both ends and HI in the middle

2012-09-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
Ohio, of course. Are you local a mapper in Ohio, especially central Ohio? Did you know that there is a local OSM meetup group in Ohio? Probably not, because it hasn't been very active lately. This group needs a new advocate / operator/ leader. Local OSM groups are amazing fun, and a great way

Re: [Talk-us] New local groups

2012-09-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Who has started a new[1] local OSM group? [ ... ] What incentive would it take to push you over the edge to make you actually do it? What would it take to get you to organize and host six local OSM meetings in the next

[OSM-talk] Call for translations.

2012-09-17 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, Please pass this message to your language and country lists. Now is an excellent time to check and update OpenStreetMap in your language of choice. The busy wiki elves have been updating license information where they can. Please pay special attention to this matter as you carry out

Re: [OSM-talk] taginfo back online

2012-09-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: The taginfo web site is back online with ODbl data. It will be updated daily. Thank you for creating and operating this wonderful service. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Licence change

2012-09-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Michael Kugelmann michaelk_...@gmx.de wrote: On 13.09.2012 01:06, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: announcements (in means of lessons learned): within a multinational worldwide project it is recommended to add a time zone if a time is given. I'd expect it to be

[Talk-us] Highway shield rendering: What's the blocker?

2012-09-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
if I remember correctly, the US Local Chapter was planning to render highway shields, now that combined shield and overlap rendering is solved. What happened to that? Is there a blocker? If so, what is / are the blocker(s)? There appears to be periodic community interest in highway shields.

[OSM-talk] Change to ODbL imminent

2012-09-11 Per discussione Richard Weait
As just posted to blog.osmfoundation.org Hello OpenStreetMap-pers, The change to ODbL is imminent. No, Really. We mean it. At long last we are at the end of the license change process. After four years of consultation, debate, revision, improvement, revision, debate, improvement,

Re: [OSM-talk] Change to ODbL imminent

2012-09-11 Per discussione Richard Weait
please translate and propagate to your local lists, and other interested parties. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [talk-au] Getting is right

2012-09-11 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Brett Russell brussell...@live.com.au wrote: Hi Looks good. I might just manage not to resort to chewing my own arm off to survive. [ ... ] Individual OSM contributors have approached dozens (or perhaps hundreds, now) of governments from tiny to big and

[talk-au] Change to ODbL imminent

2012-09-11 Per discussione Richard Weait
As just posted to blog.osmfoundation.org Please translate and propagate to all of our communities. http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/09/11/change-to-odbl-imminent/ Hello OpenStreetMap-pers, The change to ODbL is imminent. No, Really. We mean it. At long last we are at the end of the

Re: [talk-au] Few questions about tagging ways in Australia

2012-09-11 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: Australian copyright law recognises that copyright can subsist in compilation of facts. Once copyright subsists, the only test is substantial

Re: [talk-au] Getting is right

2012-09-11 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Ben Johnson tangarar...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/09/2012, at 2:45 AM, Richard Weait wrote: Individual OSM contributors have approached dozens (or perhaps hundreds, now) of governments from tiny to big and found success. They've also found some regressive

Re: [OSM-talk] Shoud OSM Help move to Stackexchange community?

2012-09-09 Per discussione Richard Weait
It shouldn't require a move of all of the help.osm.org users to SE to use SE as an effective recruiting tool. Could a few informed members field some OSM-related questions at SE, and redirect the askers to help? or event relay questions from Se to help for a community response?

Re: [talk-au] Few questions about tagging ways in Australia

2012-09-09 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Charles Gregory osm.li...@chuq.net wrote: Just to play devil's advocate: What if someone used Google Street View? Don't. :-) Firstly, It's copying. We as a community have decided that we don't copy from maps and other sources for which we don't have

Re: [Talk-ca] News: Google mapping the North

2012-09-09 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: I think the hardest thing stopping them is a mental one. I've already added all those roads to Google, why do I want/have to do it all again for OSM, I'm bored of sitting in front of the computer. That's why it would

Re: [OSM-talk] News report license switch done

2012-09-08 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Stephan Knauss o...@stephans-server.de wrote: [ ... ] Still not clear what license we now have... Because no change has been made. YET. The announcement was that the next planet will be ODbL. Barring unforeseen circumstances, I expect that will be true. Planet

Re: [talk-au] Few questions about tagging ways in Australia

2012-09-08 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] IMHO, it's perfectly valid to consult other maps (Bing, Google Maps, Melway, whatever) for street names, I disagree in the strongest possible terms. It is not perfectly valid to use those resources for

Re: [Talk-us] wetlands in potlatch 2?

