Re: [OSM-talk] The movie Eye in the Sky credits OpenStreetMap

2016-07-22 Thread Richard Weait
An episode of K9 used an OpenStreetMap screen in a chase sequence. They fumbled the credit during production, but added an IMDB credit after LWG contacted them. :-) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1504317/companycredits?ref_=ttspec_sa_5 ___ talk mailing lis

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] license changes

2016-02-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Steve Coast wrote: > Any license change process, or anything remotely close to it, should be open > and transparent. It should involve the community from the start and any > company that wants to participate too. I'm aligned with that. _

[OSM-talk] Last day for State of the Map 2016 Call for Venues

2015-04-14 Thread Richard Weait
Get your bid team together and host State of the Map 2016! http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2016/Call_for_venues ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Last few days: State of the Map 2016: Call for Venues

2015-04-08 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, The Call for Venues to host State of the Map 2016 is open for a few more days. Do you wish that your town / region could host State of the Map? It isn't too late. Get a team of locals together and assemble a bid. Have a look at the example bids, and the bids submitted so far. http:/

Re: [OSM-talk] About Open Street Map

2015-03-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Carlos Arturo Fyu wrote: > Hi everyone > I´m new in this project; i´m actually working with open data sets of my city > and I wish to map the information about > births, deaths and many others; how can I Translate it to OSM? > Thanks for your help! > CarlosArturoFy

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM 243 now in English

2015-03-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Manfred A. Reiter wrote: > The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 243, is now available online in > English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the > openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu Thank you for assembling these! __

[OSM-talk] Call for Venues Open: State of the Map 2016

2015-03-10 Thread Richard Weait
The Call for Venues for State of the Map 2016 is now open. "This time we mean it!" - State of the Map Working Group. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2016/Call_for_venues ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.ope

[OSM-talk] Over 9000 :-)

2015-03-10 Thread Richard Weait
Congratulations, there are now more than two million registered OpenStreetMap editing api accounts. Let's all survey pur neighbourhoods today and see how much we can improve. Happy mapping. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.open

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Partial Website + API outage

2015-03-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Grant Slater wrote: > All servers are now back to normal. Thank you, Admin Super Heroes. :-) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New statistics on volume of "note" creation and closing

2015-03-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > Updated statistics on the note ecosystem, a bit redesigned: > http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-notes Are notes more-likely to be resolved when a dialogue is possible (non-anonymous)? If the data suggests, for example, that anonymous notes

[OSM-talk] spammy "survey" questions.

2015-03-02 Thread Richard Weait
I'm no fan researchers sending messages to OpenStreetMap users via the messaging system. I consider them an intrusion. And I've complained about them here, before. There is another one making the rounds. Seems like there are more of these every time I turn around. I'd like to recommend that you

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

2015-03-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hey all, [ ... ] > The main thing I would like to know more about is the types of > talks you would be interested in, or even specifically which people or > organizations you would want to see a talk from. Easy! Same as I always ask / ho

[OSM-talk] Wanted: You! to participate in Working Groups

2014-12-14 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, At least two Working Groups are actively recruiting for members to participate. I'm[1] calling for you to join in. You can make a difference, and improve OpenStreetMap for everybody. One way that you are doing that now, is by mapping your neighbourhood and improving OpenStreetMap data. I

Re: [OSM-talk] maintenance?

2014-12-13 Thread Richard Weait
Admins are working on it. No details yet, as they are busy fixing rather than explaining. :-) Sorry about the inconvenience. :( ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Fwd: new WG: membership services

2014-12-09 Thread Richard Weait
Interested in contributing to the organization of the OpenStreetMap Foundation? -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Weait Date: Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:06 AM Subject: new WG: membership services To: "osmf-t...@openstreetmap.org" I've started a wiki pag

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Reinvigorating working groups. Join in!

