Re: [Diversity-talk] Who says we need a code of conduct?

2018-03-06 Per discussione Alex Barth
This is not acceptable, we can't ignore behavior like this and need to pull access to comment threads at least temporarily https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SeleneYang/diary/43446#comment41172 On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 7:11 AM, Dan S wrote: > Hi > > There are lots of

[Talk-us] State of the Map US 2016 to take place in Seattle!

2016-03-01 Per discussione Alex Barth
a bid. Looking forward to seeing everyone in Seattle! Alex Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenRandomMap

2016-01-29 Per discussione Alex Barth
***OpenEpicMap*** On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > That is a lot of words in wordlist.txt! > > > Most amusing so far "OpenTrueToadMap" > > > Also got "OpenBarMap" and "OpenCentralParkMap" which sould real. > > > Nick > > >

Re: [Talk-us] State of the Map US bidders: join the virtual Town Hall!

2016-01-25 Per discussione Alex Barth
Reminder - the virtual townhall on State of the Map US is happening today at 5PM ET! All the info to join is here: https://openstreetmap.us/2016/01/sotmus-2016/ Spread the word + happy Monday everyone. On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Alex Barth <a...@openstreetmap.us> wrote: > Are yo

[Talk-us] State of the Map US bidders: join the virtual Town Hall!

2016-01-19 Per discussione Alex Barth
f the Town Hall. You can still submit a bid for State of the Map US until February 15th: https://openstreetmap.us/2016/01/sotmus-2016/ Cheers! Alex -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstr

Re: [OSM-talk] A big debate about OSM quality in Strava community

2015-11-23 Per discussione Alex Barth
Hey Federico - It's still early days and tracking the impact of a launch on active mappers is notoriously difficult, but here's what we're doing working with Strava on improving OpenStreetMap: - Strava started to blog about their maps on the engineering blog. The first post

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

2015-10-12 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Steve Coast 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

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

2015-10-09 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Steve Coast wrote: > If you want all these rights, you can just pick up the phone and pay HERE > or TomTom for them, they’d love to hear from you. What's more interesting than sending people to HERE and TomTom is making them contributors to

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

2015-10-08 Per discussione Alex Barth
for elections! Get your name up on the list by October 10th. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Elections/2015#Candidates -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Consider running for the OSM US board? Join the October 1st campfire chat!

2015-10-01 Per discussione Alex Barth
, Alex Barth <a...@openstreetmap.us> wrote: > *RSVP for an October 1st campfire chat with active board members* to > learn more about activities of the organization and responsibilities of the > board: > > > https://docs.google.com/a/openstreetmap.us/forms/d/1s7H_jnL6SBRGcico33n

[Talk-us] Consider running for the OSM US board? Join the October 1st campfire chat!

2015-09-29 Per discussione Alex Barth
are OpenStreetMap US board elections*. Consider running! OpenStreetMap US is a great place to promote OpenStreetMap with events and outreach programs small (think mapathons) and large (think State of the Map US). http://openstreetmap.us/2015/09/do-you-want-to-be-on-the-osm-us-board/ -- Alex Barth Vice

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

2015-09-28 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Simon Poole wrote: > The later naturally makes the former unnecessary, so we might as well > simply propose that geo-coding creates a non-substantive extract (which has > been suggested btw in a different forum and is in discussion in the LWG). >

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

2015-09-27 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > On 9/22/2015 4:26 PM, Alex Barth wrote: > >> Overall, I'd love to see us moving towards a share alike interpretation >> that applies to "OSM as the map" and allows for liberal intermin

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

2015-09-23 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Simon Poole wrote: > it might actually force > such a service provider to differentiate between geo-coding for public > vs in-house use. > This suggestion has come up before and I'd like to flag that this is impractical. No organization would and

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

2015-09-22 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Simon Poole wrote: > One of the big grey areas remaining wrt our distribution licence is > defining if, and how you can link from external data to an OpenStreetMap > derived dataset. Nailing this down is, in my opinion, key to progress in >

Re: [OSM-talk] Portal for end users

2015-09-15 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > It actually appears they are claiming to do so (based on Mapbox > attribution), though I question how recent their snapshot is or how they're > coming to some of the conclusions they are in the Tulsa area Paul - Ian's

