[Talk-us] DC Great Streets Mapping Party: Minnesota Ave - Dec 6th
Hi! We're up to corridor number 3 of 11 in the DC Great Street mapping party series. It is scheduled for Saturday December 6th at 12 PM at the Benning Neighborhood Library. For more information see the Meetup page. http://www.meetup.com/MappingDC/events/218032632/ Pictures from the last mapping party have been posted. For questions, contact Steven Johnson, the event host. He's been great at setting us up with local groups like MOMIES TLC and DC Great Streets. Brian -- http://brian.derocher.org http://mappingdc.org http://about.me/brian.derocher ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Mapping event in Baltimore
We should also put it on the calendar: http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Current_events ;) This one has a spatially enabled iCalendar feed [2] that other calendars, such as Mozilla LIghtning and Google Calendar, can consume. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Current_events#Limiting_by_area It automatically gets rendered on this map http://calendar.openstreetmap.org.uk/map Also, you don't need additional access granted to use this calendar. Just edit the wiki Current Events page. OpEd: As you can see the US doesn't use this calendar enough. Brian -- http://brian.derocher.org http://mappingdc.org http://about.me/brian.derocher ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] mappy hour apologies
richard, On Monday 2014 March 24 20:39:22 Richard Welty wrote: not going well here. google hangouts is repeatedly insisting that i install a package that i've already installed. i have no idea when i'll get this working. I once had that issue. I'm using Debian Linux on my laptop. I solved it by downgrading libcairo2. See https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/hangouts/vYsaeEnXJXs/ZfqIPfPm0UEJ Brian -- http://brian.derocher.org http://mappingdc.org http://about.me/brian.derocher ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Local user groups
Here's an idea. How about we get back to using Upcoming.org? Oh yeah, it was bought by Yahoo and shutdown. It's for this reason OSM runs their own web servers, wikis, mail servers. I'm generally in support of running our own calendar server. But as Paul said, being a calendar is only half of what's needed. The other half is publicity and that's hard to find without existing social networks. I've long been against using Meetup, but compromised, i mean, experimented with it. And i must admit it worked quite well for the US Winter Editathon. The publicity aspect of Meetup really gets people to your events. Though i wonder if these people are the long term contributors to OSM that we want. I'll continue to use Meetup under some new conditions: (1) The event posted on Meetup must say that RSVPing on Meetup is not required. (2) If an RSVP is required, say due to room size constraints, to RSVP elsewhere, say by email. (3) The event is posted in several channels: mailing list, facebook, twitter, and flyers [1] All that being said, i'm looking into setting up CivCRM to support MappingDC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiviCRM [1] Yeah i posted flyers at work. Brian -- Brian DeRocher http://brian.derocher.org http://mappingdc.org ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Large Edit Committee Meeting 12/20
Greg, I agree with you regarding google privacy. One alternative is XMPP (jabber) + Jingle [1][2]. This is after all what Google Talk and Hangouts is based on [3]. [1] http://wiki.xmpp.org:12480/web/Tech_pages/Jingle [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmpp#Extensions I run an XMPP server (ejabberd) and I'd be willing to work on a video experiment. Anyone who is interested can email me directly. Brian -- http://brian.derocher.org http://mappingdc.org http://about.me/brian.derocher ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Large Edit Committee Meeting 12/20
blink blink http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/ http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/ I hope this works as well as Apache Wave, which i was impressed with. Brian -- http://brian.derocher.org http://mappingdc.org http://about.me/brian.derocher ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Using MapRoulette for imports
Food for thought... Imagine we performed a large data import into a side table, then used MapRoulette to overlay that data on OSM, allow users to review additions, and import features one at a time. Would that be better? -- Brian DeRocher http://brian.derocher.org http://mappingdc.org http://about.me/brian.derocher ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[OSM-talk] OSM import stats
Frederick and all, I found your SotM presentations on OSM imports regarding disks and stats.I just completed a full planet import via osm2pgsql. Are you interested in the stats from my import? I *think* there's a wiki page about import stats, should i put them there. Long story short: 3 HDD 5400 rpm, RAID 5, took 570030 seconds overall (6.6 days). This includes indexing. I had a question i've never seen address. I followed recommended tunings for PostgreSQL for the import. Do you recommend keeping these settings or adjusting them for normal usage? I will re-enabling fsync. Brian -- http://brian.derocher.org https://mappingdc.org http://about.me/brian.derocher ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OSM import stats
This is with clustering. That is to say it ran queries like this: create table foo_temp as select * from foo order by way; But i did not see something like this: cluster foo; I see now from PG 9.1 documention that CLUSTER is a one-time operation. So it's effectively the same thing. I forgot to mention this is in a KVM virtual machine using LVM . -- http://brian.derocher.org http://mappingdc.org http://about.me/brian.derocher ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OSM import stats
Stats posted http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql/benchmarks#Planet_import_on_custom_server_VM_.2810_cores.2C_16_GB.2C_RAID5.29 -- Brian DeRocher http://brian.derocher.org http://mappingdc.org http://about.me/brian.derocher ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags
I feel it's important to maintain at least some reference to the TIGER edge it came from. The edge has details like lfromadd, ltoadd, rfromaddd and rtoadd. These are the house numbers on the left and right sides of the street. This was useful to me as i connected Nomintatim to TIGER edges in order to interpolate a houses position along the road based on the house number. Brian -- http://brian.derocher.org https://mappingdc.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[Talk-us] Geography Awareness Week
Geography Awareness Week is November 11-17, 2012 http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/collections/geographyawarenessweek My goal is to create a 20 minute OSM introduction / presentation to fellows geeks at my company about OpenStreetmap. I'd like to make this presentation in a way that it's re-usable to other people in other companies. Would anyone like to help? Has this been done before? Brian -- Brian DeRocher http://brian.derocher.org http://mappingdc.org http://about.me/brian.derocher ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [OSM-talk] FYI - OpenTripPlanner instance
Josh, On Wednesday 2012 October 31 09:48:57 Josh Doe wrote: Very cool, thanks for sharing. I've wanted to set this up for my area (greater Washington DC area), including all the various bus services, but haven't found the time yet. I really like the Analyst tool as well. If you need a hand, just ask. This sounds like a great project. In fact i hope we can recruit dc mappers in a way portland did, to get Trimet working. Brian -- http://brian.derocher.org https://mappingdc.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [Talk-us] Night of the Living Maps
For reference here's the TIGER reviewed and TIGER roads comparison maps Peter demonstrated at SOTM US. http://www.itoworld.com/map/162 http://www.itoworld.com/map/240 -- Brian DeRocher http://brian.derocher.org http://mappingdc.org http://about.me/brian.derocher ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [OSM-talk] Shoud OSM Help move to Stackexchange community?
I agree with Robert completely. Also, running our own OSQA Help site gives us the flexibility to customize it to the special needs of OSM, even if that means modifying source code. That includes integration with OSM sites like the map, the wiki, bug tracking, etc. I'm standing up an OSQA site to support MappingDC as a way to share ideas and promote them within our community. Brian -- http://brian.derocher.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
