[Talk-us] Tomorrow's OSM Utah map night -- wheel map?

2020-10-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
read up and practice a bit ahead of time), please join :) If you don't and you just want to spend an hour mapping with fellow mappers, please join :) It's virtual so open to anyone, not just Utahns! Details here: https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap

Re: [Talk-us] [MapRoulette] Twitch MapRoulette session Tuesday

2020-08-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
Thanks those who joined for the live stream, the recording (57m) is now available to watch here: https://archive.org/details/maproulette-create-a-challenge-geojson <https://archive.org/details/maproulette-create-a-challenge-geojson> Hope to see you again next time. Martijn > On Au

[Talk-us] Twitch MapRoulette session Tuesday

2020-08-09 Thread Martijn van Exel
te+Session&font=cursive -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Streaming JOSM -- suggestions?

2020-07-06 Thread Martijn van Exel
eaming the past couple of weeks. I would like to do something different and would love to hear your suggestions. What would you like to watch me map? (Assuming you'd be interested in watching a random person map OSM in the first place...) Suggestions very welcome! Martijn [0] Links

Re: [Talk-us] Changes for USA data on Geofabrik Download Server

2020-02-22 Thread Martijn van Exel
Fantastic news! Thanks for the update, Frederik. -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Sat, Feb 22, 2020, at 04:06, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Dear US OSMers, > > for historical reasons, the layout of data for the USA on the Geofabrik > download server has always been a bit pec

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-19 Thread Martijn van Exel
tcome. Martijn On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 7:27 AM Eric Ladner wrote: > I personally dislike "trunk". Its definition is vague and leaves a lot to > interpretation (and argument). It doesn't really add anything to the > information on the map, IMO. A US Highway is a US Hig

Re: [Talk-us] Next Virtual Mappy Hour - August 12

2019-08-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, Reminder, Mappy Hour tonight! See below for details, Martijn > On Jul 31, 2019, at 11:31 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > Hi all, > > The next Virtual Mappy Hour will be on August 12 at 6pm Pacific Time. Find > all the details and a sign-up link on the wiki[1]. &

[Talk-us] Next Virtual Mappy Hour - August 12

2019-07-31 Thread Martijn van Exel
u are working on. I hope to see you there. Martijn [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Virtual_Mappy_Hours#Schedule -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Next Mappy Hour July 10!

2019-07-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
soon. I suggest we make the next one about field mapping and associated tools like StreetComplete, GoMap, Vespucci, Fieldpapers etc! What do you think? -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Tue, Jul 9, 2019, at 12:34, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > Final call for people who w

Re: [Talk-us] Next Mappy Hour July 10!

2019-07-09 Thread Martijn van Exel
ty=pub and amenity=bar / ... In any case, see you tomorrow! -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Tue, Jul 2, 2019, at 08:58, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all! > > Here’s a reminder, Mappy Hour next Wednesday! Sending out the reminder > a little early because of the upcoming ho

Re: [Talk-us] Next Mappy Hour July 10!

2019-07-02 Thread Martijn van Exel
to see you there! July 10 6pm PT / 9pm ET Martijn -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Wed, Jun 26, 2019, at 16:05, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Here's a sign up link. It helps me a lot if you fill this out if you > plan to attend. Thanks! > https://forms.gle/Wkt

Re: [Talk-us] Next Mappy Hour July 10!

2019-06-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
Here's a sign up link. It helps me a lot if you fill this out if you plan to attend. Thanks! https://forms.gle/WktPPimyB69jGnH29 -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Wed, Jun 26, 2019, at 11:16, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > The next OSM US Virtual Mappy Hour will be on

[Talk-us] Next Mappy Hour July 10!

2019-06-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
See you then! -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Announcing State of the Map US CFP info session next Monday

2019-05-08 Thread Martijn van Exel
xel/diary/218281> Hope to see you there / then! Martijn PS There’ll also be a virtual mappy hour again soon, on the 22nd.___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Bus route relation names

2019-05-06 Thread Martijn van Exel
Njtbusfan, if you’re on this list, thanks for reading and let us know your plans, please. Martijn [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Utah/Transit <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Utah/Transit> [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transport#Service_routes <ht

Re: [Talk-us] Reminder - Mappy Hour this Wednesday!

