Re: [OSM-talk] Removing all signposts from relations

2020-07-28 Thread Alex Dawn
Ah sorry maybe in that other order. The key point is to sort the stops and the ways separately and how tools can still route along the ordered ways. From: Jo Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 12:00:51 PM To: Alex Dawn Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Removing all signposts

Re: [OSM-talk] more engaging “about” page

2020-07-27 Thread Alex Dawn
I'd agree with that, it was quite a while before I registered an account. Then I did do GIS for work, but was thinking there's probably a big difference between loading a couple of shape files and being a "GIS professional" who makes and manages a world map. Turns out there's not, more nudges to

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing all signposts from relations

2020-07-25 Thread Alex Dawn
The PTv2 schema says to put all the route ways first in order, then the bus stops in order. Maybe you can do a similar thing here and sort the route ways first and then the sign points. Get Outlook for Android From: Martin Koppenhoefer S

Re: [OSM-talk] private or not, USA ?

2020-07-17 Thread Alex Dawn
Both of those are subject to regular changes, I've seen a lot of hospitality passwords fit the year within them and probably have some conditions of use. Depends where they place the board with the details may be? Get Outlook for Android

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM user diary etiquette

2019-12-31 Thread Alex Kemp
://www.stopforumspam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=50236#p50236 : • (email) Re: [Ticket#201906221073] Alex: Enough with the Insults and Comdemnation (sic) • 24/06/2019, 23:00: “we have removed your latest diary entry because it was considered too offensive” The discussion in the post linked at top is very one

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenRandomMap

2016-01-29 Thread Alex Barth
***OpenEpicMap*** On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > That is a lot of words in wordlist.txt! > > > Most amusing so far "OpenTrueToadMap" > > > Also got "OpenBarMap" and "OpenCentralParkMap" which sould real. > > > Nick > > > -- > *From:*

Re: [OSM-talk] A big debate about OSM quality in Strava community

2015-11-23 Thread Alex Barth
Hey Federico - It's still early days and tracking the impact of a launch on active mappers is notoriously difficult, but here's what we're doing working with Strava on improving OpenStreetMap: - Strava started to blog about their maps on the engineering blog. The first post (http://labs.strava.co

Re: [OSM-talk] Portal for end users

2015-09-15 Thread Alex Barth
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Alex Barth wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> It actually appears they are claiming to do so (based on Mapbox >> attribution), though I question how recent their snapshot is or how they're >> coming to

Re: [OSM-talk] Portal for end users

2015-09-15 Thread Alex Barth
;s spot on: the new Mapquest maps on http://beta.mapquest.com/ are OSM except in the US where they're TomTom. Alex ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Some thoughts against remote mapping

2015-06-16 Thread Alex Barth
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: > A map with all the buildings can look "done" in the standard rendering, > but of course we know it's not done. Is there a way to visualize the map to > take into account the depth and local knowledge of the data? So that the > pride of filling

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map US: ticket sales close June 1

2015-06-01 Thread Alex Barth
We just extended registration until June 3 noon Eastern - the very last moment to ensure you'll be on the security list for the UN. http://stateofthemap.us/ See you in NYC! On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Alex Barth wrote: > If you haven't gotten your ticket yet for State of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-05-30 Thread Alex Barth
We've got beautiful name:LANGUAGE tags, they work, I say let's use them. The English speaking community is well started into this practice (just look at the 1.3 million name:en tags [1]!) - now let's have the rest of us get in on the fun too ;-) Frederik's called upon the local-first rule a couple

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-05-27 Thread Alex Barth
OpenStreetMap is the spatial representation of the world - wouldn't it make sense then to also store the translations for locations in OpenStreetMap? If there are storage or editor UI issues, would it be worthwhile solving them to enable translation? On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Eugene Alvin

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US: ticket sales close June 1

2015-05-20 Thread Alex Barth
eing you in New York City! Alex -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Low State of the Map US hotel room rates

