Re: [Talk-us] How to get college students involved?
I teach a Web Mapping class at a University and have been thinking of having a lesson on crowd sourcing and geowiki stuff. I figure it might be a good way to introduce students to OpenStreetmap. Is anyone aware of class lessons or exercises that have been developed for OpenStreetmap? Brian Fischer, CFM GIS Project Manager Houston Engineering, Inc. Phone: Direct: 763-493-6664 / W: 763.493.4522 / M: 763.229.2734 -Original Message- From: talk-us-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-us-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of talk-us-requ...@openstreetmap.org Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 6:00 AM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Talk-us Digest, Vol 33, Issue 23 Send Talk-us mailing list submissions to talk-us@openstreetmap.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to talk-us-requ...@openstreetmap.org You can reach the person managing the list at talk-us-ow...@openstreetmap.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Talk-us digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: How to get college students involved? (David Fawcett) 2. Re: Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal (take 2) (Kevin Atkinson) 3. OSM US election update (Richard Welty) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 08:58:10 -0500 From: David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.com To: Sarah Manley sarah.m.man...@gmail.com Cc: sbran...@cse.taylor.edu, talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] How to get college students involved? Message-ID: aanlktiks-ahojmpw7nzypf1ap6qltj6crrscuao3d...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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I can pass along the power points I made if you like (although they are about a year out of date now).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 -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 15:05:34 -0600 (MDT) From: Kevin Atkinson ke...@atkinson.dhs.org To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal (take 2) Message-ID: alpine.bsf.2.00.1008091456520.47...@bas.flux.utah.edu Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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
Re: [Talk-us] How to get college students involved?
On 8/10/10 7:00 AM, talk-us-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: 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. Good idea. I'll have to start by learning this myself, but it would be nice to have a wiki page with ideas as a target deliverable. I teach computer science and want computing-related projects that can really get the students engaged in computing. It seems that there must be a number of very interesting projects lurking (or blatantly visible) in mapping projects. And yes, I've been reading about the dangers of bots on the rampage. :-) I was thinking more about code that reads maps and answers questions, generates directions, etc. -- 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
Re: [Talk-us] Free emergency calls from payphones (was [Tagging] emergency=*)
At 2010-08-09 11:59, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:31:33 +0100, Dave F. wrote: On 08/08/2010 20:07, Paul Johnson wrote: Emergency phones would be handy, since it's increasingly common in the US for public pay telephones to disallow... 911 (emergency services). If true, I'm surprised. Which companies are doing this? Pacific Northwest Phones (PNWP), TriMet Transit's privately owned payphones (truly stupid given that emergency information inside transit vehicles advertise 911 as a free call), Qwest, Verizon...really, who isn't doing it at this point? A quick search found this http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ny-supreme-court-appellate-division/1502759.html . VZ won the appeal in this decision for another reason, but it's clearly a legal requirement to provide 911 service in the state of NY: In the early 1980s, certain pay phone service providers, known as Customer Owned Currency Operated Telephones (COCOT), sometimes programmed their phones to block coinless 911 calls. This prompted the State Legislature in 1990 to enact section 92-c(7) of the Public Service Law, which provides that No . COCOT service provider shall restrict access . to any emergency telephone number, including, where available, 911. In another doc, this time an appeal by Qwest in the state of WA, I find: WAC 480-120-263[1] became effective on July 1, 2003. It contains requirements for Pay phones Service Providers (PSP) who own or operate or provide pay phones services in Washington. As adopted, WAC 480-120-263 subsections (3) and (5) read, in pertinent part, as follows: (3) Access. At no charge to the calling party, pay phones must provide access to: (a) Dial tone; (b) Emergency services by dialing 911 without the use of a coin or entering charge codes; In CA, http://leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=47290624595+3+0+0WAISaction=retrieve , Cal. Pub. Util. 742(a)(2) says: (2) A requirement that every telephone permit a caller to be connected with the operator personnel of any telephone corporation authorized by the commission to operate within a service area by dialing the numeral 0 and with the emergency services switchboard reached by dialing the numerals 911 without insertion of any coin. Further searching shows similar provisions in other states, with some obvious exceptions, like prisons, mental hospitals, etc. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal
At 2010-08-03 00:24, Kevin Atkinson wrote: One more specific question below: On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Alan Mintz wrote: 2. Some, however, do use the prefix on the signs and in verbal. The direction appears in front of the name in the same font: name = West 17th Street name_prefix = W name_prefix_included = yes name_root = 17th name_type = St So what does the sign really say: W 17th St, West 17th St, etc? It depends on which sign. From recollection, it is usually spelled out as West in large overhead signs, but I imagine smaller signs might abbreviate. In any case, I think your point was abbreviation here, which we've tabled (for now). (BTW, AFAIC, feel free to edit down to the relevant portion of the post - it's too easy to miss small comments within large postings like these, even with proper indenting) -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
