Re: [Talk-us] How to get college students involved?
It would be cool to create a wiki page with ideas, resources, tips, and tricks for campus mapping. The page could include links to past efforts. David. On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Sarah Manley sarah.m.man...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Stefan, I did some work with students back when I was with cloudmade. There are a few details here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Education I can pass along the power points I made if you like (although they are about a year out of date now). Just let me know. If anyone else wants them, I can also try and get them up on the wiki, or am happy for someone else to host them. Cheers, Sarah Message: 3 Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:00:48 -0400 From: Stefan Brandle sbran...@cse.taylor.edu To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-us] How to get college students involved? Message-ID: 4c5c3fc0.1040...@cse.taylor.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi. The following may be outside your time and interest scope, but I am interested in hearing from anybody who is willing to nibble on my requests. I have never actually done any mapping work, but joined this list and lurked with the hope of starting to learn about the tools and issues. I teach computer science at a university about half way between Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne. I would love to have someone show us how to get involved mapping precise data locally and submitting it to various online data sets, or working on software that is helpful to OSM and others. We have students who need senior projects, and also run the occasional special topics class. If anybody is interested, I would like to start a dialog, or at least get some pointers to the right direction. -- sb Stefan Brandle, Taylor University Computer Science and Engineering sbran...@cse.taylor.edu, Telephone: 765-998-4685 FAX: 765-998-4940 http://www.cse.taylor.edu/~sbrandle, http://www.facebook.com/TaylorCSE -- ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal (take 2)
I went ahead and wrote up a proposal at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Directional_Prefix_%26_Suffix_Indication I also notice that some people are removing the directional prefixes _without_ storing the information in another tag. See: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5367209 So I think it is in everyone's best interest that is proposal goes through ASAP, to prevent the lose of information. On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Kevin Atkinson wrote: I'm giving this another shot, this time I am completely staying out of the abbreviation debate. A full street address included more than just a Number and a Street, it also includes a directional prefix and suffix. Vid the kid, gave an excellent overview at http://vidthekid.info/misc/osm-abbr.html. For example (from his page) in the address: 4242 S Champion Ave E The 'S' is a directional prefix and the 'E' is the suffix and in: 1337 Rainbow Dr SW The 'SW' is a directional suffix (really a quadrant suffix). I hereby propose new tags to record the presence of directional indicators in the address as follows: Assuming the name is stored in name the new tags shall be name:prefix name:suffix name:full If an alternative street name is stored in another tag than replace name with that tag, for example alt_name:prefix. If the directional prefix or suffix is not part of the name than the appropriate tag shall be used to indicate the need for a directional prefix in an address. It shall be one of: 'N' 'S' 'E' 'W', 'NW' 'SW', 'NE', 'SE' If it is included in the word included shall be used instead. This means the the first word (for a prefix) or the last word (for a suffix) is a directional indicator. The inclusion of a directional prefix or suffix should be decided on a city by city bases and is not part of this proposal. The full name can go in 'name:full as an aid in name finder and the like. But this tag is essentially redundant so I am glad to make it optional. If the full name is not provided the formation of an address shall be as follows: number prefix if exists and not the word included name suffix if exists and not the word included Notes: I use the word included rather than a new tag to simplify data entry. It also does not significantly complicate usage of the tag. But I am not dead set on the idea. Separating out the base name and the street type would be nice, but I don't think anyone will really enter in all those tags. Also I want to limit the scope to directional prefix or postfixes. Thoughts? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] OSM US election update
there are currently 9 nominations for the OSMF US board, all of whom are eligible for the board (paid, current members). Nominations close at midnight Eastern Time on 8/13/2010. if you are a paid, current member of OSM US you may add yourself to the list of candidates here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States/US_SOTM/Board_Nominations_July-August_2010 richard welty, secretary, OSMF US ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
