Sounds good, I think that we have to have a board in order to
incorporate. That will need to be done when we file we register the
non-profit corporation. Also we should probably look into where we
want to register.
Kate Chapman
(via GPS...I mean iPhone)
On Sep 18, 2009, at 6:56 PM
places such as the wiki a well as talking to
people that there is interest in some sort of U.S. based chapter, but
exactly how has to be worked out.
Thanks,
Kate Chapman
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it is necessary to form a legal entity, but I don't think it
is totally black and white either.
-Kate Chapman
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote:
At least some US local cadre organize around the state and city
wiki.osm.org pages, with just an event announcement
Sounds good, I think that we have to have a board in order to
incorporate. That will need to be done when we file we register the
non-profit corporation. Also we should probably look into where we
want to register.
Kate Chapman
(via GPS...I mean iPhone)
On Sep 18, 2009, at 6:56 PM
Sure how about this Saturday? 4pm EST using the drop.io space number
218-486-3891
x 663610833 http://drop.io/openstreetmap.
Thanks,
Kate Chapman
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Sarah Manley sarah.m.man...@gmail.comwrote:
Agreed that call a call during business hours will be difficult
/United_States
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Draft_Rules
-Kate Chapman
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Sarah Manley sarah.m.man...@gmail.comwrote:
Do we have an agenda? What about someone who will act as a moderator? I
would volunteer to be it, but I can
minutes
together as well and will have them out shortly. I will send out a message
when everything is available. Your agenda items make sense.
Thanks,
Kate Chapman
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Christian Petersen c...@cloudmade.comwrote:
The discussion on weekday or Saturday has left me
will be having weekly calls every Monday
as we continue to get organized.
*
*
Look forward to talking to you tomorrow.
-Kate Chapman
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Just a reminder that the next US Chapter Call is tomorrow (5PM PST/8PM EST).
Please Add yourself to the wiki if you intend to call in or would like to
but are unable.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Calls
Thanks,
Kate Chapman
Dan,
What's wrong with doing automated addressing imports in situations where we
have point level address data? Or are you just referring to not importing
the addressing that is available for the Tiger data?
Kate Chapman
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote
Hi Everyone,
There is a mapping party in Bethesda Maryland this Saturday.
For necessary info please read below.
Thanks,
Kate
Start-time:
11 A.M. EST
Meeting location:
Caribou Coffee
Bethesda Place
7629 Old Georgetown Road
Bethesda, MD 20814
Please indicate you are going to attend at
floating around in a similar situation. If people
do want to move forward with this I think the team could help move this
forward.
Thanks,
Kate Chapman
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call last night.
To summarize the plan is to announce a call for bids on Wednesday and have
it open until January 4th.
For those who would like to help organize the next call is Dec 7th:
5:30PM PST/8:30PM EST (immediately after the US chapter call)
+1 218-486-3891 x 224699644
Thanks,
Kate
for bids is available here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States/US_SOTM/BIDS/CRITERIA
Thanks,
Kate Chapman
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Since we are going to incorporate as a non-profit the benefits of
incorporating in Delaware aren't as great as they would be if we were a for
profit business. Our intention is to apply for tax exempt status both
federally and in the state or district that we do incorporate in.
Thanks,
Kate
I don't know a ton about Geodatabases but I'm pretty sure you need to
purchase an ESRI product to write to them. It would be a good idea to
have a conversion available though.
Kate
On Dec 4, 2009, at 3:52 PM, McGuire, Matthew matt.mcgu...@metc.state.mn.us
wrote:
Has anyone had
are going to talk about possible sponsorships and activities for
the events.
The call in number is: +1 218-486-3891 x 224699644
Thanks,
Kate Chapman
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to rain on your parade, just want people to be aware that it is
not the same thing.
Kate Chapman
user:wonderchook
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:57 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have found a nice source of ZipCode boundries,
http://www.openstreetmap.org
. If in the U.S. we are going to do a
combination of imports and community mapping I think starting at a local
level is the best answer. There is a ton of datasets out there and we
haven't really started asking around for them yet.
Kate Chapman
user:wonderchook
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:39 PM
on mountain home and lake norfork and there was noone
doing much there. I would take over that county and do the import for
it.
mike
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote:
Hi All,
The state of Arkansas donated a bunch of data to OSM. This includes
streets, parcels
Hey All,
I'm usually pretty up front about the fact that I work for FortiusOne.