2015-05-04 Thread Alex Barth
We've secured crazy low hotel room rates for State of the Map US starting at $60 / night for three nights at the New School's 13th Street Residence. Book fast! https://twitter.com/sotmus/status/595299230928908289 https://twitter.com/sotmus/status/595299230928908289 -- Alex

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM 2016: Call for venues - Last Week

2015-04-07 Thread Alex Barth
treetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] This Sunday: last opportunity to submit a talk to State of the Map US

2015-03-21 Thread Alex Barth
This Sunday is the last opportunity to submit your talk to State of the Map US! Share your experience with mapping, OpenStreetMap software or your vision for the project. We'd love to hear from you and have you at the conference! http://stateofthemap.us/talk Have a great weekend -

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Maps on Wikimedia

2015-03-18 Thread Alex Rollin
+1 bravo! -- Alex On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > From https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015- > March/081243.html : > (You can login on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org with your Wikipedia > account too, among others.) > > -

[OSM-talk] Today is your last chance to apply for a scholarship to New York City

2015-03-15 Thread Alex Barth
OpenStreetMap community and those who want to become a part of it! Details: http://openstreetmap.us/2015/01/scholarships/ Help spread the word: https://twitter.com/sotmus/status/577139524456820736 -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc

[OSM-talk] Scholarships and talks deadlines - we'd like to hear from you!

2015-03-10 Thread Alex Barth
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 mailing list talk@openstre

Re: [OSM-talk] Quality of OSM Notes

2015-03-10 Thread Alex Barth
ne chance to collect that information. And when the map is updated, > is an excellent time to draw > people back to OSM for a second look (so they can take pride in having > contributed). > So require an OSM account for posting notes? -- Alex Barth Vice Pres

Re: [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

2015-03-09 Thread Alex Barth
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

Re: [OSM-talk] Quality of OSM Notes

2015-03-09 Thread Alex Barth
Bryce - this is an interesting review, thanks for sharing. On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > As for Scout, I talked about this in my diary entry > some time ago - > not all of these are going to be useful and there

Re: [OSM-talk] A Better Map

2014-10-22 Thread Alex Barth
Steve - would love to work on fixing the license with you so addresses in OSM make sense in the first place. Right now you practically can't use OSM for permanent geocoding. See also: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2014-July/007900.html On Wednesday, October 22, 2014, Steve

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental validation software

2014-10-13 Thread Alex Barth
Dave - Alex here, I work with Richman (user account RichRico). Thanks for reporting. Looking into these issues now. Let me get back to you. The thread you opened here on talk exposed a weakness in our data team policy - you had no way to actually find from Richman's profile to my conta

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Latin America and why you should come to State of the Map in Argentina

2014-10-10 Thread Alex Barth
I just came back from a fantastic OpenStreetMap event around the Latin American open data conference Condatos in Mexico City. A ton of really awesome people turned out from all across the Americas and connected for the first time in real life. Find more details with pics on my diary. Latin America'

[OSM-talk] Mapbox Data Team Guidelines

2014-09-19 Thread Alex Barth
hread over here for inspiration: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-May/069772.html Have a great weekend everyone - Alex ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Edit with Filter On - Show new Tracing

2014-09-16 Thread Alex Rollin
:) Thank you! -- Alex ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.19.0

2014-08-27 Thread Alex Barth
Awesome work. Big congratulations to everyone involved. I'm subscribed to the repo and I'm just impressed by the amount of activity. Thank you. On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > Dear all, > > Today, v2.19.0 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet has been > released. It

Re: [OSM-talk] Personal maps tool similar to my maps

2014-08-27 Thread Alex Barth
Umap's great. There's also http://geojson.io/ On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > Try uMap: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/ > > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Tanveer Singh > wrote: > >> In google maps world you can create your own map, with waypoints, POIs >> et

