Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > On 2016-02-22 12:38 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > >> As has been mentioned before, the LWG and OSMF were and are involved in >> this process. >> > > The OSMF is not formally involved in the pro

Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > Alyssa, > I will be out of the country with iffy internet service on Wed but would > otherwise like to join the call. Would you mind if we solicit questions > ahead of time that we could have discuss? I have two

Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

nstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/2016_Law_Clinic . > This really has the potential to be a great project of obvious benefit, > but only if it’s open. > I'm glad we agree! > > Best > > Steve > > > On Feb 21, 2016, at 4:38 PM, Ian De

Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

Hi Steve, I assure you that there is nothing secret about this process, its intentions, or the result. If you read the blog post (0) and the wiki page (1) that Alyssa posted you will find as much information as we have right now. Heck, you can even come talk to us face to face at the town hall

Re: [Talk-us] Law clinic

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Steve Coast wrote: > ... Hi Steve, OpenStreetMap US did speak with a law clinic this past week. For now, we are acting as the point of contact and have been (and will continue to be) in contact with the Licensing Working Group and OSMF. As

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

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Steve Coast wrote: > ... Hi Steve, OpenStreetMap US did speak with a law clinic this past week. For now, we are acting as the point of contact and have been (and will continue to be) in contact with the Licensing Working Group and OSMF. As

Re: [Talk-us] County Road Tiles

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > Sixty percent of Washington State counties have open data portals with GIS > data. Washington State laws (Open Records Act) requires that this data be > open to the public. Road data from most of the counties seem

Re: [OSM-talk] Need some help

When you have a question about where the map data comes from, open up your browser's developer tools and look at the network tab. When you pan the map around it will tell you what server the tiles are getting downloaded from. In this case, an example tile URL is:

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Steve Coast wrote: > I’ve heard from a few people thinking of organizing an OpenStreetMap > conference focused on the community, very different from what SOTM has > become. > > I’m curious what people here think of the idea? As someone

Re: [OSM-talk] FOSM Elections - We need representatives that can represent and respect the diversity of OSM, maintain his dynamism

Hi. This is not the HOT or FOSM mailing list. Please keep your messages on topic. -Ian On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: > > I started to contribute to the OSM project with the Haiti Earthquake in > jan. 2010. I was pleased last week to be in

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

Hi everyone, I think we've long-since strayed from the topic of conversation into critique of what3words. That's not really the topic of this conversation let alone the topic of this list, so could we maybe let this thread die? -Ian On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Lester Caine

Re: [Talk-us] How to Vote?

Hi Alan, You should have just received an e-mail with instructions for how to vote. Let me know if you haven't. -Ian On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Alan Bragg wrote: > ​I cannot find information on "how to vote" at the website > openstreetmap.us. Can someone help me?

Re: [OSM-talk] Terms of Use Issue? - MapMyRide

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: > I cannot seem to find anywhere on this site where OpenStreetMap is > appropriately credited/attributed. Am I missing something? Worse yet, even > after turning on "OpenStreet" [sic] ( it still says "Google"! > >

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

Feedback thread on Strava is here: https://strava.zendesk.com/entries/95423147-Feedback-for-Strava-s-new-maps-OpenStreetMap-?page=5#post_39574047 On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:21 PM, John Doe wrote: > Interesting debate about the recent adoption of OSM: >

Re: [OSM-talk] Portal for end users

http://beta.mapquest.com/ does not use OSM data in the US, at least. On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Joseph Reeves wrote: > http://hello.mapquest.com/ ? > > On 14 September 2015 at 19:25, Daniel Koć wrote: > >> I had an idea to add UMap functionality to

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: > Dave F. writes: > > On 12/09/2015 03:18, Russ Nelson wrote: > > > Dave F. writes: > > > > > Because when I see a spike, or a lump of coal, or a "road" > > > > > which is level where no road needed to be but a

Re: [Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Andy Townsend wrote: > On 11/09/2015 05:42, Richard Welty wrote: > >> try contacting him through the OSM messaging system and ask him what his >> intent is. >> explain (politely) that OSM is for things that exist now, and there are >> alternate

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

On Sep 9, 2015 12:41 AM, "Bryce Nesbitt" <bry...@obviously.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Show him OSM for the abandoned rails that he can see and point him to OpenHistoricalMap for t

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

Show him OSM for the abandoned rails that he can see and point him to OpenHistoricalMap for the historical, no-longer-present rails if he's excited about that. Let's stop trying to generate conflict where there isn't any, Russ. The goals behind OSM are fairly clear: we map what others can verify.