2014-12-08 Thread Richard Weait
-- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Weait Date: Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:07 PM Subject: Reinvigorating working groups. Join in! To: "osmf-t...@openstreetmap.org" There have been recent discussions about reinvigorating various OpenStreetMap Foundation Working Group

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Balance of power (was: Re: How to vote to match your view)

2014-12-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > [Apologies to talk@ readers for this follow-up to a post on osmf-talk@. I'm > not an OSMF member and therefore can't post to osmf-talk@, but as I'm being > spoken about over there, I'd appreciate the opportunity to respond.] > > Steve Coa

[OSM-talk] some secondary services reduced this weekend

2014-11-30 Thread Richard Weait
I missed this announcement on Friday. https://twitter.com/OSM_Tech/status/538394075448479744 Short notice: Few secondary OSM services offline this weekend due to power upgrades. Dev, OSMF blog, gpx tiles. Nominatim may be disrupted. Followup indicates that nominatim is fine. Big thank you @lont

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=bicycle_repair_station :::: only 18 so far

2014-11-17 Thread Richard Weait
Here's one more for ya, Bryce. :-) http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Be%20A%20Mapper/diary/26357 These are cool. Thanks! ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Project #OSMselfie

2014-11-17 Thread Richard Weait
Let's put a human face on our data contributions. If you are surveying, and or mapping. Document it with an #OSMselfie. I tried one. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Be%20A%20Mapper/diary/26355 Can you help me make a better presentation slide deck? Best regards and happy mapping, Richard _

Re: [OSM-talk] Location SOTM 2015?

2014-11-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Michael Kugelmann wrote: > Hello, > > as I didn't read anything about it: was there an announcement about the > location for the 2015 SOTM at the 2014 SOTM Buenos Aires? > IIRC there was a statement about the intention to announce the 2015 > locataion there... The

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMGeoWeek coming up

2014-11-11 Thread Richard Weait
Here's one more for you: Learning QGIS and OpenStreetMap - Three short talks and plenty of Q&A Wednesday, 19 November 2014 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST) Learning Labs 481 Queen St W Classroom B Toronto, ON M5V 2A9 Canada ___ talk mailing list talk@ope

Re: [OSM-talk] Status of Field Papers

2014-11-10 Thread Richard Weait
You know, in all this time, I didn't realize that field papers was free software.  Code is here. https://github.com/stamen/fieldpapers ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Fwd: [Osmf-talk] Preliminary Voting Results

2014-11-08 Thread Richard Weait
Preliminary results from OpenStreetMap Foundation 2014 AGM voting matters. -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Weait Date: Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 5:03 PM Subject: Re: [Osmf-talk] Preliminary Voting Results To: Frederik Ramm Cc: "osmf-t...@openstreetmap.org" On Sat, N

Re: [OSM-talk] Streams / Videos from SOTM 2014

2014-11-07 Thread Richard Weait
There is a stream currently running here. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/state-of-the-map-2014 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset comment function

2014-11-02 Thread Richard Weait
I hope to use changeset discussions to publicly thanks new mappers in my area as a way to encourage them. We have many communication tools at our disposal, lists, fora, PM, social media, local meetings. Such diversity of channels allows subtleties of application. :-) The potential risks are dilu

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset dicsussion function (was: Changeset comment function)

2014-11-02 Thread Richard Weait
Good call on discussion vs. Comment. Also, I resisted the temptation to add "first" as a discussion for changeset/1. On Nov 2, 2014 6:38 AM, SomeoneElse wrote: > > On 02/11/2014 10:36, Simon Poole wrote: > > I would like to personally thank ukasiu, emacsen, woodpeck and TomH for > > developing a

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset comment function

2014-11-02 Thread Richard Weait
the commit. I'm looking for the api stuff. :-) https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/commit/2f228437324d80cb8a408d27912cc716a36aa3b0 Thanks again everybody! > > Le 2 nov. 2014 12:20, "Richard Weait" a écrit : >> >> Wonderful.  Thank you and well do

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset comment function

2014-11-02 Thread Richard Weait
Wonderful.  Thank you and well done, ukasiu, emacsen, woodpeck and TomH.  Great to have this long anticipated option. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] discussion: inclusion and alcohol

2014-11-01 Thread Richard Weait
I read this article recently and It got me thinking. Do we devalue community members, or potential community members who don't drink? A quote from the article, "When alcohol is currency, non-alcoholic drinks are considered valueless, and the interests and needs of people who don’t drink alcohol a

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Skybox release aerial imagery

2014-10-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: > Hello > > I've been talking with the Google Crisis Response team, and they have > confirmed: > > * Imagery released under Skybox for Good can be digitized into OSM under > OSM's license. That sounds good. > They want to know the best place to

[OSM-talk] Fwd: OSM country interviews

2014-10-25 Thread Richard Weait
oops. Must remember to list-reply. :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Weait Date: Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM country interviews To: Ed Freyfogle Hi Ed, Yes, I enjoyed the State of the Country presentations as well. I remember many in

[OSM-talk] Fwd: An engaged electorate

2014-10-23 Thread Richard Weait
-- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Weait Date: Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:50 AM Subject: An engaged electorate To: "osmf-t...@openstreetmap.org" Talk@ and osmf-talk@ posts suggest that we have an engaged electorate. Candidates should undertake to engage with their

[OSM-talk] SotM Buenos Aires Program published!