Re: [OSM-talk] web page element browsing history regression

2014-08-25 Thread Alex Rollin
+1 on some solution for the mobile refresh -- Alex On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer < dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's been some time now that the new web page is deployed, and despite the > overall improvement, the regression for object browsing

Re: [OSM-talk] Early History of OSM

2014-08-04 Thread Alex Barth
Very interesting - Time to get nostalgic as the 10th birthday is coming up :) Has someone else old OSM screenshots or photos to share of the first days? I'm curious... Alex On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Mikel Maron wrote: > Hey > > Here's a screenshot from the o

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes

2014-07-23 Thread Alex Barth
Amazing work! On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:46 AM, François Lacombe < francois.laco...@telecom-bretagne.eu> wrote: > +1. Really great job, thank you guys :) > > > *François Lacombe* > > francois dot lacombe At telecom-bretagne dot eu > http://www.infos-reseaux.com > > > 2014-07-23 11:38 GMT+02:00 J

[OSM-talk] Open Mapping Happy Hour Berlin

2014-07-14 Thread Alex Barth
For everyone who's in Berlin this week at Open Knowledge Festival - join for an Open Mapping Happy Hour on Wednesday at Pratergarten: http://openmappingberlin.splashthat.com/ (no festival pass needed) Looking forward to catching up - Alex ___

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap at Open Knowledge Festival

2014-07-11 Thread Alex Barth
tival pass for this event. Am I missing any activities? I'll be in Berlin from Wednesday on and I'm looking forward to meeting up. Alex ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] We need a name!

2014-06-19 Thread Alex Rollin
History Viewer World History Inspector Grounded History Historic Site Inspector -- Alex On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Rob Nickerson wrote: > I've had a couple of responses off list. These are: > > * Constructing the past > * something with "crowd" in it? >

[OSM-talk] Satellite imagery for 12 new world cup stadiums in Brazil

2014-06-05 Thread Alex Barth
Hello everyone - We just released fresh imagery for 12 new Brazilian world cup stadiums - ready for mapping. Find all the details on our blog: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/updating-world-cup-stadiums/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://

Re: [OSM-talk] Organizational mapping policy

2014-05-14 Thread Alex Rollin
Maybe someone could remind folks about the ...wasn't there a...did I hear about a "test server"? Something like a sandbox? A -- Alex On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 14.05.2014 11:09, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote: > > The fo

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US videos are now all available

2014-04-15 Thread Alex Barth
Hello everyone - Videos of every session from this weekend's State of the Map US conference are now available to watch from http://stateofthemap.us/schedule/. The recordings also show slides from the presentation. More details at http://openstreetmap.us/2014/04/sotmus-videos-live/. Enjoy!

Re: [OSM-talk] High res DigitalGlobe imagery open for tracing through Mapbox Satellite

2014-04-11 Thread Alex Rollin
rk. It is slow going, writing all the documents myself still, but there is progress each week. We had a cadre of 12 students during the pilot, went really well. Now have a grant out asking for help with our first training room, a few more computers. -- Alex On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Al

Re: [OSM-talk] High res DigitalGlobe imagery open for tracing through Mapbox Satellite

2014-04-11 Thread Alex Barth
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:47 PM, maning sambale wrote: > > This is full coverage down to zoom level 19 imagery in > > the US + Western Europe and world wide to zoom level 17. > May I ask why? Working on it :) As part of the same agreement w/ DG that allows us to open the Mapbox Satellite layer

[OSM-talk] High res DigitalGlobe imagery open for tracing through Mapbox Satellite

2014-04-10 Thread Alex Barth
s to Kevin Bullock (cc'ed) and our friends at DigitalGlobe - it's fantastic working with good people who see wins of working with OpenStreetMap. Alex PS - on an existing installation of JOSM you'll have to refresh your imagery menu like so: http:/

