Re: [Talk-us] Outreach Program for Women
This is awesome! I believe the first link should be: https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/2014/DecemberMarch Right? eric On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 3:31 PM, alyssa wright alyssapwri...@gmail.com wrote: By we I mean Mapzen! We are happy to be able to support this internship and follow the examples of many organizations in the open source geo space doing awesome work to increase diversity and respectful dialogue. Thanks, Alyssa. On Oct 4, 2014, at 7:49 AM, alyssa wright alyssapwri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I am pleased to announce that we are providing funding for an internship with HOT through the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. This is an incredible organizations with proven success in bringing more women into open source communities. If you know of any great women (of any age!) that might be interested please forward along details here: https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/2014/ https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_ Team/OPM_Project_Ideas We hope this is the first internship of many, and that next round multiple organizations come together to offer scholarships. I encourage you to mentor and welcome these women into the community as you always do! Kate and I are here to answer any questions. Best, Alyssa. PS This by the way is an example of a contribution to OSM not measured in edits. :) ___ 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] Neighborhoods / Zillow
I'm also in favor of using points for neighborhoods. Exact boundaries are extremely subjective in some places. In places where they actually are well-defined perhaps they are also different conceptually? For example, in NYC we have fuzzy neighborhoods, of course, but we also have community board boundaries which sometimes follow similar boundaries to neighborhoods and can stand in for neighborhoods. On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: As for Bryce's observation - Zillow does not have overlapping polygons as far as I know, so it is by its nature sort of rigid - but then again this is probably what they require for their use case, as there would be no way to disambiguate. That said, neighborhoods are known to be fuzzy concepts, and getting a person close to the right one has value. The zillow data for example could be brought in as point features. While it seems a shame, it would remove that whole issue of boundaries. Often (not always, but often) the neighborhood does in fact have a well defined central core. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