2014-10-21 Thread Richard Weait
Hello all, Have a look at the State of the Map Program for Buenos Aires, Argentina. And then get your tickets and book your flights! http://www.stateofthemap.org/program ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/list

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Modus operandi of the board

2014-10-21 Thread Richard Weait
Oliver is seldom seen on the mailing lists, you might want to cc his board email oli...@osmfoundation.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] OSMF 2014 election details. Spread the word.

2014-10-15 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, The OpenStreetMap Foundation election (2014) is coming up soon. Some details are still being ironed out and published. Please pass this information along to your local community- and language-lists. Spread the word to your favoured social networks. For starters, please find: Some date

[OSM-talk] Be A Candidate! OSMF 2014 Election preview

2014-10-15 Thread Richard Weait
I've drafted some of the details and wiki pages for the 2014 election to the OpenStreetMap Foundation Board. The details will be confirmed and then transferred to the OSM and OSMF blogs. The election is coming up soon, meaning that window for candidacy is also coming up soon. So think about it.

Re: [OSM-talk] Retired Challenges + Thanks!

2014-10-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > > I just retired the 'Ways Needing Smoothing' and 'Crossing Ways' MapRoulette > challenges because the remainder of the tasks were mostly false positives. Nice. Thanks for maproulette. __

Re: [OSM-talk] online survey about the OSM community

2014-08-23 Thread Richard Weait
clickhole.com has reported that a Local Mapper has responded to misguided surveys by deleting the campus data of the offending institution and replacing it with amenity=kindergarten. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetma

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Foundation Corporate Members

2014-07-20 Thread Richard Weait
Since February 2014 your company can support OpenStreetMap Foundation with a corporate membership. The first corporate members were announced today. https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/07/20/welcome-corporate-members/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstr

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM-EU videos

2014-06-16 Thread Richard Weait
Wonderful! Thank you. Nice to see the videos. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-ca] Canadian OSM POI quality

2014-06-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Paul Norman wrote: > I was curious how complete OpenStreetMap shop data was, so decided to > do an analysis for some Canadian chains. > > The results were mixed. [Cool analysis clipped, go read it. :-) ] Thanks for this, Paul. It will be interesting to see change

Re: [OSM-talk] Chinese doodles / vandalism

2014-04-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Colin Smale wrote: > User "mangoyang" has been doodling random multipolygons in the middle of the > North Sea, Thames Estuary and the Severn Estuary, some of which purport to > be buildings... He (or she) has only 35 edits to their name so it may be a > case of th

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] Tagging natural or informal swimming holes?

2014-04-25 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > How best should I tag informal swimming areas? These typically have no > lifeguard or facilities. An example deep-content site for these types of > holes is: > http://www.iforgotthename.com/ > > In OSM is it best to create an area and tag >

Re: [OSM-talk] Flying club ?

2014-04-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > How would you tag the office of a flying club ? It is usually in a small > building on the grounds of an airport. In France, we call that an > "aéroclub". I have been quite surprised by not finding any common tag > related to that in the

[OSM-talk] SotM-EU Karlsruhe Schedule is up

2014-04-18 Thread Richard Weait
The schedule for SotM-Eu is up and looks wonderful. You have to go to this event! http://sotm-eu.org/en/program ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] "local chapter" DWG

2014-04-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Ervin Malicdem wrote: > Assigning local DWGs gets the job done faster in a local level as they can > easily find out if the edits are vandalized due to first-hand knowledge of > the data; and immediate lock out of the account can help control additional > vandalize

Re: [OSM-talk] "local chapter" DWG

2014-04-15 Thread Richard Weait
Hi Maning, I'm just finishing a longer reply along these lines. I think we are in "vigorous" agreement. :-) Please see my followup, in a few moments. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] "local chapter" DWG

2014-04-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:57 AM, maning sambale wrote: > Dear everyone, > > This is a thorny issue bit will ask anyway. ;) > > Not very often, but we do encounter questionable contributions. > Normally, local mappers would contact the specific contributor to > explain and provide guidance. But i

Re: [OSM-talk] Best way to download data of route relations?