[OSM-talk] Added more tickets for State of the Map US - squeeze in

2014-04-07 Thread Alex Barth
st on getting one, those 30 are going fast. Looking forward to seeing you in DC. Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US selling out fast - only 20 tickets left

2014-04-03 Thread Alex Barth
For everyone who was planning to come to State of the Map US on April 12/13 in DC: We are selling out fast and we have only 20 tickets left. Please get your ticket as soon as possible to secure a spot. http://stateofthemap.us/ Looking forward to seeing everyone - Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare and OSM Note Instructions

2014-03-27 Thread Alex Barth
Hey Jason - I'm not sure I follow as Foursquare's page says: "If you just want something small fixed but don't have the time to sign up and edit, it's easy to add a note." Which seems to be in line with how you're using notes (reporting errors). What am I missing? On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:5

Re: [OSM-talk] Launching OpenAddresses

2014-03-26 Thread Alex Barth
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Johan C wrote: > Open data initiatives will help in acquiring address data: for example by > July 2015 close to 200 million addresses in the EU will be available for > OSM because of a change in the national laws. What do you base those numbers on? Cheers

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-17 Thread Alex Barth
Just posted my comments to key points that came up in the conversation over on the diary: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21221#comment25849 On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Alex Barth wrote: > Hello everyone - > > I've been sitting on writing about the detrimen

[OSM-talk] Moderating agree/disagree comments (was Re: OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike)

2014-03-13 Thread Alex Barth
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > On 13.03.2014 20:17, Jake Wasserman wrote: > > Figured I'd speak up as it always seems the no votes get all the > > attention on the list. > > This is not a vote; it is a discussion. Although the distinction becomes > blurred sometimes, in d

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread Alex Barth
have: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21221 Looking forward to your comments, Alex ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [diversity-talk] Further Discussion on Increasing Diversity

2014-02-13 Thread Alex Barth
My top two priorities for increasing diversity, especially at events, are: - Appeal to newcomers. We're never going to create diversity with the people who are already part of OSM, so I try to make sure I'm speaking to the people who I haven't met yet rather than the crowd who's in the know. - I m

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap enhances user privacy

2014-02-13 Thread Alex Barth
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > http://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/02/11/osm-enhances-user-privacy/ Fantastic. Big THANK YOU to everyone involved getting OSM on SSL! ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.op

Re: [OSM-talk] Interesting use of OSM data in Battlefield 4

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Barth
;-) On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:01 AM, Gregory wrote: > https://twitter.com/Mapbox/status/395179791680159744 > The blog link is redirecting, maybe they weren't supposed to announce it. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Games#Games_using_OpenStreetMap_data > > > > On 9 January 2014 06:56, Jame

Re: [OSM-talk] Mappy New Year

2014-01-06 Thread Alex Barth
streetmap.us/2013/11/january-winter-editathon/ Here's to 2014 Alex On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > Hi All, > > I hope that you are off to a great start on your mapping activities for > 2014. > > OpenStreetMap is certainly off to a great start.

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Low Cost Android with Accurate GPS (GLONASS) for OSM Survey

2013-12-14 Thread Alex Rollin
types (Overpass). -- Alex On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Are there other alternatives like walking papers that can scale out > cheaply to meet data capture needs but require some centralization for > economies of scale? > > Ie meetups that produce

[OSM-talk] Low Cost Android with Accurate GPS (GLONASS) for OSM Survey

2013-12-14 Thread Alex Rollin
ed but no such luck. Any advice is appreciated. -- Alex ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2014 April 12 and 13 in Washington DC

2013-12-11 Thread Alex Barth
ou in Washington DC - Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] French municipalities boundaries video...

2013-12-04 Thread Alex Barth
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Christian Quest wrote: > - there are 36681 municipalities in France (40% of all Europe > municipalities) Amazing. Congratulations! ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/ta

Re: [OSM-talk] presenting the case for open data to local government?

