Re: [Talk-us] license changes

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Steve Coast wrote: > Any license change process, or anything remotely close to it, should be open > and transparent. It should involve the community from the start and any > company that wants to participate too. I'm aligned with that.

Re: [Talk-us] Help with OSM Presentation

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: I'm doing a presentation at Linuxfest Northwest in Bellingham, WA in hopes to gain new mappers. To help me with the presentation, I'd like to hear from you. Below are some questions - answer all or just a few. What

[Talk-us] Last few days. State of the Map: Call for Venues 2016

Dear All, The Call for Venues to host State of the Map 2016 is open for a few more days. Do you wish that your town / region could host State of the Map? It isn't too late. Get a team of locals together and assemble a bid. Have a look at the example bids, and the bids submitted so far.

Re: [Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Jeff Klein jeff.klein...@gmail.com wrote: If I am correct, probably confused, the map sets only go as far east as -76 West, which excludes the Outer Banks of North Carolina. How do I get maps that go further east? Dear Jeff, Are you asking about the garmin

Re: [Talk-us] On advocacy. (Rant-ish) Was: Retagging hamlets in the US

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: 3) New mapper fixes the BadHamlet and starts mapping their favourite restaurants, bowling alleys and coffee shops. This is a great idea but I

Re: [Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

My initial reaction to any automated edit is to break out in a rash. Can we use that image to promote mapping best practices? :-) Goal: A new local mapper in each BadHamlet Method: 1) Create an overlay that displays the hamlets as ugly, rash-like spots. It could even be a rash that allows

Re: [Talk-us] Mappy hour tomorrow!

On Mar 8, 2015 10:43 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hey all, It's time for Mappy Hour tomorrow! I changed the time slot to 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern, Thanks for organizing these, Martijn. They're fun. :-) ___ Talk-us mailing list

[Talk-us] Call for Venues Open; State of the Map 2016

The Call for Venues for State of the Map 2016 is now open. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2016/Call_for_venues Build a team for your city and bid to host the OpenStreetMap conference. ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Your opinion about SOTM US

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hey all, [ ... ] The main thing I would like to know more about is the types of talks you would be interested in, or even specifically which people or organizations you would want to see a talk from. Easy! Same as I

Re: [Talk-us] OSM on Science Friday

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a place in the Wiki where media pieces like this have been cataloged? Here? http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_in_the_media ___ Talk-us mailing list

[Talk-us] Hartford CT mappers?

Yo! Who's there? Doing anything next weekend? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

That would depend on the navigation app in question, wouldn't it? If we mappers include more data, well structured, complete and up to date, app developers will be more inclined / motivated to make their apps work with it, I would think. I think, based on your email, that you and I are mapping

Re: [Talk-us] admin level for US states

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder why US States are tagged as admin_level=4, wouldn't it be more consistent with the rest of the map to have them tagged as level 3? Based on which uses of admin_level=3? A quick scan of the wiki shows

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Geo Week

From US Local Chapter Blog. Nov 13 2014 by Eleanor Tutt http://openstreetmap.us/2014/11/osm-geo-week/ Beginning this weekend, teachers, students, community groups and map lovers, in the US and around the world, will join together to celebrate geography and make maps with OpenStreetMap, the free

[Talk-us] OSMF AGM election results

Hi all, Thank you to all of the candidates. Offering to spend your time and energy acting on behalf of the group is an act of generosity. The OpenStreetMap Foundation held the 2014 AGM yesterday including votes on several matters including the election to the board. The results are summarized

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging a seasonally closed roads with uncertain spring opening

seems access=seasonal isn't in wide use but would be correct. At first glance, I'd prefer a tag that works to get the message out correctly all the time. So, access=seasonal or similar. That would work for a consumer who received the data when the road was open, but tried to navigate when the

[Talk-us] SotM-us 2015

I see that the call for venues for SotM-us 2015 closed two weeks ago, but I don't see any bids. Are the bids private? Was the call extended? Best regards and happy mapping, Richard ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] SotM-us 2015

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Richard - The bids were submitted private. As soon as the board will reconstitute after the elections we'll take a decision on the next location for State of the Map US. FWIW, I personally don't see a reason to not share the

[Talk-us] Fwd: SotM Buenos Aires Program published!

-- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Weait rich...@weait.com Date: Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:56 PM Subject: SotM Buenos Aires Program published! To: osmf-t...@openstreetmap.org t...@openstreetmap.org Hello all, Have a look at the State of the Map Program for Buenos Aires

Re: [Talk-us] Mappy Hour tonight

Super. Thanks for doing these Martijn! ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

Darrell, Paul did say that it was a rudimentary analysis. It is. It is just one lens through which one might view the candidates. Their candidacy statements are another lens. Your interaction with each candidate on lists, at conferences, and through social media is another (or another three)

Re: [Talk-us] US Chapter board elections - time is running out!

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Martijn van Exel mart...@openstreetmap.us wrote: Hi all, With just a few days to go, we only have two names on the ballot for the upcoming US Chapter board elections. We have all five positions up for election, so this is clearly not enough! It seems unusual

Re: [Talk-us] US Chapter board elections - time is running out!

I presume that candidates would add themselves on the wiki, here? http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Elections/2014 I further presume that self-nomination is acceptable, as both candidates have done so. :-) DO consider adding yourself to the ballot. If you enjoy

[Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-talk] SOTM in Buenos Aires: Call for Papers

Oops. Don't know how this got missed. CfP Buenos Aires closes soon. Get your talk proposals in. -- Forwarded message -- From: Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Date: Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:15 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] SOTM in Buenos Aires: Call for Papers To: Talk Openstreetmap

[Talk-us] Lafayette LA mappers? address import?

Hello Mappers, Do we have active mappers (with an interest) in / near Lafayette, LA?[1] How do you feel about address data for that area? Would you participate in improving that data? Would you like to lead that effort? More details, and all follow-ups please, to imports@ and imports-us@.

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Foundation Corporate Membership

Since February 2014 your company can support OpenStreetMap Foundation with a corporate membership. The first corporate members were announced today. https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/07/20/welcome-corporate-members/ ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Beach routing

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Elliott Plack elliott.pl...@gmail.com wrote: OSM US: I've been using some routing engines to map fitness routes (e.g. Strava) that use OSM data. Along our US coasts, there are beaches. The beaches I'm familiar with are popular with walkers and joggers to go up

[Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-talk] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance - Some services will be down

see attached notice of scheduled maintenance. Thank you, sysadmins, for your endless efforts on our behalf. -- Forwarded message -- From: Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:22 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance - Some services

Re: [Talk-us] Standard (mapnik) toolchain/processes: can we teach these better?

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 2:24 PM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote: I appreciate Simon's response that it seems that the really coolish (people, processes...) happen in what often seems like a bubble: that is exactly what I was referring to. It's like the Cool Kids have their insider

Re: [Talk-us] ODBL for Spatial Analysis

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, William Morris wboyk...@geosprocket.com wrote: Please let me know if I should direct this at a different list, but I have a basic question about the implications of the ODBL: OSM is brimming with great POIs and network features; I'd like to use some of these

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Highly suspicious edit

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com wrote: I see no good reason to have a username Delete Mine And I Delete Yours. I think it goes against the spirit of OSM as being overly confrontational on its face. Ah, but one might say the same about posting such a

Re: [Talk-us] Hi!

Welcome Hans, When I'm unsure how to map something, I follow a process something like this, to find out how other mappers have approached it. Wikipedia might be a good place to find a common name for a particular feature like chicane. If you don't know that it's called a chicane, of that it is

Re: [Talk-us] Local groups on the map!

