Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon
DC went great with about 25 people showing up. Had a great conversation here with steven johnson about going more directly after student participants. Maybe a model for other editathons too? For dc, it definitely helps branding the editathon as explicitly open to beginners. We routinely have about 10 pple show up who havent done much openstreetmap before. On Sunday, April 27, 2014, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I got pretty much no response locally to the idea, but then discovered that eastern Oklahoma was already awash in events this weekend. I ultimately went to Wild Nights http://www.wildnights.org/ and I'm doing laundry now. I believe we also had a couple big renfaires and a maker's fair in the region this weekend, and next weekend's another big renfaire weekend. Aah, the perils of trying to organize an editathon in a part of the country where nerdy pursuits are mainstream! On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.usjavascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','a...@openstreetmap.us'); wrote: This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in the US. Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend? Put your place on the list to be in the blog announcement on openstreetmap.us tomorrow: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014 Learn all about #editathon's here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.orgjavascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Talk-us@openstreetmap.org'); https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] weekly metro extracts
Thank you for picking these up, Randy. One of the common newcomer questions on the various channels is some variant of how do I work with some portion of the OpenStreetMap data set? I'm sure that we'll be pointing folks to these as well as the extracts from Geofabrik. It's also nice to see you giving credit to the earlier version of metro extracts by Mike Migurski. Not everybody plays fair by giving credit. It's nice that you do. Best regards and happy mapping, Richard ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon
Seattle's event had a good turn out. We had about 9 people, although some people came late and others left early. We had a mix of new people and experienced ones. Thanks to the OSM-US we now have OSM vests that Paul Norman brought down from Vancouver. It is interesting that we had new people that have never mapped before and new to OSM but have a background in GIS. As a side note, the iD introduction is great for getting people going. We just have to help with how to tag items. We did have a lively discussion on copying data (don't.) Now, where are the statistics from this weekend? On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: DC went great with about 25 people showing up. Had a great conversation here with steven johnson about going more directly after student participants. Maybe a model for other editathons too? For dc, it definitely helps branding the editathon as explicitly open to beginners. We routinely have about 10 pple show up who havent done much openstreetmap before. On Sunday, April 27, 2014, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I got pretty much no response locally to the idea, but then discovered that eastern Oklahoma was already awash in events this weekend. I ultimately went to Wild Nights http://www.wildnights.org/ and I'm doing laundry now. I believe we also had a couple big renfaires and a maker's fair in the region this weekend, and next weekend's another big renfaire weekend. Aah, the perils of trying to organize an editathon in a part of the country where nerdy pursuits are mainstream! On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.uswrote: This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in the US. Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend? Put your place on the list to be in the blog announcement on openstreetmap.us tomorrow: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014 Learn all about #editathon's here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, [ ... ] I wonder: Is OSMI correct in flagging this for correction, or is this something that nobody really cares about and that should not be highlighted? I.e. should we, in OSMI, drop the E/N/S/W prefix of street names before trying to find a match? Oh, nice! And, if you have thoughts on this, please indicate the area for which your feedback applies. There may be regional differences. Thanks again to Geotab for sponsoring the expansion of the address inspector to global coverage. And to Geofabrik for creating it in the first place! ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name
I vote for keeping this check in place (i.e. an exact match of the street name), because there are some places (in California, I think) where the prefix/suffix changes from North to West as you are driving down the road, and I believe it's important that we distinguish between the two. -- Saikrishna Arcot On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 09:05:41 PM Frederik Ramm wrote: I wonder: Is OSMI correct in flagging this for correction, or is this something that nobody really cares about and that should not be highlighted? I.e. should we, in OSMI, drop the E/N/S/W prefix of street names before trying to find a match? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Saikrishna Arcot saiarcot...@gmail.comwrote: I vote for keeping this check in place (i.e. an exact match of the street name), because there are some places (in California, I think) where the prefix/suffix changes from North to West as you are driving down the road, and I believe it's important that we distinguish between the two. This is true. In many cases there will be a separate 123 North Elm Street and 123 South Elm Street, and by chopping off the directional prefix, these two houses get ambiguous addresses. My best guess is that the addr:street tag is mistaken. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name