2013-10-16 Thread Alex Barth
Daniel - I don't have an open data manifesto for you, but a couple of examples of where government is engaging with OpenStreetMap, which always comes with some understanding of the value of opening data. Earlier this year I've done quick research on who's using OSM in gov and summarized what I fo

[OSM-talk] Early for SOTM in London? Let's catch up!

2013-09-03 Thread Alex Barth
If you're in London tomorrow - maybe on your way to State of the Map - it would be great to have you at our happy hour to talk maps - we'll start at 6PM at Strongroom in Shoreditch: http://www.mapbox.com/blog/london-happy-hour-2013/ Che

[OSM-talk] Port Examples, Please? (Piers, Sand Piers, Sand Breaks, Port Areas small and large)

2013-08-29 Thread Alex Rollin
44109&layers=N -- Alex ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Editor problems ...

2013-08-23 Thread Alex Barth
Works for me. 1. Go to account settings set Potlatch 2 as default, like so: http://cl.ly/image/0u2j0E1W3g2F 2. Save 3. Click "edit" -> Potlatch 2 opens as expected. On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Lester Caine wrote: > Yesterday I was using P2 happily, and my personal 'default' is set to > th

Re: [OSM-talk] Dirt Roads in Mapnik, default render in OSM

2013-08-23 Thread Alex Barth
+1 The absence of a style for surface=unpaved leads to a very common misunderstanding and large amounts of roads mistagged: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/110 On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > Il giorno 23/ago/2013, alle ore 15:44, Da

Re: [OSM-talk] Street/POI Index from OSM data

2013-08-22 Thread Alex Rollin
< jukka.rahko...@latuviitta.fi> wrote: > Alex Rollin gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am rather new to OSM data. I've enjoyed doing edits on the map and > now I'd > like to start learning how to arrange it on

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-21 Thread Alex Rollin
sues, and I'm kind of an expert, and that was not one of them, so, might want to look into that. -- Alex On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Pieren wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Ben Abelshausen > wrote: > > Sometimes it almost looks like some people here are afraid o

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-19 Thread Alex Barth
egrate a new mapper into community or correct > editing mistakes, are not present yet. Right, they would be great to have. OT. Sorry for harping on staying on topic here. My intention is not to stave off feedback, but to make a decision on when to flip the switch constructive. Thanks - Ale

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-19 Thread Alex Barth
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:27 PM, NopMap wrote: > I still see very bad performance in Firefox. I noticed that editing has > been > limited to zoom 16 and higher which is a very crude way to limit the data > displayed. But it also makes orientation very difficult when you have to > move around. Eve

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-16 Thread Alex Barth
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:28 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: > Closing the previous PR and opening a new one is not somehow going to make > me forget what the issues are... Wasn't the intention ;-) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.opens

Re: [OSM-talk] In the works: iD 1.1

2013-08-08 Thread Alex Barth
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Toby Murray wrote: > The deployment of the iD release on the openstreetmap.us server hits the > live database if you want to try using the release candidate for actual > editing. > http://openstreetmap.us/iD/release/# _

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] New tile rendering (Live Worldwide)

2013-08-05 Thread Alex Barth
This is amazing. Fantastic work! On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Grant Slater wrote: > Hi OpenStreetMappers, > > The default OpenStreetMap.org "standard" map was switched across to a > new rendering server setup over the last weekend. > > In addition to new hardware, the rendering server also u

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare superusers encouraged to directly edit OSM

2013-08-02 Thread Alex Barth
;s going to be more incentives to jump in and improve. E. g. it will be interesting to keep an eye on Brazil here. On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Lester Caine wrote: > Alex Barth wrote: > >> They are being signed up directly to OSM ... >> >> Any user coming from Four

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare superusers encouraged to directly edit OSM

2013-08-02 Thread Alex Barth
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > But we don't want the 'extras' that foursquare add actually on the map. > The locations they are directing to need to be on the map and that should > be already available data? What am I missing here :) All of the searches > I've pulled up app

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare superusers encouraged to directly edit OSM

2013-08-02 Thread Alex Barth
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > They are being signed up directly to OSM ... Any user coming from Foursquare has to actually create their own account manually if they don't have one yet, just like anyone else. (Not sure if this is what you were getting at.) ___

Re: [OSM-talk] New technology ...