2012-09-04 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: I contacted a new mapper in my area and asked if he had any questions about editing the map. He asked about adding swamps to the map using the in-browser editor. I was about to respond that he could use natural=wetland

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Creating talk-nc

2012-08-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Hendrik Oesterlin hendrikmail2...@yahoo.de wrote: Is there some person to contact in order to create the talk-nc mailing list? Hi Hendrik, I expect that Mike will get back to you as well. May I suggest an alternative? Please consider using an existing list

Re: [Talk-ca] Region of Waterloo Open Data

2012-08-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:11 PM, William Rieck bi...@thinkers.org wrote: Has anyone determined if this data http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/regionalGovernment/OpenDataHome.asp is OSM compatible? Yup. http://opendataexpert.com/2012/using-waterloo-region-open-data/

Re: [Talk-ca] Region of Waterloo Open Data

2012-08-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Stewart C. Russell scr...@gmail.com wrote: Neat! Now, is there a way to *stop* all of the diary entries in Ontario from being reverse-geocoded as being in Waterloo? ;-) First, stop writing your diary entries in Waterloo. :-) I don't know what's going on

Re: [OSM-talk] Specific Cases of Governments Using OSM

2012-08-30 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hi All, I'm giving a presentation in a couple weeks about OpenStreetMap and how governments can interact with OSM. I'm looking for examples of governments using OSM data, versus releasing data for OSM to use. [ ...]

Re: [OSM-talk] The Case for Open Geo Data - resources?

2012-08-29 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: I map in OpenStreetMap for fun, but when it comes to talking to local governments or the media, I don't have a good idea of how to justify open data.I'm thinking in terms of being able to tell local government how open Geodata

Re: [Talk-us] OSMF - US membership and SOTM registration

2012-08-26 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Please pardon our dust: I just finished switching OSM US over to a new membership tracking system. Dear Ian, You appear to have been very busy with US local chapter tasks this year, from this membership thing to the server,

Re: [OSM-talk] Policy in mapping military installations

2012-08-23 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote: What is OSM’s policy in mapping military installations… I'm not aware of an OSMF policy on mapping military installations. I'm not aware of mapping guidelines that are specific to military installations. General mapping

Re: [Talk-us] US-Canadian border

2012-08-22 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) calvin.metc...@state.ma.us wrote: I noticed this http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=44.524lon=-67.101zoom=10layers=M and really can’t make heads or tails of it. Does that show both claims in a border dispute? Imports. Is there anything

[OSM-talk] Board nominations, exit interviews

2012-08-20 Per discussione Richard Weait
Did you know that you can propose yourself as a candidate for the OpenStreetMap Foundation board? the nomination process is now open, and you don't have to wait for somebody else to nominate you. If you've wanted to be more involved in solving problems for other mappers, standing for the board,

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap birthday celebrations

2012-08-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Dear All, It is that time again. OpenStreetMap turns eight years old in just a few days. Join the celebration by getting together with other mappers at one of the planned celebrations, or plan one in your town! http

Re: [Talk-us] Another random road reclassification

2012-08-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Clay Smalley claysmal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: I know there is some disagreement about road classification,

Re: [Talk-us] New version of US redaction map

2012-08-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 8/13/2012 12:48 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: The main new thing is that it now shows deleted ways as well Very nice - this map and Toby's are very useful. I see that the deleted ways are purple. One thing I have

[talk-au] OpenStreetMap birthday celebrations

2012-08-10 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, It is that time again. OpenStreetMap turns eight years old in just a few days. Join the celebration by getting together with other mappers at one of the planned celebrations, or plan one in your town! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_8th_Anniversary_Birthday_party

[Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap birthday celebrations

2012-08-10 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, It is that time again. OpenStreetMap turns eight years old in just a few days. Join the celebration by getting together with other mappers at one of the planned celebrations, or plan one in your town! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_8th_Anniversary_Birthday_party

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap birthday celebrations

2012-08-10 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, It is that time again. OpenStreetMap turns eight years old in just a few days. Join the celebration by getting together with other mappers at one of the planned celebrations, or plan one in your town! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_8th_Anniversary_Birthday_party

Re: [Talk-ca] USGS Orthos in Canada

2012-08-09 Per discussione Richard Weait
We should be asking about this on talk-us. cc'd there. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Stewart C. Russell scr...@gmail.com wrote: While editing near Leamington ON in Potlatch, I clicked by accident on the Background - OSM US USGS Large Scale Aerial Imagery. It came up with really sharp and

[Talk-us] US local chapter

2012-08-08 Per discussione Richard Weait
talk has started on the osmf list about the upcoming OpenStreetMap Foundation board election, which reminded me of the US local chapter. I had a quick look at recent US local chapter minutes [1] and see nothing since April 2012. Are there some additional minutes to be posted? It's also unclear

Re: [Talk-us] trying to figure out the former path of a trolley line in Derry/Londonderry, NH

2012-08-07 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: I'm updating parts of the map in my local area (Derry and Londonderry, NH) and it looks like there was definitely a railroad of some kind here before. There's a dirt path here:

Re: [Talk-ca] CFB Borden and Meaford

2012-08-03 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com wrote: While browsing the map I noticed that the CFBs Borden and Meaford show up on the standard Mapnik mak in very low zoom levels (z=6). http

