[Talk-us] mapping parties

2008-05-10 Thread Richard Weait
So who has a mapping party planned? Anybody want to have one in their area but needs a little encouragement? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate name tag

2008-07-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 21:23 -0700, Alex S. wrote: Victor Snesarev wrote: Hi all, Just want to get people's opinion on naming Intestate Highways in the US... I've been doing this: On the highway way: name=Interstate 90 ref=I-90 or ref=I 90 highway=motorway On the on-ramps:

Re: [Talk-us] Changes to TIGER data

2008-08-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 21:55 -0400, Nathan West wrote: Hey everyone, I'm pretty new to OSM, and I was wondering what the recommended way to make changes to the TIGER data is. The situation I'm currently looking at is a 40 mile walk/bike trail that is a converted railraod and is still listed as

[Talk-us] MSP mapping party Oct 4-5

2008-09-25 Thread Richard Weait
Dear all, We're building a mapping party for the MSP area for next weekend, Oct 4-5. I'd love to have help from a local expert to make this one huge. Are you an MSP local? Where should we host? What local cycle, hiking, geocache, community groups should we contact? Are you up to help out? And

[Talk-us] Detroit mapping party Oct. 11-12

2008-09-25 Thread Richard Weait
Dear Detroit area mappers, We're building a mapping party for the Detroit area for Oct. 11-12. I'd love to have help from a local expert. Are you a Detroit local? Where should we host? What local cycle, hiking, geocache, community groups should we contact? Are you up to help out? And come on

Re: [Talk-us] MSP mapping party Oct 4-5

2008-09-25 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 12:07 -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote: Richard, I'm curious, who is this mysterious 'we' in your announcements and listings in the wiki? Dear Adam, We is all of us. The community. The Royal We. Or just me. Every mapping party starts with one person who builds it into

[Talk-us] DC (Arlington) Mapping Party this weekend

2008-10-31 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, The DC mapping party is this weekend. Come and join the fun. Bring a friend or two as well. We'll be based out of the offices of FortiusOne at 2200 Wilson Blvd. suite 307 Arlington, Virginia 22201 Schedule: Saturday 10 - 5, and refreshments after. Sunday 10 - 5 There will be

[Talk-us] Province / State borders

2009-03-30 Thread Richard Weait
I've adjusted the boundary=admin rendering on my tile server to make more sense for North America. Rendering the state / provincial borders at zoom 1 2 might be overdoing it, but at zoom 3 looks reasonable. It does point out a potential shortcoming in the boundary data though. Borders for

[Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread Richard Weait
Dear Can-Americans, This is silly. Four different lines for one border. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906lon=-95.15362zoom=16layers=B000FTF We're good neighbo(u)rs. We should fix our fence. Shouldn't each border be a single way, with a relation for each adjacent region? We

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders]

2009-03-30 Thread Richard Weait
Forwarded Message From: Richard Weait rich...@weait.com To: Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Talk-us] silly borders Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:30:47 -0400 On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 22:07 -0400, Bill Ricker wrote: We should fix our fence. Ayuh. Good fences

Re: [Talk-us] [Talk-ca] silly borders

2009-03-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 10:00 -0600, James Ewen wrote: The end result, is that I would concur that the GeoBase borders are much closer to the real world location than the manually input border, or the USGS imports. So, now we need to clean up the erroneous data. The county outlines in the

[Talk-us] OSM talk Rochester NY

2009-04-09 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, I'll be talk about OpenStreetMap Thursday 16 April at LUGOR - Linux User Group of Rochester NY. Send all of your Rochester-proximate potential OSM-ers an invitation to join us. This talk is held at a Linux User Group but is suitable for anybody with an interest in maps, location based

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 04:39 -0500, Joseph Jon Booker wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:54:12 -0500 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Nicholas Vetrovec nickvet...@yahoo.comwrote: Posted on the US Page to help coordinate US Interstate relations.