2014-03-26 Thread Richard Weait
Check the "metro" extracts of city-sized data from Michal Migurski. Smaller than downloading the entire state. Many other options on the wiki. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm#Downloading ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https:/

Re: [OSM-talk] Launching OpenAddresses

2014-03-25 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > OK, so I'm confused, is public domain incompatible? Guessing from the link text, each data set may have license stipulations attached to it. Looking at the information in the sources directory, a quick scan suggests that 66 data sets claim l

Re: [OSM-talk] Cratia - Slovenia disputed border change

2014-03-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 1:36 PM, hbogner wrote: > Our member noticed that 17 days ago user > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/fredi_alf/ > changed Cratian - Slovenian disputed border. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/45.4686/13.6100 > > Should we do a revert and contact user who changed i

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

2014-03-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Alex Barth wrote: > Hello everyone - > > I've been sitting on writing about the detrimental effects of > OpenStreetMap's share-alike license (ODbL) for a while and finally decided > to, um, share. I've been listening long to many OpenStreetMappers I respect > a to

Re: [OSM-talk] SRTM Elevation Data

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Weait
Hi Joel, As Michael says, the elevation model data does not belong in the OpenStreetMap data base. The wiki has some examples for use of elevation data bases which are combin-able with OpenStreetMap data. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contour_lines _

Re: [OSM-talk] Tenth Birthday of OpenStreetMap

2014-02-24 Thread Richard Weait
Well, that went out a bit before it was fully baked. I'll try again. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Richard Weait wrote: > OpenStreetMap tradition has been to host local events around the World to > gather with other local mappers and celebrate. I've created the 10 birthday

[OSM-talk] Tenth Birthday of OpenStreetMap

2014-02-24 Thread Richard Weait
OpenStreetMap tradition has been to host local events around the W ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap enhances user privacy

2014-02-11 Thread Richard Weait
http://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/02/11/osm-enhances-user-privacy/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New Mapfeatures (Views) on openstreetmap.org: Proposal for additional

2014-01-23 Thread Richard Weait
Indeed, Alexander,as nebulon says, adding or changing the features is complicated. Some layers shown on OSM.org are from third party providers.  The cartographer responsible for each rendering will have very strong opinions on what they have selected and why.  Your opinions may differ.  In fact

[OSM-talk] Fwd: State of the Map 2014 - Buenos Aires - 07-09 November 2014

2014-01-12 Thread Richard Weait
Announced today, State of the Map 2014 will be in Buenos Aires. Be there or be square. :-) http://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/01/12/buenos-aires-hosts-sotm14/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] An empty changeset with an unknow OSM contributor

2014-01-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: > > Richard, > > you are right, verifying the API changeset link, I did not realized this was > not the download instruction > http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/19860227/download > > But it is reported that the user do not exist.

Re: [OSM-talk] An empty changeset with an unknow OSM contributor

2014-01-12 Thread Richard Weait
2014/1/12 Pierre Béland : > This french contributor reports an empty changeset with an unknown > contributor. > > Would this be a bug in the ID editor + API creating an empty changeset ? [ ... ] > Si je fais http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/19860227 j'observe > que le changeset 198602

[OSM-talk] Mappy New Year

2014-01-05 Thread Richard Weait
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. 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 arti

Re: [OSM-talk] Cyprous - postal codes

2013-12-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:18 AM, TDTwister Gmail wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I manage to get a list of Cyprus postal codes from Cyprus Postal Service > both in Greek and in English (as separate files). > I wrote some python scripts to match the Greek and the English name of > the streets and mapped

Re: [OSM-talk] Horse trails. Good examples?

2013-12-22 Thread Richard Weait
Thank you, Jóhannes, very helpful. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Horse trails. Good examples?

2013-12-22 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, Are there good examples of horse trails and horse 'infrastructure' in OpenStreetMap data? Links please? What makes a well-mapped horse trail facility? Parking with horse trailer parking indicated? Blacksmith shop with horseshoe repair, alignment, rotation and balancing? Saloons (it's

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] use of maptiles

2013-12-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Schröders, Alexander wrote: > Now i ask my self the question what is heavy use of tile materials. Dear Alexander, The dividing line between "not-heavy" and "heavy" is unlikely to be defined for you. This is deliberate and for the protection of the OpenStreetMap

Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary and unrelated images on the about page

2013-12-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Kathleen Danielson wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Can you provide some compelling examples of images that you'd like to see us > using instead? It isn't easy is it? No rendering will satisfy everyone, and even a collection of renderings will miss out on representing Ope