2019-04-25 Thread Martijn van Exel
can tell we were 100% men. I don’t like that. Who will help me change that? Martijn > On Apr 24, 2019, at 4:01 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > Hi all, > I final reminder that mappy hour is happening TONIGHT at 6pm PT / 9pm ET. You > can use anything from zoom to your rotary dia

Re: [Talk-us] Reminder - Mappy Hour this Wednesday!

2019-04-24 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, I final reminder that mappy hour is happening TONIGHT at 6pm PT / 9pm ET. You can use anything from zoom to your rotary dial phone to call in and chat about OSM for an hour. Details in the link below. Bring a drink and a story, grab a chair and relax. Martijn > On Apr 22, 2019, at

[Talk-us] Reminder - Mappy Hour this Wednesday!

2019-04-22 Thread Martijn van Exel
. The dial-in and Zoom connect information are also on that same wiki page. I am happy to answer any questions you may have. I hope you can make it! Martijn [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Virtual_Mappy_Hours#Presentations

Re: [Talk-us] trail tagging

2019-04-19 Thread Martijn van Exel
I hadn’t looked at that page in a while, but I’ve been using highway=path in the same way as you describe. Hiking trails, singletrack MTB. Footway I only tag in built up areas. What do other places in the world do? Martijn > On Apr 19, 2019, at 8:28 AM, brad wrote: > > Everywhere

[Talk-us] Virtual Mappy Hour, April 2019

2019-04-02 Thread Martijn van Exel
will do up to 4 5-minute presentations if people step up. Let’s hear it! Martijn ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Your local events on weekly osm and the OSM wiki

2019-03-29 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi, If you’re subscribed to or read weekly OSM (weeklyosm.eu ) you will have noticed an event calendar on there. You may wonder, how do I get my local event to appear on there? The answer is that you need to edit https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Calendar

Re: [Talk-us] Announcing our Interim Executive Director & Upcoming Election

2019-03-28 Thread Martijn van Exel
This is great to hear and I am excited for the future! Maggie told me she was going to do her best to make the Mappy Hour tonight, so that would be a great opportunity to meet (virtually). Martijn > On Mar 27, 2019, at 7:39 AM, Jonah Adkins wrote: > > In 2018 the board was unable to s

[Talk-us] Reminder: Virtual Mappy Hour tonight!

2019-03-28 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, don't forget that the Virtual Mappy Hour is tonight! The details (phone, video) are in this email --> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2019-March/019380.html The time is 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern.

Re: [Talk-us] Online mappy hour

2019-03-23 Thread Martijn van Exel
ng on Thursday. -- Martijn ---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8< Martijn van Exel is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: OSM Mappy Hour Time: Mar 28, 2019 7:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://telenav.zoom.us/j/309926315 One tap mobile +

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove objects that are not existing according to source of GNIS import that added them

2019-03-22 Thread Martijn van Exel
> On Mar 22, 2019, at 4:08 AM, Mark Wagner wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:23:48 -0600 > Martijn van Exel wrote: > >>> On Mar 21, 2019, at 12:35 PM, Mark Wagner >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:46:59 -0600 >>> Martijn

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove objects that are not existing according to source of GNIS import that added them

2019-03-21 Thread Martijn van Exel
> On Mar 21, 2019, at 12:35 PM, Mark Wagner wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:46:59 -0600 > Martijn van Exel mailto:m...@rtijn.org>> wrote: > >>> On Mar 20, 2019, at 9:01 AM, Mateusz Konieczny >>> wrote: >>> >>> I plan to run an au

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove objects that are not existing according to source of GNIS import that added them