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 10:26 -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Blog entry with more details here. http://weait.com/content/badges-badges The highway badges you've added look great. Are you working on pushing your changes

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 10:38 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: network=us_i_2 # Interstate (2 digit) us_i_3 for 3 digit network=us_us_2 # US Route us_us_3 for 3 digit network=us_ny # NY State Route network=us_ny_county # That looks great to me, except that us_i_2 vs us_i_3 seems like tagging

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 13:23 -0500, Joseph Jon Booker wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:39:45 -0700 Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: 2 relations are easier. adding role to thousands of members is a pain. and we need to split relations with API 0.6 anyway So how do we handle the

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 20:26 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org writes: Why make this more complicated than it has to be? Leave the names on the underlying way, not the relations; leave the refs on the relations, not the underlying ways. Then it's a matter of

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 16:55 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Apollinaris Schoell wrote: It contains all you need to pick the correct sign. But you need the whole knowledge about signs for all states, county ... as an example California uses different signs for US routes but the same for

[Talk-us] [Fwd: [OSM-talk] IMPORTANT - OSM API upgrade - Read Only access mode from 09:00 UTC Fri 17th April]

2009-04-16 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, Below is the official announcement from the OpenStreetMap Foundation reminding us of temporary OSM service reductions this weekend. These service reductions are required for the installation of the shiny new OSM database server[1] and the API upgrade to version 0.6. We'll all enjoy a

Re: [Talk-us] Blame me for JOSM yellowness

2009-04-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 23:01 -0700, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: On 23 Apr 2009, at 14:25 , Russ Nelson wrote: On Apr 22, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: what is the benefit in doing this? There is no other method for somebody to say I looked at this and everything about it

Re: [Talk-us] What, exactly, does the absence of tiger:reviewed=no mean?

2009-04-25 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 19:09 -0700, Russ Nelson wrote: I think we need to morph this over to a discussion of what, exactly, does the absence of tiger:reviewed=no mean? Does it mean one or all of: o I have travelled the entire length of the way. It is spatially correct. o I have

[Talk-us] Toronto Mapping party this Sunday 03 May 2009

2009-04-29 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, How about a spur of the moment mapping party in Toronto this Sunday? I know! What a great idea! And the weather promises to be perfect too. The goal is to Clean up the aerial-mapped area in Bayview Village by getting the rest of the street names, local POIs including parks, schools

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap talk at SouthEast LinuxFest Clemson, SC

2009-05-20 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, I'll give an OpenStreetMap talk at SouthEast LinuxFest Saturday 13 June in Clemson, SC. Come and join the fun if you are in the area, but you can do more to help OSM! Do you know somebody in or around Clemson? Let them know about SELF and the OSM talk. Tell your friends, family

Re: [Talk-us] Addresses and Tiger

2009-06-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 17:35 -0400, Theodore Book wrote: Sorry to have made the initial post and dropped out of the discussion. I have been away from the list for a while. Thanks for all of the comments on the Tiger addressing script. I have worked up an upgrade (now on SVN), and gone

Re: [Talk-us] US Interstate ways alignment

2009-06-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 15:23 -0500, Stephen Johnson wrote: Some of the TIGER ways and nodes for Interstates in my area are way out of alignment. They are all over the map if you'll forgive the pun. I have several GPS tracks for most of the Interstate lanes. My question is what should I align

Re: [Talk-us] [Talk-ca] Can-Amera border, states and provinces.

2009-08-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:36 PM, James Ewenve6...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Richard Weaitrich...@weait.com wrote: I think the provincial / state borders will continue to be yucky on the main map until mapnik supports rendering different style sheets per region /

[Talk-us] Fwd: [Osmf-talk] EVERYONE: PLEASE VOTE

2009-08-19 Thread Richard Weait
Get out your vote for the OpenStreetMap Foundation board of directors. You have until approximately 5pm EDT Thursday for your email vote to be received in London. If you are not yet a paid member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, you can register here for 15UK Pounds (25 or 30 bucks):

[Talk-us] Encourage foundation candidates to self-govern

2009-08-19 Thread Richard Weait
The Foundation board should have no more than one candidate from each company in my opinion. http://weait.com/content/osmf-candidate-recall ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Fwd: REMINDER: Server Down Time - 22nd to 23rd August 2009

2009-08-21 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, Remember that the servers will be down this weekend for equipment changes at our host location at UCL. So, save early and often if you have a couple of last edits to submit! ;-) -- Forwarded message -- From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com

Re: [Talk-us] Hey, look! State / Prov borders!

