[Talk-us] Battlegrid back up

2015-01-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
Finally I had some time to fix the Battlegrid. (If you hadn't noticed, it has been broken for a while.) A diary entry with (slightly) more info and a link to the battlegrid (in case you didn't know it was battlegrid.us) -- http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/28460 Happy mapping, --

Re: [Talk-us] Please review: new proposed bylaws for OSM US, open for comments until Jan 20th

2015-01-14 Thread Clifford Snow
Alex, In the by-laws document, paragraph 5.2, it specifies that the Chapter should have members mailing addresses, not just email addresses. I don't recall ever giving my address when I first joined. Most likely I've since forgotten but is the Chapter collecting that information? Thanks, Clifford

Re: [Talk-us] Please review: new proposed bylaws for OSM US, open for comments until Jan 20th

2015-01-14 Thread Ian Dees
Clifford, we do collect that information from our members. The current form doesn't have it marked as required but I'll probably change that after you pointed this out. On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: Alex, In the by-laws document, paragraph 5.2,

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-14 Thread Marc Gemis
Or Overpass + Level0 :-) regards m. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Minh Nguyen wrote: I think we should consider a mechanical edit to update these tags While you're thinking about GNIS mechanical edits, could I suggest one for

[Talk-us] Please review: new proposed bylaws for OSM US, open for comments until Jan 20th

2015-01-14 Thread Alex Barth
To all OpenStreetMap US members: Our new proposed bylaws are open for comments until **January 20th 3PM Eastern**. As part of the process of bringing our organization in line with IRS requirements for a 501 c 3 tax deductible status we are applying for our legal counsel has recommend we update

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-14 Thread Paul Norman
On 1/13/2015 5:34 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: It looks like most of the place=city/town/village/hamlet POIs from GNIS are tagged with 2000 Census populations in the population tag. These population tags allow renderers to label places with font sizes corresponding to population, which is a pretty

Re: [Talk-us] Place classifications

2015-01-14 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2015-01-13 05:28, Minh Nguyen wrote: On 2015-01-12 11:23, Elliott Plack wrote: Great start on this Minh, I tried to tackle this in the Baltimore Washington region last year. After reading the wiki, I decided on the following classifications: * hamlet: census population was less than 200 *

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-14 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2015-01-14 01:29, Paul Norman wrote: On 1/13/2015 5:34 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: It looks like most of the place=city/town/village/hamlet POIs from GNIS are tagged with 2000 Census populations in the population tag. These population tags allow renderers to label places with font sizes