On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote:
Thanks Frederik for kicking this off, good discussion of a *potentially* v
useful feature.
...
What's the best way to set up this kind of async stats processing, and
integrate into the rails app?
I've done a quantity
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Kathleen Danielson
kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Martin,
Can you provide some compelling examples of images that you'd like to see us
using instead?
It isn't easy is it? No rendering will satisfy everyone, and even a
collection of renderings will
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Connors, Bernie (SNB)
bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote:
Here is an example - http://osm.org/go/cgZ854R_8--
The problem is that there is an intersection node between
McKinnon Road and Route 8 but there is an overpass bridge at this location.
That does
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Grant Slater
openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
On Wednesday 27th of November 2013 between 17:30 and 22:00 (GMT / UTC)
the primary database server will be unavailable due to maintenance.
I apologise for the short notice.
Grant, thanks always to you and to the
just in case you aren't following announce, dev or talk.
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When you find a suspicious edit, try to be part of the solution,
rather than merely a reporting system. :-)
If you are experienced enough, attempt to determine which account
introduced the suspicious data. Contact that account through the user
mail system. Presume good faith; they may well be
Looks like somebody is getting some new mappers started today in
Ottawa. A bunch of new accounts showed up on #osm-ca . I've sent
welcome notes to some of them.
Nice to see some activity in Ottawa. :-) Who is running the class?
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Toronto Mappy Hour includes a presentation on How to map your neighborhood,
tonight. We'll have all of the usual conversation, QA, and fun, plus the
benefit of the presentation by Steve Singer.
Steve is a longtime OpenStreetMap contributor, and software developer. He has
presented at State of
Is this a real business with a sign?
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2458192649
go ahead and delete if it is just a spammer.
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote:
Hi All,
This has come up before. HOT is part of a pilot for the initiative
Imagery to the Crowd (1). Representatives of HOT and the US
Government met multiple times in all day meetings to discuss what the
NextView license
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Matthew Buchanan
matthew.ian.bucha...@gmail.com wrote:
GeoBase now has railway data for most provinces. BC, Alberta, and
Quebec will be released this fall.
http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/nrwn/index.html
Here is a little preview of the Toronto OpenStreetMap Birthday Party, today.
http://weait.com/FestivalOfFondant
The Toronto portion of the Birthday celebration includes a walking,
mapping tour of the city, and a party, with delightful conversation
and out-of-province and international guests.
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Mark_estimations_with_FIXME
Depends on the nature of the estimation. One could also leave a
note=estimated building position from ground survey with poor GPS
reception or a
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
We finally managed to get Phil's highway shield rendering up on the OSM-US
server today!
Fan. Tas. Tic.
Bravo. Seeing the multi-plex signs is awesome and miles ahead of
anything done anywhere else.
Dear all,
A group of Toronto mappers have just finalized and announced the
details for the Toronto celebration of the ninth birthday party for
OpenStreetMap. And you are all invited. Yes, talk-us-ers, I am
totally looking at you, too. Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York,
Vermont, New Hampshire,
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
Dear all,
A group of Toronto mappers have just finalized and announced the
details for the Toronto celebration of the ninth birthday party for
OpenStreetMap. And you are all invited.
I should have included the date
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.gov wrote:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dridge
seems to suggest that the appropriate way to tag a ridge is as a way. Any
thoughts on this? I’m looking at 100+ ridges, wondering how to simplify
(de-node) yet
If a new user is repeating errors, after your friendly contact, consider
passing the information along to the data working group. They, as ad mins, can
block an account until they read a message.
But, yes, the approach of contacting them first, with friendly correction, is
the way to go.
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote:
[ ... ]
As I envision an OSM Ambassador program, the goals would be similar to
Fedora[1],
Organize OSM participation at events
Demonstrate OSM to the public
Promote OSM at local events with talks, handouts and
2013/7/1 Guillaume Pratte guilla...@guillaumepratte.net:
Bonjour,
J'ai créé une liste de discussion pour annoncer les activités du groupe
OpenStreetMap Montréal.
I hope that you will also announce Montreal events on this list. I
see talk-ca as the list for all local groups in Canada.
