Re: [Talk-us] mapRe: (Second attempt) Potential data source: Adirondack Park Freshwater Wetlands

2016-03-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
I don’t see why your idea should not receive some more consideration. Don’t give up so easily - people may just have missed the message or not had the time to read your proposal when you initially posted it. Why don’t you create a wiki page with what you have using the import guidelines as a

Re: [Talk-us] mapRe: (Second attempt) Potential data source: Adirondack Park Freshwater Wetlands

2016-03-14 Thread Tod Fitch
Ditto to Mike’s comments. I’ve been dealing with the clean up of bad imports, usually TIGER but others too, where ever I map so I think I understand where people like Frederick are coming from. But I also see the reality in the U.S. of huge geographical areas with very few OSM mappers. An all

Re: [Talk-us] mapRe: (Second attempt) Potential data source: Adirondack Park Freshwater Wetlands

2016-03-14 Thread Mike Thompson
I support the careful import of high quality data whose license is compatible with OSM. Those appears to be one of those cases. I believe the existence of high quality data will aid in the recruitment of new mappers and will encourage high quality contributions from those mappers. It is much

[Talk-us] mapRe: (Second attempt) Potential data source: Adirondack Park Freshwater Wetlands

2016-03-14 Thread Kevin Kenny
Since I received only a total of three comments about this idea, one strongly negative (from Frederik Ramm) and two only lukewarm in support, I'm forced to conclude that this proposal has no chance of gaining a broad community support. Consider it withdrawn. I find myself somewhat frustrated

[Talk-us] Intro to OSM workshop

2016-03-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, I am giving a 20 minute intro to OSM as part of a larger workshop on Open Source / Open Data at the GIS for Transportation symposium next month. From the web site: "The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials sponsors the annual GIS for Transportation