Re: [OSM-talk] Portal for end users

2015-09-15 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Alex Barth <a...@mapbox.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > >> It actually appears they are claiming to do so (based on Mapbox >> attribution), though I question how recent th

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap US elections October 18th 2015

2015-09-10 Per discussione Alex Barth
the word* For example by retweeting us: https://twitter.com/OpenStreetMapUS/status/642098276561473536 -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [Talk-at] Grenzimport Wien

2015-09-02 Per discussione Alex Barth
2015-08-21 12:02 GMT-04:00 Frederik Ramm : > Das ist in dieser Allgemeinheit leider nicht richtig. CC-BY gibt dem > Lizenzgeber weitreichende Freiheit, wie er die ihm zustehende > Namensnennung einfordert. Er *könnte* beispielsweise fordern, dass auf > jeder Karte, die mit

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Any expert CC-BY -> ODbL negotiators?

2015-09-01 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > The problem is that they have specified a license with attribution that is > unreasonable for geodata (CC BY 3.0 and earlier). > How so? Emphasis is on "in a manner reasonable to the medium" which would be totally

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Any expert CC-BY - ODbL negotiators?

2015-08-30 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Stephan Knauss o...@stephans-server.de wrote: Hello Steve, On 30.08.2015 17:14, Steve Bennett wrote: I wonder if there are any expert licence negotiators here who might be able to get involved in the discussion. I'm no such expert, but they just require

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Any expert CC-BY - ODbL negotiators?

2015-08-30 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: My understanding was that when you import data into OSM, you assign special permission to the OSMF to re-license the data under ODbL, so you need more than just CC-BY licensing to begin with. Did something change, or

Re: [Talk-de] mangelhafte Namensnennung auf Mapbox-Karten

2015-07-17 Per discussione Alex Barth
Hallo - Alex von Mapbox hier. 2015-07-17 8:15 GMT-04:00 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Nun kenne ich das Mapbox-System nicht gut genug, es könnte durchaus sein, dass der Site-Betreiber sich da mit seinem Access-Code einloggt und dann in einem Web-UI konfigurieren kann, welche Art der

Re: [Talk-us] Railway crossing challenge for MapRoulette

2015-07-07 Per discussione Alex Barth
This is great work, thank you for setting this up Martijn! On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hi all, I have done some work to turn the FRA crossing data into a MapRoulette challenge to fix missing railway crossings. Here is the description I have come

Re: [OSM-talk] Some thoughts against remote mapping

2015-06-16 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Mikel Maron mikel.ma...@gmail.com wrote: A map with all the buildings can look done in the standard rendering, but of course we know it's not done. Is there a way to visualize the map to take into account the depth and local knowledge of the data? So that the

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map US: ticket sales close June 1

2015-06-01 Per discussione Alex Barth
We just extended registration until June 3 noon Eastern - the very last moment to ensure you'll be on the security list for the UN. http://stateofthemap.us/ See you in NYC! On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: If you haven't gotten your ticket yet for State

Re: [Talk-us] State of the Map US: ticket sales close June 1

2015-06-01 Per discussione Alex Barth
We just extended registration until June 3 noon Eastern - the very last moment to ensure you'll be on the security list for the UN. http://stateofthemap.us/ See you in NYC! On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: If you haven't gotten your ticket yet for State

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-05-30 Per discussione Alex Barth
We've got beautiful name:LANGUAGE tags, they work, I say let's use them. The English speaking community is well started into this practice (just look at the 1.3 million name:en tags [1]!) - now let's have the rest of us get in on the fun too ;-) Frederik's called upon the local-first rule a

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-05-27 Per discussione Alex Barth
OpenStreetMap is the spatial representation of the world - wouldn't it make sense then to also store the translations for locations in OpenStreetMap? If there are storage or editor UI issues, would it be worthwhile solving them to enable translation? On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Eugene

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US: ticket sales close June 1

2015-05-20 Per discussione Alex Barth
York City! Alex -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[Talk-us] State of the Map US: ticket sales close June 1

2015-05-20 Per discussione Alex Barth
York City! Alex -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[OSM-talk] Low State of the Map US hotel room rates

2015-05-04 Per discussione Alex Barth
We've secured crazy low hotel room rates for State of the Map US starting at $60 / night for three nights at the New School's 13th Street Residence. Book fast! https://twitter.com/sotmus/status/595299230928908289 https://twitter.com/sotmus/status/595299230928908289 -- Alex Barth Vice

[Talk-us] Low State of the Map US hotel room rates

2015-05-04 Per discussione Alex Barth
We've secured crazy low hotel room rates for State of the Map US starting at $60 / night for three nights at the New School's 13th Street Residence. Book fast! https://twitter.com/sotmus/status/595299230928908289 https://twitter.com/sotmus/status/595299230928908289 -- Alex Barth Vice

Re: [Talk-us] Happy weekend - join the #Mapathon!

