On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:15 AM Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
or are they dynamic (meaning you can waive your hand in any place along
the route and the bus will stop)? In this case I'd not map any bus stops
(as there aren't actually spots).
Also possible so much as there isn't an
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:15 AM Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
or are they dynamic (meaning you can waive your hand in any place along
the route and the bus will stop)? In this case I'd not map any bus stops
(as
With help from the wonderful folks at Maptime Madison, we're planning on
hosting the first Madison (Wisc.) mapping party on the Spring Mapathon
weekend. Nobody involved has ever organized or even attended a mapping
party, so we wouldn't mind some advice. From reading on the wiki and
various user
Mapillary is your friend.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote:
I've given up the dedicated GPS and/or pen and paper for data collection
and I do everything using the camera and notes application on my smartphone.
All the pictures I take are geotagged. I
On 3/8/15 11:49 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
Sorry you can't make it Jack.
The direct hangout link is here - I
think: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/event/cpiqg6sldpjconoipvhmd3skhcc
Sorry, Google+ makes it really hard to just share a link to an event.
I still don't quite understand how
I find using an app like OsmPad useful when collecting address data. About as
fast, maybe faster than, writing numbers on paper when collecting data. And
much faster when editing in JOSM.
Tod
On Mar 9, 2015, at 11:06 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote:
I've given up the dedicated GPS and/or pen and
Hi Harald,
It's great to see more events like this popping up all over. Is it due to
the spring thaw? Or greater community interest?
Generally, your plan sounds good. A few points that may help:
* I'm a vocal proponent of using local libraries from start to finish for
these events as they provide
I've given up the dedicated GPS and/or pen and paper for data collection
and I do everything using the camera and notes application on my smartphone.
All the pictures I take are geotagged. I transfer the photos to a computer
via the USB port and then load them into JOSM with a marker showing
Thanks for the advice, Steven!
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:13 PM Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote:
It's great to see more events like this popping up all over. Is it due to
the spring thaw? Or greater community interest?
Let's say that they're probably both necessary ingredients to
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote:
(obviously for nearly every thing except large scale
geometry changes vespucci is the only reasonable solution :-)).
Simon,
Your are going to have to come to Seattle and teach us how to use Vespucci.
We really struggle trying
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:20 PM Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote:
The real core question is: will you have newbies or not?
I believe we will be more on the newbie side. There was a Maptime meet with
an introduction to OSM in November, which generated a couple new
contributors who will hopefully
Now days there is quite a lot of on-device help for the not so obvious
parts (not that there are many). I admit that that needs to be dumped on
a website (is one of the things fairly high on the TODO list).
Back on topic: naturally one of the interesting things about a mapping
party -is- to see
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com wrote:
With help from the wonderful folks at Maptime Madison, we're planning on
hosting the first Madison (Wisc.) mapping party on the Spring Mapathon
weekend. Nobody involved has ever organized or even attended a mapping
party,
The real core question is: will you have newbies or not?
Old hands will have their favourite method of mapping anyway and are
unlikely to change (obviously for nearly every thing except large scale
geometry changes vespucci is the only reasonable solution :-)). For them
you simply need a
On 09/03/2015 16:09, Harald Kliems wrote:
Does this sound reasonable? Anything else I should be thinking of?
I'll apologise upfront in case any of this sounds like the bleeding
obvious - I'm sure you'll have thought through lots of this and more
already...
One thing that immediately comes
I don't want to gush in a too self-congratulatory way, but the
comments, tone, replies... we've seen on this thread have been
awesome. Very nicely contributed, everybody, back pats and thumbs up
all around.
Keeping quiet for a bit now,
SteveA
California
Alex Barth writes:
It would be great to have this topic at State of the Map US as a talk,
workshop or a mapping party http://stateofthemap.us/
Whoa! We could have a mapping party to talk about mapping parties!
Awesome!
I expect to be there. I will bring my Columbus V-990, which is the
most
Casting the net a little wider:
What do you think are the big topics and challenges for OpenStreetMap as
we're about to go into the second decade? What does this mean for State of
the Map?
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:
Hey all,
I put together a 3
It would be great to have this topic at State of the Map US as a talk,
workshop or a mapping party http://stateofthemap.us/
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Andrew Wiseman awise...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd also suggest the Pushpin app for iPhones too, it's a very quick way to
add points that you
Normally this would work out better for me but I'm either going to be
picking up the Cherry Bomb (my truck, so named after an incident in which
an ether-fuelled backfire burned off my beard and half my hair about 3
weeks ago) from the shop or comatose.
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Martijn van
So you mean that there is at least a pole to indicate the stop, something
as on this picture [1] ?
regards
m
[1] http://xian.smugmug.com/OSM/OSM-2015/2015-03-08-Kester/i-LFFfVns
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Martin
No. There's nothing. It just appears on the schedule.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote:
So you mean that there is at least a pole to indicate the stop, something
as on this picture [1] ?
regards
m
[1]
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
I'd tag them as highway=bus_stop (or whatever scheme you prefer, or both),
and if you want to get detailed add stuff like bench=no, shelter=no etc.
Sounds good. I think I need to roll back and reimport then,
2015-03-08 16:12 GMT+01:00 Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org:
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
If someone pulls the cord or there's someone waiting at it, yes. But it's
not like a bus station where the bus will always stop regardless of
On 08/03/2015 15:12, Paul Johnson wrote:
If someone pulls the cord or there's someone waiting at it, yes. But
it's not like a bus station where the bus will always stop regardless
of demand.
In the UK customary stops like this tend to get tagged as
physically_present=no:
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