On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote:
Or do we have something like that already?
The only thing I look at is the changesets page and that's informative
but
kind of boring.
Everyone can setup planet mirror and calculate any satistics. Just for
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Thomas Davie tom.da...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 Apr 2011, at 16:27, Mikel Maron wrote:
http://brainoff.com/weblog/2011/04/11/1635
Meh – the great thing about being open is that you get to take the moral
high ground because you're not stopping other people
Also relevant to this discussion (although not directly related to Mikel's
post):
Ed Parsons talks about the difference between OSM and MapMaker at minute 39
of this recording http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13672861 (incidentally this
set of videos is also where someone from Google mentioned GMM
Not sure if they read these, but
https://github.com/MapQuest/MapQuest-Mapnik-Style/issues
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:25 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.comwrote:
Anyways, we really need to get MapQuest to render by relations (where
available on a way) and only using a way ref's tags when
I think the community has been satisfied if the copyright holder of the
data gives explicit permission for the community to use the data in OSM. A
verbal or e-mail message seems to have been OK in the past, but a post
referencing someone in charge at the copyright holder (so 3rd parties can
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote:
[1] I actually think Google is being depressingly smart on this. They
purposefully don't elucidate what you can and can't do. On the one hand,
they want people to build geo apps and create indexable geodata on the
Try
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.1789745390415lon=-78.7073448300362zoom=21
(z=1 doesn't make it very interesting :))
I wonder if that's from a (gov't) digitization and subsequent (user)
import... pretty wild! How the heck did you find that?
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Russ Nelson
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote:
Ian Dees writes:
Try
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.1789745390415lon=-78.7073448300362zoom=21
(z=1 doesn't make it very interesting :))
Yeah, cut-n-paste left off the '8' of '18'.
I wonder if that's
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com
wrote:
I, too, have been thinking that a core+layers approach would be useful in
a
number of contexts, primarily conflation between different
In this picture:
http://www.nomadchallenge.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/likelike-highway-honolulu.jpg
http://www.nomadchallenge.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/likelike-highway-honolulu.jpgWhat
is the proposed tag for the highway=motorway_junction node?
Are we tagging the node with exactly what
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
On 3/28/2011 3:19 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
In this picture:
http://www.nomadchallenge.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/likelike-highway-honolulu.jpg
http://www.nomadchallenge.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/likelike-highway
Hi all,
Google opened up the application process for GSoC mentors today. If you're
interested in helping students and OSM this Summer please head over to our
page on the GSoC website and submit an application:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/osm
Let me know if you have
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
...
I'd say that reverting the border fix changeset would be wrong, given the
number of problems it fixed with the borders. I'd say it was definitely
wrong to attempt to revert it over ToeBee's objections.
+1
I would say
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On 3/25/2011 7:49 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
I would say that a better use of our time would be in creating boundary
relations to fix the duplicated county/state boundaries.
I would say it's more important to have
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On 3/25/2011 8:37 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com
mailto:nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/25/2011 7:49 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
I would say that a better
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:
On 3/20/11 7:50 PM, Paul Norman wrote:
3 is about making the rivers into single ways, more like a mapper would
do
by hand. I'm not really set
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
On 3/20/2011 8:18 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
There were several clients that did not attempt to connect the ways of
each NHD linestring so there are duplicated nodes and ways that touch
but aren't joined. Hopefully fixing this is what
Hi all,
I wanted to let everyone know that OSM was accepted as an organization into
Google's Summer of Code.
You can participate by being a mentor, submitting a project idea, or being a
student.
Please e-mail me if you have any questions. If you have some ideas, please
drop them on the wiki
Hi all,
I wanted to let everyone know that OSM was accepted as an organization into
Google's Summer of Code.
You can participate by being a mentor, submitting a project idea, or being a
student.
Please e-mail me if you have any questions. If you have some ideas, please
drop them on the wiki
if you're working on a
state/province/country so we don't get duplicates.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote:
huh...
please do, would be fun to look
On 3/11/2011 3:01 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
I did, but I held off because most of the data wasn't very useful (points
at addresses near me and help import
On 3/2/2011 12:59 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
Hi All,
I'm planning on converting these to OSM format in the coming hours and
dividing them up into chunks of some size that can be relatively easily
checked by humans.
I'll post to the list and to that page
Hi all!
As admin for OSM's application to Google's Summer of Code this year, I'd
like to remind everyone that we're looking for some project ideas for
students to work on here on the wiki page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2011. The application
deadline is roughly 24
Hi All,
I'm planning on converting these to OSM format in the coming hours and
dividing them up into chunks of some size that can be relatively easily
checked by humans.
I'll post to the list and to that page with the chunks later.
-Ian
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:55 PM, flambe...@gmail.com
I don't understand what you mean by plain old TMS or WMS.
TileStache/TileCache do offer TMS (and TileCache does WMS).
