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] Operation Cowboy - Preaparing Thank you gift

2012-11-29 Thread Matthias Meißer
Am 29.11.2012 00:04, schrieb Richard Fairhurst: !i! wrote: Hi, one last personal note on the mapathon and a big thank you (literally): http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/!i!/diary/18132 And thank you, too. I've always been sceptical about this sort of event - my vision for OSM is that we need

Re: [Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Preaparing Thank you gift

2012-11-28 Thread Matthias Meißer
Hi, one last personal note on the mapathon and a big thank you (literally) http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/!i!/diary/18132 bye, Matthias Am 25.11.2012 15:37, schrieb Matthias Meißer: Hi, if we look at the current stats, 150 users joined the OPC2012 which results in 300 active mappers

[Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Preaparing Thank you gift

2012-11-25 Thread Matthias Meißer
Hi, if we look at the current stats, 150 users joined the OPC2012 which results in 300 active mappers in the US (as the usual 200 ones). Personally I like to send out an Thank you all! message, but maybe we all can build something more personal? Just a few ideas: 1. Collecting photo

Re: [Talk-us] Operation Cowboy running

2012-11-24 Thread Matthias Meißer
be used! Am 23.11.2012 18:02, schrieb Russ Nelson: Matthias Meißer writes: as most noted, the Operation cowboy mapathon with focus on the USA started today! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Operation_cowboy Putnam County in New York State needs a lot of love still. Lots of misaligned

[Talk-us] Operation Cowboy running

2012-11-23 Thread Matthias Meißer
Hi, as most noted, the Operation cowboy mapathon with focus on the USA started today! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Operation_cowboy Thanks to Pascal everybody can track where our busy mappers contribute and fix data: http://livechanges.neis-one.org So hope everybody of you will have a

[Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Progress/Todo

2012-11-21 Thread Matthias Meißer
Hi Folks, the organisation of Operation Cowboy seems to be nearly finished. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Operation_Cowboy I guess we have enough target areas and thanks to Martjins Map Roulett enough ideas on how to find new tasks :) Thanks fly out to everybody who starts a mapping

Re: [Talk-us] [OPC2012] Operation Cowboy - Mission statement

2012-11-12 Thread Matthias Meißer
Am 09.11.2012 05:09, schrieb Richard Weait: On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 4:59 AM, Matthias Meißer dig...@arcor.de wrote: Hi, as I don't read any discussions about where and what to map, I would like to bring up this essential question again. Just a few possible ideas (that can be also mixed

Re: [Talk-us] [OPC2012] Operation Cowboy - Mission statement

2012-11-11 Thread Matthias Meißer
Am 07.11.2012 19:33, schrieb Martijn van Exel: Hi, I think it would be good if we can put together a (wiki) page with resources for armchair TIGER mappers. User:lyx started a real great guide in German, focusing on the most troubles with imports and what differs in the US:

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OPC2012] Operation Cowboy - Mission statement

2012-11-09 Thread Matthias Meißer
djWN5AUKGb4Ihnqizk3ZFRj25mGPS9g8p4EmgMSxFoI85cglspkFLhal7650s+ihQ9 y1hSvY+jqIKs/d0Zt5RW3hnyu4YmvmdipxOLefEQ= Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:59:13 +0100 From: Matthias Meißer dig...@arcor.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121011 Thunderbird/16.0.1 To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-us] [OPC2012] Operation Cowboy

[Talk-us] [OPC2012] Operation Cowboy - Mission statement

2012-11-06 Thread Matthias Meißer
Hi, as I don't read any discussions about where and what to map, I would like to bring up this essential question again. Just a few possible ideas (that can be also mixed): - adding new details (as buildings, landuse, ...) - fixing TIGER (alignment, classification, ...) - focus on the coast

Re: [Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - preparations

2012-11-02 Thread Matthias Meißer
aproach by Martjin's roulet is better? bye, Matthias Toby On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Matthias Meißer dig...@arcor.de wrote: Hi US community, so now the details of the next global mapathon are fixed: It's called operation cowboy and covering the weekend *23.11-25.11* so every local

Re: [Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - preparations

2012-11-02 Thread Matthias Meißer
Am 02.11.2012 17:11, schrieb Alex Barth: Is the Thanksgiving weekend Nov 23-25 good for this? Fine by me, just wanted to flag it. Others pointed to this as well. I think as the US the only the target area, it's not that a big problem, as most contributors will be outside the country. On the

[Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - preparations

2012-11-01 Thread Matthias Meißer
Hi US community, so now the details of the next global mapathon are fixed: It's called operation cowboy and covering the weekend *23.11-25.11* so every local team should have a fair chance to join in. Tomorrow I would like to announce it to the whole community, but some things are still

Re: [Talk-us] MapRoulette new challenge: connectivity

2012-10-29 Thread Matthias Meißer
I realy like the idea of gamification and looking on other continents is very interesting :) But (that might be what Frederik already said), remember that the rest of the community outside the US is quit unfamilar with TIGER import issues in detail. For example, I tried to fix a bug, but it

Re: [Talk-us] Night of the living maps 07.02.2012 - a 'virtual' global mapping party

2012-01-31 Thread Matthias Meißer
Am 28.01.2012 00:36, schrieb Brian Wilson: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Matthias Meißer dig...@arcor.de mailto:dig...@arcor.de wrote: Hi US community, since a few weeks, we had the idea for a global action, that we'd like to announce today: www.nightofthelivingmaps.org http

[Talk-us] Night of the living maps 07.02.2012 - a 'virtual' global mapping party

2012-01-27 Thread Matthias Meißer
Hi US community, since a few weeks, we had the idea for a global action, that we'd like to announce today: www.nightofthelivingmaps.org At Thursday, the 07.02.2012 we stay awake a whole night long, to trace aerial imagery for the areas, that where we currently lack a lot of informations: the

Re: [Talk-us] Imports information on the wiki

2012-01-02 Thread Matthias Meißer
Am 02.01.2012 20:05, schrieb Martijn van Exel: Hi, There's a lot of imports / fixbots / scripts that have affected the US data over the years. I am finding this out slowly by slowly, asking questions here and on IRC sometimes. The Road Name Expansion script is a recent example that was

Re: [Talk-us] One in a million. Are you that mapper?

2010-12-05 Thread Matthias Meißer
Hi Richard, we're working on migrate this template to a international one http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:User_group used as a test here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rostocker_Treffen Jochen is working on a offline wiki harvester framework (for taginfo) that can be used to

[Talk-us] New Community Updates Newsletter

2010-12-01 Thread Matthias Meißer
Hi everybody, just wanted to announce the new issue of the 'Community Updates' newsletter by EMerzh http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2010-11-22 regards Matthias ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org