2019-03-21 Thread Martijn van Exel
approach in your initial email. Martijn > On Mar 21, 2019, at 8:29 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > Stepping back a bit, the urge to fix previous automated edits with new > automated fixes is understandable, but it may lead to a more casual approach > to imports and automated

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove objects that are not existing according to source of GNIS import that added them

2019-03-21 Thread Martijn van Exel
that is the nature of OSM in this country. It isn’t to me. Martijn > On Mar 21, 2019, at 1:04 AM, Mateusz Konieczny > wrote: > > > > > Mar 21, 2019, 4:46 AM by m...@rtijn.org: > >> On Mar 20, 2019, at 9:01 AM, Mateusz Konieczny > <mailto:matkoni...@tu

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove objects that are not existing according to source of GNIS import that added them

2019-03-20 Thread Martijn van Exel
> On Mar 20, 2019, at 9:01 AM, Mateusz Konieczny > wrote: > > I plan to run an automated edit that will revert part of the GNIS > import that added them and delete objects that never had any reason to > appear in the OSM database in any form, at least according to GNIS data. > > Please comment

Re: [Talk-us] Online mappy hour

2019-03-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
> On Mar 18, 2019, at 1:57 PM, Richard Welty wrote: [..] > next thursday as in the 21st or the 28th? i'm going to be on my flight > to IETF on the 21st but back on the 28th if the airlines cooperate. Sorry, I meant the 28th. Martijn _

[Talk-us] Online mappy hour

2019-03-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
n if you don’t fancy proprietary tools on your computer. I’ll send details once we settle on a day and time. Looking forward to chatting! Martijn ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

2019-03-08 Thread Martijn van Exel
I've slept in some pretty nice places that had exterior room access. I wouldn't call that out as the only demarcating property. To my mind it's a combination of location, amenities and layout / architecture. Interesting discussion! Martijn van Exel > On Mar 8, 2019, at 18:03

Re: [Talk-us] US map rendering (Was: Re: Spot elevations collected as natural=peak and name=Point (height in feet))

2019-03-08 Thread Martijn van Exel
Kevin — yes, I was talking about SOTM US. Please do stay tuned to this list and OSM US blog for announcements for community scholarships and other initiatives we will deploy to make it possible to have many more community members attend (and also present! on interesting topics like this one.) >

Re: [Talk-us] Spot elevations collected as natural=peak and name=Point (height in feet)

2019-03-08 Thread Martijn van Exel
Perhaps they should be tagged not as peaks then but as a place node (place=locality probably)? > On Mar 8, 2019, at 10:23 AM, Mike Thompson wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 6:29 AM Kevin Broderick > wrote: > > Would https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/499

Re: [Talk-us] Spot elevations collected as natural=peak and name=Point (height in feet)

2019-03-08 Thread Martijn van Exel
he main map style, but another great example of initiatives around custom map rendering coming out of the US community. Perhaps something for a BoF session at the next SOTM! Finally, I don’t think it’s a funding or infrastructure issue. It’s just that someone needs to lead it. Martijn > On Mar

Re: [Talk-us] Spot elevations collected as natural=peak and name=Point (height in feet)

2019-03-08 Thread Martijn van Exel
e like maxspeed: default to meters but allow other units to be entered as ‘8801 ft’ for a value. Then osm-carto could pick that up more easily. Martijn > On Mar 8, 2019, at 6:27 AM, Kevin Broderick wrote: > > To elaborate on my previous response, now that I'm back at a comput

Re: [Talk-us] Spot elevations collected as natural=peak and name=Point (height in feet)

2019-03-07 Thread Martijn van Exel
conventions and asking them to cease. You could point out that there’s OSM based topo maps that overlay elevation info on OSM data. The lovely http://toposm.ahlzen.com/ <http://toposm.ahlzen.com/> comes to mind, but there’s also opentopomap. Martijn > On Mar 7, 2019, at 11:04 AM, Mike Thomps

