Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-28 Thread James Mast
Well, when I did my original edit in that area because of the collapse, somebody had already deleted the small section that collapsed. So, I just added the missing access=no tags on the other ways. Plus, it didn't hurt that I was on my PC already and watching the local 11PM (EDT) news and

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-27 Thread Clifford Snow
Let's forget about Google Maps for a moment that give thanks to the contributors who updated I-5 on OpenStreetMap. Alan, rickmastfan67, Sundance and katpatuka have all contributed to the update. It is dedicated mappers like these that make OSM great. -- Clifford OpenStreetMap: Maps with a

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Paul Norman
How can we get more effective press coverage from events? Part of it is probably more people volunteering for the communications working group, but is there more? Note: If you want to help with the CWG, email communicat...@osmfoundation.org. From: James Mast

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Johan C
For the press it's simple: everybody knows Google, Google is 'hot'. Openstreetmap is relatively unknown. So writing about Openstreetmap won't attract a lot of viewers for an article. And I wonder whether the community really wants to see Openstreetmap turn into a big player which attracts a lot of

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Paweł Paprota
Things like these and in general Google/Apple/insert your favorite corporation here-mania really only show how upside down the world is nowadays. Does OSM really want press like that? I'm not sure... true, it would get the word out about OSM but is that the proper way to publicize? I think people

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On 25/mag/2013, at 10:33, Paweł Paprota ppa...@fastmail.fm wrote: Of course with Wikipedia it was somehow easier because all of their work gets indexed by search engines Also osm is indexed by search engines cheers Martin ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Paweł Paprota
On 05/25/2013 12:15 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Of course with Wikipedia it was somehow easier because all of their work gets indexed by search engines Also osm is indexed by search engines Sure but have you ever seen a link to OSM object (way/relation/node) in the internet? When

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Russ Nelson
Paweł Paprota writes: Sure but have you ever seen a link to OSM object (way/relation/node) in the internet? Sure. I link to them all the time (warning, these are all associated with railroads, so if you're not a railfan, click at your peril!): This search:

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 25/mag/2013 um 12:22 schrieb Paweł Paprota ppa...@fastmail.fm: Sure but have you ever seen a link to OSM object (way/relation/node) in the internet? Yes, I noted this because of a misspelled street name, but it also works for correctly spelled ones, if you put osm to the search term