Re: [Talk-us] Thank You for the Operation Cowboy mappers

2012-11-30 Thread Matthias Meißer
Am 30.11.2012 02:30, schrieb Martijn van Exel: Hi folks, I put together this short Thank You video for all who took part in Operation Cowboy around the world. Because this is a thank you on behalf of the US community, I thought I'd show it to you first before I post it on Talk and on osm.us.

Re: [Talk-us] Imports

2012-11-30 Thread Russ Nelson
Ian Dees writes: All actions have consequences. Did importing TIGER hamper the OSM community building in the US or did poor advocacy? Maybe it was the existing vast, free data ecosystem? Maybe it was simply the sheer size of the country? You are asking a question that the opponents of

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-30 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
Is there evidence of Google using streetview plus OCR for addressing data yet? I could imagine the crowdsource version of this that recognizes street signs and codes the address blocks frequently found on them. ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
brycenesbitt wrote: Is there evidence of Google using streetview plus OCR for addressing data yet? They've integrated it into ReCaptcha: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha-to-decode-street-view-addresses/ cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

[Talk-us] TIGER expansion bot last call

2012-11-30 Thread Serge Wroclawski
As per the discussion earlier this week, we had the TIGER bot expansion code review last with no concerns expressed about the expansion code (we mostly discussed what would happen post-bot run). This is a last call for refinement of the bot before it runs. Folks are encouraged to test the code

[Talk-us] Address push part deux: tracking licenses, notifications, etc.

2012-11-30 Thread Jeff Meyer
Ignoring right / wrong methods to managing the actual importing of importing for a moment, what's the right / wrong way to *track various permissions* received for use of data? (1) Data use / contributor tracking? For example, I've added Seattle's permission to use their data (yay! - kudos to

Re: [Talk-us] Address push part deux: tracking licenses, notifications, etc.

2012-11-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jeff Meyer wrote: Ok... this is sort of an import question, but how do we / should we credit each imported item with a link or tie to the appropriate use statement / contributor? source= is just for showing your working. It is not a means of providing attribution. That should be done on the

Re: [Talk-us] Address push part deux: tracking licenses, notifications, etc.

2012-11-30 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Jeff Meyer wrote: Ok... this is sort of an import question, but how do we / should we credit each imported item with a link or tie to the appropriate use statement / contributor? source= is just for showing your

Re: [Talk-us] Address push part deux: tracking licenses, notifications, etc.

2012-11-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: Jeff Meyer wrote: Ok... this is sort of an import question, but how do we / should we credit each imported item with a link or tie to the appropriate use statement / contributor? source= is just for showing

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER expansion bot last call

2012-11-30 Thread Alex Barth
Hey Serge - I still think a heads up to the import list as you suggested on the phone call is a good thing. Apologies if I missed that. On Nov 30, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: As per the discussion earlier this week, we had the TIGER bot expansion code review

[Talk-us] Visualizing TIGER expansion bot impact

2012-11-30 Thread Alex Barth
Serge - Have you thought of simple ways of visualizing the bot changes? Would be awesome to have a map of that, no? How would we go about this? Will the bot produce a list of way id's that have been changed? Or would we just extract them afterwards by looking at changeset comments? Alex

[Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2012-11-29

2012-11-30 Thread Dave Hansen
These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel free to ask. However, please do not send me private mail. The odds are, someone else will have the same questions, and by asking on the talk-us@