Re: [Talk-us] Michigan Forest Land

2019-03-07 Thread Martijn van Exel
maps for public lands and use an outdoor specific mapping app to get my intel in the field. I recommend Gaia GPS which is not free, but in my and my outdoor loving friends’ opinions well worth the money. Best Martijn > On Mar 7, 2019, at 9:55 AM, David Martin wrote: > > Hi, >

Re: [Talk-us] Map roulette challenges - Missing named roads [VA, NJ, NY, MN, SC]

2019-02-13 Thread Martijn van Exel
If you want to recreate this challenge for a different area, let me know. The overpass query can easily be adapted. Martijn > On Feb 13, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > > I've done some of the MapRoulette items for this project, but frankly > I'm not that good at

Re: [Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

2019-01-06 Thread Martijn van Exel
be happy to help with it. Martijn > On Jan 6, 2019, at 8:50 AM, brad wrote: > > Martijn, Gaia is not available on a Garmin, or on a PC. It also costs $40 a > yr. Why do you trust Gaia as an authoritative source? How often do they > update from government sources? BLM bo

Re: [Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

2019-01-05 Thread Martijn van Exel
. Countless times have I been out in the middle of nowhere, to find that some mapper before me added a landmark, a water source, or something else that really helped me. That is what I like to pay forward. Martijn [1] https://www.gaiagps.com/offroad/#maps <https://www.gaiagps.com/offroad/#maps>

Re: [Talk-us] Monterey - Santa Cruz County line in Monterey Bay

2018-12-05 Thread Martijn van Exel
their official boundaries at the shoreline, but OSM has them all reaching into the ocean. [2] I also don’t know if there is some convention in OSM (US) to have coastal country boundaries match up with the higher level boundary. If there is perhaps we may need to revisit? Martijn [1]

Re: [Talk-us] Forest Routes

2018-11-28 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 02:07:45 -0800 Minh Nguyen wrote: > On 2018-11-28 01:57, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > On 2018-11-20 08:57, Martijn van Exel wrote: > >> When I map these roads I include the FS number (just the number) > >> as a ref, since that is how they

[Talk-us] Short 'connector' roads -- _link or not?

2018-11-20 Thread Martijn van Exel
. ..And I guess a third case is like https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/288576287 , which should be a _link? Advice welcome! Martijn ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Forest Routes

2018-11-20 Thread Martijn van Exel
ory=transportation> Perhaps the layer was created based on a filtered or older version of this file. I don’t know who maintains it but it may be due for an update. Martijn > On Nov 20, 2018, at 9:57 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > Frederik, > I don’t remember it being widely discu

Re: [Talk-us] Forest Routes

2018-11-20 Thread Martijn van Exel
011/06/16/owl-creek-pass-getting-there-from-ridgway/> has an example (very bottom image) but other variations of such a sign are common as well. The printed maps I have include these numbers as well and generally they are an important guidance instrument when navigating FS terrain. Martijn &g

Re: [Talk-us] Add street names from TIGER

2018-11-17 Thread Martijn van Exel
Existing challenges all done :) Let’s look into some new ones then. If someone wants to set up MSP based on existing city or TIGER data, that’d be great. Martijn > On Nov 16, 2018, at 8:00 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > We’re down to 128 as of just now! > > Any requests f

[Talk-us] More MapRoulette fun (?)

2018-11-16 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi folks, I created a few more MapRoulette challenges based on something I noticed while editing in my own area: some important roads (trunk, primary, secondary) that have neither name or ref. To my mind this is often a mistake. Here’s a challenge for Georgia https://maproulette.org/mr3/challe

Re: [Talk-us] Add street names from TIGER

2018-11-16 Thread Martijn van Exel
https://github.com/TelenavMapping/Community_involvement/issues/14 <https://github.com/TelenavMapping/Community_involvement/issues/14> Martijn > On Nov 16, 2018, at 8:32 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > That is theoretically possible and you could even do it yourself if you are &g

[Talk-us] Signs detected by OSC

2018-11-16 Thread Martijn van Exel
orm/ <http://blog.improveosm.org/en/2018/11/help-train-openstreetcams-open-sign-detection-platform/> Martijn ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Add street names from TIGER

