[OSM-talk] New editors

In this area, there's been a surprising number of new contributors in the last 2 months: about 5 altogether. This is most likely from publicity received from the news stories surrounding the #switch2osm cases. In one case, they had actually registered a year ago, but made no edits until now.

[OSM-talk] GSoC Proposal - further details, still looking for mentor

Hi, I had submitted a proposal earlier, briefly mentioned at: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2012-April/062626.html I would like to propose a revision/clarification: The route-matching algorithms here can be useful to OSM. The idea would be to create a way to index the routes in a