Re: [OSM-talk] Nearby Users

2013-12-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: > Thanks Frederik for kicking this off, good discussion of a *potentially* v > useful feature. ... > What's the best way to set up this kind of async stats processing, and > integrate into the rails app? I've done a quantity of this async mapp

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance / Downtime

2013-11-25 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Grant Slater wrote: > On Wednesday 27th of November 2013 between 17:30 and 22:00 (GMT / UTC) > the primary database server will be unavailable due to maintenance. > > I apologise for the short notice. Grant, thanks always to you and to the full admin team, for mak

Re: [OSM-talk] Bicentennial National Trail in Australia

2013-04-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Nick Hocking wrote: > Hi > [ ... ] > Therefore, my question is, who is the best OSM person to advise BNT of the > various technical details of using OSM map data. > Nick > Dear Nick, Well, if you direct them to this list, they'll always have access to a var

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

2013-04-25 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Kathleen Danielson < kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Richard, can you explain a little more of why you think that the idea is > bad for OSM? > Removing "OpenStreetMap" from the attribution requirement is bad for OpenStreetMap. It is good for OpenStreet

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

2013-04-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Alex Barth wrote: > Hello everyone - > > I'd love to start pushing again on the OSM attribution mark. > Clearly. :-) I think that the idea is bad for OpenStreetMap. The logo is pretty. The logo is pretty and the idea is bad for OpenStreetMap. At the core, th

Re: [OSM-talk] Native American/First Nation, etc. Reservation Boundaries

2013-04-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>> The previous tagging was inadequate, bordering on offensive >>> >> >

Re: [OSM-talk] Native American/First Nation, etc. Reservation Boundaries

2013-04-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > The previous tagging was inadequate, bordering on offensive > Which tagging was that? It is my understanding that First Nations boundaries just don't fit within the simple number-line model that OpenStreetMap has used for boundary=administr

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap scheduled maintenance - 08 March 2013

2013-03-02 Thread Richard Weait
Some services will be degraded on Friday, 08 March 2013 for scheduled maintenance. Please see the announcement for details. http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2013/03/02/scheduled-maintenance-08-march-2013/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http:/

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map 2013 venue selected.

2013-02-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: > I realize my opinion probably doesn't count for much, but I'm curious if > there is a reason this couldn't be held the following weekend (13-15) so > that those of us already traveling to the UK for FOSS4G (17-21) dont have a > whole week

[OSM-talk] State of the Map 2013 venue selected.

2013-02-16 Thread Richard Weait
... but I don't want to spoil the surprise. So don't read the link before you click it. :-) http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2013/02/16/state-of-the-map-2013-birmingham/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/

[OSM-talk] Strategic planning for OSM (History)

2013-02-03 Thread Richard Weait
There is a Strategic Working Group, now dormant, in the OSMF. It was created with the intent of planning for the future and providing recommendations to the board and management team. Those interested first met on line on the strategic@[2] mailing list in May 2010, then in person, at State of the

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

2013-02-03 Thread Richard Weait
Why does a company in one country care about what a court says in another country? Perhaps because of a treaty where the countries mutually recognize the decisions of the courts of the other country. Where no treaty exists, there may be common law that allows enforcement of the judgements of a co

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

2013-02-02 Thread Richard Weait
You might think that OSMF is not being transparent enough at this point. I think we'll learn more in time. I've gone into detail on my blog if you want more words. :-) But, looking at the C&D as a negotiation, it would be foolish to discuss settlement terms in advance in public. For example, i

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

2013-02-01 Thread Richard Weait
Now, I'm going mapping. :-) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2013-02-01 Thread Richard Weait
@andres / @cartinus, such a trade mark has been issued by USPTO http://weait.com/content/trade-mark Anyone who cares to pick up this fight with their money, is likely to be able to do so very simply. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://l

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Advice regarding terms from an agency

2013-01-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Svavar Kjarrval wrote: > Hi. > [ ... ] I suspect that such a condition is not in the spirit of open data but > nevertheless I decided to inquire about it anyway. Would such a condition > for data be acceptable for data contributions? If the terms would be on th

Re: [OSM-talk] Who's That? OSM User Names Database

2013-01-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Ilya Zverev wrote: > Hi. > > 2300 users have changed their username at least once. [ ... ] > > A new service http://textual.ru/whosthat/ remembers. > Very. Nice. :-) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http:

[OSM-talk] Mappy Hour: start one. Plus multimedia :-)