2015-04-13 Per discussione Alex Barth
to plan for things like that weeks in advance... - Serge On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: Join this weekend at the US wide spring #mapathon. Find the official locations on the OpenStreetMap US blog or just join from home. All you need to join is tag

[Talk-us] Happy weekend - join the #Mapathon!

2015-04-10 Per discussione Alex Barth
/2015/04/spring-mapathon/ Happy weekend everyone - Alex -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM 2016: Call for venues - Last Week

2015-04-07 Per discussione Alex Barth
/listinfo/talk -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-04 Per discussione Alex Barth
is interested in help lead a foot survey at State of the Map US, get in touch: sot...@openstreetmap.us . -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-04 Per discussione Alex Barth
://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-04 Per discussione Alex Barth
walking around outdoors on a college campus. This is why we're doing mapathons (previously editathons) - they bring new people into the community! How awesome is that? -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-04 Per discussione Alex Barth
@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-03 Per discussione Alex Barth
Not sure it is necessary to suggest all nonhackers and non humanitarians on this list are couch potatoes to further the argument. Osm is a place where imports happen, we have rules to stick to, we want to have educated discussions about those rules. I am tired of import bashing as an

Re: [Talk-us] New North America coverage of Osmose QA

2015-04-02 Per discussione Alex Barth
Thank you Frédéric and Osmose team! On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Frédéric Rodrigo fred.rodr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Osmose QA is a Quality Assurance tool. It detects and reports errors based on more than 200 rulesets. http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr

[Talk-us] Get your $90 early bird ticket to State of the Map US by TUESDAY

2015-03-30 Per discussione Alex Barth
Tuesday 31st is the last day to get an early bird ticket at $90 to State of the Map US at the UN in New York City. Thereafter the tickets will be $150. http://stateofthemap.us/ Looking forward to seeing you in NYC! -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc

Re: [Talk-de] Wochennotiz Nr. 244 17.3.–23.3.2015

2015-03-25 Per discussione Alex Barth
Hallo! Danke für die Notiz! Kleine Verbesserung: Zwischenergebnis zur SotM US: Es wurden mehr als 230 Förderanträge gestellt und fast 60 Vorträge eingereicht. Richtig ist: Zwischenergebnis zur SotM US: Es wurden mehr als 230 Förderanträge gestellt und **über 200** Vorträge eingereicht.

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

2015-03-25 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: I apologize for coming in so late on this thread. Looking at my small county, we have 55 place=hamlet according to an overpass query. Note we're only talking about `place=hamlet` in urban areas. I wasn't 100 % clear

[OSM-talk] This Sunday: last opportunity to submit a talk to State of the Map US

2015-03-21 Per discussione Alex Barth
-- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[Talk-us] This Sunday: last opportunity to submit a talk to State of the Map US

2015-03-21 Per discussione Alex Barth
-- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-in] About having a mapping party in Koorachundu Village Panchayat - Kozhikode district - Kerala - Reg.

2015-03-21 Per discussione Alex Barth
This is a very impressive initiative, thank you for sharing. It is a living example of what Mikel is talking about in yesterday's post: For government, OpenStreetMap is more than just data, it's a transformation http://openstreetmap.us/2015/03/government-and-openstreetmap/ On Saturday, March

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

2015-03-19 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for another TIGER tool. I used it to look at some areas and made changes. The map reminds me of another map that MapBox produced several years ago using a slider tool. Useful features: * Timely updates. The

[OSM-talk] Today is your last chance to apply for a scholarship to New York City

2015-03-15 Per discussione Alex Barth
for the OpenStreetMap community and those who want to become a part of it! Details: http://openstreetmap.us/2015/01/scholarships/ Help spread the word: https://twitter.com/sotmus/status/577139524456820736 -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc

Re: [Talk-us] Your opinion about SOTM US

2015-03-15 Per discussione Alex Barth
, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','a...@mapbox.com'); wrote: Here's a map showing where TIGER is better than OSM: https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/lxbarth.647bc246/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoibHhiYXJ0aCIsImEiOiJFVXdYcUlvIn0.bbaHTEWlnAwGgyVwJngMdQ#5

Re: [Talk-us] Communication Working Group Proposal

2015-03-14 Per discussione Alex Barth
osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc

[Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

2015-03-14 Per discussione Alex Barth
What do people think about how to properly retag place=hamlet in US urban areas? My colleague Eliane rendered out a map of all hamlets in urban areas in the US: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/samely/diary/34541 I just posted how we could fix this:

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

2015-03-14 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: The editor visits a site which accesses the JOSM remote control protocol. They fix up the TIGER date and indicate Yes, I'm done or Needs more work, and after a couple of Yes votes, it gets taken out of rotation.

Re: [OSM-talk] Quality of OSM Notes

2015-03-10 Per discussione Alex Barth
to collect that information. And when the map is updated, is an excellent time to draw people back to OSM for a second look (so they can take pride in having contributed). So require an OSM account for posting notes? -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc

[Talk-us] Scholarships and talks deadlines - we'd like to hear from you!

2015-03-10 Per discussione Alex Barth
you in New York - Alex PS: if you'd like to help spread the word: https://twitter.com/sotmus/status/575450081886781441 -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https

[OSM-talk] Scholarships and talks deadlines - we'd like to hear from you!

2015-03-10 Per discussione Alex Barth
you in New York - Alex PS: if you'd like to help spread the word: https://twitter.com/sotmus/status/575450081886781441 -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-talk] Quality of OSM Notes

2015-03-09 Per discussione Alex Barth
Bryce - this is an interesting review, thanks for sharing. On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: As for Scout, I talked about this in my diary entry http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/28208 some time ago - not all of these are going to be useful

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

2015-03-09 Per discussione Alex Barth
Casting the net a little wider: What do you think are the big topics and challenges for OpenStreetMap as we're about to go into the second decade? What does this mean for State of the Map? On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hey all, I put together a 3

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for outdoor mapping party

2015-03-09 Per discussione Alex Barth
It would be great to have this topic at State of the Map US as a talk, workshop or a mapping party http://stateofthemap.us/ On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Andrew Wiseman awise...@gmail.com wrote: I'd also suggest the Pushpin app for iPhones too, it's a very quick way to add points that you

Re: [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

2015-03-09 Per discussione Alex Barth
Casting the net a little wider: What do you think are the big topics and challenges for OpenStreetMap as we're about to go into the second decade? What does this mean for State of the Map? On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hey all, I put together a 3

Re: [Talk-in] Fwd: OpenStreetMap events in 2015

2015-02-27 Per discussione Alex Barth
I am part of the organizing committee of State of the Map US this year. There is a great scholarship program to offset travel cost and the call for proposals is open. Check out the web site: http://stateofthemap.us/about/ On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Yogesh योगि

Re: [Talk-us] Get your early bird ticket to State of the Map US!

2015-02-04 Per discussione Alex Barth
in there if you're attending on your own behalf. Thanks! On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com wrote: On 01/28/2015 02:39 PM, Alex Barth wrote: Hello everyone! Early bird ticket sales for State of the Map US are open, find out all the details on our web site: http

Re: [Talk-us] Get your early bird ticket to State of the Map US!

2015-02-04 Per discussione Alex Barth
- and we are fully planning to sell out the conference :) -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Get your early bird ticket to State of the Map US!

2015-01-30 Per discussione Alex Barth
for a call for session proposals. We'll be announcing it here, but another way of staying in the loop is signing up for the newsletter on http://stateofthemap.us Alex -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list

[Talk-us] Get your early bird ticket to State of the Map US!