2009-08-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Adam Schreibersa...@clemson.edu wrote: To make things clear, should the place=state tag be placed on, near the node for the capital city of the state? Near the geometric center of the state, I'd think. Looks like: place=state name=South Carolina # for

Re: [Talk-us] Native American Reservations

2009-08-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Apollinaris Schoellascho...@gmail.com wrote: the wiki has them as proposal on boundary=adminstrative,  admin level 1, but this is definitely wrong. they should be either level 3 - 5. as far as I know they have a pretty special legal status and level 3 seems to

[Talk-us] Tampa OSM-ers

2009-09-01 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, Are you an OSM enthusiast in or near Tampa? The Tampa OSM Meetup group needs you! A Meetup group is a fun way to introduce new mappers to OSM. It's also a cool way to remind yourself to get together with your regular OSM friends. Join and become the group organizer to help out

Re: [Talk-us] Unpaved streets

2009-09-07 Thread Richard Weait
Hi Paul and Greg and talk-us, Your points regarding tagging of gravel roads, highway vs. path vs. trail, and vehicle choice are points that come up in the OSM community from time to time. For further discussion and to see how previous discussions have resolved, consider looking up the discussion

Re: [Talk-us] Broken Changeset

2009-09-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Ian Deesian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Could someone please revert the changeset below? Just sumbled over this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/485007491 (and surounding nodes) http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=45.254787lon=-93.689819zoom=18 Is this

[Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Google Data Liberation Front - beyond amazing

2009-09-12 Thread Richard Weait
-- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net Date: Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:50 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] Google Data Liberation Front - beyond amazing To: t...@openstreetmap.org Hi all, On Friday afternoon I made a request via Google's Data Liberation Front

[Talk-us] Central Ohio meetup

2009-09-13 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, I'll be giving an Introduction to OpenStreetMap talk at Ohio LinuxFest in Columbus, OH on Friday 25 September 2009. There will also be an OSM exhibit at the conference on Saturday 26 September 2009. I'd love to have your help! It would be great to see you for any and all of the

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger US address importing

2009-09-18 Thread Richard Weait
Does the 2008 data (will the 2009 data) maintain the TIGER ids from the original import? If so, a two stage approach may appeal. Adding addressing data to the existing network should be relatively simple if we can rely on TIGER ids to match old and new road segments. This would be even simpler

Re: [Talk-us] Need a changeset reverted - 2540459

2009-09-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Chris Hunter chunter...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can someone please forward this to a moderator. There was a conflict between a changesets 2540459 and 2540726 that's deleted most of the members in relationship 71023 (US Interstate I-75).  I've saved my edits

Re: [Talk-us] Procedures for Bulk Uploading Road Centerline Data

2009-09-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: There is another tool that is still experimental that does almost exactly as Ian suggests called OSM Quick Check.  In this case it only works for dead

Re: [Talk-us] Characterizing Systematic Errors in Hawaii and US Pacific Island Data

2009-10-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Scott Atwood scott.roy.atw...@gmail.com wrote: Once again, if the political boundaries are supposed to correspond exactly to the shoreline data, the whatever is done for Kohoʻolawe and Lanaʻi should also be done for these three islands to correct the political

[Talk-us] MSP area folks?

2009-10-05 Thread Richard Weait
A good friend (not yet on talk-us) is looking to organize OSM meeting in/around MSP/St.Cloud. Anybody else here interested in participating? Let me know off-list and I'll put you in-touch. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map Update

2009-11-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: I updated my whole-US map for Garmin devices. Just take the gmapsupp.img file from here:        http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/ and put in the /garmin/ directory on your device (if you have an SD card unit).

Re: [Talk-us] Thanks for a great call

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Nakor nakor...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of the after call, is there some place (wiki maybe) where the US SOTM effort is documented? Also on the after-call, there was a questions about one-page documents for beginners. This arrived in my email this morning.

Re: [Talk-us] US Chapter Mission Statement

2009-11-28 Thread Richard Weait
I'd hope the mission statement of any chapter would reflect the OSMF mission. In my judgment the key phrases to replicate are: 3.1 OpenStreetMap Foundation is dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free geospatial data and to providing geospatial data for anybody to

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. SOTM Call for Venue Bids

2009-12-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hi All, The U.S. SOTM Working Group would like to announce a call for venue bids.  We will be discussing bids and deciding on the Jan 4th US SOTM call. Please link you bid to this page in the OSM wiki: 

Re: [Talk-us] Marking closed bridges

2009-12-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Zeke Farwell ezeki...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] I think access=no make sense for any closed road/bridge, but I'd like some supporting tags to supply the rest of the information. That would be nice. I'd hope that the mapper reporting the closed bridge in this case

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:19 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: I agree completely. What I did with my splitter script is to create one file per Item. Large lakes and things can be processed that way, I just sorted the resulting files and loaded the