Re: [OSM-talk] Terms of use compliance

Yes, they are using the MapQuest OSM tiles ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapQuest#Tile_URLs). A friendly reminder that they need to give OSM attribution would probably get them to update their website. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 8:21 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: > I found

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

I appreciate that there are strong feelings about this topic, but we could certainly use more constructive language and have a civilized conversation. You're one of the people that needs to shut the hell up is not a great way to win hearts and minds and especially not a great representation of our

Re: [Talk-us] NAIP US Aerial Imagery

Jonah, does this redirect to an /export URL or does it do any caching of the resulting image (so as to reduce load on the server)? On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Jonah Adkins jonahadk...@gmail.com wrote: you can use the SC Image Service as a custom background in iD or JOSM using this link

[Talk-us] Examples of OSM used in school curriculum

Hi everybody! I'm thinking about presenting OSM at a local STEM Education conference: http://vmi.edu/Conferences/STEM/Call_for_Presentations/ I think I can sell OSM as a technically interesting and useful project, I'd love to be able to talk about examples (both successful and unsuccessful) of

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

Such a thing exists and is here: https://github.com/osmlab/editor-imagery-index It is used by iD and Potlatch, with JOSM output available but not installed by default. I'm happy to help anyone add their imagery. On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.org wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US Google group gone?

:19:28 PM EDT, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Do you mean the OSM US Google+ page? https://plus.google.com/+OpenstreetmapUs/about I don't think there ever was a Google Group for OSM US. Do you have a link that you used to use to get there? On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Jack Burke burke

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

Hi everyone, Second warning. Please cool it down. We're all in this project together, and if we can't keep our conversations on the mailing list civil then we should step away from the e-mail client and go map. -Ian ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] USA Rail: Calling all OSM railfans! (especially in California)

Hi everybody! Let's tone down this thread a bit and bring it back on topic. Thanks! Ian ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

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

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: I feel that asking note writers to do more, and to optionally leave contact info, will not significantly reduce note volume. No one's holding you back from proposing (or making) code changes, are they?

Re: [OSM-talk] Quality of OSM Notes

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: In general feel that more friction should be added to the notes process, so it's harder to make a note, so there are less notes. That process should continue until the production and processing of notes gets into

Re: [Talk-us] Why does the USA currently lag in OSM map quality?

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I'm thinking if they wanted broader input, they'd use the mailing list and not the forum. But I think a big part of it is the US is very large, and very empty. Plot out a wall size map of the US, now pin the tail on the

Re: [Talk-us] Why does the USA currently lag in OSM map quality?

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue Feb 17 2015 at 1:16:55 PM Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Are there methods of remote sensing (street-level imagery, data from other places on the internet) that could help us with the locality problem

Re: [OSM-talk] this has to stop: iD user mistakes all over the place

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Tom MacWright t...@macwright.org wrote: Unfortunately, experience suggests that there's relatively little that a discussion on on the talk mailing list is going to be able to do here.

Re: [Talk-us] Get your early bird ticket to State of the Map US!

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: On 2/4/2015 2:43 PM, Alex Barth wrote: Yup, that cutoff number is going to be somewhere beyond 1,000 - and we are fully planning to sell out the conference :) Any idea what portion will be mappers and what will be

Re: [Talk-us] Please review: new proposed bylaws for OSM US, open for comments until Jan 20th

Clifford, we do collect that information from our members. The current form doesn't have it marked as required but I'll probably change that after you pointed this out. On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: Alex, In the by-laws document, paragraph 5.2,

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset messaging Notes feature question

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 31/12/2014 16:16, Tom Hughes wrote: Is there a way to remove notes from the map once loaded? Re-clicking the icon, Closing the left hand pane or even refreshing (f5) makes no difference. It's kind of annoying.

