Re: [Talk-us] OSM Hack Weekend in Washington, DC

2012-01-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Based on the success, and incredible fun of the OSM Hacking Weekends in London, a bunch of OSMers in the US have decided to ruthlessly steal the idea and try running one ourselves. US Community? Okay, I can't resist

[Talk-us] OSM: Early access users for new OSM-based Android mapping tool

2012-01-22 Thread Bryce2 Nesbitt
I'm helping out to launch a new Android based data collection tool, which is based on OSM data. Would you like to try it out in advance of general release? It somewhat odd: a single data type collection tool. In this case the attribute is drinking fountains:

Re: [Talk-us] OSM: Early access users for new OSM-based Android mapping tool

2012-01-22 Thread Skye Book
I'd be glad to give the tool a try, have been thinking of making a small utility for mapping street lights.. I'm a little confused about your reference to the drinking fountains though: does it map drinking fountains exclusively or single node/features (where drinking fountains are an example

Re: [Talk-us] Finding new roads

2012-01-22 Thread Bryce2 Nesbitt
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:12 AM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.comwrote: Toby wrote Alternatively, we could grow the community and not have to rely on TIGER. This also seems hard though :( Yes that has always been the issue with TIGER imports, even the original one. At some stage we

Re: [Talk-us] OSM: Early access users for new OSM-based Android mapping tool

2012-01-22 Thread Martijn van Exel
Interesting. I'd like to try it some time. Is it easily customizable for other POI type features? Will the code be open sourced? Martijn On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Bryce2 Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: I'm helping out to launch a new Android based data collection tool, which is

Re: [Talk-us] Finding new roads

2012-01-22 Thread Mike N
On 1/22/2012 4:06 PM, Bryce2 Nesbitt wrote: And here is where the rusty old TIGER data still has something to offer OSM: address data. A very common map use case is show me a map around this address. Bringing in that data from TIGER might not bring any more /mappers/, but it could bring a lot