Re: [Talk-us] California land cover import

2009-12-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:43 AM, nmix...@runbox.com wrote: The state of California has some good landcover shapefiles on the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection site. [ ... ] Under what license is the data published? Please feel free to add your comments and suggestions on the

Re: [Talk-us] Call for Nominations of US Local Chapter Board

2010-01-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 1/30/10 10:13 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: As per the wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States#Board_Member_Proposals The process for nominating a the US Chapter

Re: [Talk-us] Motorway vs trunk

2010-02-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 15:50 -0500, Richard Welty wrote: the portion of US 41 you point out is a bit schzoid, mostly grade separated but with a scattering of grade level crossings. the points with grade level crossings should

Re: [Talk-us] New List: osm-professional

2010-03-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Stop. - Are you saying that osm-professional is intended as a copy of osm-talk just moderated? I see osm-professional as mainly focusing on a

Re: [Talk-us] proposed first principles for United States road tagging

2010-03-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: didn't know this page exists. Fully agreed this is the best way to do. It's not perfect and some deviations will make sense here and there. I suppose adding tags for cfcc and hfcs makes sense as an addition to

Re: [Talk-us] OSM presentations

2010-03-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: is there a collection anywhere of presentations on OSM that are available for reference or reuse? if there isn't, anyone have presentations that they're willing to let me take a look at? I have a couple of my OSM

Re: [Talk-us] UX Review

2010-03-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:02 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Dear all One of the clear pieces of feedback from all the talk about improving the OSM UX was show us these users who really find it difficult to use OSM. So, we're going to do that. We have a rough plan of action below

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-newbies] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:12 PM, David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.com wrote: Minnesota actually has quite a bit of coastline along one of our 'inland seas', Lake Superior.  There is a great WMS with 30-50cm resolution color and color-ir imagery if any people in this part of the country are

[Talk-us] Project of the Week 04 April 2010 - Play Ball!

2010-04-04 Thread Richard Weait
This week marks the beginning of the 2010 Major League Baseball season in the USA.[1] Let's get out and map the major league parks and their surroundings. Get the ball park to be sure, but let's also make sure that the points of interest to a visiting ball fan are mapped as well. That means

[Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-28 Thread Richard Weait
Any US OSM meetups other than these three? Any other fixed addresses for local US OSM meetings? http://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-OpenStreetMap/ http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Columbus/ http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-OpenStreetMappers/ Also, if the organizers of the Bay Area meetup would add

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: Check the http://geo-dc.ning.com/ page for details. SEJ Thanks, Steven. Can I encourage Richard and Ian to get a URL for a calendar and start using it? Giving an emerging community a point of focus might be all it

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Keep in mind that we have openstreetmap.us and a couple servers sitting around waiting for a use. Perhaps we could set up a similar thing for the US-based meetups and events? Or maybe we just need a shared Google Calendar...

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Thea Clay t...@cloudmade.com wrote: If I remember correctly we have donated servers re Ian and SteveC has the domain openstreetmap.us (

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:36 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: FYI I am in cooperstown speaking at a thing next month, getting there via Albany. I'm giving an Intro to OSM talk at FOSScon.org in Rochester NY, on June 19. So if that isn't to far astray Richard might add both of our talks

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Jim McAndrew j...@loc8.us wrote: It definitely needs a community interface. And it needs resources to make it extremely simple for someone to set up their own mapping parties. I'm sure I missed some discussions on this, but is there a reason to have a 

Re: [Talk-us] Civil Defense Sirens?

2010-05-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: With the start of Tornado season in the Midwest upon us, I thought it would be

Re: [Talk-us] Resigning in protest

2010-05-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Chris Hunter chunter...@gmail.com wrote: Well, between the new links on the map and today's WIKI edit, it looks like the Brits have decided to shove the ODbL down our throats after all. I have major philosophical issues with the way the license change is

[Talk-us] MSP mapping party 12 June 2010

2010-05-12 Thread Richard Weait
As seen on Twitter. From @yellowbkpk OpenStreetMap mapping party scheduled for 2pm June 12 at the Walker Library in Uptown. #osm http://plancast.com/a/354t If you are within a few hours drive to MSP, you should go. Join the fun at a mapping party. Collaborate with other mappers and meet some

[Talk-us] SotM 2010 schedule published - looks great.