It was an oversight with announcing my acceptance that I didn't
mention it.
FortiusOne uses OSM tiles on our public site http://www.geocommons.com
as well as the appliances. I personally maintain an open source
Sam,
As much as I would love to put on a three piece virtual suit and
synergize the paradigm with everyone that is not the intent of the
professional list. I can only speak for the United States in this
regard, but we can't direct various government organizations and
non-profits at the talk
Hi U.S. Mappers,
Since the election of the temporary OSM U.S. Chapter board we have
chosen positions, which are as follows:
President: Kate Chapman
Vice President: Serge Wroclawski
Secretary: Rich Welty
Treasurer: Thea Clay
Member At Large: Steven Johnson
The regularly scheduled U.S. Chapter
Great, don't have real plans yet. Asked for ideas on the talk list
and hoping to see how many of them we can do.
-Kate
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:12 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:
yeah it was one I had that CM paid for, it's seen better times but still
servicable just about
I'll bring
Hey All,
Are you attending Where 2.0 and want to work the booth?
I put up a wiki page for people to sign up for slots.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Where2.0/2010
Thanks,
Kate
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make time during the day. Any plans for evening
events?
Apollinaris
On 19 Mar 2010, at 15:32 , Kate Chapman wrote:
Hey All,
Are you attending Where 2.0 and want to work the booth?
I put up a wiki page for people to sign up for slots.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Where2.0/2010
Hi All,
We would like to incorporate the US Chapter soon and have bylaws up.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Draft_Rules
Could everyone check them out and provide feedback to me or on the
wiki in the next week (by midnight March 31st)?
Thanks,
Kate
lunch, makes much more sense then than
friday when everyone wants to just go home or drink beer
On Mar 23, 2010, at 6:19 AM, Kate Chapman wrote:
There has been some discussion about having a mapping party the Friday
after Where 2.0.
Also I'm not sure, but I think Steve might have proposed a BoF
Hey All,
I made a Google Form for the SOTM-US proposals. If you have an idea
for a workshop you'd like to lead or a talk you'd like to give please
fill out the form here: http://bit.ly/aI3WiH
Reminder SOTM-US is August 14th and 15th in Atlanta, GA.
-Kate
Hey All,
Would anyone like to help stylize the SOTM U.S. Website? We have a
logo and just need some help pulling it together and making it look a
bit more professional.
Most of us working on it are backend developer types or sys admins,
not so good at the making things look pretty.
Thanks,
There is a new site at http://www.sotm.us, I need to switch the DNS
of stateofthemap.us to point at it as well. Thank you for updating
the wiki.
Kate
On May 12, 2010, at 2:16 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:
It's been pointed out that there is a SOTM US website, but it's
mostly
I would suggest they talk to CrisisCommons http://
ww.crisiscommons.org, though I would think Ushahidi and paying for
hosting would also work.
Kate
(via GPS...I mean iPhone)
On May 14, 2010, at 7:14 PM, Sarah Manley sarah.m.man...@gmail.com
wrote:
I recently received the following
Toby,
Do you have a link? Maybe it supports WMS.
Kate
(via GPS...I mean iPhone)
On May 15, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
My county uses ArcIMS to serve up their GIS data. I have received
permission to use their 6 resolution aerial photos for tracing things
in
Hey All,
We've gotten some great submissions for talks/workshops at SOTM U.S.
We could still use more!
Have something you'd like to talk about regarding OSM? It could be
technical, community related or even an OSM comedy routine. To
participate go here: http://www.sotm.us/?page_id=2
SOTM U.S.
of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org
flossal.org
Chat Google Talk: JamesMikeDuPont Skype: h4ck3rm1k3 MSN: water_proof
Contact Me
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote:
Hey All,
We've gotten some great submissions for talks
://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmikedupont[image:
Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/james.m.dupont[image:
Twitter]http://twitter.com/h4ck3rm1k3[image:
Google] http://www.google.com/profiles/JamesMikeDuPont#buzz
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote:
Hey All,
We've gotten
Hi All,
Reminder that SOTM US is August 14th-15th and registration is open.