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hi all, I mentioned this in another thread but it may have gotten buried. Have you ever wanted to see all local OSM groups on a map? If you're anything like me, you have! Yes. Yes I have wanted to see local OSM groups

Re: [Talk-us] State of the Map US videos now available

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi Bonnie, On 04/15/2014 07:24 PM, Bonnie Bogle wrote: Videos of every session from this weekend's State of the Map US conference are online and available to watch from http://stateofthemap.us/schedule/. The recordings

Re: [Talk-us] Roads closed for maintenance/construction

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Saikrishna Arcot saiarcot...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is there a specific tag for roads that have already been constructed, but are closed either for maintenance or construction of something else? [ ... ] I'm currently using highway=contruction and

Re: [Talk-us] weekly metro extracts

Thank you for picking these up, Randy. One of the common newcomer questions on the various channels is some variant of how do I work with some portion of the OpenStreetMap data set?  I'm sure that we'll be pointing folks to these as well as the extracts from Geofabrik. It's also nice to see

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, [ ... ] I wonder: Is OSMI correct in flagging this for correction, or is this something that nobody really cares about and that should not be highlighted? I.e. should we, in OSMI, drop the E/N/S/W prefix of street

Re: [Talk-us] Burning Man old data, publicity opportunity

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com wrote: You might want to check out this thread from last year: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-August/011641.html Cheers, Brad On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:16 PM, robmorgan78 robmorga...@gmail.com

Re: [Talk-us] Thank you all!

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Martijn van Exel mart...@openstreetmap.us wrote: Hi all, I want to thank all of you who were able to make it to DC this past weekend for coming to SOTM US. I had a great time and that was in no small part because I was able to get together with some of the

[Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-talk] OSM Inspector has world-wide address view

Address inspector tool now spans the globe! See Frederik's announcement -- Forwarded message -- From: Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Date: Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 4:38 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] OSM Inspector has world-wide address view To: Talk Openstreetmap t...@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] fleet manager speed limit import proposal (Canada, USA)

Outline: A proposal for improvement of the maxspeed tag by including posted speed limit data from managers of vehicle fleets. Status: Initial consultation and discussion Introduction: I have a source for posted speed limit data. This thread begins the discussion of the data, the origin and

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Richard Weait writes: - the concurrency of US1 and US 9, where ref=1-9 isn't numeric, but is right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_1/9 Interestingly Google Maps, when pronouncing directions, calls that US One

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways

* the ref= on relations only contains the number. Any data consumer composes the full route shield / name from the network and the ref tags. Almost. :-) ref= contains the specific identifier of the route. where I-35 splits into I-35E and I-35W (in two different states!) the ref= should be 35E or

Re: [Talk-us] mappy hour tonight, 8:30pm eastern time

On Mar 24, 2014 6:52 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: a reminder, i'm running a faux mappy hour on google plus tonight at 8:30pm et. hopefully i figured everything out last time and this time the startup will be relatively painless. Dude! There's nothing 'faux' about it. 

Re: [Talk-us] Why we really don't get new users

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:17 PM, o...@charles.derkarl.org wrote: I'm going to just point out the elephant in the room here. I don't think any normal user cares about the license at all. I think the actual reason its hard to get new mappers, especially those that are not nerdy and obsessive

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Hello everyone - I've been sitting on writing about the detrimental effects of OpenStreetMap's share-alike license (ODbL) for a while and finally decided to, um, share. I've been listening long to many OpenStreetMappers I

[Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-talk] SOTM-EU 2014 visitor registration now open

If you have been considering attending an OpenStreetMap conference, and you can't get to State of the Map in Argentina this November, consider SotM-EU in Germany, in June. Previous SotM-EU were wonderful. Well worth the trip. -- Forwarded message -- From: Frederik Ramm

Re: [Talk-us] Local user groups

On Jan 22, 2014 11:10 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: The publicity aspect of Meetup really gets people to your events. Though i wonder if these people are the long term contributors to OSM that we want

Re: [Talk-us] Local user groups

On Jan 22, 2014 12:09 AM, Brian DeRocher br...@derocher.org wrote: ...   The publicity aspect of Meetup really gets people to your events.  Though i wonder if these people are the long term contributors to OSM that we want. You control that in part with the way that you write your event

Re: [Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

Thanks for providing a peek at the inside of MQ, Randy. :-) Minh, nice to know that 4S lead to a couple of mappers in your area. Are they continuing to map? Any indication that they are surveying, or are they restricting themselves to armchair mapping?