2010-05-19 Thread Richard Weait
I know that you have been waiting to see the schedule for State of the Map 2010. And now I know that you will love it. The SotM team has done a spectacular job of soliciting and acquiring a great line-up of speakers and topics. You will want to buy your ticket and book your trip now.

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Mapping error

2010-05-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:33 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Anyone near Carlsbad, CA? The guy sent me an image too showing where the bug is. Yours c. Steve Begin forwarded message: From: Gerry Sikora gerrysik...@mac.com Date: May 19, 2010 9:51:11 MDT To: st...@asklater.com

Re: [Talk-us] Appalachian Trail data

2010-05-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton j...@arkemie.com wrote: Le 21/05/2010 05:10, Eric Christensen a écrit : [ ... ] Has anyone contacted them about possible inclusion of their data into OSM?  If not, I could try to work with them so we could include their data.  It would be a

Re: [Talk-us] Appalachian Trail data

2010-05-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote: Has anyone contacted them about possible inclusion of their data into OSM?  If not, I could try to work with them so we could include their data.  It would be a great asset to have.  Don't forget to include the Appalachian Trail

Re: [Talk-us] Appalachian Trail data

2010-05-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton j...@arkemie.com wrote: Le 22/05/2010 20:47, Richard Weait a écrit : Thanks for explaining things this thoroughly. (Since no one had answer, I had thought i'd offer my best guess, along with the link to conditions on site). I have

Re: [Talk-us] Whole world files

2010-05-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Fred Hillhouse Downloading the entire world is pretty much pointless for me since I spend my time in the 6 states of New England (ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT). [ ... ] I'll have a quick

Re: [Talk-us] Whole world files

2010-05-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:32 PM, F Hillhouse Jr f.hillhouse...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Richard, Downloaded the file. It took longer than it did to render it. I am getting a WinZip Error reading header after processing 0 entires. Should I grab the file again or...? I see only references so far

Re: [Talk-us] Admin limits

2010-05-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 5/31/10 11:06 AM, Nakor wrote:     Hello, I just have a quick question on admin limits. I have seen various practices when they are overlapping another feature (road, river, ...) and I was wondering if there was

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Aeroway=Aerodrome Modifier Tags?

2010-06-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com wrote: Anyway, I've been trying to clean up the airports a bit in my state, and I would very much like to see some form of classification like what you originally suggested. Looks like there are multiple, conflicting classifications

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Aeroway=Aerodrome Modifier Tags?

2010-06-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Zeke Farwell ezeki...@gmail.com wrote: Classifying by runway length does make some sense to me,  but I really have no idea how Mapnik or any other renderer works.  Not sure if this would in fact be easy or not.  It also means a renderer needs the runway tagged

Re: [Talk-us] Percentage of data imported vs mapped

2010-06-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:42 AM, McGuire, Matthew matt.mcgu...@metc.state.mn.us wrote: Does anyone know the percentage of OSM data that is imported vs mapped in the US? How does this compare to other countries? When TIGER was imported it dominated the database and contributed data from all

Re: [Talk-us] Trailhead tagging

2010-06-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 06:51 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com writes: This is true for roads, but TIGER/massgis did not have hiking trails. Around Boston there are starting to be a lot of trails

[Talk-us] osm-us meeting minutes?

2010-06-30 Thread Richard Weait
I don't see any meeting minutes for OSM-US in June. Were there any calls held? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Call_Minutes ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] State abbreviations

2010-07-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: I was commenting the other day on IRC that nominatim only worked on my address if I used Kansas but not KS as most people would. twain happened to be on and commented that a ref=KS tag on the state boundary would

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

2010-07-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 7/19/10 4:48 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: There's been no standard way of tagging state highways since before I joined at the beginning of this year. the US routes page has always called for US:ST or ST since i

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: How do you abbreviate Boulevard? Blvd or Bv? How about Parkway? Pkwy,

Re: [Talk-us] Would Like To Clean Salt Lake City Street Names

2010-08-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Kevin Atkinson ke...@atkinson.dhs.org wrote: I'm almost done with this script.  It's not a full bot, but instead modifies an osm file which I will read back into JOSM and upload the changed parts (or if that doesn't work use one of the upload scripts). Changes in

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Kevin Atkinson ke...@atkinson.dhs.org wrote: OK.  So There is clearly no agreement on the abbreviation of road types (Street, Way, etc).  So what about these specific exceptions.  I will assume silence means agreement :) See

[Talk-us] A Friendly Guide to 'Bots and Imports

2010-08-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] What do people think of a something like A friendly guide to bots and imports? I like it. Let's start. Required reading: http://www.asklater.com/matt/wordpress/2009/09/imports-and-the-community/

Re: [Talk-us] A Friendly Guide to 'Bots and Imports

2010-08-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jan 8, 2000 at 4:20 PM, Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com wrote: Bad imports are bad for the osm.  High quality data carefully imported is helpful.  If such high quality data is available for us that is as good or better than what we can do ourselves, then it's fine not to reinvent the

Re: [Talk-us] How to get college students involved?