Re: [talk-au] Great checking/fixing progress

2012-08-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Ben Johnson tangarar...@gmail.com wrote: The Sydney-Newcastle coastal corridor is now 100% done! It's particularly great to see the inner Newcastle area bounce back - this region was anhialated by the redaction. There is a potential problem with that task. I'm

Re: [Talk-ca] Fixme Files

2012-08-01 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Bégin, Daniel daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca wrote: Bonjour Osmers First, a few personal news... I am currently transferring my files to François and Nicolas who will take over with the Openstreetmap community. François is already an Osm contributor and

Re: [Talk-ca] opendata datasets

2012-07-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
2012/7/31 Bruno Remy bremy.qc...@gmail.com: what!? do you mean openstreetmap denies opendata !!!? Come on! it's a joke? Dear Bruno, This is an old topic. I'll summarize for you. In short, yes, the OpenStreetMap community does reject a class of Open Data. We don't want data in OSM that we

Re: [Talk-ca] opendata datasets

2012-07-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: 2012/7/31 Bruno Remy bremy.qc...@gmail.com: what!? do you mean openstreetmap denies opendata !!!? Come on! it's a joke? Dear Bruno, This is an old topic. I'll summarize for you. On the good side, we have Natural

Re: [Talk-ca] opendata datasets

2012-07-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
2012/7/31 Bruno Remy bremy.qc...@gmail.com: Thanks Richard for your considerations. While reading your comments, I'm carried to believe that : wheras Canadian municipalities produce scrap data versus europenan ones I don't believe this. Canadian citizen are less confident in theyr

[talk-au] Brisbane bus stop density

2012-07-29 Per discussione Richard Weait
I see a cluster of bus stops in an area that looks unusual. Would a Brisbane local have a look when they get a chance? Not an emergency, obviously. They've been there since 2009. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-27.403455lon=152.943559zoom=18layers=M

[talk-au] mapping Sydney, etc with Tasking Server

2012-07-28 Per discussione Richard Weait
The tasking server allows mappers to select an area to map. Others can see which areas have been mapped and which have not. The goal being increased coordination and reduced duplication. There are several mapping tasks currently, including Sydney, kindly hosted by Simon Poole.

[Talk-ca] (re) mapping with the tasking server

2012-07-28 Per discussione Richard Weait
The tasking server allows mappers to select an area to map. Others can see which areas have been mapped and which have not. The goal being increased coordination and reduced duplication. There are several mapping tasks currently, including Sydney, kindly hosted by Simon Poole.

Re: [Talk-ca] Fixme Files

2012-07-28 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Bruno Remy bremy.qc...@gmail.com wrote: By the way is there a best-practice for roundabout? Circle ways? Or a single runabout node ? I always have been confused with those items... Roundabout a circular way, tagged as junction=roundabout (+

[OSM-talk] Fwd: [talk-au] Our friends down under need our help

2012-07-27 Per discussione Richard Weait
A thank you from a Perth mapper for the armchair mapping help from abroad. There are many places where can help other mappers if you have a few spare cycles. -- Forwarded message -- From: Arie Paap wildmy...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:27 PM Subject: Re: [talk-au]

[Talk-us] Of Mapping Party Kits and back to flyers / brochures

2012-07-26 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: On a related note, I was thinking about a traveling mapping party kit:

Re: [OSM-talk] Redaction finished already?

2012-07-25 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote: Can not see anything left here: http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/license-change/botprocessing.php Will officials confirm this? Mostly. As announced moments ago on rebuild@ by Andy Allan: Hi All, Another step along

Re: [Talk-us] Routing tests

2012-07-25 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:27 PM, the Old Topo Depot oldto...@novacell.com wrote: That was me How does http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:JohnANovak/Interstates fit your requirements ? hmmm. Not too well at the moment; seems like the vast number of template on that page is causing

Re: [Talk-us] flyers / brochures

2012-07-25 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Richard, Thanks, that's helpful. I haven't looked at the full PDF (really slow connection right now) - in your opinion, does this need adapting to 1) The N-American situation and 2) 2012? I'd go with it, unchanged, as a

Re: [talk-au] How to find missing bits?

2012-07-23 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Now that the CLEANMAP/BADMAP server has been disabled, what's a good way to find missing bits? Are there any sites that compare pre- and post- redaction? As announced on dev@

Re: [Talk-us] Major Vandalism in the Charlotte, NC

2012-07-21 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 7/21/2012 8:48 AM, James Mast wrote: Just thought I would give you a heads up guys, but a new guy to the project has been doing some major damage to the Downtown Charlotte, NC area putting in a ton of fictional stuff

Re: [Talk-ca] Redaction bot suspected in data damage

2012-07-20 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:38 PM, David E. Nelson denelso...@yahoo.ca wrote: I noticed when zooming in on the area around Victoria, BC that several roads in the area had been detagged and rendered invisible. Apparently the redaction bot's activities in this area and perhaps several other

Re: [Talk-us] Some observations and motivation

2012-07-20 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Alexander Jones happy5...@gmail.com wrote: [ many nice words ] So, let's stop bickering, and make it even better. Let's shall. :-) ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

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