Re: [Talk-us] Admin borders in the US

2013-11-05 Thread Richard Welty
i originally brought this up here because i am dealing with border issues in the US. however, this would need to be implemented world wide, i think, so i'll broach the subject on talk for a more general discussion. On 11/4/13 3:03 AM, Simon Poole wrote: IMHO we shouldn't and I don't believe it

[Talk-us] Admin borders proposal

2013-11-05 Thread Richard Welty
this is a copy of what i sent to talk@osm i'd prefer it if further discussion went forward over there. i brought up the subject of admin borders in the US over on talk-us and there was a lot of useful discussion. i think folks are mostly clear on the issues and tradeoffs, so i'd like to float

[Talk-us] Call for Locations: 2014 Winter #Editathon!

2013-11-05 Thread Kathleen Danielson
http://openstreetmap.us/2013/11/january-winter-editathon/ Our next #Editathon will be held the weekend of January 18-19, 2014. We've opened up a call for locations [1]-- so add your city to the list! During our most recent editathon we had 12 cities participating, and the event has been growing

Re: [Talk-us] Admin borders in the US

2013-11-05 Thread stevea
I don't mean to pour water on what is a sizzling and robust conversation -- quite the opposite. But as a computer scientist, I don't see how putting (moving, creating anew...) borders (and WHAT other objects -- we likely need to be careful in our design of what we mean by these objects and

Re: [Talk-us] Admin borders in the US

2013-11-05 Thread Richard Welty
On 11/5/13 6:59 PM, stevea wrote: I don't mean to pour water on what is a sizzling and robust conversation -- quite the opposite. But as a computer scientist, I don't see how putting (moving, creating anew...) borders (and WHAT other objects -- we likely need to be careful in our design of