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2015 in New York, NY, June 6-8

The board of OpenStreetMap US is happy to announce that the State of the Map US conference will be held in New York, NY at the United Nations June 6-8, 2015. We had two other very strong proposals for events in St. Louis and Seattle. Thanks to the groups that pulled those proposals together!

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve's better map

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Like it, but unsure I'd give Round 8 to Steve. Deleting old data is *good* if replaced with more accurate information. Once again: this is a discussion, not a competition between Steve and Simon. There are no rounds to

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve's better map

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 01/11/2014 22:22, Ian Dees wrote: On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Like it, but unsure I'd give Round 8 to Steve. Deleting old data is *good* if replaced with more accurate

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve's better map

Hi folks.​ Do you think we could stop supporting the back and forth between Simon and Steve by replying to this thread? It's pretty damn childish and we've long since left the topic for the list. Thanks! ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve's better map

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahko...@latuviitta.fi wrote: With a dedicated database and tools for addresses the route could really be easier and faster and I would not feel ashamed at all while importing addresses from this master address database into OSM later.

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

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: End of hypothetical situation. It is obvious that something has gone wrong, but what, and how could it have been better? Can we expect board members to report to the membership about the (perceived?) lack of performance

Re: [Talk-us] tasks.openstreetmap.us

We can get you set up, sure. In the future, if anyone would like access to the OSM US Tasking Manager you can send an e-mail to bo...@openstreetmap.us or t...@openstreetmap.us to make sure it's acted upon. On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Matt Toups mto...@cs.uno.edu wrote: Hi, I'm working on

Re: [Talk-us] tasks.openstreetmap.us

No criteria. Mostly whoever finds the mark as featured button :). On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Is there a criteria or set of requirements to mark a task as featured on that, or is it curated in some way? On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Ian Dees

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental validation software

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 13/10/2014 17:18, Aaron Lidman wrote: Looking at the imagery I can see how it might be thought they connect, especially when none of us are using google maps for verification, right? Wrong. I was using Streetview to

Re: [Talk-us] Statistics of board candidate edits

Hi folks. Let's keep it civil and on-topic. Check the strong language and exaggerations please. -Ian, your friendly talk-us moderator ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned railway

Hi. Let's stop this thread here, please. Thanks, Your friendly list admin ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] USGS Orthoimagery

Note that the OSM US server tiles and caches the USGS NAIP and High Res Orthos and more information can be found here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Servers/Imagery ...but the upstream USGS server that used to host this imagery seems to be broken

Re: [Talk-us] NAIP Imagery Servers -- Need Assistance Setting Up in JOSM

I rebooted the caching server but it looks like the USGS server is having a real hard time. I will look in more detail later. On Jul 2, 2014 10:33 PM, Chris Lawrence lordsu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: If it helps, OSM-US hosts a tile

Re: [Talk-us] NAIP Imagery Servers -- Need Assistance Setting Up in JOSM

Yep, looks like the USGS server is throwing 500's for the endpoints that I was using. We'll have to wait for them to fix it, I suppose. On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I rebooted the caching server but it looks like the USGS server is having a real hard

Re: [Talk-us] Nominatim in CDP

CDPs were (incorrectly, probably) imported several years ago, leading to your problem. I don't know for sure, but Nominatim probably only pays attention to geographic containment when it comes to hierarchy information like the city. It probably should also index the addr:city tag too. On Jun 11,

Re: [Talk-us] USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Since there is no signage for these routes, this is an import and should be following the import guidelines. How is this any different than adding bus routes? Are we considering those imports now, too?

Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon

editathon and mapathon don't imply any indoor or outdoor activity to me. For what it's worth, I'm going to be trying to get my mappers to go outdoors in Chicago this weekend. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Martijn van Exel mart...@openstreetmap.uswrote: We have talked about just calling

Re: [OSM-talk] Launching OpenAddresses

Paul Norman wrote Keep in mind since OpenAddresses is a database of databases, there's a license on the OpenAddress database (CC0) and then the licenses on its contents (the address databases). Unfortunately, using the data requires converting each different schema to whatever schema you

[OSM-talk] Launching OpenAddresses

Hi all, As some of you know, I've been working on collecting as much address data as possible for the last couple years. I had created a spreadsheet to track progress for myself and others had contributed their own entries. That spreadsheet hit more than 300 entries tracking millions of address

Re: [OSM-talk] Launching OpenAddresses

to go through with every municipality in the country. On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Forgive the stupid question, but shouldn't this be in the OSM data? On Mar 25, 2014 4:29 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, As some of you know, I've been

Re: [OSM-talk] Launching OpenAddresses

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Am I wrong to assume that this would be considered a potential data source on a limited scale for folks who wish to do the conflation? Sure, if someone wanted to go through the OSM import process (including confirming

Re: [OSM-talk] Launching OpenAddresses

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Ouch! Dealing with a license snarl already so I think I'm going to pass on that right now; is this mixed data or under one license? See https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses#license

[Talk-us] Launching OpenAddresses

Hi all, As some of you know, I've been working on collecting as much address data as possible for the last couple years. I had created a spreadsheet to track progress for myself and others had contributed their own entries. That spreadsheet hit more than 300 entries tracking millions of address

Re: [Talk-us] Why we really don't get new users

Such a thing already mostly exists in the preset system. iD has a fairly extensive and growing set of presets that I encourage you to try (it follows the example you give). JOSM also has a preset system, but it's not nearly as obvious or as complete (at least for the mapping I do). You access it

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

Richard Weait wrote On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Alex Barth lt; alex@ gt; 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

Re: [Talk-us] FW: Report of Explosion, Building Collapse in Manhattan

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Russell Deffner russdeff...@gmail.comwrote: Anyone want to individually figure out the building and update in OSM? Did it in this changeset: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/21065388 Buildings: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/265792217 and

Re: [Talk-us] Last day to book discount hotel for State of the Map US

Please note that the hotel-provided link prevents you from booking nights other than April 11th and 12th. You can get around this by going to the hotel's normal booking site and using group code 577D. e.g. To check in Friday, April 11 and check out Monday, April 14, click

Re: [Talk-us] historic schools (amenity=school; name= * (historical)

Hi all, I think this is a good spot to put this thread to rest. We've answered the question at hand and have since strayed a bit off topic. -Your friendly list moderator On Mar 4, 2014 8:48 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-03-04 15:32 GMT+01:00 Serge Wroclawski

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Data Consumer

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: It's always a shock to find anyone using OSM maps and I'm staring at some data I've worked on. A regional gas station chain uses OSM in its location maps: http://www.quiktrip.com/ (An example ZIP would be 29301 in Location

Re: [Talk-us] importing zip codes

Charles, The zipcode information from census.gov aren't official zipcodes. Only the USPS knows those and they don't give them out very often. Also, zip codes are not polygons, but lines. Also, the data from Census is from 2010 and hasn't been updated since. It's my opinion that they should not be

[OSM-talk] Summer of Code 2014

Hi everyone! Kate and I are working on an application for OpenStreetMap to join the Summer of Code again in 2014. We've participated for several years, and I'm looking forward to a successful year. Should we be accepted, we'll need some great ideas to attract the best students. If you've got an

Re: [Talk-us] Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) real estate assessment website for addresses

If you want to go through the import process, I'd recommend using the address point file from Alleghany county:

Re: [Talk-us] Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) real estate assessment website for addresses

I didn't do any work to figure out if the licenses are compatible. It would require some work to contact the county, but usually they're pretty amenable to setting free whatever data they can. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:53 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.comwrote: So, the data is compatible

Re: [Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Richard Fairhurst, posted an blog about attributing OSM this weekd. http://blog.systemed.net//post/7 Beyond attributing OSM, hopefully our large commercial users can take it a step further and provide a

Re: [Talk-us] what happened to the Mt. Hood National Forest?