Re: [Talk-us] Mappy Hour

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hey folks, Our first Mappy Hour of 2014 is tonight at 5:30 PST / 8:30 EST. The Event link on Google+ is https://plus.google.com/events/csqquhngh6k52ctdkrftk3noic4 Let us know if there's anything in particular you want

[Talk-us] Fwd: State of the Map 2014 - Buenos Aires - 07-09 November 2014

-- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Weait rich...@weait.com Date: Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:49 PM Subject: State of the Map 2014 - Buenos Aires - 07-09 November 2014 To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap talk...@openstreetmap.org Announced today, State of the Map 2014 will be in Buenos Aires

[Talk-us] Fwd: State of the Map 2014 - Buenos Aires - 07-09 November 2014

Announced today, State of the Map 2014 will be in Buenos Aires. Be there or be square. :-) http://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/01/12/buenos-aires-hosts-sotm14/ ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Mappy New Year

Hi All, I hope that you are off to a great start on your mapping activities for 2014. OpenStreetMap is certainly off to a great start. User emacsen wrote a compelling article today that drove a significant number of new mappers to OpenStreetMap. That's some great advocacy, right there. The

Re: [Talk-us] a reminder for armchair mappers

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: if you see a discrepancy between aerial imagery and OSM, before you go adding/changing stuff, check on the history of the stuff that's there and see if another mapper has worked on things recently (for some value of

[Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-talk] SotM-EU 2014 in Karlsruhe, Germany

Dear All, Make your plans to attend SotM-EU, in Karlsruhe, Germany, in June 2014. -- Forwarded message -- From: Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Date: Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:33 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] SotM-EU 2014 in Karlsruhe, Germany To: Talk Openstreetmap

[Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance / Downtime

just in case you aren't following announce, dev or talk. -- Forwarded message -- From: Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com Date: Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:34 AM Subject: [OSM-dev] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance / Downtime To: annou...@openstreetmap.org, Talk Openstreetmap

[Talk-us] take responsibility, not control.

When you find a suspicious edit, try to be part of the solution, rather than merely a reporting system. :-) If you are experienced enough, attempt to determine which account introduced the suspicious data. Contact that account through the user mail system. Presume good faith; they may well be

Re: [Talk-us] Is FIXME still a good practice?

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Mark_estimations_with_FIXME Depends on the nature of the estimation. One could also leave a note=estimated building position from ground survey with poor GPS reception or a

Re: [Talk-us] Shields are up!

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.

[Talk-us] Ninth OpenStreetMap birthday: Toronto

Dear all, A group of Toronto mappers have just finalized and announced the details for the Toronto celebration of the ninth birthday party for OpenStreetMap. And you are all invited. Yes, talk-us-ers, I am totally looking at you, too. Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire,

Re: [Talk-us] Ninth OpenStreetMap birthday: Toronto

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Dear all, A group of Toronto mappers have just finalized and announced the details for the Toronto celebration of the ninth birthday party for OpenStreetMap. And you are all invited. I should have included the date

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging Ridges as ways

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.gov wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dridge seems to suggest that the appropriate way to tag a ridge is as a way. Any thoughts on this? I’m looking at 100+ ridges, wondering how to simplify (de-node) yet

Re: [Talk-us] Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: [ ... ] As I envision an OSM Ambassador program, the goals would be similar to Fedora[1], Organize OSM participation at events Demonstrate OSM to the public Promote OSM at local events with talks, handouts and

Re: [Talk-us] Mappy Hour

Big Blue Button is FLOSS, video conference software. v0.8 or so. http://www.bigbluebutton.org/overview/ ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] access restriction, water only: How to tag?

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.gov wrote: I’m tagging some camp sites as “boat=yes” to imply water access only, but I don’t think this is right. Is there a water-only access tag? What information are you trying to record? access= generally informs of a legal

[Talk-us] SC / NC / TN events?

