[OSM-talk] NYPL / map-vectorizer - An open-source map vectorizer

2014-01-06 Thread Maurizio Napolitano
The lab of the New York Public Library created this software to automate and extract gis data from scanned maps http://www.gislounge.com/automating-extracting-gis-data-scanned-maps/ code: https://github.com/NYPL/map-vectorizer license: MIT Thanks to Markus Neteler for the reporting -- Maurizio

Re: [OSM-talk] Mappy New Year

2014-01-06 Thread sabas88
2014/1/6 Richard Weait > > OpenStreetMap is certainly off to a great start. User emacsen wrote a > compelling article today that drove a significant number of new > mappers to OpenStreetMap. That's some great advocacy, right there. > The article is really aimed at folks who are not yet mappers,

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap.org Notes to help collect OpenData

2014-01-06 Thread sabas88
2014/1/6 Tom Morris > sabas88 wrote: > > Have you seen http://onosm.org/ ? > > That looks amazingly awesome. > > Is there any chance of adding 'wheelchair' tags to build up coverage of > wheelchair accessibility. > > I added a simple (like wheelmap) Wheelchair accessible yes / limited / no / unkn

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap.org Notes to help collect OpenData

2014-01-06 Thread Tom Morris
sabas88 wrote: > Have you seen http://onosm.org/ ? That looks amazingly awesome. Is there any chance of adding 'wheelchair' tags to build up coverage of wheelchair accessibility. Yours, ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.open

[OSM-talk] Mark Your Calendars: Winter #Editathon Jan 18-19

2014-01-06 Thread Kathleen Danielson
By now you've seen calls for locations and organizer prep, but here it is-- the official Winter #Editathon announcement! The weekend of January 18th and 19th we'll be gathering in homes, offices, coffeeshops, and more across the US to work on improving OSM. You can work on editing whatever you wha

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap.org Notes to help collect OpenData

2014-01-06 Thread sabas88
2014/1/6 Pierre Béland > Contribution of the OSM community fo the Yolanda / Haiyan was awesome with > more then 1,600 contributors from 82 countries. Thanks to all of you for > this. Various medias have recognized how we made the difference for > humanitarian relief, delivering printed maps 10 da

Re: [OSM-talk] Mappy New Year

2014-01-06 Thread Alex Barth
Mappy New Year everyone! Over here at OpenStreetMap US we'll celebrate OpenStreetMap's big 1-0 with State of the Map US April 12 and 13 in Washington DC http://stateofthemap.us/ I invite everyone (not just US based mappers) to join, propose a session and share their ideas and experiences in grow

Re: [OSM-talk] Mappy New Year

2014-01-06 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Domingo, 5 de enero de 2014 20:08:31 Richard Weait escribió: > Tell me, what your plans are for 2014? Well, one of my goals is contributing to OpenSeaMap. Those S57 charts are driving me crazy. The other goal is meet Mr. Canada at the next State of the Map so I can eat maple cyrup candy agai

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetBugs PhaseOut: help needed, Mapping party

2014-01-06 Thread Werner Hoch
Just a small update, posted on my blog about the progress: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/werner2101/diary Am Montag, den 23.12.2013, 12:18 +0100 schrieb Werner Hoch: > [1] http://www.h-renrew.de/h/osm/osmchecks/09_osb_phaseout/ > [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetBugs/Phase_Ou