Re: [Talk-us] Reminder - Mappy Hour this Wednesday!

[Martijn van Exel]

Hey, 
That was fun. We had about 15 people participating. Thank you all!
Alan presented on using Map Paint Styles in JOSM. Bryce talked about his quest 
to stop SEO spam from a company named e-gumball (?). I would love to see a 
write-up or SOTM US talk about this. We also touched on imports, SOTM US, and 
mapping for people with mobility limitations (see accessmap.io 
, opensidewalks.com ).
The next mappy hour is scheduled for May 22. We will have Geoff Maas presenting 
about Open Data in Minnesota.
One critical note. From what I can tell we were 100% men. I don’t like that. 
Who will help me change that?
Martijn

> On Apr 24, 2019, at 4:01 PM, Martijn van Exel  wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I final reminder that mappy hour is happening TONIGHT at 6pm PT / 9pm ET. You 
> can use anything from zoom to your rotary dial phone to call in and chat 
> about OSM for an hour. Details in the link below. Bring a drink and a story, 
> grab a chair and relax.
> Martijn
> 
>> On Apr 22, 2019, at 11:09 AM, Martijn van Exel  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all, 
>> The next OSM US Virtual Mappy Hour is this Wednesday at 6pm PT / 9PM ET!
>> If you want to do a 5 minute presentation / lightning talk / discussion 
>> starter about anything OSM related, yes please! Please feel free to add your 
>> topic to the wiki[1] or just email me and we will make it happen.
>> The dial-in and Zoom connect information are also on that same wiki page.
>> I am happy to answer any questions you may have.
>> I hope you can make it!
>> Martijn
>> 
>> [1] 
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Virtual_Mappy_Hours#Presentations
>> 
>> 
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[Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

[OSM Volunteer stevea]

It may be emerging that tagging boundary=protected_area (where correct) where 
leisure=park now exists and we delete it, begins to supersede leisure=park on 
many North American now-called-parks.  I think that's OK, maybe even overdue.  
To be clear, there are plenty of "we now call them parks" which are more like 
protected_area boundary areas or maybe "it is what it is today, nothing more."

A hazy sort-of-emerging along with this is wider recognition that a proto_park 
thingy exists.  Put it in the planning departments "bin" for "department of 
parks budget, depending how much we convert protected_area into 
human-leisure-activity in the next budget or ten."  Maybe never, humanity and 
this planet can hope.  Hey, this could be a park someday if and as we improve 
it.

Ech, did I just say that's what we 'mericans do with some of our landuse 
planning?  Maybe.  I try not to get political here, rather, I endeavor to 
simply tag well.  I've seen kids on bikes go under fences and around things and 
treat "certain areas" just like an admittedly fully raw and completely 
undeveloped park, even though it isn't one.  Sometimes with respect, simply 
hiking around.  What is that?  Humans being human.  We should map those, 
accurately.

I think the greatest thing to "shake out" of this so far is that the 
leisure=park tag can (and should be) frequently be dismissed in preference to 
boundary=protected_area.  This alone will assert a great deal of sanity back 
into things around here.  Whether we invent a tag called proto_park ('cause 
there are such things, the city council just hasn't budgeted or spent the money 
to build it into a more fully human-leisure-place, yet).

Ahhh.  The more people talk about this (leisure=park tagging going away from 
where it doesn't belong), the more it feels like consensus.

SteveA

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