2013-07-22 Thread Alex Barth
> With the arrival of a 'new' set of controls, and the discussion on front page, I feel that it IS necessary to open this discussion a little wider. Having been using the new interface on mobile devices I find it much less usable than the older set-up. But that is not to say that the old one was ac

Re: [OSM-talk] Videos of State of the Map US are up!

2013-06-12 Thread Alex Barth
gh, ~200MB. Will be traveling for a couple of days. Alex On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > I'm fairly sure Vimeo, when you would log in, would allow you to > download videos that has permissions set to do so. > > - Serge > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013

[OSM-talk] Videos of State of the Map US are up!

2013-06-11 Thread Alex Barth
et together and talk more with each other / write more code with each other and more. There's tons of stuff to be figured out in OpenStreetMap. I walk away inspired. Thank you for everyone coming out. -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___

[OSM-talk] MapBox's support for new OSM infrastructure

2013-06-03 Thread Alex Barth
t MapBox are looking forward to being part of this conversation. In the meantime, the fundraising drive is still open, and contributions large and small count big time :) http://donate.openstreetmap.org/server2013/ Cheers and looking forward to catching up in San Francisco and Birmingham - Alex for

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US session schedule is out

2013-05-24 Thread Alex Barth
be a workshop day on June 7 and sprint days on June 10 and 11 (yes, this got extended :). The one-day OSM Plus conference will take place on June 10. Workshops and OSM Plus require separate registration. Looking forward to seeing you in San Francisco! -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap Uni

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-15 Thread Alex Barth
find with iD directly to the issue queue [2]. As always, reproducible bug descriptions and specific feature requests are more than welcome. Alex [1] https://github.com/systemed/iD/wiki/1.1-Roadmap [2] https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:05 PM, NopMap wrote: > Dav

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

2013-05-01 Thread Alex Barth
Paul - sorry, yeah. Not talking to ODC but I'll make sure to run by LWG. On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > > From: Alex Barth [mailto:a...@mapbox.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 12:57 PM > > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

2013-05-01 Thread Alex Barth
f mappers". This is not possible with "(c) OpenStreetMap contributors". That said, against the initial proposal I think we can't require an image mark or introduce a fuzzy "use unless not possible" but should just offer it as an alternative to "(c) OpenStreetMap cont

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

2013-04-25 Thread Alex Barth
Paul - On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > I can’t see any legal justification in the ODbL for allowing a mark or the > example notice, but not something between. > Not sure I follow. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org htt

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US: Upcoming deadlines

2013-04-23 Thread Alex Barth
n San Francisco, forward on this email. Blog post: http://www.openstreetmap.us/2013/04/five-days-left-to-submit-session-proposals-for-state-of-the-map-us/ Looking forward to catching up in San Francisco. Alex ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

2013-04-22 Thread Alex Barth
ributors" may be used. Please read up on all details on the newly created RFC page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RFC_Attribution_Mark Also take a look at the repository containing artwork and code: https://github.com/osmlab/attribution-mark Alex -- [1] Initial RFC http://lists.openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] Re : Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ?

