[Talk-us] Why OpenStreetMap US elections should use Single Transferable Vote (STV)

The 2016 OSM US elections aren't even over yet, but it's never too soon to start thinking about 2017. :) To that end, I wrote a diary post about why OSM US should switch to using Single Transferable Vote for its elections, like OSMF does. All of the current OSM US candidates support STV to var

Re: [Talk-us] Caliparks re-tagging paths?

_you_like> For now, I'm happy that Paul retagged the ways in question as highway=path, access=no. That's a fine compromise until we've gone through the RFC process for the new tag, and had an up or down vote. Looking forward to the rest of the discussion, Alan McConchie Stamen

Re: [Talk-us] Caliparks re-tagging paths?

re very small in number, and localized to a small area in Marin County, California. If the community decides that a different tagging scheme is more appropriate, we're happy to change what we're doing. Again, I'd like to apologize for our lack of communication, and I look forward

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] RFC: LA County building import

Hi Frederik, > On Feb 12, 2016, at 11:33 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > How many of your team are local to LA, and how are you cooperating with > the OSM community in LA? Of the four of us who have been preparing the data and who will be overseeing the import, two of us (Omar Ureta and Jon Schle

Re: [Talk-us] Get your early bird ticket to State of the Map US!

We (the Maptime organizers) are also planning a Maptime summit/conference that will happen in conjunction with State of the Map US, so we hope that will also bring a lot of individuals (especially new mappers) who might not otherwise attend a State of the Map. Alan > On Feb 4, 2015, at 3:49 PM

Re: [Talk-us] Rand McNally is using OSM

Yes, the map will show updated OSM data within minutes, like all of Mapbox's maps that are based on their Mapbox Streets vector data tiles. https://www.mapbox.com/blog/vector-tiles/ Alan > On Nov 22, 2014, at 7:51 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > > A sch

Re: [Talk-us] Rand McNally is using OSM

On the "help" page there is a link to http://www.randmcnally.com/legal/doc/tripmaker-attribution , which has attribution for OpenStreetMap. However, I can't actually get to that page from the Help window: there is some javascript inter

Re: [Talk-us] OSMF AGM election results

Richard, thanks for the great work you and the other election monitors did to make this election run so smoothly. And thanks particularly for your series of blog posts explaining how STV (the Single Transferable Vote) works. I’ve been a supporter of election reform for a long time (something acu

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap and the Ada Initiative #osm4ada

The Ada Initiative [1] is an organization doing important work supporting women in open technology and culture, and right now they're raising money to fund their work for the next year. Thanks to Kathleen Danielson (diary entry here [2]) there is now an OpenStreetMap campaign to donate to Ada be

Re: [Talk-us] Statistics of board candidate edits

Martin, whether or not your analogy about the catholic priests is a valid one, it does not apply. All of the candidates have made more than zero edits, so they all have non-theoretical knowledge of what editing entails. Would a parent of 20 children have better parenting advice than a parent of

Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon

We had a big turnout in San Francisco, with about 40 people showing up over the course of the day. We think we had a peak of about 30 people all at the same time in the early afternoon, around 2-3pm. By the end of the day the numbers dwindled to about a dozen. Big thanks to Telenav for buying p

Re: [Talk-us] Edit-a-thon promotion

Great idea, Martijn! Another site that might be useful for contacting people at the neighborhood scale is Nextdoor.com. It's not quite the same concept as Neighborland, but the people who have signed up for the site are similarly concerned with what's going on in their local area. Alan On Ju

Re: [Talk-us] Bicycle facility tags (Class III "bike route")

ren't tagged with lcn. Alan On Aug 12, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Alan McConchie wrote: For these "class III" bike routes, I have just been tagging them with lcn=yes and lcn_ref=## if the route has a name or number. Even if they're not part of any cycle network, they're at

Re: [Talk-us] Bicycle facility tags (Class III "bike route")

For these "class III" bike routes, I have just been tagging them with lcn=yes and lcn_ref=## if the route has a name or number. Even if they're not part of any cycle network, they're at least officially condoned by the local authorities (if they've got green bike signs) so I figure that is