Re: [Talk-us] Shields are up!

2013-07-30 Thread Russ Nelson
Phil! Gold writes: I would not at all object if people put together similar references for other states with diverse county sign styles. :) Wikipedia to the rescue? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_routes_in_New_York -- --my blog is athttp://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open

Re: [Talk-us] Shields are up!

2013-07-30 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2013-07-29 11:12 AM, Richard Welty wrote: can someone please explain to me where to find documentation on the trick that's being used to generate customized SVG files for each of the counties based on the pentagonal shields? There's no trick, unfortunately. I'm just embedding images that I

Re: [Talk-us] Shields are up!

2013-07-30 Thread Richard Welty
On 7/30/13 2:48 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: Phil! Gold writes: I would not at all object if people put together similar references for other states with diverse county sign styles. :) Wikipedia to the rescue? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_routes_in_New_York helpful but perhaps not

[Talk-us] Chapter Board Elections

2013-07-30 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi talk-us, Here's a brief update from the Chapter Board on the upcoming elections. As you know, the board is elected on a one year mandate. Our term ends on October 13 of this year. This is still a little while away, but we'd like all of you to think about the next year of the OSM US Chapter,

Re: [Talk-us] Chapter Board Elections

2013-07-30 Thread Darrell Fuhriman
We have more voting members than ever before (thanks in part to the membership drives around the previous SOTM US conferences) so the upcoming elections should be interesting and important! How does one check their membership status? I can't find it anywhere, and I can't remember if I'm

Re: [Talk-us] Chapter Board Elections

2013-07-30 Thread Martijn van Exel
Good question. I'll see if we can send out a renewal notice to those with expired memberships. On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.orgwrote: We have more voting members than ever before (thanks in part to the membership drives around the previous SOTM US

Re: [Talk-us] Chapter Board Elections

2013-07-30 Thread Ian Dees
I'm looking for ways to let you check your own membership status, but I will send out an expired notice later today. On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Good question. I'll see if we can send out a renewal notice to those with expired memberships. On

Re: [Talk-us] Shields are up!

2013-07-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: We finally managed to get Phil's highway shield rendering up on the OSM-US server today! Fan. Tas. Tic. Bravo. Seeing the multi-plex signs is awesome and miles ahead of anything done anywhere else.

Re: [Talk-us] converting .osm to a particular shapefile schema

2013-07-30 Thread Alan Brown
Thanks for the responses to these questions ... I'll have to carefully consider each response.  I' By pre-existing schema - I mean the something that looks like the shapefile formats of one of the major commercial map data providers.  We have tools that can consume those formats - and my hope

Re: [Talk-us] Chapter Board Elections

2013-07-30 Thread Kathleen Danielson
Hi Martijn (and other board members), Can you talk about the responsibilities of the board as well as the time commitment that is expected? That would be helpful for people who are considering running. And the board is limited at 5 members, is that correct? On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:56 AM,

Re: [Talk-us] Chapter Board Elections

2013-07-30 Thread Richard Welty
the board is currently 5 members. i don't off the top of my head recall if that's in the bylaws or part of the standing rules (things specified in the standing rules are much easier to change.) On 7/30/13 1:56 PM, Kathleen Danielson wrote: Hi Martijn (and other board members), Can you talk

Re: [Talk-us] Chapter Board Elections

2013-07-30 Thread Kathleen Danielson
Also, who is allowed to second a nomination? On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote: the board is currently 5 members. i don't off the top of my head recall if that's in the bylaws or part of the standing rules (things specified in the standing rules

Re: [Talk-us] Chapter Board Elections

2013-07-30 Thread Richard Welty
for all practical purposes, anyone with an OSM wiki account. seconds are not a requirement, merely a way to show support, so the times i've run the election i have not actually done any verification of seconds. it appears i'll be running this election, and i wasn't planning to change much of

Re: [Talk-us] Chapter Board Elections

2013-07-30 Thread Ian Dees
There isn't a really great way to do this because CiviCRM (the tool we're using to keep track of memberships) sits inside WordPress and requires a wordpress login for anyone that wants to check their status. If you're curious, please shoot an e-mail to bo...@openstreetmap.us CC'ing me and I can

Re: [Talk-us] Shields are up!

2013-07-30 Thread stevea
On 2013-07-29 11:12 AM, Richard Welty wrote: can someone please explain to me where to find documentation on the trick that's being used to generate customized SVG files for each of the counties based on the pentagonal shields? There's no trick, unfortunately. I'm just embedding images that I

Re: [Talk-us] Shields are up!

2013-07-30 Thread Evin Fairchild
These shields look really great! They're much better than what we had before. Now this will give me a good reason to create relations for highways, since many highways in Washington state are lacking in relations. And, sorry if I sound impatient, but when will the shields be up on the main OSM

Re: [Talk-us] Shields are up!

2013-07-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Would be pretty epic if that happened. I realize that shields in other regions (the UK and the EU in particular) tend to be as uninspired as Osage County roads, but still, being able to render something to keep your eyes peeled for (handy if you're not familiar with the area) instead of something