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

2015-03-10 Thread Clifford Snow
Alex, Our friends on the other side of the pond like to point out that we have many poorly and unmapped areas. I'm sure we all agree that their assessment is correct. Solving this problem should be one of our highest priorities. Two solutions come to mind, increase the number of imports and

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

2015-03-10 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm still kicking up chunks of stuff GNIS and TIGER pulled in that are woefully inaccurate. Just did some cursory Lincoln County, NV work after my father got lost out there while motorcycling with his wife (fortunately for him, he carries survival basics and knows how to survive in the Great Basin

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

2015-03-02 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: 2) Given the audience at DC, I'd say you'll need a beginners track. So many people I met there had no understanding of how to do a foot survey, and no understanding of why that is the most valuable and interesting data

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

2015-03-02 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hey Richard - thanks for your feedback, let me see.. As for 1) we are planning a Workshop / Deep Dive track parallel to the hack day on Monday, very similar to what was going on at SotM EU last June. I really enjoyed being able to go back and forth from the hack room to the workshops, and judging

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 m...@rtijn.org 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