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Dion Dock dion_d...@comcast.net wrote: Any thoughts? It was there last year, http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/45.3628/-121.7972. It's still there: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1275975 I think something in the rendering machine's osm2pgsql got

Re: [Talk-us] new geocoder

This is awesome, Randy. Can you point to the code if it's available? I'd love to look at how you're pulling together the ElasticSearch documents. How much disk space does the US index use? On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Randy Meech randy.me...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working on an app that

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal to Remove Two Duplicate Route Relations in Texas

Hi folks, Please be careful when talking about a specific person. I realize it's relatively pertinent to the discussion, but lets not make it any more personal here on the mailing list. Thanks, Your friendly talk-us moderator On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Clay Smalley claysmal...@gmail.com

Re: [Talk-us] Importing addresses from TIGER

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Saikrishna Arcot saiarcot...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I believe TIGER has some data on addresses; more specifically, it has address ranges for each block (roughly). Currently, the US has limited address info in OSM. Some cities have many businesses and POIs

Re: [Talk-us] Importing addresses from TIGER

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Saikrishna Arcot saiarcot...@gmail.comwrote: Ah, ok. I wasn't aware that Nominatim uses the address ranges as a fallback. I typically use the data exports offline in OsmAnd, and so don't see the address ranges from the TIGER data. Does the Public Domain

Re: [Talk-us] Importing addresses from TIGER

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 12/12/2013 11:50 AM, Ian Dees wrote: Another option is to spend time to collect address data from local municipalities and work on methodically importing them. I started this process and have collected a couple hundred

Re: [Talk-us] Tags to use for chain stores in the United States

I get this question a lot during mapping parties -- probably because I suggest these sorts of places as a user's first edit. I wonder if we should add presets to iD for these sorts of places with tons of locations (Starbucks, McDonald's, etc.) so that they show up when searched in the preset list

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] A new tracing layer for TIGER 2013

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Eric Fischer e...@pobox.com wrote: I don't think the 2012 TIGER layer uses any color at all, unless the color was too subtle for me to see too. It does not: only white lines and text with a black outline. ___ talk

Re: [Talk-us] A new tracing layer for TIGER 2013

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Eric Fischer e...@pobox.com wrote: I don't think the 2012 TIGER layer uses any color at all, unless the color was too subtle for me to see too. It does not: only white lines and text with a black outline. ___ Talk-us

[Talk-us] OSM US Annual General Meeting tonight

Hi all, This is a reminder that tonight at 8PM EST (in ~1 hour) we'll be holding our Annual General Meeting for members of OpenStreetMap US. You'll find the previous announcement with more information here: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-November/012183.html If you are

[Talk-us] OSM US Annual General Meeting Tonight

Hi all, This is a reminder that tonight at 8PM EST (in ~50 minutes) we'll be holding our Annual General Meeting for members of OpenStreetMap US. You'll find the previous announcement with more information here: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-November/012183.html If you are

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US Annual General Meeting tonight

that is free/libre open source to use, mike On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Ian Dees i...@openstreetmap.us wrote: Hi all, This is a reminder that tonight at 8PM EST (in ~1 hour) we'll be holding our Annual General Meeting for members of OpenStreetMap US. You'll find the previous

Re: [OSM-talk] Examine nodes in new osm.org design fail

NopMap, Thanks for sharing your opinion, but please refrain from posting sarcastic and overly dramatic stories like this. This message is not an appropriate way to communicate with the community. If you have bug reports or feature requests, please file them on Trac [0] or Github [1]. If you

[Talk-us] User testing OSM.org

Hi everybody, I'm working with a Chicago organization called CUTGroup [0] to set up a user testing event for the OpenStreetMap website and the iD editor. The goal of this testing is to get feedback on the experience of navigating, signing up, and editing data from users that are new to

Re: [Talk-us] scanned USGS Topo Layer?