We have great speakers lined up including individuals from Stamen,
USGS, the State of Arkansas. On a variety of topics from technical
topics like OSM in MongoDB and using OSM in Schools. I'll be
releasing the
So I think having a formal organization can enable people to do
certain tasks. There are plenty of situations where it isn't needed
of course.
Examples where it can help:
-We wanted to put on a conference, it is much easier to have a formal
organization for sponsorship and reserving a venue.
wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote:
Hi All,
The schedule for SOTM US is up.
http://www.sotm.us/?page_id=2
No post to talk, or other lists? Is this event only for US-based
mappers or open to all?
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From our trips to Haiti we have documents on data collection, editing
to use of OSM. They are focused on the Humanitarian tagging scheme
though.
Here is the JOSM training manual:
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Ab5-nI93RBqoZGZxcHcycXRfMzFnaDQzejJmawhl=en
The QGIS/Mapnik one:
Yes there were 6 or 7 of us. Here are the notes I took:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1q_Sv8p11O659zrVEpGQWdN3OvYotLAPZKnVgaZFyRCY
Sorry I neglected to document who was on the call.
-Kate
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jim McAndrew j...@loc8.us wrote:
Did anybody make the call
Hey Guys,
The monthly OSM Meet-up in D.C. is this Tuesday at the Capital City
Brewery at 7pm.
Capital City Brewery
1100 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
The closest metro is Metro Center.
Here's a map: http://osm.org/go/ZZcbh4Ox1--
If you are in the D.C. area I hope to see you there!
There are some people where IRC is a higher barrier to entry than a
phone call. All that aside though I think key is just to have some
level of consensus and then have the information available in a clear
place.
New people don't care about arguing about tags, they just want to know
how to map.
can use.
-Kate
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Al Haraka alhar...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote:
There are some people where IRC is a higher barrier to entry than a
phone call. All that aside though I think key is just to have some
One bug I have is with address geocoding. You don't seem to be
using addresses attached to polygons. So for almost all addresses
I've added they don't geocode. The couple that are points do.
Thanks,
Kate
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Stellan Lagerstrom
lagerst...@blindsight.com wrote:
I
Hi PJ,
Sounds cool. Is there a plan for keeping things up to date? Or is it
to just get the data the best it can be between OSM/TRIMET and then
continue editing in OpenStreetMap overtime? Or some other plan I
haven't thought of.
-Kate
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:28 PM, PJ Houser
Hi Josh,
I've done a couple imports with varying levels of success. I live in
Virginia (in Arlington) and would like to help.
-Kate
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote:
I absolutely agree about preserving user contributions. For any given
segment in the Virginia
Hi Tom,
Could you post a link to the area you imported? Not all tags are
rendered in the default Mapnik styling.
Maybe we could help figure out exactly what is going one.
Thanks,
Kate
user:wonderchook
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Tom Ponte t...@bendbroadband.com wrote:
PJ,
I would be
Richard is right, there is an English language flyer. I believe
Frederik Ramm has it.
If someone can volunteer to mail it that would be great. I'm home
less than 50% of the year so I don't think I'm the right person.
-Kate
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com
Hi Josh,
Myself and Thea Clay were on the strategic working group. There
weren't a ton of meetings, but we did participate in a couple
conference calls.
There was some tenseness around using OpenStreetMap. There are issues
such as federal government data being public domain and also people
not
with your
individual companies rather than OSM.
I'm sure there will be some issues, but it's good to get involved
early, thanks for being a part of it.
-Josh
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote:
Hi Josh,
Myself and Thea Clay were on the strategic working
On Jun 9, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Steve Coast wrote:
On 6/8/2011 12:43 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
Is that/will that not be a popular use for OSM? It does not make walking
directions impossible - just requires the addition of the driveway to the
map. OTOH, putting the pin on the front door of a
along the route.
--
Jim
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote:
Hi All,
I know there was some talk about the GeoBus for State of the Map.
Well, on a much smaller scale myself
Hi All,
I mentioned a while back about a road trip to SotM.
S Iván and I have a website now and are looking for places to
stop: http://www.willmapforfuel.com/
Also if you are in our path and would like to meet-up let us know.
-Kate
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Hi Everyone,
This is a reminder about rooms at SotM for OSM-US members.
Please see the details below.