For
Big Blue Button is FLOSS, video conference software. v0.8 or so.
http://www.bigbluebutton.org/overview/
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.gov wrote:
I’m tagging some camp sites as “boat=yes” to imply water access only, but I
don’t think this is right. Is there a water-only access tag?
What information are you trying to record? access= generally informs
of a legal
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Colin McGregor colin.mc...@gmail.com wrote:
when in
a car, how best to mount a pocket GPS (a Garmin eTrex 20) on the dash
that will keep the GPS from sliding around? The solution can not
require any permanent change to the car, should not leave any sort of
a
Hi All,
Are there any OpenStreetMap events planned for the next few weeks in the
Greenville, SC / Spartanberg TN / Asheville NC area? I'm travelling for a
bit and always enjoy meeting with other mappers.
Post your public events here.
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2013/6/20 Guillaume Pratte guilla...@guillaumepratte.net
Bonjour Fabian,
Mes plus sincères félicitations pour ta nomination à titre de président du
FACIL!
Au sujet d'OSMTL, je me dois ici d'être direct : le groupe sera *souverain
* dans ses communications et n'aura pas à répondre ni à
Why is the US local chapter not running a tile server that renders shields and
concurrencies? The tagging has been stable forever. The code has been working
for years. Even a hacked demo ( now offline) was running for years before
that.
Stop waiting for the London tile server to give a
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Fabian Rodriguez
magic...@member.fsf.orgwrote:
On 2013-06-13 21:20, Guillaume Pratte wrote:
I am indeed on this list. I am also the author of osmtl.org (and its
mirror site openstreetmap-montreal.org).
I have created this web sites in order to easily
:-)
So, previous (Toronto) OSM Birthday parties / anniversaries have been
social affairs, with food and drink and unstructured conversation. Usually
(exclusively, to date ?) at a private residence.
Any thoughts about continuing on those points, or changes refinements that
you'd like to enable?
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Immanuel Giulea
giulea.imman...@gmail.comwrote:
There are OpenStreetMap fans in Montreal.
And of course, they are welcome to join us in Toronto. And to host an
event to add another to the world wide list of parties.
What dates are we talking about?
Saturday,
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Diane Mercier diane.merc...@gmail.comwrote:
Bonjour Immanuel et les autres à Montréal,
Il y a le 26 juin, une rencontre organisée conjointement et simultanément
à Montréal (OKFN Meetup Montréal;
Saturday, 10 August 2013
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_9th_Anniversary_Birthday_party
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Dear All,
The ninth birthday of OpenStreetMap is coming up soon. It is tradition to
celebrate with parties in various cities where OpenStreetMap contributors
can attend and we've had Toronto parties for several of the last few
years.
Great Lakes area Mappers:
Shall we do that again?
What should
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Clay Smalley claysmal...@gmail.com wrote:
I vaguely remember tracing a large chunk of the Robert Campbell Highway
(Yukon Highway 4) sometime after the license redaction removed it. I just
noticed now that it's gone missing a second time (the stretch between
2013/5/29 Fabian Rodriguez magic...@member.fsf.org
tl;dr: 2.4 million CDN$ over 5 years for Geo/Open Data - more at
http://geothink.ca/
I'm not impressed. The first two things that I noticed about the site
were,
- guess whether the map they use is open or not? :/
- Some posts are password
2013/5/2 Guillaume Pratte guilla...@guillaumepratte.net
(English below)
Bonjour,
Je vous écris pour vous inviter à un atelier d'introduction à
OpenStreetMap qui aura lieu le 22 mai 2013 à Montréal, à 19h00, au café le
Milieu situé au 1251 rue Robin.
[ ... ]
I will organize an
The new US local chapter site looks nice. Good job.
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Hi all,
I'll be giving my How to use OpenStreetMap Data presentation tonight
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, at the Toronto Django meetup.
http://www.djangotoronto.com/
This will be a slightly modified reprise of the presentation I gave Monday
at Toronto Mappy Hour.
By the way, thanks to everybody who
From talk-ca, and also of interest to those talk-us-ers in the North
East. Come and meet Canadian mappers in Montréal, a beautiful and
friendly city.