2015-01-28 Per discussione Alex Barth
Hello everyone! Early bird ticket sales for State of the Map US are open, find out all the details on our web site: http://openstreetmap.us/2014/12/early-bird/ Looking forward to seeing you in NYC! Alex -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc

Re: [Talk-us] Mappy Hour

2015-01-22 Per discussione Alex Barth
___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-us] Please review: new proposed bylaws for OSM US, open for comments until Jan 20th

2015-01-20 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Our new proposed bylaws are open for comments until **January 20th 3PM Eastern**. Will these new bylaws be compatible with getting Local Chapter status? Yes. ___ Talk-us mailing

[Talk-us] Please review: new proposed bylaws for OSM US, open for comments until Jan 20th

2015-01-14 Per discussione Alex Barth
at members...@opensteretmap.us -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Meet the new board - offices elected

2014-12-02 Per discussione Alex Barth
Hello everyone - Today we elected the offices of the new 2014/2015 board of OpenStreetMap US, see the resulting new roles here: http://openstreetmap.us/2014/12/board-roles/ -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Meet the new board - offices elected

2014-12-02 Per discussione Alex Barth
Paul - On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Previously it was stated that the OSM US conference announcement (SOTM-US) would happen after the new board selected their roles. With the conference announcement happening in November, what happened during the last

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Working Group news

2014-11-18 Per discussione Alex Barth
Mike - Thank you for all your work for OpenStreetMap as member and lead of the Licensing Working Group. I know it's not always fun and work that's often in the focus of heated debate. I've always admired your cool headedness and appreciated your practical advice. Thank you! Alex On Tue, Nov

Re: [Talk-us] OSMF AGM election results

2014-11-10 Per discussione Alex Barth
Alan - STV hasn't come up in the more recent past for osm us. Certainly open to using it in 2015 election. Alex (osm us board member) On Sunday, November 9, 2014, Alan McConchie alan.mcconc...@gmail.com wrote: Richard, thanks for the great work you and the other election monitors did to make

Re: [talk-latam] State of the Map

2014-11-06 Per discussione Alex Barth
Aa! Si solo fueran más rápidos estes aviones. Voy a levantar una copa para ustedes desde encima del caribe approximadamente. Los veo en la mañana, todo fresco. 2014-11-06 17:16 GMT-05:00 Marcelo Aliaga marc...@aliaga.cl: Estimados todo el éxito en la jornada. Hoy viajaron nuestros

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

2014-11-03 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: my bad, sorry for the confusion, my comment was referring to the following edit, which was 4 minutes later:

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

2014-11-03 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: where in one of the first paragraphs there is this unproven claim: Geocoding Results are a Produced Work by the definition of the ODbL (section 1.): “Produced Work” – a work (such as an image, audiovisual

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

2014-11-03 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Let's presume we all followed this reading, then when would something actually fall under the definition of derivative database? Why would we still be writing to legal talk instead of using the whole OSM db as a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contents Licence for OSM Data

2014-11-02 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: For corporations its most of the time easier to spend 500K€ on a commercial dataset than to spend 5k€ on a Lawyer analyzing a licensing issue. If we add up the cost of all the time company representatives have spent

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

2014-11-02 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-29 20:56 GMT+01:00 Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com: Updated: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Open_Data_License%2FGeocoding_-_Guidelinediff=1102233oldid=1076215 wouldn't it make more sense

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

2014-11-02 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Michal Palenik michal.pale...@freemap.sk wrote: 4.4.c. Derivative Databases and Produced Works. A Derivative Database is Publicly Used and so must comply with Section 4.4. if a Produced Work created from the Derivative Database is Publicly Used. which say,

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

2014-11-02 Per discussione Alex Barth
I have two questions on the Collective DB alternative: The derivative database consists of the data that has been used as the input data for the geocoding process, as well as the data that has been gained from OpenStreetMap in the process. Any additional data that may be linked to this data,

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

2014-10-29 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I'm wondering if we should replace geocodes with geocoding results throughout the page. I think it improves clarity as to what is being discussed, and geocodes is not a term in common use for what we are discussing.

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

2014-10-29 Per discussione Alex Barth
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: A geocoding result is not the same as a database of geocoding results. Column 1 says the former is a produced work, but is silent on the latter. I updated the guide to be explicit about this case:

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

2014-10-29 Per discussione Alex Barth
Hey Michal - On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Michal Palenik michal.pale...@freemap.sk wrote: alex, please read 4.6 of odbl, which basically says there is no difference between derivative db and produced work with regards to database rights. 4.6 talks about disclosure standards in cases

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

2014-10-27 Per discussione Alex Barth
, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: How would the Collective Database approach work if the OSM Database must remain unmodified to be part of a Collective Database? The definition of Collective

