[Talk-us] Scholarships and talks deadlines - we'd like to hear from you!
Hello everyone - Important deadlines are coming up for State of the Map US: - March 15: apply for a scholarship - March 22: submit a talk - March 31: last day to get an early bird ticket for $90 This is particularly a call to everyone subscribed to this list. So many of you do amazing work on the map or on OpenStreetMap software - we'd love to invite you to share experiences from your work or your ideas for the project. Submitting a talk is not the only way to participate: - You can schedule birds of a feather sessions (round tables) ad-hoc at the conference - There will be a hack day with plenty of space and opportunity for code sprints, documentation sprints, and workshops - The international Maptime community will hold their summit at the conference - The American Red Cross will be hosting a missing maps party - There will be an NYC foot survey Get in touch if you have ideas: bo...@opensteretmap.us or just post here on the list. This conference is organized by the OpenStreetMap US chapter and volunteers but this is really an open invitation to anyone in the world. Look at it like your neighbor is throwing a party and everyone's invited over. Looking forward to seeing you in New York - Alex PS: if you'd like to help spread the word: https://twitter.com/sotmus/status/575450081886781441 -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Call for Venues Open; State of the Map 2016
The Call for Venues for State of the Map 2016 is now open. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2016/Call_for_venues Build a team for your city and bid to host the OpenStreetMap conference. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US
Russ Nelson writes: For OSM in the US? Finding and fixing the badly-digitized TIGER data. I agree. Interstates are "largely there," state highways are "getting there," rail is "underway now," and a lot of "lesser" streets and highways are cleaned up. But there remain substantial TIGER deserts, and much TIGER data are pretty darn noisy: downright inaccurate (but we do seem to agree, better than nothing). Who remembers Operation Cowboy?! We are now kind of doing something like that with rail (in a very loose way with https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States_railways), but TIGER data in general just need serious and sustained attention until consensus emerges that they don't. That seems a long way off so let's do our best to roll up our sleeves and identify how and where this might happen. SteveA California ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US
Alex, Our friends on the other side of the pond like to point out that we have many poorly and unmapped areas. I'm sure we all agree that their assessment is correct. Solving this problem should be one of our highest priorities. Two solutions come to mind, increase the number of imports and growing the community of mappers. While I feel that imports have their place, i.e. addresses and building outlines, my preferred solution is to increase the number of mappers. It would be great to see a session to brainstorm how to set target growth rates and then how to achieve them. My sense is that having the US Chapter Board involved is needed to help overcome some obstacles, ie. funding, software tools, communications, etc. I'd be happy to create a proposal for such a session, but it would need a facilitator to help us work with a large group of interested parties. (I haven't facilitated a large group in many years.) My other obstacle is I'm currently visiting Costa Rica and I'm often in places with limited internet access which makes it hard to communicate. I'd like to get some feedback what others think. Do we have a problem of being under and poorly mapped lands? Is it worthwhile to hold a session to build a roadmap to fix it? If so how would you do it? Clifford On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Alex Barth wrote: > Casting the net a little wider: > > What do you think are the big topics and challenges for OpenStreetMap as > we're about to go into the second decade? What does this mean for State of > the Map? > > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I put together a 3 minute survey about the upcoming State of the Map US >> conference. The main thing I would like to know more about is the types of >> talks you would be interested in, or even specifically which people or >> organizations you would want to see a talk from. You can find the survey >> here: http://goo.gl/forms/YZpm2aPk2O >> >> If you don't want to fill out the survey, you can also send your opinion >> my way in an email. In any case, thanks in advance for taking the time. >> >> Remember, the Call for Papers will be open for another 3 weeks: >> http://stateofthemap.us/talk/ >> >> Thanks again, >> -- >> Martijn van Exel >> skype: mvexel >> >> ___ >> talk mailing list >> t...@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> > > ___ > 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] Mappy hour tomorrow!