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Subject:
Hi Dustin, and welcome.
You can find some background on mass edits / imports at the following
links. As you suspected, and Andrew points out, licensing is a critical
matter.
Do you remember where you saw the article on importing with josm?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines
iD devs have requested bug reports to go to their issue tracker.
https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues?state=open
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Dear All,
The monthly meeting of Toronto area OpenStreetMap Enthusiasts (Mappy Hour)
is always a laugh-riot of Open Data Goodness, Geo Expertise and baseless
but entertaining rumours. Come and join the fun.
In addition to the usual ad-hoc discussion and extensive question and
answer period,
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Matthew Petroff openstreet...@mpetroff.net
wrote:
Hello,
The City of Baltimore provides a large amount of public domain GIS data
through
their data portal [1]. Included are city wide building footprints [2],
which I
would like to import into OpenStreetMap.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi
[ ... ]
Therefore, my question is, who is the best OSM person to advise BNT of the
various technical details of using OSM map data.
Nick
Dear Nick,
Well, if you direct them to this list, they'll always
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Kathleen Danielson
kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:
Richard, can you explain a little more of why you think that the idea is
bad for OSM?
Removing OpenStreetMap from the attribution requirement is bad for
OpenStreetMap. It is good for OpenStreetMap that
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote:
Hello everyone -
I'd love to start pushing again on the OSM attribution mark.
Clearly. :-)
I think that the idea is bad for OpenStreetMap.
The logo is pretty.
The logo is pretty and the idea is bad for OpenStreetMap. At
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Date: Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:36 PM
Subject: [OSM-dev] Call for Presentations - SotM 2013 (annual conference)
To: Talk-GB talk...@openstreetmap.org, OpenStreetMap
t...@openstreetmap.org, d...@openstreetmap.org
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Hi All,
- please forward this on to your local communities -
It's that time of year again when we
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Hi All,
- please forward this on to your local communities -
It's that time of year again when we
Flesh it out. Try to fill in all four points, rather than just the idea.
What zoom and center point? How does that work on different devices /
resolution / orientation?
How will this be implemented? What effect will this have on a returning
visitor? What else?
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Samuel Longiaru longi...@shaw.ca wrote:
Another big thanks here to those involved in setting this up! I do
have a suggestion for the site. Perhaps it is already implemented
elsewhere, in which case maybe all I need is to be reminded of its
location so I can
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:51 PM, si...@mungewell.org wrote:
http://map.project-osrm.org/
For Canadian data and the rest of the world. Updates the data twice a
day, as I understand it.
So is there a way to 'teach' that better routes?
Blairmore to Calgary was routed through Fort
Dear all,
Darryl delivered on his promise, and openstreetmap.ca registration has been
transferred to OSMF / me. Thank you, again, Darryl for taking care of the
domain for the past years, and for offering it to the community, rather
than letting it lapse.
For now, if you visit openstreetmap.ca,
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:
Hi all,
During the edit-a-thon today I finally got around to working on preparing
a relatively small import of bus stop point data for the UTA service area
Try to guess my topic of interest. :-)
So, Martijn, tell me
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
The previous tagging was inadequate, bordering on offensive
Which tagging was that?
It is my understanding that First Nations boundaries just don't fit within
the simple number-line model that OpenStreetMap has used for
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.orgwrote:
The previous tagging was inadequate, bordering on offensive
Which
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Glen Barnes barnaclebar...@mac.comwrote:
Hi Richard,
Have you approached them to discuss the licenses?
Got a lovely form letter back after a week or so.
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Hi Open Data fans.
The Municipality of Halifax has announced an Open Data Pilot. Sadly, they
wrote their own license and it is incompatible with the OpenStreetMap data
license, possibly with any other license of any type any where, and common
sense. In their first term they declare their
I understand the interest in OSMF holding the openstreetmap.ca domain. To
balance that, there is a requirement that .ca domains be held by some body
with a legitimate interest or residence in Canada. (Or something like
that). If OSMF (being a UK not for profit) does not meet that requirement,
I'd love to be involved as well.
