Re: [Talk-us] Sidewalks as footpaths

2014-04-30 Thread Kai Krueger
Toby Murray-2 wrote Wait, what is the consensus method for tagging sidewalks? I haven't done a lot of them but I know I've added a few as footways myself. I have struggled with how best to map sidewalks in the US as well. In european cities my impression is that sidewalks are generally directly

Re: [Talk-us] Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US

2013-07-19 Thread Kai Krueger
or thousands of people, many of whom might act as multiplicators as they are often the more active members in their community. Can the folks who were at the Esri UC talk about the OSM presence, the mapping party, and how that all went? On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Kai

Re: [Talk-us] Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US

2013-07-19 Thread Kai Krueger
Clifford Snow wrote I'll start by just listing a few of my thoughts: We need publicity! Yes! Publicity is in my opinion one of the biggest things we need and should try and work on as a group. Looking at the data, it is clear that when ever there was significant publicity on OSM, the number

Re: [Talk-us] Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US

2013-07-19 Thread Kai Krueger
On 07/19/2013 09:57 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: Similarly, when the Washington Post covered the local DC hackerspace, we had two people stop in at the space (only two!) and neither of them joined. I'm not sure

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Data Quality

2013-05-31 Thread Kai Krueger
Martijn van Exel-3 wrote As already noted, quality is in the eye of the beholder. Yes, quality lies in the eye of the beholder. Or perhaps better said in the eye of the data consumer. Therefore the assessment of quality will depend on the application and use case you have in mind. I think OSM

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Mass Edits in the US

2012-12-17 Thread Kai Krueger
Jeff Meyer wrote On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Serge Wroclawski lt; emacsen@ gt; wrote: What is stopping these this from happening without a committee? Probably nothing. Although a committee might not strictly be necessary, it can give an additional boost of motivation and sense of

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Post bot cleanup

2012-07-20 Thread Kai Krueger
Paul Norman wrote From: Toby Murray [mailto:toby.murray@] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Post bot cleanup I'm also wondering if a routing regression suite exists anywhere that could be used to help identify broken interstates and other major ways, as the tagging changes and 2 node

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Post bot cleanup

2012-07-20 Thread Kai Krueger
Martijn van Exel-3 wrote The big problem though is automatically figuring out if routes are broken or not and then colour them red or green accordingly. At the moment it doesn't do this at all. Anyone have some good ideas for this? The 'easiest' way I see is to compare those results

Re: [Talk-us] Redaction bot is heading our way!

2012-07-18 Thread Kai Krueger
Chris Lawrence-2 wrote On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Nathan Edgars II lt;neroute2@gt; wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=33.9958lon=-81.1074zoom=13layers=M I've fixed up I-20 between the Columbia River and US 21; looks like the damage goes both west and east from there at least

[Talk-us] OSM inspector routing layer now also available in the US

2011-10-03 Thread Kai Krueger
Hi everyone, I have just seen on the blog of Geofabrik ( http://blog.geofabrik.de/?p=96 ) that the awesome OSM-Inspector routing debug layer is now available for the US as well. It can be found at

Re: [Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag

2011-05-28 Thread Kai Krueger
Thea Aldrich wrote: My two cents about the flyers. I really like the one produced by GeoFabrik. However, it might be nice to make a few tweeks to that model so its more US centric and plays better in this market. But thats just me... Great. Yes I too think a few tweeks to make it more

Re: [Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag

2011-05-27 Thread Kai Krueger
Thea Aldrich wrote: Our question to the community is: If you like this idea, what types of branded materials would you like? I think it is a great idea and is the sort of thing a local chapter can be useful for to support the community and help spread the word. One thing that would imho

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Thread Kai Krueger
Hi, Imports have gotten quite a bad reputation in the community as being more of a harm than a help. Partly this is for ideological reasons, opposing any form of import, but a good deal is also due to the fact that many imports are less than ideal on the technical execution side. We need to try