Thanks Paul. I'll let you know. And thank you Richard, I agree, they are fun! On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:29 AM Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm pretty adept at using Google+; if need be I can create the events in > the future, I just need to know when. > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Richard Welty > wrote: > >> On 3/8/15 11:49 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: >> >> Sorry you can't make it Jack. >> >> The direct hangout link is here - I think: >> https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/event/cpiqg6sldpjconoipvhmd3skhcc >> Sorry, Google+ makes it really hard to just share a link to an event. I >> still don't quite understand how it works. >> >> that link is telling me i need an invitation; i have requested one and >> am waiting for it. >> >> i agree, the G+ interface for hangouts is remarkably confusing. >> >> richard >> >> -- rwe...@averillpark.net >> Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting >> OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux >> Java - Web Applications - Search >> >> >> ___ >> 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
Re: [Talk-us] Mappy hour tomorrow!
On Mar 8, 2015 10:43 PM, "Martijn van Exel" wrote: > > Hey all, > > It's time for Mappy Hour tomorrow! I changed the time slot to 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern, Thanks for organizing these, Martijn. They're fun. :-) ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Mappy hour tomorrow!
I'm pretty adept at using Google+; if need be I can create the events in the future, I just need to know when. On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Richard Welty wrote: > On 3/8/15 11:49 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > Sorry you can't make it Jack. > > The direct hangout link is here - I think: > https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/event/cpiqg6sldpjconoipvhmd3skhcc > Sorry, Google+ makes it really hard to just share a link to an event. I > still don't quite understand how it works. > > that link is telling me i need an invitation; i have requested one and > am waiting for it. > > i agree, the G+ interface for hangouts is remarkably confusing. > > richard > > -- rwe...@averillpark.net > Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting > OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux > Java - Web Applications - Search > > > ___ > 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
Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for outdoor mapping party
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:57 AM, Volker Schmidt wrote: > > When entering data in OSM make sure that you are not editing with > different teams on the same area. This may produce data conflicts. > > This plugin can be useful to help coordinate while editing: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/GeoChat ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for outdoor mapping party
Two notes: Mapillary is great, but upload (from phone or from computer) can be very slow. I have not yet been able to establish what conditions the upload speed. My experience is that it is much faster in the (European) morning than in the (European) afternoon/evening. So allow plenty of time (several hours) between taking Mapillary photos and the successive data entry session When entering data in OSM make sure that you are not editing with different teams on the same area. This may produce data conflicts. Happy mapping Volker Padova, Italy ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US
I'm still kicking up chunks of stuff GNIS and TIGER pulled in that are woefully inaccurate. Just did some cursory Lincoln County, NV work after my father got lost out there while motorcycling with his wife (fortunately for him, he carries survival basics and knows how to survive in the Great Basin and how to recover when lost out there, so having bad information was just super annoying, not necessarily life-threatening in this case). Seems GNIS and/or TIGER pulled in some POIs for hamlets that either never existed in the first place, or were abandoned 50+ years ago and are long gone now. Whenever I'm out there or I have a reason to edit out there, I do try to make sure it's at least minimally connected and tagged more or less correctly (though the geometry might not be super-accurate since we're talking about having to fix dozens of miles at a time in open-nothing) so it can at least be used to route back to civilization. This is definitely a recurring problem for almost every map in the Mojave and Great Basin deserts and pretty much a matter of life and death for those visiting a pretty decent chunk of northern Arizona, New Mexico, parts of southern California, western Utah, southeastern Oregon and just Nevada in general. Given that the US Department of the Interior's been trying to get mapmakers to fix it since the USGS is horribly out of date in the region, we could probably garner a lot of goodwill by fixing the map so it doesn't kill people... On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: > Alex Barth writes: > > What do you think are the big topics and challenges for OpenStreetMap as > > we're about to go into the second decade? What does this mean for State > of > > the Map? > > For OSM in the US? Finding and fixing the badly-digitized TIGER > data. I've got it mostly under control in NY, but I still find bits > and pieces of it left. And when I go looking in neighboring states, I > shudder. > > -- > --my blog is athttp://blog.russnelson.com > Crynwr supports open source software > 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 > Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog > > ___ > 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