The USGS Scanned Topos layer is a cached layer based on the three layers here: http://raster.nationalmap.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/DRG/TNM_Digital_Raster_Graphics/MapServer I don't see a good way to check metadata for the scanned quads. There's information about the Large Scale Imagery layer, but

Re: [Talk-us] [josm-dev] Relation editor support for north/south and east/west similar to forward/backward

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:30:25PM -0700, Martijn van Exel wrote: Hi all, I'm new to this list so please bear with me. The relation editor currently only parses 'forward' and 'backward' roles when considering the visual

Re: [Talk-us] Locations for State of the Map US 2014

Hi Jeff, We didn't receive any location proposals, so we're working on locations and will announce when we have something set up. Since the global SotM event is usually held in the second half of the year we've moved the time frame for SotM US up to Spring so that it's not too close to the

Re: [Talk-us] Locations for State of the Map US 2014

organize if it was close to home. On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:14, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jeff, We didn't receive any location proposals, so we're working on locations and will announce when we have something set up. Since the global SotM event is usually held

[Talk-us] Mappy Hour !!

Mappy Hour is starting now! https://plus.google.com/events/cgd2kbuajn4hgt57n60c5kv4sq0 Come hang out and talk about mappy stuff. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [OSM-talk] full history planet file updated?

Maurizio Napolitano-3 wrote i need the full history planet more recent. Here there is an old planet file (8 months ago). http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet/full-history/ The planet and full-planet dumps are in the process of building, but various technical issues are delaying them quite a

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [okgis] Some NAIP Imagery available.

USGS Large Scale proxied through the OSM US server is here: http://a.tile.openstreetmap.us/usgs_large_scale/13/1312/3165.jpg ... and it will include NAIP when there isn't something better. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 10/28/2013 12:36 PM, Paul Johnson

Re: [Talk-us] Freeway directions

The direction of a US Interstate isn't necessarily the compass direction of the road. For example, this chunk of I-94 is facing south, but it's still eastbound I-94. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/33098899 On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:

Re: [Talk-us] Freeway directions

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Yea, I realized that as well. There's even a section of I-80 / I-580 in Berkeley, CA where the directionality of I-80 and I-580 is opposite... http://goo.gl/maps/XROab (The actual compass direction is more like N/S on

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.comwrote: Hi all, Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we have set about editing some of these intersections in a way we feel represents the situation on the ground better than their original

Re: [OSM-talk] How do I get XML output from JXAPI?

brycenesbitt wrote I'm reading http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Jxapi which kind of implies I should expect XML from jxapi. But what I get back is JSON formatted data. How can I get XML? (I'm using wget http://jxapi.openstreetmap.org/xapi/api/0.6/way[amenity=foo];) You should. A change

Re: [OSM-talk] Overpass or XAPI API servers for 60, 000 node queries?

brycenesbitt wrote On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Paul Norman lt; penorman@ gt; wrote: http://jxapi.openstreetmap.org/xapi/api/0.6/node[amenity=drinking_water]took about 3 minutes total. 14.5MB result. Thanks, however no luck here: # wget

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2013 Places shapefile for PA?

I don't have 2013, but I do have 2012 place files here: https://census-backup.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html You might try poking around Mike Migurski's collection too: http://forever.codeforamerica.org/Census-API/shutdown-2013.html On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Richard Welty

[Talk-us] OSM US Memberships

Hi all! I sent out an e-mail last night to a sizable chunk of the OpenStreetMap US members reminding you to renew your membership. If you're curious about your membership status, please go here: http://osm.mapki.com/membership/ If your membership has lapsed, please check your e-mail for a

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I've been looking at the GNIS data and it's quite a mess. This is a horribly crafted proposal. You haven't shown your research

Re: [Talk-us] Putting businesses on OSM with onosm.org

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: This is great. - Right now if your business is already on there you're kinda falling through the cracks. Yea, there's definitely room for improvement here. Right now a business would add themselves again via a note. But...

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