2013-04-15 Thread Alex Barth
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: > However, a newsletter type mail out, reminding people they registered, and > explaining a little bit about how cool OSM is ... that could be useful to > get people involved for the first time, or again. We could roll out with > some A/B testi

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US San Francisco: Register now at early bird rate

2013-03-25 Thread Alex Barth
n Portland. Looking forward to catching up in San Francisco. -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Imagery talk ideas

2013-03-23 Thread Alex Barth
Are they much into UAVs? Would be fun to talk up how OSM could benefit from widely and openly available flyover imagery and how the data won through OSM would benefit the imagery space by providing great contextual information. http://twitter.com/lxbarth On Mar 23, 2013, at 2:27 PM, Paul Norman

[OSM-talk] LearnOSM relaunched

2013-03-20 Thread Alex Barth
anced guides and training materials being built up by HOT under "More guides". Alex PS: Hat tip to Knight Foundation for supporting redesign work. Also: as so often, this design iteration is standing on the shoulders of giants, with awesome work being done by the HOT team on content over y

Re: [OSM-talk] Updated Geofabrik Download Server

2013-03-11 Thread Alex Barth
Frederik - This is an awesome service. Should this or a similar shapefile export live one day on openstreetmap.org/export ? On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com < jaa...@helleranta.com> wrote: > Thanks in general for these updates and > > "MD5 sums are now supported, as are re

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2013 June 8 - 9 San Francisco

2013-02-08 Thread Alex Barth
Just announced: State of the Map US 2013 will take place from June 8-9 in San Francisco. Aside from the main conference, there will be workshops on June 7 and a hack day on June 10. For the full announcement head over to the talk-us list and openstreetmap.us I hope to see many of you (including ma

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-02 Thread Alex Barth
On Feb 1, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Simon Poole wrote: > If you find use of the term “geocode” on our wiki or help site please > replace it with a generic term (for example "search"), or report it to my > e-mail address. Hey Simon - I find this hard to believe. Can you confirm that OSMF was reques

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-02 Thread Alex Barth
On Friday, February 1, 2013, Simon Poole wrote: > If you find use of the term “geocode” on our wiki or help site please > replace it with a generic term (for example "search"), or report it to my > e-mail address. > > Hey Simon - I find this hard to believe. Can you confirm that OSMF was requested

[OSM-talk] ;-)

2013-01-30 Thread Alex Barth
http://xkcd.com/1167/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] POI display on osm.org

2013-01-23 Thread Alex Barth
If we're talking about upping expectations, let me toss in: speed. If we do POIs we should do them right and that includes instant response in my mind. On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Ilya Zverev wrote: > Hi. I'd like to put the discussion of Roland's POI feature in perspective. > Last month t

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - OSM contributor mark

2013-01-16 Thread Alex Barth
ributors" or the new chosen icon ? That could work well. > > -- > Christian Quest - OpenStreetMap France - http://openstreetmap.fr/u/cquest > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listin

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - OSM contributor mark

2013-01-16 Thread Alex Barth
should be at least a textual reference to OpenStreetMap in the contributor mark, that's at least a given adjustment in my mind. > > Right now, I think we're all speculating. > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Alex Barth wrote: > > The edit concept is very interes

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - OSM contributor mark

2013-01-16 Thread Alex Barth
they are using and > identify them selves as real supporters to the OSM movement. > > In that case imho the size and design of the current proposed "contributor > mark" is much more appropriate than as an "attribution mark" > > Thoughts? > > Kai &g

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - OSM contributor mark

2013-01-16 Thread Alex Barth
openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/180#issuecomment-12333532 [1] Related pull request on osm-website: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/180 On Jan 11, 2013, at 9:26 AM, Alex Barth wrote: > Over here at MapBox we see a need to better communicate the open and

Re: [OSM-talk] New website style sheet

2013-01-16 Thread Alex Barth
Hey Joseph - Best is github right there: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/new I've seen your ticket coming in today and alerted also Saman to it, so no need to refile. On Jan 16, 2013, at 8:25 AM, Joseph Reeves wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Thanks for th

Re: [OSM-talk] New website style sheet

2013-01-16 Thread Alex Barth
s, it's not an improvement. > > Pieren > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 ___ talk m

Re: [OSM-talk] New website style sheet

2013-01-16 Thread Alex Barth
___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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