[Talk-us] New Meetup for OSM in NYC

2012-07-03 Thread Serge Wroclawski
There's a new Meetup for OpenStreetMap folks in New York City! http://www.meetup.com/osm-nyc If you're in the New York City area please consider joining! We'll be having social gatherings, mapping parties, etc. NYC is surprisingly unmapped in OSM, so if you're one of the few, proud mappers,

Re: [Talk-us] New Meetup for OSM in NYC

2012-07-03 Thread Martijn van Exel
Great! Be sure to add or update the Template:user group to the NYC page on the wiki as well (if you've not done so already) so it appears on the user groups map[1]. Which by the way looks pretty sparse for the US. Can we do better? Yes! Round up some local mappers, meet somewhere and voila - you

Re: [Talk-us] New Meetup for OSM in NYC

2012-07-03 Thread Skye Book
Great to see this group pop up! I agree that it is surprising how much of NYC is off base -Skye On Jul 3, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: There's a new Meetup for OpenStreetMap folks in New York City! http://www.meetup.com/osm-nyc If you're in the New York City

Re: [Talk-us] Rails with trails

2012-07-03 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 7/3/2012 4:11 PM, Anthony wrote: What if it's an abandoned railway which is adjacent to a not-abandoned railway? Then it's already tagged as a rail trail. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Data

2012-07-03 Thread Clifford Snow
I just found out that I can overlay the latest TIGER data (2011) on JOSM and Potlatch. Apparently the feature has been there for a while, but I just ran into it and wanted to make sure everyone else was aware. It is much better than running TIGER data through org2osm and overlaying it in JOSM.

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Data

2012-07-03 Thread Dale Puch
Yep a great feature! Thanks Ian Only thing better would be a data layer that new stuff could be copied from instead of the image layer to trace. On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote: I