[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Geo Week

[Richard Weait]

From US Local Chapter Blog.
Nov 13 2014
by Eleanor Tutt

http://openstreetmap.us/2014/11/osm-geo-week/

Beginning this weekend, teachers, students, community groups and map
lovers, in the US and around the world, will join together to
celebrate geography and make maps with OpenStreetMap, the free and
openly editable map of the world.

OpenStreetMap Geography Awareness Week - a collaboration between
OpenStreetMap US, National Geographic, MapGive, the Humanitarian
OpenStreetMap Team, and Missing Maps - takes place November 16-22
(with a few early bird Mapathons November Saturday 15, because when
you've got the urge to make a map, it's tough to wait an extra 24
hours!) This year's Geography Awareness Week theme is 'The Future of
Food' and participants will be mapping everything from local food
resources such as food banks and community gardens to farmlands and
orchards in the countries affected by the recent Ebola virus outbreak.

So how do you get involved?

If you're in the Washington, DC area, make sure to come to the
flagship OpenStreetMap mapping party on Friday, November 21st, hosted
by National Geographic, and help put food resources on the map.

Not near DC? No problem! You can find an event near you or you can
plan your own event using the OpenStreetMap GeoWeek Event Planning
Guide.

There will be a lot going on next week, so check back at
osmgeoweek.org frequently and follow all the happenings on twitter
using the hashtag #osmgeoweek.

If this month will be your first time contributing to OSM, welcome and
happy mapping! And if are an experienced OSM contributor, remember
that mapathons and events are a great way to get friends and neighbors
involved in mapping. Invite new people, offer assistance as needed,
and let's grow our community and our map at the same time.

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Re: [Talk-us] Ghost Towns

[tshrub]

Am 14.11.2014 19:15, schrieb Jack Burke:

What about submerged ones? Do we bother with those?

if we stumble over them, why not

and it sounds for my as if those
towns are still structures of reality







There are several towns, cemeteries, etc. that ended up under water
when Lake Lanier (north of Atlanta) was created. Most of their
locations are available with a little investigation (I almost said
"digging").

there are different types of maps,
maps, showing historical matters too.
You can finde it with 


the key "historic" implies for me a kind of valence, so such an object 
might became honoured by society as something valuable.

may be



best,
t.




-jack

On November 14, 2014 12:00:27 PM EST, tshrub

wrote:

Am 10.11.2014 06:07, schrieb Hans De Kryger:

Anyone know if we map ghost towns in osm? Couldn't find anything,
not even a tag.

*Regards,** *

and the key "historic"?
 it might not become
rendered, but the categorie matches?


best, t.



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Re: [Talk-us] Ghost Towns

[Jack Burke]

What about submerged ones? Do we bother with those? 

There are several towns, cemeteries, etc. that ended up under water when Lake 
Lanier (north of Atlanta) was created. Most of their locations are available 
with a little investigation (I almost said "digging").

-jack

On November 14, 2014 12:00:27 PM EST, tshrub  
wrote:
>Am 10.11.2014 06:07, schrieb Hans De Kryger:
>> Anyone know if we map ghost towns in osm? Couldn't find anything, not
>> even a tag.
>>
>> *Regards,**
>> *
>and the key "historic"?
>
>it might not become rendered, but the categorie matches?
>
>
>best,
>t.
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>> *Hans*
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Re: [Talk-us] for my next race track mapping project...

[Richard Welty]

On 11/14/14 12:18 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:


On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Richard Welty > wrote:


back in July, i mapped the new/old road course at Thompson
Speedway in Connecticut.  this weekend, i should have the
opportunity to get some good GPS tracks at the new track at
Palmer, Massachusetts, as there is an open house sunday
afternoon (so this track will be mapped before the first ever
racing lap, woo hoo!)

just doing my part to make sure that OSM has the most
accurate representation of race tracks in the northeast US...


+1

Don't lose all your money on the ponies!

fortunately there aren't any ponies on these tracks.

sometime next year, i'll need to map the new track at Tamworth, NH.
i understand that paving has started...

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Re: [Talk-us] for my next race track mapping project...

[Clifford Snow]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Richard Welty 
wrote:

> back in July, i mapped the new/old road course at Thompson
> Speedway in Connecticut.  this weekend, i should have the
> opportunity to get some good GPS tracks at the new track at
> Palmer, Massachusetts, as there is an open house sunday
> afternoon (so this track will be mapped before the first ever
> racing lap, woo hoo!)
>
> just doing my part to make sure that OSM has the most
> accurate representation of race tracks in the northeast US...
>

+1

Don't lose all your money on the ponies!


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Re: [Talk-us] Ghost Towns

[tshrub]

Am 10.11.2014 06:07, schrieb Hans De Kryger:

Anyone know if we map ghost towns in osm? Couldn't find anything, not
even a tag.

*Regards,**
*

and the key "historic"?

it might not become rendered, but the categorie matches?


best,
t.




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[Talk-us] for my next race track mapping project...

[Richard Welty]

back in July, i mapped the new/old road course at Thompson
Speedway in Connecticut.  this weekend, i should have the
opportunity to get some good GPS tracks at the new track at
Palmer, Massachusetts, as there is an open house sunday
afternoon (so this track will be mapped before the first ever
racing lap, woo hoo!)

just doing my part to make sure that OSM has the most
accurate representation of race tracks in the northeast US...

richard

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Re: [Talk-us] Can we get this user band?

[Richard Welty]

On 11/14/14 10:34 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote:

Could someone who knows Chinese check the content of the diary entries?

By the way, I assume you mean "banned" (blocked from participation), 
rather than "band" (group of people). If the latter is what you meant, 
what do you want to get for the group of people?

it's almost certainly link spam, but you're right, we should have
a chinese speaking moderator review and handle this if that's at
all possible, and talk-us is perhaps not the best place for such
a request.

i'm not sure banning is very practical as they can always create
another account to blog spam from. but maybe we can get some
rate limiting built into the diary system as i can think of no valid
reason to post 50 diary entries an hour.

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Re: [Talk-us] Can we get this user band?

[John F. Eldredge]

Could someone who knows Chinese check the content of the diary entries?

By the way, I assume you mean "banned" (blocked from participation), rather 
than "band" (group of people). If the latter is what you meant, what do you 
want to get for the group of people?


On November 14, 2014 9:20:18 AM CST, Mike Henson  wrote:
> can we get this user band? They have made 103 diary posts in the last
> 2
> hours.
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> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%E6%9D%8E%E6%AF%85%E5%BC%BA
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[Talk-us] Can we get this user band?

[Mike Henson]

can we get this user band? They have made 103 diary posts in the last 2
hours.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%E6%9D%8E%E6%AF%85%E5%BC%BA
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