Hi All, Are there any OpenStreetMap events planned for the next few weeks in the Greenville, SC / Spartanberg TN / Asheville NC area? I'm travelling for a bit and always enjoy meeting with other mappers. Post your public events here. ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

Why is the US local chapter not running a tile server that renders shields and concurrencies? The tagging has been stable forever. The code has been working for years. Even a hacked demo ( now offline) was running for years before that. Stop waiting for the London tile server to give a

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Ninth Birthday celebrations.

Saturday, 10 August 2013 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_9th_Anniversary_Birthday_party ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Ninth Birthday celebrations.

Dear All, The ninth birthday of OpenStreetMap is coming up soon. It is tradition to celebrate with parties in various cities where OpenStreetMap contributors can attend and we've had Toronto parties for several of the last few years. Great Lakes area Mappers: Shall we do that again? What should

Re: [Talk-us] A new openstreetmap.us

The new US local chapter site looks nice. Good job. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Fwd: [Talk-ca] Mapping party June 2nd near Palais des congrès de Montréal / Cartopartie le dimanche 2 juin près du Palais des congrès de Montréal

From talk-ca, and also of interest to those talk-us-ers in the North East. Come and meet Canadian mappers in Montréal, a beautiful and friendly city. -- Forwarded message -- From: Guillaume Pratte guilla...@guillaumepratte.net Date: Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:04 AM Subject:

Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Matthew Petroff openstreet...@mpetroff.net wrote: Hello, The City of Baltimore provides a large amount of public domain GIS data through their data portal [1]. Included are city wide building footprints [2], which I would like to import into OpenStreetMap.

[Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Call for Presentations - SotM 2013 (annual conference)

-- Forwarded message -- From: Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:36 PM Subject: [OSM-dev] Call for Presentations - SotM 2013 (annual conference) Hi All, - please forward this on to your local communities - It's that time of year again when we

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed small import of UTA bus stops

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hi all, During the edit-a-thon today I finally got around to working on preparing a relatively small import of bus stop point data for the UTA service area Try to guess my topic of interest. :-) So, Martijn, tell me

[Talk-us] Previous disputes NE2 and Paul Johnson

These two accounts have a history of conflict with each other. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2010-October/004432.html NE2 and Paul Johnson have been instructed previously to leave each other alone. Anthony DiPierro is the only person, so far, who has been banned from OSM for

Re: [Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I would like to organize one in Tulsa. Do not, or do. There is no 'like'. - channelling Map Yoda. :-) They're fun. Pick a format that works for you and do it. ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Kathleen Danielson kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote: Re: Map -- All in good time. (Gotta write up my blog post first...) http://usergroups.openstreetmap.de/?zoom=3lat=35.96022lon=-80.33203layers=B0TFT Re: Remote meetup deployment: I love that idea and

Re: [Talk-us] Cleveland 2013 Meeting Recap

Bravo! ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Toronto Hack Weekend, 08-10 March 2013

Come one, come all, to the Second Canadian OpenStreetMap Developer Weekend, eh? As last year, Ryerson University is providing a dry roof overhead, lots of space and rock solid wifi for the programming portion of the event. There will also be a public event, possibly an expert panel, Friday

[Talk-us] The best import

One OSM commenter suggested that the best thing for the map was an import, Import some German mappers they suggested. That isn't wrong, but in some places it might be historically provocative. :-) About 18 months ago I posted this Mappy Hour HOWTO.

Re: [Talk-us] Using MapRoulette for imports

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote: On 12/18/12 9:51 PM, Brian DeRocher wrote: Food for thought... Imagine we performed a large data import into a side table, then used MapRoulette to overlay that data on OSM, allow users to review additions, and

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Ignite Talk - N. Colorado

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have signed up to do an Ignite talk on Open Street Map in Fort Collins Colorado on Thursday Feb 28th 2013. For those of you not familiar with Ignite talks, you get 20 slides and five minutes to talk about

[Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

opinion that this very limited number of difficult mappers are a large net-negative to the US mapping community and that the difficult behaviours must be stopped for the benefit of OSM. Best regards, Richard Weait on behalf of OSMF Data Working Group [1] http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki

Re: [Talk-us] Burlington, Vermont road classification

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Andrew Guertin andrew.guer...@uvm.edu wrote: Hi, There are two active mappers in the Burlington, Vermont area, and we disagree about how the roads should be classified, so we're looking for more opinions. If you are both local mappers, I suggest that you

Re: [Talk-us] Burlington, Vermont road classification

Y'all have three local mappers in Burlington? That's great. I did an Intro to OSM talk in Burlington in Autumn of 2008. You have to have a Mappy Hour or local event to get more students interested in OSM. Because once they go back home, they'll be mappers in other towns. :-) Grow the

Re: [Talk-us] Consensus on SR for state route versus state abbreviation?

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote: Just a random observation: containment in a state does not necessarily mean that a 'state highway' is a state highway of that state. There are a few spots in the Alleganies where NY-17 veers into Pennsylvania to avoid a

[Talk-us] Round at both ends and HI in the middle

Ohio, of course. Are you local a mapper in Ohio, especially central Ohio? Did you know that there is a local OSM meetup group in Ohio? Probably not, because it hasn't been very active lately. This group needs a new advocate / operator/ leader. Local OSM groups are amazing fun, and a great way

Re: [Talk-us] New local groups

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Who has started a new[1] local OSM group? [ ... ] What incentive would it take to push you over the edge to make you actually do it? What would it take to get you to organize and host six local OSM meetings in the next

[Talk-us] Highway shield rendering: What's the blocker?

if I remember correctly, the US Local Chapter was planning to render highway shields, now that combined shield and overlap rendering is solved. What happened to that? Is there a blocker? If so, what is / are the blocker(s)? There appears to be periodic community interest in highway shields.

Re: [Talk-us] wetlands in potlatch 2?

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: I contacted a new mapper in my area and asked if he had any questions about editing the map. He asked about adding swamps to the map using the in-browser editor. I was about to respond that he could use natural=wetland

Re: [Talk-us] OSMF - US membership and SOTM registration

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Please pardon our dust: I just finished switching OSM US over to a new membership tracking system. Dear Ian, You appear to have been very busy with US local chapter tasks this year, from this membership thing to the server,

Re: [Talk-us] US-Canadian border

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) calvin.metc...@state.ma.us wrote: I noticed this http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=44.524lon=-67.101zoom=10layers=M and really can’t make heads or tails of it. Does that show both claims in a border dispute? Imports. Is there anything

Re: [Talk-us] Another random road reclassification

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Clay Smalley claysmal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: I know there is some disagreement about road classification,

Re: [Talk-us] New version of US redaction map

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 8/13/2012 12:48 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: The main new thing is that it now shows deleted ways as well Very nice - this map and Toby's are very useful. I see that the deleted ways are purple. One thing I have

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap birthday celebrations

Dear All, It is that time again. OpenStreetMap turns eight years old in just a few days. Join the celebration by getting together with other mappers at one of the planned celebrations, or plan one in your town! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_8th_Anniversary_Birthday_party

[Talk-us] US local chapter

talk has started on the osmf list about the upcoming OpenStreetMap Foundation board election, which reminded me of the US local chapter. I had a quick look at recent US local chapter minutes [1] and see nothing since April 2012. Are there some additional minutes to be posted? It's also unclear

Re: [Talk-us] trying to figure out the former path of a trolley line in Derry/Londonderry, NH

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: I'm updating parts of the map in my local area (Derry and Londonderry, NH) and it looks like there was definitely a railroad of some kind here before. There's a dirt path here:

[Talk-us] Of Mapping Party Kits and back to flyers / brochures

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: On a related note, I was thinking about a traveling mapping party kit:

Re: [Talk-us] Routing tests

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:27 PM, the Old Topo Depot oldto...@novacell.com wrote: That was me How does http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:JohnANovak/Interstates fit your requirements ? hmmm. Not too well at the moment; seems like the vast number of template on that page is causing

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