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2013/3/14 Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr
[ ... ] This license is said to be derived from the United Kingdom
license which is said to be compatible with the ODbL (and thus OSM ).
I would appreciate your comments on this.
All right. You asked. :-)
The governments, municipal, provincial
Some services will be degraded on Friday, 08 March 2013 for scheduled
maintenance. Please see the announcement for details.
http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2013/03/02/scheduled-maintenance-08-march-2013/
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Which Montréal-based OpenStreetMap contributors and developers will be
coming to Toronto for the Hack Weekend (and to mock the Maple Leafs) ?
It's only a quick trip along the autoroute.
Please pass the Hack Weekend details along to your local groups of
potentially-interested developers.
Hey.
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
Hey all,
The second annual Canadian OpenStreetMap Developers Weekend is coming up
quickly.
Right. Next weekend. The Second Annual Canadian OpenStreetMap Hack
Weekend is on 08 through 10 March, 2013.
Several
Hey all,
The second annual Canadian OpenStreetMap Developers Weekend is coming up
quickly. If you've ever wanted to develop some code around the
OpenStreetMap ecosystem, brush up on your geo-data-handling or just learn
more about the OpenStreetMap software stack, this is the event to attend.
... but I don't want to spoil the surprise. So don't read the link before
you click it. :-)
http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2013/02/16/state-of-the-map-2013-birmingham/
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On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com wrote:
I realize my opinion probably doesn't count for much, but I'm curious if
there is a reason this couldn't be held the following weekend (13-15) so
that those of us already traveling to the UK for FOSS4G (17-21) dont have
Join Toronto's OpenStreetMap Enthusiasts tonight for an incremental
opportunistic Mappy Hour. Normally we have one Mappy Hour per month, but
we have a special guest mapper visiting from overseas. Come and join in on
all the usual Mappy Hour fun; OpenStreetMap QA, OpenData discussion,
These two accounts have a history of conflict with each other.
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2010-October/004432.html
NE2 and Paul Johnson have been instructed previously to leave each other
alone.
Anthony DiPierro is the only person, so far, who has been banned from OSM
for
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
I would like to organize one in Tulsa.
Do not, or do. There is no 'like'. - channelling Map Yoda. :-)
They're fun. Pick a format that works for you and do it.
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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Kathleen Danielson
kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:
Re: Map -- All in good time. (Gotta write up my blog post first...)
http://usergroups.openstreetmap.de/?zoom=3lat=35.96022lon=-80.33203layers=B0TFT
Re: Remote meetup deployment: I love that idea and
Why does a company in one country care about what a court says in another
country?
Perhaps because of a treaty where the countries mutually recognize the
decisions of the courts of the other country.
Where no treaty exists, there may be common law that allows enforcement of
the judgements of a
There is a Strategic Working Group, now dormant, in the OSMF. It was
created with the intent of planning for the future and providing
recommendations to the board and management team. Those interested first
met on line on the strategic@[2] mailing list in May 2010, then in person,
at State of
You might think that OSMF is not being transparent enough at this point. I
think we'll learn more in time. I've gone into detail on my blog if you
want more words. :-)
But, looking at the CD as a negotiation, it would be foolish to discuss
settlement terms in advance in public. For example,
I agree that advocacy with all levels of government is important. They
seem in general to be interested, and to listen politely, but often to not
understand that creating a new license is poison to open data. So it is
important to keep talking with them, more and more of them, until they
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:08 PM, nicholas ingalls nicholas.inga...@gmail.com
wrote:
My personal preference is to enable the JOSM sidewalk style and then use
the sidewalk:right sidewalk:left, sidewalk:both, or sidewalk:none tags on
the actual street. The footpaths are just about useless (as in
@andres / @cartinus, such a trade mark has been issued by USPTO
http://weait.com/content/trade-mark
Anyone who cares to pick up this fight with their money, is likely to be
able to do so very simply.
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Now, I'm going mapping. :-)
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internationalization, two on-line editors, API 0.5, API 0.6,
Relations, minutely updates, and on and on.
Granted, most of those developments were at Hack Weekends in London,
England, but we can join the fun as well. Sign up now. We'll see you in
Toronto.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Richard Weait rich
Bravo!