2018-11-16 Thread Martijn van Exel
ut the files for the Challenge but they’re on some other project right now. Martijn > On Nov 16, 2018, at 8:13 AM, Joe Sapletal wrote: > > If we do MSP, how about we go 7 county metro and use the data straight from > the counties - > https://gisdata.mn.gov/dataset/us-m

Re: [Talk-us] Add street names from TIGER

2018-11-16 Thread Martijn van Exel
We’re down to 128 as of just now! Any requests for other cities? Martijn > On Nov 9, 2018, at 3:36 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > There’s currently a total of 1303 tasks in these challenges ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.

Re: [Talk-us] Strange city boundary: Lee, Illinois

2018-11-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
much of a boundary editor myself, but fortunately we all have our favorite topics. This community is awesome. Martijn > On Nov 14, 2018, at 1:02 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea > wrote: > > Carl Anderson is correct: what is in the map from TIGER about LSAD is true > and affords

Re: [Talk-us] Strange city boundary: Lee, Illinois

2018-11-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
and retags relevant ones from boundary=administrative admin_level=8(or 7) to boundary=census, no admin_level=*.” Finally, there seem to be too many wiki pages covering this :) But that’s not unique for this topic. I guess we have some work to do! Martijn > On Nov 14, 2018, at 8:54 AM,

Re: [Talk-us] Strange city boundary: Lee, Illinois

2018-11-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
Sorry that link is bad. https://cloud.rtijn.org/s/ZLen9D8M3tYaAgj <https://cloud.rtijn.org/s/ZLen9D8M3tYaAgj> > On Nov 14, 2018, at 8:44 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > I looked at a few place boundaries in Utah and compared with current TIGER > files.. Definitely nee

Re: [Talk-us] Strange city boundary: Lee, Illinois

2018-11-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
olored = current OSM, grey = TIGER places shape file 2018) Martijn > On Nov 14, 2018, at 8:35 AM, Kerry Irons wrote: > > And let’s never forget College Corner, OH/IN. It is in three counties and > two states. It has two different zip codes. But really, it is two separate > town

Re: [Talk-us] Strange city boundary: Lee, Illinois

2018-11-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
be surprised if many have not been updated to reflect boundary updates. Time to put in an effort to re-check them? (Potentially a lot of work, in Utah alone there’s 295 admin8 relations.) Martijn > On Nov 14, 2018, at 7:58 AM, Clifford Snow wrote: > > Yes - a city can cover more

Re: [Talk-us] Add street names from TIGER

2018-11-09 Thread Martijn van Exel
Mike — Perhaps we should post a challenge based on that data then. Ping me if you want to work on that. We’re going to have public leaderboards for challenges on MR soon so it can be a fun competition, who can fix the most names. Martijn > On Nov 9, 2018, at 4:19 PM, Mike N wrote: > &

[Talk-us] Add street names from TIGER

2018-11-09 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, As an experiment my colleagues from the Telenav map team churned out some local MapRoulette challenges for adding missing street names from TIGER. The tasks were created by comparing TIGER (2017) to existing OSM data using our conflation tool Cygnus, which outputs ways with no names in

Re: [Talk-us] Review named junction nodes

2018-11-06 Thread Martijn van Exel
I found a case[0] where the name is definitely legitimate, so I added a warning to double check with available street level imagery, plus an example to the challenge instructions. Martijn [0] https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/33991781 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/33991781>, a

[Talk-us] Review named junction nodes

2018-11-06 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi, I created a MapRoulette challenge to review named junction nodes. Since named junctions are very uncommon, most of these should probably be edited. There’s only a few hundred of them so we should be able to review these together pretty quickly. https://maproulette.org/mr3/challenge/3253/t

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Post Boxes

2018-09-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi Leif, > On Sep 26, 2018, at 7:16 AM, Leif Rasmussen <354...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Martijn, > I have very little opinion in which value of operator should be used, as long > as they are consistent. I think that basing the 'preferred' values on what > can