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

2014-10-27 Per discussione Alex Barth
Good call on geocodes - geocoding results. That's clearer. On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: What do you think the status of a database of geocoding results is under the interpretation in column 1? According to the interpretation in column 1, the ODbL

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] White Paper on ODbL and OSM

2014-10-27 Per discussione Alex Barth
I posted a summary of the white paper on my diary. In discussions at State of the Map US and EU people have asked for a more comprehensive review of the license and more specific use cases that we're currently missing out on - which in turn means contributors we're missing out on. I hope this

Re: [Talk-us] SotM-us 2015

2014-10-24 Per discussione Alex Barth
Richard - The bids were submitted private. As soon as the board will reconstitute after the elections we'll take a decision on the next location for State of the Map US. FWIW, I personally don't see a reason to not share the submissions together with the board decision, but I'd love to get the

Re: [OSM-talk] A Better Map

2014-10-22 Per discussione Alex Barth
Steve - would love to work on fixing the license with you so addresses in OSM make sense in the first place. Right now you practically can't use OSM for permanent geocoding. See also: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2014-July/007900.html On Wednesday, October 22, 2014, Steve

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental validation software

2014-10-13 Per discussione Alex Barth
Dave - Alex here, I work with Richman (user account RichRico). Thanks for reporting. Looking into these issues now. Let me get back to you. The thread you opened here on talk exposed a weakness in our data team policy - you had no way to actually find from Richman's profile to my contact to

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Latin America and why you should come to State of the Map in Argentina

2014-10-10 Per discussione Alex Barth
I just came back from a fantastic OpenStreetMap event around the Latin American open data conference Condatos in Mexico City. A ton of really awesome people turned out from all across the Americas and connected for the first time in real life. Find more details with pics on my diary. Latin

Re: [Talk-us] Outreach Program for Women

2014-10-05 Per discussione Alex Barth
Great! On Saturday, October 4, 2014, alyssa wright alyssapwri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I am pleased to announce that we are providing funding for an internship with HOT through the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. This is an incredible organizations with proven success in bringing more

Re: [Talk-us] tasks.openstreetmap.us

2014-09-27 Per discussione Alex Barth
Hey there Paul - This is you, right? https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Paul%20Johnson I just made you admin on tasks.osm.us. Alex On Saturday, September 27, 2014, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Who would I talk to about getting access to create tasks on this Task Manager? I'd

[OSM-talk] Mapbox Data Team Guidelines

2014-09-19 Per discussione Alex Barth
Two new full time OpenStreetMap mappers have joined the Mapbox team this week. This is exciting for me as it allows us to do more direct work on OSM and contribute back directly. With this recent addition we also want to introduce guidelines establishing some simple but important rules of how we

[Talk-GB] Friday September 26 happy hour in London

2014-09-18 Per discussione Alex Barth
We're throwing a happy hour in London (Shoreditch) next week on Friday. Would love to meet up and chat! https://www.mapbox.com/blog/happy-hour-london-2014/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] NYC building details

2014-09-18 Per discussione Alex Barth
Colin - You're essentially describing OpenStreetMap's standards. Of course we don't have the imagery you used for digitization but we should make at least sure to stick to tracing footprints, not rooflines. I'll drop the user robgeb who created the changeset in question a friendly note to make

[Talk-us] Scholarships for Argentina

2014-09-17 Per discussione Alex Barth
/512270288823025664 Cheers and hope to see you in Argentina!!! -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Geography Awareness Week #mapathon Nov 15 and 16

2014-09-16 Per discussione Alex Barth
For this fall's #mapathon we're joining National Geographic's Geography Awareness Week. Add your city on the map and host a #mapathon in your community + help spread the word: http://openstreetmap.us/2014/09/fall-mapathon/ Cheers! -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc

Re: [OSM-talk] Personal maps tool similar to my maps

2014-08-27 Per discussione Alex Barth
Umap's great. There's also http://geojson.io/ On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Try uMap: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/ On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Tanveer Singh tanveer1...@gmail.com wrote: In google maps world you can create your own

Re: [OSM-talk] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.19.0

2014-08-27 Per discussione Alex Barth
Awesome work. Big congratulations to everyone involved. I'm subscribed to the repo and I'm just impressed by the amount of activity. Thank you. On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: Dear all, Today, v2.19.0 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet

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