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Svavar Kjarrval sva...@kjarrval.iswrote:
Hi.
[ ... ]
I suspect that such a condition is not in the spirit of open data but
nevertheless I decided to inquire about it anyway. Would such a condition
for data be acceptable for data contributions? If the terms
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Ilya Zverev zve...@textual.ru wrote:
Hi.
2300 users have changed their username at least once. [ ... ]
A new service http://textual.ru/whosthat/ remembers.
Very. Nice. :-)
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Come one, come all, to the Second Canadian OpenStreetMap Developer Weekend,
eh?
As last year, Ryerson University is providing a dry roof overhead, lots of
space and rock solid wifi for the programming portion of the event.
There will also be a public event, possibly an expert panel, Friday
Come one, come all, to the Second Canadian OpenStreetMap Developer Weekend,
eh?
As last year, Ryerson University is providing a dry roof overhead, lots of
space and rock solid wifi for the programming portion of the event.
There will also be a public event, possibly an expert panel, Friday
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Rob smartt...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello.
Would like to ask / discuss with you the new license for OSM if you do not
mind.
I have a website that I would like to integrate/include OSM map tiles into.
What I would like to clarify is if I would be required to
Hi all,
I've encouraged you to start a local Mappy Hour, or other local in-person
OSM event before. Yes. I'm doing that again. Attending Mappy Hour is
fun. I imagine that the London pub meets and German Stammtisch are every
bit as fun, and look forward to attending them as I travel.
So do
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote:
I fully concur that OSM Foundation needs to start a vision and strategy
for the future. How do we get their attention? In this instance I don't
believe we should lead from the rear. We need the leadership that the
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote:
Am 02.01.2013 11:41, Robin Paulson wrote:
http://store.axismaps.com/product/boston-blue
osm is mentioned on the web site, but not on the poster itself.
suggestions, comments, etc. requested please.
I'm assuming
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org wrote:
Are there any tools that can tip users to what they could do in a
particular
map area?
In my experience, when mappers go out and start to map, they
Mappy New Year, mappers.
I'd love to see more Canadian cities start to host monthly OpenStreetMap
events in 2013. They're a great way to meet other mappers, to learn and
share the experiences of other mappers, to learn about the other things
interesting people do besides mapping. And they're
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
I'm going to be in Toronto in the new year and was wondering if any OSM or
GIS events, meetings or mappy hours would be taking place. I'll be arriving
on the 2nd and leaving on the 7th for Penetang but might be free after
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:30 AM, William Rieck bi...@thinkers.org wrote:
There is no gospel, although surveys and GPS traces may be close, but
certainly not Bing and CanVec imports.
The map should represent what you see on the ground, so make whatever
adjustments are needed, using deduction
One OSM commenter suggested that the best thing for the map was an import,
Import some German mappers they suggested. That isn't wrong, but in some
places it might be historically provocative. :-)
About 18 months ago I posted this Mappy Hour HOWTO.
We've confirmed the date and time, and the special guest, for the Toronto
meet and greet. It will be next Saturday, 05 Jan 2013, from 3pm.
http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Toronto/
Join the meetup, or email me off list for details.
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The Toronto area OSM events are announced regularly on the meetup
calendar.
http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Toronto/
In general,
- we meet monthly for Mappy Hour - a pub meeting for discussion, news and
questions and answers for new mappers.
- we have special events like OSM Birthday
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:41 AM, David dban...@internode.on.net wrote:
I think it might be a mistake to suggest that we don't get to have a say
in how (eg) the main osm map is rendered just because we can personally
render our own. Firstly, setting up to do that rendering is not trivial,
nor
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.comwrote:
Richard wrote
Take a shot at creating rendering rules that fit your use case! :-)
I'm with John on this one - especially for the case of Australia. Maybe
we need a special renderer for Australia. Just
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:
On 12/18/12 9:51 PM, Brian DeRocher wrote:
Food for thought... Imagine we performed a large data import into a side
table, then used MapRoulette to overlay that data on OSM, allow users to
review additions, and
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.
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