Re: [Talk-us-bayarea] [Talk-us] U.S. Local Chapters

2009-10-05 Thread Bill Ricker
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: I'd recommend setting up the draft bylaws prior to making the decision of where to incorporate.  How we want to run the organization will help determine where (and whether) to incorporate. Right, as otherwise the locality dictates

[Talk-us-bayarea] Gilroy Hike and Mapping Party

2009-10-05 Thread Sarah Manley
All, Shawn Britton will be hosting a Hike Mapping Party on Sunday Oct 25th in Gilroy. More details here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gilroy_Mapping_Party Cheers, Sarah ___ Talk-us-bayarea mailing list Talk-us-bayarea@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Maui, Lanai, and Molokai (was Re: Characterizing Systematic Errors in Hawaii and US Pacific Island Data)

2009-10-05 Thread Scott Atwood
Lanaʻi: This is a small island with a relatively limited road network, concentrated mostly in a single small, central town. It looks like there has been extensive manual editing of the road network, and it seems to correspond fairly well to the satellite photos. Molokaʻi: The coastline data

[Talk-us] Big Island, Maui, Lanai, and Molokai (was Re: Characterizing Systematic Errors in Hawaii and US Pacific Island Data)

2009-10-05 Thread Scott Atwood
Big Island (Hawai'i Island): I spot checked the road network here. With the exception of portions of the Kailua-Kona area, the roads everywhere I checked hadn't been edited since the 2007 TIGER import. And all data (even most of the Kailua-Kona data that had been manually edited) suffered from

[Talk-us] Hawaii and other areas, 2007 TIGER not NAD83

2009-10-05 Thread Mark Gray
Reading the notes for the 2009 Tiger data at http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/faq.html I found the following quote (line breaks added by me): In the 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles, the following areas had not gone through the NAD83 transformation process and were still within local astronomical

Re: [Talk-us] Mailboxes, etc.

2009-10-05 Thread Chris Hunter
I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree here. Different countries *do*blur the line between shops and post offices. For example, I've visited Canada quite a few times, and quite a few drugstores sell stamps and accept mail for delivery under the Canada Post (canadian equivalent to USPS) sign.

Re: [Talk-us] Ka'ula Rock Missing from Yahoo Satellite Imagery

2009-10-05 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
have seen other small islets missing in yahoo, but they are seen in google imagesmust be a yahoo problem On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Scott Atwood scott.roy.atw...@gmail.comwrote: Kaʻula Rock is a tiny islet a couple of dozen miles southeast of Niʻihau in the Hawaiian Islands. The islet

[Talk-us] MSP area folks?

2009-10-05 Thread Richard Weait
A good friend (not yet on talk-us) is looking to organize OSM meeting in/around MSP/St.Cloud. Anybody else here interested in participating? Let me know off-list and I'll put you in-touch. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] I am that MSP/St. Cloud, MN person

2009-10-05 Thread Mark Dalton
I would like to bring together some newbies to experienced people to help everyone get things done. I would be happy to find a venue, supply snacks, etc.. Here are some of the questions I have been asked to get a feel for some experience that would be helpful. I will go through the FAQ's and