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

2013-02-06 Thread Kathleen Danielson
I heard from a few of you, so thanks a ton! I just realized this will be a lot easier if I give you the local groups I already have on my list. If you organize *or are a member of* (or just know of) a local user group from somewhere other than the areas listed below, please let me know ASAP! New

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

2013-02-06 Thread Rick Marshall
Hi Kathleen, I think Randy Hale runs an OSM user group in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Might want to add that into the mix. Rick Marshall -- Rick Marshall, PhD, GISP President Vertical GeoSolutions, Inc (VerticalGeo) 130 Sawgrass Ln O'Fallon, IL 62269 (618) 670-4259 rick.marsh...@verticalgeo.com

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

2013-02-06 Thread Paul Johnson
I would like to organize one in Tulsa. On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Kathleen Danielson kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote: I heard from a few of you, so thanks a ton! I just realized this will be a lot easier if I give you the local groups I already have on my list. If you organize *or

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

2013-02-06 Thread Richard Weait
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

[Talk-us] new sacramento rail station

2013-02-06 Thread Charlie Smothers
Sorry to bother the whole list, but I'm looking for a bit of help finishing an edit to the new Sacramento rail station. I'm unsure about the relations for the rail ways as they go through the station. The rails for the old station have been physically removed. But I have not deleted them from

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

2013-02-06 Thread Steve Coast
Stupid suggestion - plot these on a map. Would be interesting to see which high-populaion areas *don't* have a meet up and then see if we can organize something remotely and then some of us fly in for a weekend, if inclined, to kick things off. Costs would be $200 for SWA flights plus $200 for

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

2013-02-06 Thread Kathleen Danielson
Re: Map -- All in good time. (Gotta write up my blog post first...) Re: Remote meetup deployment: I love that idea and think it would be an awesome goal 6 months from now. I'd love to have built up a local OSM user group organizer toolkit by then, so that we can give them some tried and tested

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

2013-02-06 Thread the Old Topo Depot
We already did/do that : 1. Sunnyvale and SF Edit-a-thons used a Google Hangout so that I could give a remote bootstrap to SF as they did not have a local leader. Seemed to work 2. BiWeekly Mappy Hours are held, also via Hangout and are well attended and also seem to work Google hangout is

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

2013-02-06 Thread Steve Coast
Great, good to hear. I'm worried I said something the wrong way that made you guys feel defensive. Wasn't my intention if so. This is your baby, I just ran the first mapping party and we ran tons of them at CloudMade so I have opinions but I'm not trying to tell you what to do. Steve On Feb

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

2013-02-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Feb 6, 2013 10:30 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I would like to organize one in Tulsa. What's stopping you? Pretty sure I would be alone on that given I haven't received responses from any of the

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

2013-02-06 Thread Steve Coast
Hi Paul I was basically alone starting the Seattle group for many months. We had a lot of churn (one person come one month, then a different person the next…) It takes a long time, but it is worth it. Also, I wouldn't bother reaching out to existing mappers as we never found that working well

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

2013-02-06 Thread Peter Dobratz
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I wish there was a way to see locations of mappers beyond the first N closest and perhaps a way to filter by date of last activity. Have you seen this map?

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

2013-02-06 Thread Richard Weait
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] Reaching out to Local User Groups

2013-02-06 Thread Steve Coast
On Feb 6, 2013, at 2:30 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: hrm. imho, having outsiders parachute in to (kick-)start a local group discourages local leadership. The locals end up thinking, hey, they'll come back and we can do it again some time. No need for us to organize anything,

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

2013-02-06 Thread Kathleen Danielson
Excellent point-- what I had in mind was something along the lines of what the Boston Python Workshop http://bostonpythonworkshop.com/about/ has done-- they provide intro to Python workshops that encourage diversity within the local python communities. They have had a lot of success packaging

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

2013-02-06 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: Hi Paul I was basically alone starting the Seattle group for many months. We had a lot of churn (one person come one month, then a different person the next…) Exactly. MappingDC, when we started it, was four people, and