Thanks,
Kate
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Thea Aldrich theaglit...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi US Mappers,
The OSMF US team has been busy doing some fundraising to help support the
mapping
Hi All,
This Thursday in the Washington DC area we are having a meet-up at
Ray's Hell Burger:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Washington_DC#Meet-ups
This is the first stop in the WillMap4Fuel trip:
http://www.willmapforfuel.com/ and Iván's first day in the U.S. for
the adventure.
So if you
Sorry the issue was we did not have quorum and did not announce the
meeting. So it could not count as the annual meeting. The
Treasurer's report is finished (a big part of these sorts of things)
and we can have an annual meeting.
Anyway, the plan was to have an online annual meeting, which is
Hi Richard,
Fair questions. I think one thing that the US Chapter should figure
out is what exactly is expected from the board. Meaning when we put
on SotM-US it ended up being a significant amount of time commitment
(that didn't have to be board members but mostly was). The chapter
could take
Just another reminder about the nominations for the US Chapter Board.
I'm not planning on rerunning because I spent as much time outside of
the US as in it this year.
Best,
-Kate
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello!
Nominations for 2011-2012
With walking papers you can use other renderings. The default one is
the OSM tiles though. There are a couple other Cloudmade styles in
there.
Best,
-Kate
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
On 12/05/2011 10:44 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
Neither
What about actually doing the entry while you are in the car?
My first job after college was to map every house in a county. (Wayne
County, Indiana for those that are curious) The set-up was to use GPS
with a computer and to map the addresses as you went. We were already
starting with the
We did an imperfect import of building footprints in Washington D.C. a
while ago. I personally find it makes the map far more usable for
adding other information. With the buildings in I am able to add
stores and other details easily without using a GPS, simply by
printing Walking Papers.
DC GIS
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue
-Kate
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:56 PM, the Old Topo Depot
oldto...@novacell.com wrote:
Kate,
What was the source for the building footprint import ?
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote:
We did
Hi Alex,
Is there going to be a bid process as with previous years?
Thanks!
-Kate
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote:
OpenStreetMap US is kicking off planning for State of the Map 2013. With an
international conference likely taking place in the fall of 2013
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Michael Patrick geodes...@gmail.com wrote:
There are already communities around Disaster Relief,
etc., and good etiquette would dictate that I wouldn't go in and edit their
data.
You
Thanks for posting this. The first OSM person I ever met was Russ Nelson
when he was a CloudMade ambassador. It was at a mapping party in Baltimore,
that really is what sparked further involvement in OSM for me. Prior to
that I did a bit of mapping in my neighborhood. Thanks Russ!
-Kate
On Sun,
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
On 04/03/2015 02:41 AM, stevea wrote:
It seems to me that in the USA, what people think about OSM is one of
these two:
(a) A project for hackers and couch potatoes who trawl their county web
pages and other
Hi Frederik,
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 3:36 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
On 04/04/2015 07:20 PM, Simon Poole wrote:
I just don't want to be called a couch potato in the course of it ;-)
Seriously, I believe Frederik was more referring to how OSM is viewed by
third
Hi Frederik,
This has been added ahead of time for years. It will be on the ground and
most people at Burning Man are unlikely to have internet connection, but
use applications with download OSM data. I see no reason this can't be
added this year the same as in the past by the US OSM community.
that it was never minuted,, but the current and
> past board members that were involved are well aware of this.
>
> Simon
>
>
> * personal opinion as a parent is that I don't see a value in trying to
> get kids to spend even more time in from of a screen simply arm chairing,
>
Hi Simon,
What do you mean by address the OSM side of things? People all over the
world are encouraging teenagers to contribute to OSM, this has been on
going for years. Steven removed the part which encouraged people under the
age of 13. What is the issue?
-Kate
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:11
Hi All,
I'm holding office hours to help with SotM-US Talk Submissions(1).
The next one is tomorrow at 2pm Eastern/11am Pacific.
Join on Slack (https://osmus-slack.herokuapp.com/) or through Zoom (
https://zoom.us/j/469162782).
Let me know how I can help.
Thanks,
-Kate
(1)
Hi All,
We've extended the call for participation and scholarships until July 14th
for SOTM-US.
http://2018.stateofthemap.us/
State of the Map US is an annual gathering of volunteers, mappers,
organizations and businesses who collaborate and work with OpenStreetMap.
This year we are getting
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