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Post Boxes

2018-09-25 Thread Martijn van Exel
ere's also an opportunity to have the community have another look at the area surrounding the nodes. It's only ~4600 items: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Cg0 . If we make a MapRoulette challenge out of it, we can use this as an opportunity to build a community effort around this. What do you

Re: [Talk-us] Yet more about USA Rail: now, wiki

2018-09-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
I pinned it for Nov 17-18 weekend. Add your city and plan a mapping party! Martijn > On Sep 18, 2018, at 1:27 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > Okay there we are! > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapathon/US_Fall_Mapathon_2018 > <https://wiki.openstreetmap

Re: [Talk-us] Yet more about USA Rail: now, wiki

2018-09-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
gt; wrote: > > No hijack seen as actual or intended: great idea, Martijn! > > Trains, transit, our map: these really do keep getting better and better. > > SteveA > >> On Sep 18, 2018, at 12:01 PM, Martijn van Exel > <mailto:m...@rtijn.org>> wrote: >&

Re: [Talk-us] Yet more about USA Rail: now, wiki

2018-09-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
To branch out a little bit — sorry to hijack the thread Steve — it would be nice to do a nationwide transit mapathon around transit. We used to run nationwide coordinated mapathons and I miss them. I think they are fun to connect communities. Who’s in and who wants to help coordinate? Martijn

Re: [Talk-us] Shaped highway shields - trying to revive

2018-08-24 Thread Martijn van Exel
Agreed. I think it's really nice to have active thinking and work around this. The key is to get the rendering stack people involved. Perhaps Paul Norman can function as a liaison? Martijn Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 24, 2018, at 12:06, Evin Fairchild wrote: > > Really gl

Re: [Talk-us] ref=* tags on links

2018-08-24 Thread Martijn van Exel
stuck with redundancy. Martijn Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 24, 2018, at 12:02, Evin Fairchild wrote: > > The only way you can get people to stop putting reg tags on ways and only put > them on relations is if the renderer actually rendered reg tags from > relations. Currentl

Re: [Talk-us] Food delivery services: Move-fast-and-break-trust

2018-08-21 Thread Martijn van Exel
A bit of a tangent perhaps, but I sometimes will carry a digital audio recorder to quickly take a voice note instead of a picture or paper note. It’s very inconspicuous and JOSM can load them in the actual location if they are properly time stamped. Martijn van Exel > On Aug 21, 2018, at

Re: [Talk-us] admin_level=8 boundaries in Parker County, TX

2018-07-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
with (Dutch) Baarle-Hertog. Before the Schengen treaty, this led to weird situations with lots of checkpoints and people paying property taxes in two countries. Some more info here: https://brilliantmaps.com/baarle-hertogbaarle-nassau/ -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Thu, Jul 12, 2018

Re: [Talk-us] admin_level=8 boundaries in Parker County, TX

2018-07-09 Thread Martijn van Exel
interfere with other features much, but obviously that should be researched. As for this specific case, current boundary from TIGER 2017 in brown, OSM in green: https://cloud.rtijn.org/s/bpxPffp6ycm8rF7 -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Mon, Jul 9, 2018, at 05:10, Frederik Ramm w

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2018-07-03

2018-07-05 Thread Martijn van Exel
Also, if Garmin can sell OSM maps for US/Canada for $50 there is a clear business opportunity there. -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Thu, Jul 5, 2018, at 12:13, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: > I frequently download Dave's Garmin images for my (fairly ancient, yet > s

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2018-07-03

2018-07-05 Thread Martijn van Exel
still be done :) --> https://ma.rtijn.org/2018/07/02/right-to-upload-maps.html Interesting, I didn't know that the default Garmin map is now OSM based. Is that also true for the car products? Edge is a bicycle device, right?-- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Thu, Jul 5, 2018,

[Talk-us] [Utah / Salt Lake City] Summer events schedule

2018-06-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
something ad hoc as well. Martijn -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Propose a session for State of the Map US

