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

2015-03-19 Thread Alex Barth
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for another TIGER tool. I used it to look at some areas and made changes. The map reminds me of another map that MapBox produced several years ago using a slider tool. Useful features: * Timely updates. The

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

2015-03-18 Thread Greg Morgan
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: The editor visits a site which accesses the JOSM remote control protocol. They fix up the TIGER date and indicate Yes, I'm done or Needs more work,

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

2015-03-18 Thread SomeoneElse
On 15/03/2015 23:20, Mikel Maron wrote: On Saturday, March 14, 2015 9:59 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Yeah, that's just setting up a HOT tasking manager right? Except the HOT tasking manager will probably choke on one half hour tasks for all of US :) Set up multiple projects on the

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

2015-03-16 Thread Paul Mach
I'm kind of jumping on this discussion a bit late, but there is another possible solution; to build better tools. On one side it could be easier to review imports and recent changes. This would make the cost of imports lower. On the other side, map editing could be made less tedious. Guiding using

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

2015-03-15 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Here's a map showing where TIGER is better than OSM: https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/lxbarth.647bc246/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoibHhiYXJ0aCIsImEiOiJFVXdYcUlvIn0.bbaHTEWlnAwGgyVwJngMdQ#5/39.724/-99.360 I think the

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

2015-03-15 Thread Brian May
On 3/15/2015 8:53 AM, Clifford Snow wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com mailto:a...@mapbox.com wrote: Here's a map showing where TIGER is better than OSM:

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

2015-03-15 Thread Ian Dees
As others have mentioned, this map might give false positives where TIGER data is worse than OSM. It might be better to look at the map of OSM intersecting TIGER 2007ish and use that to highlight areas where the geometry hasn't changed since the original import. A roughly similar result could be

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

2015-03-15 Thread Mikel Maron
 Yeah, that's just setting up a HOT tasking manager right? Except the HOT tasking manager will probably choke on one half hour tasks for all of US :)  Set up multiple projects on the OSMTM, say 1 (or more) per state... * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron On Saturday, March

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

2015-03-14 Thread Alex Barth
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: The editor visits a site which accesses the JOSM remote control protocol. They fix up the TIGER date and indicate Yes, I'm done or Needs more work, and after a couple of Yes votes, it gets taken out of rotation.

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

2015-03-12 Thread stevea
Is anybody interested in using such a service? Though this does seem to overlap with Tiger 2014 Battle Grid, it sounds pretty cool, and so will likely have wide appeal, a virtual prerequisite for such an endeavor. It could even become a sustained part of Mapping Parties in the USA, at least

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

2015-03-12 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, 2015-03-10 3:52 GMT+01:00 Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com: 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? Though every SoTM is an open space I think big topics and challenges better

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

2015-03-11 Thread Mike Thompson
The editor visits a site which accesses the JOSM remote control protocol. They fix up the TIGER date and indicate Yes, I'm done or Needs more work, and after a couple of Yes votes, it gets taken out of rotation. Sounds similar to the HOT OSM Tasking Manager? Is anybody interested in using

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

2015-03-11 Thread Tod Fitch
On Mar 11, 2015, at 8:00 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: The editor visits a site which accesses the JOSM remote control protocol. They fix up the TIGER date and indicate Yes, I'm done or Needs more work, and after a couple of Yes votes, it gets taken out of rotation. Sounds similar to the HOT

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

2015-03-11 Thread Russ Nelson
stevea writes: but TIGER data in general just need serious and sustained attention until consensus emerges that they don't. What about this: I've noticed, at least in NY, that some of the counties are excellent, and some are much less so. What about creating a persistent tiling of the US

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

2015-03-10 Thread Russ Nelson
Alex Barth writes: 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? For OSM in the US? Finding and fixing the badly-digitized TIGER data. I've got it mostly under control in NY, but I

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

2015-03-10 Thread Russ Nelson
Alex Barth writes: 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? For OSM in the US? Finding and fixing the badly-digitized TIGER data. I've got it mostly under control in NY, but I

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

2015-03-10 Thread stevea
Russ Nelson writes: For OSM in the US? Finding and fixing the badly-digitized TIGER data. I agree. Interstates are largely there, state highways are getting there, rail is underway now, and a lot of lesser streets and highways are cleaned up. But there remain substantial TIGER deserts,

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] 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: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] 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: [Talk-us] [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 m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hey all, I put together a 3

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 m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hey all, I put together a 3

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

[OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

2015-03-02 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hey all, I put together a 3 minute survey about the upcoming State of the Map US conference. 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. You can find the