On 4/29/14 4:08 PM, Phil! Gold wrote: * Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org [2014-04-29 21:05 +0200]: In looking at its current error messages and warnings, I find many situations in the US where the way itself has a name tag of South Apple Tree Road but the house has an addr:street tag of just Apple Tree Road. This leads to a street not found error. addr:street should probably be compared to both name and alt_name (The reverse is more interesting; if a house has address 15 South Apple Tree Road but the street signs on that road say, Apple Tree Road, I don't think there's complete consensus on how to tag that, though the most common approach, from what I've seen, is to name the road's way South Apple Tree Road.) and i'd probably be inclined to put the signed version in name, and the alternate in alt_name richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: In looking at its current error messages and warnings, I find many situations in the US where the way itself has a name tag of South Apple Tree Road but the house has an addr:street tag of just Apple Tree Road. This leads to a street not found error. I wonder: Is OSMI correct in flagging this for correction, or is this something that nobody really cares about and that should not be highlighted? I.e. should we, in OSMI, drop the E/N/S/W prefix of street names before trying to find a match? Please keep the check in until data would indicate we should change it. I've been trying to clean up roads in my county, which is rural. Street signs in some places have no direction indicator even though local know the street as East Fir (for example.) Making it worse, the counties parcel data has both parcels with and without direction prefix. Today I was out resolving notes. County data/TIGER had a road with three segments. The end two were Avenue and the middle was Street. The OSMI tools is great for finding these types of errors. In King County we used your tool to with the county to show addresses that did not match the streets. Let me add to what Richard Weait said, this is a great tool. Thanks to you for creating the tools and Geotab for expanding the coverage. Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name
From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frede...@remote.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:06 PM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap Subject: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name I wonder: Is OSMI correct in flagging this for correction, or is this something that nobody really cares about and that should not be highlighted? I.e. should we, in OSMI, drop the E/N/S/W prefix of street names before trying to find a match? I would consider OSMI correct here. The directional affixes are a Significant part of the address and should be included, so either the addr:street or street's name tag are wrong, or there's some other error. I'm in Vancouver, BC, but this holds true most places I've been for at least *some* of the roads in the area. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon
We had a big turnout in San Francisco, with about 40 people showing up over the course of the day. We think we had a peak of about 30 people all at the same time in the early afternoon, around 2-3pm. By the end of the day the numbers dwindled to about a dozen. Big thanks to Telenav for buying pizzas for the contributors who stayed until dinner time! I wrote up a post (including pictures) on the Stamen blog here: http://content.stamen.com/openstreetmap_spring_editathon Alan On Apr 29, 2014, at 8:00 AM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: I'll amplify Alex' comment about our DC editathon by adding that two of our participants were a father-son team mapping their neighborhood. Let's do more to encourage parents to bring their kids and get youthful mappers in the pipeline. Get 'em started young and make lifelong mappers out of 'em. -- SEJ -- twitter: @geomantic -- skype: sejohnson8 There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data. On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: DC went great with about 25 people showing up. Had a great conversation here with steven johnson about going more directly after student participants. Maybe a model for other editathons too? For dc, it definitely helps branding the editathon as explicitly open to beginners. We routinely have about 10 pple show up who havent done much openstreetmap before. On Sunday, April 27, 2014, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I got pretty much no response locally to the idea, but then discovered that eastern Oklahoma was already awash in events this weekend. I ultimately went to Wild Nights and I'm doing laundry now. I believe we also had a couple big renfaires and a maker's fair in the region this weekend, and next weekend's another big renfaire weekend. Aah, the perils of trying to organize an editathon in a part of the country where nerdy pursuits are mainstream! On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in the US. Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend? Put your place on the list to be in the blog announcement on openstreetmap.us tomorrow: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014 Learn all about #editathon's here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