2018-06-22 Thread Martijn van Exel
p.us/program/mapping-sidewalks-for-pedestrian-routing.html Many more talks to watch there. July 1 is around the corner, don't wait! Submit your proposal at https://openstreetmap-us.forms.fm/state-of-the-map-us-2018/forms/4823 Martijn PS... Here are some things I am thinking about submitt

Re: [Talk-us] New MapRoulette challenges

2018-06-21 Thread Martijn van Exel
That would be something to file on github as an issue so we can look into it. May be a bug or something to do with your browser environment. Martijn van Exel > On Jun 21, 2018, at 22:40, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Looks like my points aren't sticking and I can't set a defau

Re: [Talk-us] New MapRoulette challenges

2018-06-21 Thread Martijn van Exel
Most of it is taken from OSM. If you change things there, MapRoulette will pick it up. What did you want to change? Martijn van Exel > On Jun 21, 2018, at 20:43, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Is it normal to not be able to update your user profile in MapRoulette? > >> On Thu, Ju

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US Camera lending program update

2018-06-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
ut it has different optics to better support the quality of still images needed for OSC and specifically feature detection.-- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Thu, Jun 14, 2018, at 11:20, Paul Johnson wrote: > For those of us who have our own Waylens, what's the best way to > col

[Talk-us] OSM US Camera lending program update

2018-06-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
ra-lending-program/ -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Slack: Do we need an Alternative (was Planning an import, in Price George...)

2018-06-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
questions and announcements on here. As a matter of fact I have something to say, I'll start another thread. -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Tue, Jun 12, 2018, at 15:22, Doug Hembry wrote: > I stand with Greg Morgan and Rihards on this one (and I think, Steve, if > I remember

Re: [Talk-us] Slack: Do we need an Alternative (was Planning an import in Price George...)

2018-06-11 Thread Martijn van Exel
rsue it. Finally, please stop your unpleasant trolling, it has no place in OSM. Martijn ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] New MapRoulette challenges

2018-06-08 Thread Martijn van Exel
other areas to do this in. The challenges are based on output from the Cygnus conflation tool which has a web interface here: http://cygnus.improve-osm.org/ , in case you're interested in working with it yourself.-- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Fri, Jun 8, 2018, at 01:02, Horea

Re: [Talk-us] Drop the tiger:reviewed tag from roads

2018-05-11 Thread Martijn van Exel
ied' in quotes, because a number of bots have touched most TIGER imported ways, so TIGER ways having version=1 are rare.-- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Fri, May 11, 2018, at 11:44, Mike Thompson wrote: > > > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Martijn van Exel > wrote

Re: [Talk-us] Drop the tiger:reviewed tag from roads

2018-05-11 Thread Martijn van Exel
I was thinking about this some more. I do still actually use the visual cue (yellow) in JOSM to see which roads I want to double-check when editing in an area. I don't know if this is still enabled in JOSM by default but it's available as one of the default paint styles. -- Martij

Re: [Talk-us] Drop the tiger:reviewed tag from roads

2018-05-11 Thread Martijn van Exel
left that would indicate TIGER as the original source, so we can continue to detect 'unmodified TIGER' roads.-- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Fri, May 11, 2018, at 10:25, Clifford Snow wrote: > The tag, tiger:reviewed that is left over from the 2006/7 import of > TIG

Re: [Talk-us] Maximum number of tasks on US tasker

2018-05-07 Thread Martijn van Exel
0,000+ missing railroad crossings which were also attributable to TIGER .) But perhaps you have something different in mind. I'd like to think MapRoulette can help, also because not everybody prefers the same style of working on large projects.-- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Mon, M

Re: [Talk-us] Maximum number of tasks on US tasker

2018-05-07 Thread Martijn van Exel
this cell, demote to track / unclassified or delete as needed’ whereas MapRoulette may be useful for more specific TIGER cleanup related tasks? Thoughts? Martijn > On May 5, 2018, at 12:49 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I think it's somewhere between 2000 and 2100. I'm wo

