Re: talk-us discussion Having 1 member living in the state of incorporation is key, and 20 members i nice to have. There is a need to search internally to find mappers who are also lawyers and have experience setting up non-profits.
Also, phone teleconference works, provided people know about it, and what # to call :-) I'd (really) recommend setting up a talk-nz and a talk-au list with osm.org so that everyone is on board and on the same page. (im on the other lists and can see that there is a rift, or maybe its just me :) In Canada we have the OSGeoBC & Ottawa & Quebec list, where some are OSMrs, we all need to be on the same page :) re: big .osm files I need to than Ian Dees (again) because since SHP-to-osm-5.0.jar you can add the "-maxnodes 2000" switch where it will make nice small .osm0 .osm1 .osm2 .osm3 etc. files that can be happely imported with JOSM. Hope that helps, Sam On 9/21/09, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/9/21 Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com>: >> Thanks John, >> This sounds a bit better worded than before. And looks like something >> that i'd recommend for Canada to start thinking about next year. > > We're starting to come up with ideas where a local non-profit is > essential, fund raising for sat imagery etc, the draft stuff for local > chapters that already exist isn't final and who knows how long it will > take to finalise the new local chapters stuff so we're most likely > going to incorporate sooner rather than later as it is hindering our > progress. > > You are welcome to borrow from the rest of the document we've cooked > up so far, not sure how much use it will be to you or most others as > it's essentially the model rules the NSW state govt publishes modified > with a statement of purpose etc. > > https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZf0jIYShBc0ZGNicXR6OXZfMGdoOGsycGZi&hl=en > >> Btw, im also following along on the talk-us list, as there seems to be >> a more active interest. > > Any chance of a summary so we don't have to reinvent the wheel where > possible? > >> Fortunataly, the process im going through is a 'data conversion' where >> i make the .osm files available, rather than 'blanket importing >> myself' i think its a good work-around, and should be adopted for >> other imports. > > This is what happened with Aussie post codes, except a couple of them > are exceptionally large > 40,000 points and so you can't easily do > much with them in JOSM. > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us