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote:
True, it is straightforward to get the tiles, and the specification is
open [1]. The trouble lies with
For those that can use non-standard HTTP ports, this data is available
reprojected and tiled at http://cube.telascience.org:8000/va_2007/
JOSM URL is:
tms:http://cube.telascience.org:8000/va_2007/${zoom}/${x}/${y}.jpg
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote:
I'm not
They should be part of a route relation.
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
In the US there are two long federally-maintained roads, the Blue Ridge
Parkway and Natchez Trace Parkway, that were built for the sole purpose of
sightseeing. Since they are
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On 2/23/2011 9:46 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
They should be part of a route relation.
Buh...? I'm asking what highway=* value they should have.
Do they really, truly fit into one highway=* category along their entire
Hi all,
I'm planning on submitting an application for the 2011 edition of Google's
Summer of Code. The deadline for the organization application is March 11.
In the meantime I'd love to invite anyone with ideas for projects
university-aged students may enjoy working on to submit them on the
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote:
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 19:25 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
What I like most about it is that you have a forced visual feedback -
there is no way you can copy something into OSM without seeing what is
actually there before you
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
[snip] I'm wondering if the person who imported GNIS originally has plans
to change
ele values that match their GNIS values by
(current ele) * 0.3048 = (corrected ele)
No. (I'm one of the people that imported GNIS
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com
wrote:
Just noticed this:
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote:
There was rough consensus that the current approach is more or less right,
but disagreement on several specifics. Richard Weait suggested that
further discussion probably wouldn't accomplish much without a sample
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:
can someone point me at examples of well formed County Boundary
relations in the US? a quick search didn't show anything in the wiki,
and the boundaries in my part of NY are basically a bunch of
labeled ways with
Hi Talk-US,
First of all, can we agree as a group to hold off on importing or applying
any TIGER 2010 data until we come up with a way to apply changes in a
uniform and somewhat organized manner?
I really don't want to run into the situation we currently have with NHD
where everyone is doing the
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
First of all, can we agree as a group to hold off on importing or
applying
any TIGER 2010 data until we come up with a way to apply changes in a
uniform
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
First of all, can we
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote:
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I really don't want to run into the situation we currently have with NHD
where everyone is doing the conversion with different tools using
different
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote:
I'd start with getting a wiki page set up with the types of
information that is stored in the TIGER 2010 shapefiles.
Sounds like a great idea.
I
It appears that User:NE2 has added a tag NHS_High_Priority_Corridor to
hundred of ways around the country. Has anyone seen such an automated edit
proposal anywhere on the mailing lists?
Not only is this tag named inconsistantly with the rest of the tags we've
used in the past (I'd rather see it
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net
wrote:
i concur, the NHS tagging should be done as route relations.
They don't work as relations, since they're not always routes that can
be
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
OK, how's this for a relation?
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1319303
While I'm happy to see them in a relation, I still question having such data
in OSM.
If there is no possible way for OSM mappers to
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote:
3) Having looked at the data catalogue page, I do have concerns about
the
terms of use and think it's best to get SF to explicitly agree to allow
OSM
to use the data.
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
Well I've been using it in JOSM for a good chunk of the day now,
editing I-70 in western Kansas and eastern Colorado along my drive to
wherecamp. It has been working pretty well. Every once in a while it
seems to slow
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
The WMS URLs on
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/National_Agriculture_Imagery_Program
don't have the latest imagery available from NAIP, which is
downloadable as huge (1 gig) georeferenced MrSID files. Is there any
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 14:30 -0500, Ian Dees wrote:
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com
wrote:
I'm not talking about shield placement. I mean that the
specific
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
At the Google Summer of Code mentors summit this past weekend Google
asked
us (the organizations that participated in Summer of Code
and fixes?
Cheers,
Adam
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
At the Google Summer of Code mentors summit this past weekend Google
asked
us (the organizations
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 15:17 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com
wrote:
Sorry to
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com
Hi everyone,
At the Google Summer of Code mentors summit this past weekend Google asked
us (the organizations that participated in Summer of Code) to also
participate in the Google Code-In project. The Code-In project is similar to
the Summer of Code but for 13-18 year olds. The tasks are meant
Multiple is_in=* tags. I think this is the consensus for the rest of the
world (at least I've seen it on a few other geometries around the world).
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Leroy E Leonard leeoncand...@gmail.comwrote:
Are we talking a single is_in tag, which will bring back the string
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote:
Since there's more agreement around the US:ST:County approach, are there
objections to just documenting that in the wiki?
I disagree that there is agreement about this approach. As I've mentioned a
couple times, we need to
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:
On 10/24/10 11:12 PM, Mike N. wrote:
Mike, are you specifically interested in Arkansas? The state level
data might be better than TIGER and the state is very interested in
getting it into OSM.