2010-08-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Stefan Brandle sbran...@cse.taylor.edu wrote: On 8/6/10 1:43 PM, Katie Filbert wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Stefan Brandle sbran...@cse.taylor.edu wrote:  Hi. The following may be outside your time and interest scope, but I am interested in hearing

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

2010-08-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:06:52 -0400, Phil! Gold wrote: * Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org [2010-07-21 00:19 -0700]: On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:15:18 -0400, Phil! Gold wrote: I what way does OpenCycleMap get this right?  As

Re: [Talk-us] How to get college students involved?

2010-08-08 Thread Richard Weait
John, Paul and Stefan are all doing mapping on their campuses, and they haven't given us links. Please show us your good work, gentlemen! ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] How to get college students involved?

2010-08-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: John, Paul and Stefan are all doing mapping on their campuses, and they haven't given us links. Please show us your good work, gentlemen! Here's what

Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

2010-08-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Alan Millar amillar...@gmail.com wrote: How about this proposal for US streets: (1) Leave name unabbreviated (2) Put whatever form you want of abbreviated name in name:en I suggest not. We already have an expectation of having the real English name in

[Talk-us] License Upgrade - Stage Two Begins

2010-08-12 Thread Richard Weait
News today from Mike Collinson, Chair of the OSMF License Working Group: As promised, and long awaited, the next phase of the OSM License Upgrade has arrived. Phase 2 - Existing Contributor Voluntary Re-licensing [1] has begun, and you may indicate your acceptance of the new Contributor Terms

Re: [Talk-us] Brainstorming an Import Tool

2010-08-17 Thread Richard Weait
Perhaps the import tool could default to only allowing imports of n objects at a time, and n/10 objects at a time when further than x km from the user's home location? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Fwd: NOTICE: Scheduled Maintenance

2010-08-20 Thread Richard Weait
-- Forwarded message -- Subject: [OSM-talk] NOTICE: Scheduled Maintenance - Tuesday Morning OSM, Please copy this to local lists as appropriate. Tuesday 8:00am (24 August 2010 GMT/UTC+0) the API and editing on www.openstreetmap.org will be unavailable during a hardware upgrade.

Re: [Talk-us] sotm.us 2010 video uploads begin

2010-08-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: Been on vacation and (mostly) unplugged the last ten days. What a treat to return to the SOTMUS conference videos. Thanks for all your hard work, Dave. Indeed. I've only seen two of them so far, but they were each well

[Talk-us] Tutorials and Project of the Week.

2010-09-14 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, I'd like feedback on some recent tutorials for OSM Beginners and on some potential refinements for the Project of the Week. Please consider reading the new article, then replying to the three new poll questions. Comments welcome. http://weait.com/ Best regards, Richard

Re: [Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:24 AM, jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com wrote: hello fellow mappers! for years i have been using my openmoko for my gps tracking mapping general screwing around. recently the device has lost its ability to read from the SD card so i have been viciously limited

Re: [Talk-us] Another regional bugfix feed

2010-09-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] Speed limits seem to be the most reported bug. It might be interesting to see what happens when more things start being reported. I would hope that the bug reports will lead to local mappers doing a survey.

Re: [Talk-us] Detroit

2010-10-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:28 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Is anyone on this list in the Detroit metro area? I was hoping to speak at the LUG there, but can't, and it'd be nice if someone else could do a little OSM demo. When? ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Tagging Consensus to Improve OSM (and address some of 41 latitude's concerns)

2010-10-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: I'm interested in getting as broad a consensus on this issues as possible, so I'd prefer not to have a single person dominating the discussion. You might try talk@ and tagging@ to get some international opinions. It might not

[Talk-us] Project of the Week / Month

2010-10-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Al Haraka alhar...@gmail.com wrote: On a kind of related note, can anyone report how effective the Project of the Week initiative is? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week Funny you should ask. Trackability isn't the main goal for PotW, but

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