Re: [Talk-us] More Garmin Maps

2009-11-17 Thread Nakor
> But I just joined them myself so you don't have to go grab a bunch of > them from the server. I've cut them in large longitude swaths that > should fit conveniently on removable media. > > http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/ > > BTW, I just found out that a new firmware

[Talk-us] More Garmin Maps

2009-11-17 Thread Dave Hansen
I don't think the Cloudmade-created maps I posted last time are really meant for daily use. I think they're intended to help people track down and survey things like missing street names. They're still up, but I've added another set which look nicer and I've checked that they're routable. They'r

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-17 Thread Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 16:24 -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: > IMHO it is unfortunate this was not > done during the TIGER import. It would have been easy enough. Sure. But, there were 50 other things that were "easy enough" to do. Joining county borders, eliminating motorway overpass intersections

Re: [Talk-us] [Talk-ca] Modifying GeoBase Ways.

2009-11-17 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi James, (Thanks Daniel for the details) I think we need to fix up the wiki so that the page on "Canada Importing Data" (from all sources) is more clear (or maybe something bold at the top of the page?). That hasn't been done yet. Unfortunately. The idea for imports (of all types) is that th

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] OSM Mentioned in NYTimes

2009-11-17 Thread Randy
Sam Vekemans wrote: >And a big thanks to Mr. Hintz who talked to the reporter who wrote the >article, awesome. Now, if we can just get him to input to OSM in addition to Google, that would be nice. On a different note,(i.e, different thread if it goes anywhere) is OSM having the same problem a

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] OSM Mentioned in NYTimes

2009-11-17 Thread Sam Vekemans
Thanks for sharing, thats AWESOME! If someone can take a photo of the actual article, then we can store it in the media archive (or put it on the featured images :) And a big thanks to Mr. Hintz who talked to the reporter who wrote the article, awesome. Im looking at the comments building up. G

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap in New York Times

2009-11-17 Thread Paul Jarratt
Hi all, OpenStreetMap was featured in an article on the front page of the New York Times today. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/technology/internet/17maps.html?hp Some good exposure on the Atlanta Mapathon. Paul -- Paul Jarratt +1 650 454 6008 ___

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] U.S. Conversion Team?

2009-11-17 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Kate Chapman wrote: > I was wondering if anyone set-up a wiki page for the "US Conversion Team" as > was proposed in another thread. We've changed our name to the "US Conversion Cabal", and cabals don't like to advertise their existence :). _

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] U.S. Conversion Team?

2009-11-17 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, I would recommend adding a section on the main US page for 'USA Data Import' (maybe a new page) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States As right now it just says under 'goals' that tiger is available, where now there are lots more available. I've set up the 'overview' page