2013-01-15 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, I've encouraged you to start a local Mappy Hour, or other local in-person OSM event before. Yes. I'm doing that again. Attending Mappy Hour is fun. I imagine that the London pub meets and German Stammtisch are every bit as fun, and look forward to attending them as I travel. So do tha

Re: [OSM-talk] Placenames in Iceland - upcoming bill

2013-01-11 Thread Richard Weait
Please recommend that they use OKFN / OpenDataCommons licenses. PDDL is probably the way to go, based on your email, as PDDL is PD-like for use where one wishes to offer the PD level of freedom, but lacks a legal tool to do so. gov't have got to stop writing their own data licenses. _

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Future Look

2013-01-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > I fully concur that OSM Foundation needs to start a vision and strategy > for the future. How do we get their attention? In this instance I don't > believe we should lead from the rear. We need the leadership that the > Foundation can provide.

Re: [OSM-talk] a license violation?

2013-01-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Tobias Knerr wrote: > Am 02.01.2013 11:41, Robin Paulson wrote: > > http://store.axismaps.com/product/boston-blue > > > > osm is mentioned on the web site, but not on the poster itself. > > > > suggestions, comments, etc. requested please. > > I'm assuming that the

Re: [OSM-talk] what to do cues

2013-01-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Jeff Meyer wrote: > > Are there any tools that can tip users to what they could do in a > particular > > map area? > > In my experience, when mappers go out and start to map, they discover > things that i

[OSM-talk] State of the Map 2013 - Call for Venues

2012-12-18 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, The Call for Venues for State of the Map 2013 is now Open. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2013/Call_for_venues Please prepare your teams and bids and let's get another awesome State of the Map underway. Best regards, Richard (for the Communication Working Group) _

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap tile server

2012-12-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > The OpenStreetMap Foundation is pleased to announce new OSM > infrastructure, in the form of a new tile server, located in Pau, France. > Details on the OSMF Blog. > ... to which I had intended to link. :-) http://blog.osmfo

[OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap tile server

2012-12-18 Thread Richard Weait
The OpenStreetMap Foundation is pleased to announce new OSM infrastructure, in the form of a new tile server, located in Pau, France. Details on the OSMF Blog. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] fences, trees and houses

2012-11-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Robin Paulson wrote: > i've done some quite detailed editing near where i live, i'd appreciate > anyone who is interested taking a look and responding. > > i'm not sure what to make of the result. for one, my partner, a non-mapper, > has told me she finds it very c

[OSM-talk] (another) New tile server

2012-10-24 Thread Richard Weait
The OSMF are pleased to announce another donation to OSM infrastructure. http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/10/24/new-tile-server-in-moscow/ Thank you, Yandex. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping an Area

2012-10-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Frans Thamura wrote: > hi all > a lot of POI Discussion around, and i am planning to link between node > become area. > > so, we can have an area implementation rather just a node for POI > > like building, etc, we have square, and why we implemen in POI node > > Q

[OSM-talk] User fluent in ASL and English?

2012-10-18 Thread Richard Weait
I'm having difficulty communicating effectively with a user who has ASL as a first language. Do we have anybody fluent in ASL and English who would be willing to help me out with subtleties I might be missing? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.or

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal: New Working Group "Welcome WG"

2012-10-17 Thread Richard Weait
The second meeting for the proposed "Welcome Working Group" is today at 1800H UTC (1900 London) on #osm-strategic http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rw/Proposal:Welcome_Working_Group/2012-10-17_agenda The group still requires some key volunteers / participants to become viable. Please join

Re: [OSM-talk] Activity Stream (a.k.a. "social" OSM) - demo instance

2012-10-15 Thread Richard Weait
The rss feed looks great. http://suncobalt.dyndns.org:/activities?format=rss&bbox=17.05,48.81,27.83,54.25 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: Fun: Collect your favourite mappers

2012-10-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: > I want one! > > mikelmaron. have a profile image up on my user page I'd love to make printed "collector sets". I had hoped to have the current board members cards as a special premiere version. In an abundance of caution, I've asked them eac

[OSM-talk] Fun: Collect your favourite mappers

2012-10-12 Thread Richard Weait
I've wondered what a baseball card for a mapper would look like, if mappers had baseball cards. Now, we do. I've taken some mapper statistics and added them to a mapper avatar, then printed them in the format of a baseball card. Now what? Collect them all Trade them with your friends Play mappi

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