Re: [Talk-us] Announcing New MapRoulette beta

2018-04-02 Thread Martijn van Exel
All, The Georgia Motorway exit destination challenge is DONE. I featured a similar challenge for Tennessee. Have at it :) http://maproulette.org/mr3/browse/challenges/2936 -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Mon, Mar 26, 2018, at 13:24, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > &g

Re: [Talk-us] Announcing New MapRoulette beta

2018-03-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
aproulette/maproulette3/issues/224 -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Mon, Mar 26, 2018, at 12:13, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > > A brand new MapRoulette is now in public beta and I would very much like > for you to start using it and let me know what you think!

[Talk-us] Announcing New MapRoulette beta

2018-03-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
The Challenge wizard is much improved compared to the previous version. Your feedback on that is especially welcome. If you need help, holler. Please let me know your feedback and ideas! -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org ___ Talk-us mailing list Tal

[Talk-us] Can you design a logo for SOTM US 2018?

2018-03-16 Thread Martijn van Exel
is year's SOTM US in the next weeks. Thanks! -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Rural US: Correcting Original TIGER Imported Ways

2018-02-13 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 4:02 PM, Kevin Broderick wrote: > ... > Downgrading some ways to tracks without doing so to a whole localized > network creates the appearance of a higher level of data accuracy than > actually exists, which IMO is more likely to bite someone in the ass than > having a loc

Re: [Talk-us] Rural US: Correcting Original TIGER Imported Ways

2018-02-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
te side of things: I would very much appreciate your feedback on the new MapRoulette version Clifford linked to. Just email me, join #maproulette on slack, or file an issue at https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/issues. Martijn On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 3:08 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > On Mon,

Re: [Talk-us] iD news: v2.5.0, OpenStreetCam, and request for translation help..

2017-12-07 Thread Martijn van Exel
Fantastic, Bryan. Many many thanks for your continued efforts to move the iD project forward! Martijn > On Dec 7, 2017, at 07:34, Bryan Housel wrote: > > Happy December! We have lots moving in the iD editor project. > > 📷 OpenStreetCam > > Last month, I released i

Re: [Talk-us] Highway exit renumbering

2017-11-28 Thread Martijn van Exel
map> Martijn > On Nov 28, 2017, at 1:56 PM, d w wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm a bit new to mapping on OSM. A highway in Rhode Island (I-295) is getting > renumbered, and I have no idea how to tag the old exit numbers. I looked for > guidance on the wiki and some mai

[Talk-us] Many Mappy Minutes 2

2017-11-15 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, It's time for the second Many Mappy Minutes, the monthly online hangout for chatting about all things OSM. We'll start at 5:30 PT[1] Details in my diary: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/42393 Sorry for the late notice! Martijn [1] https://www.timeanddate.com/

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-16 Thread Martijn van Exel
We actually switched to zoom (zoom.us) because it is easier for folks to just dial in if they prefer that. I'll send details closer to the date. We usually plan them so that it's after work hours for most (5:30pm PT - 8:30pm ET) but open to other preferences. Martijn On Mon, Oct 16,

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-15 Thread Martijn van Exel
nline hangout) to discuss road classification. I proposed November 15 5:30 PT in an earlier email to this group. I invite you all to join then. In the mean time, if you would like to have a more interactive discussion, please join IRC or Slack and continue the discussion there. Martijn On Sun, O

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-13 Thread Martijn van Exel
e renderer, two things: 1) A US-specific rendering would be really neat 2) Trunk 'appendices' like the one I just downgraded do make rendering at low zooms tricky -- you end up with short segments that seem to end in nothing. Martijn On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: >

[Talk-us] Fwd: Trunk

2017-10-06 Thread Martijn van Exel
resending to list from a working email. -- Forwarded message -- From: Martijn van Exel Date: Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 2:50 PM Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Trunk To: Mark Bradley Cc: OSM Talk US I think this is the best 'procedure' we have -- discussion. It can take a long ti

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