I was researching
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Craig Hinners cr...@hinnerspace.comwrote:
On 10/15/2010 09:44 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
Sans prefices, the highway=motorway where US Highway 10, Wisconsin
Highway
66, and Interstate Highway 39 run together would have ref=10;66;39.
Not
very useful for
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Prefix information should not go in OSM. If a renderer wants to display a
prefix somehow, then they can go look it up based on other information
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
On 10/23/2010 05:00 PM, Mike N. wrote:
should be using reply to mailing
list and not reply to all. The former has been around in modern
mailers not politically motivated to do the wrong things for about 10
years
I agree with Richard but I don't want to feed the trolls by responding
(which is the policy of several other mailing list readers I know).
On Oct 21, 2010 4:08 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 21,
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote:
On 10/19/2010 04:00 PM, Anthony wrote:
What project would you recommend? I'm looking for a project that
creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to
anyone who wants them. Not one that makes maps in
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Peter Budny pet...@gatech.edu wrote:
Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com writes:
For example, Kansas highway 18:
type = route
route = road
network = US:KS
ref = 18
(optional?) symbol=* tag
Also an optional wikipedia link.
There does seem to be
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote:
Tom Hughes, OSM contributor and infrastructure guru has written an
interesting summary of why some part of OSM can look strange.
http://compton.nu/2010/10/city-labels-in-openstreetmap/
Sounds like a good project for a bot to
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
- Support for route relations
Why should this be US-specific? Canada certainly has the same sort of
route system as the US, and many European
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
On 10/15/2010 05:08 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Ian Dees
ian.dees-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Peter Budny pet...@gatech.edu wrote:
So far, it seems to be something like
type=route
route=road
network=US:NY - state abbreviation
ref=87 - number only
symbol=*
or for county roads,
network=US:NY:Albany - full county name
As I pointed out
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net
wrote:
i have created a page for a US Tagging working group here:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
...discussions on the mailing list tend to wander all over the place and
lead to no conclusions or decisions being made. If we meet in a phone
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote:
== Inconsistent State Prefixes ==
I wish there was a better (simpler) way to consistently tag the state and
county shields but I do not have one. I think it needs to be done though.
Compared to the rest of the world, I
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I made that one up (CO for County). Yes, CTH probably makes more sense
but
isn't that pretty specific? Do all states use that verbiage
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think we should be storing any prefix as part of the network=* or
ref=* tags (thus my suggestion for
network=us_route/state_route
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:
On 10/15/10 6:06 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I made that one up (CO for County
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
That's why I briefly mentioned the is_in=* tag earlier. County road 1 in
Albany County would have network=county_road,is_in:county=Albany while
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com
wrote:
I'm importing the USFS data for the Ocala National Forest boundary
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think you should imply that there is a natural=forest boundary
logically separate from the National Forest's boundary. Assuming you're
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2011/Bid/Denver-Ian
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi list,
One of the topics discussed tonight during the US Chapter board meeting was
the possibility of making a bid for the international State of the Map
conference in 2011. We
9, 2010 at 22:34, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm digging this idea... is there anyone that would be interested in
starting a bid document or page on the wiki for Boulder or Denver? Not that
we have to officially submit it but it would be helpful to at least get
these ideas down on paper
Just in case the mailing lists don't overlap enough to catch everyone:
-- Forwarded message --
From: Deborah Shaddon dshad...@comcast.net
Date: Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:58 PM
Subject: [CrisisMappers] Re: [CrisisCommons] URGENT BAY AREA NEED -
volunteer mappers tomorrow
To:
be great if people could make both events.
Leslie
--
*From:* Peter Batty pe...@ebatty.com
*To:* Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com
*Cc:* talk-us@openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap Talk-us@openstreetmap.org
*Sent:* Wed, September 8, 2010 8:41:59 PM
*Subject:* Re: [Talk-us
I'm digging this idea... is there anyone that would be interested in
starting a bid document or page on the wiki for Boulder or Denver? Not that
we have to officially submit it but it would be helpful to at least get
these ideas down on paper somewhere.
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Hurricane
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Hillsman, Edward hills...@cutr.usf.eduwrote:
Anyway If the 2010 has block-face-level address ranges, it would be good
to upload the streets as block edges rather than long ways spanning several
blocks, to make it easier to work with the address ranges. (so the
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote:
On a smaller scale, I don't know. Pretty much all the TIGER data I've
ever seen is surpassed in quality by local county/state data. So if
you're going to import county by county, why bother with TIGER?
Not all states /
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Ian,
Ian Dees wrote:
I got the impression after SotM US that there was a huge interest in doing
imports correctly. For me, correctly means the following:
0. Discuss with community (don't import if no community
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Nick Black nickbla...@gmail.com wrote:
A toolset like this would let a community grow around the import
process - letting OSM get the good data that's out there whilst making
sure there's a community there to maintain it.
Good ideas. Also, If one of the
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Lord-Castillo, Brett
blord-casti...@stlouisco.com wrote:
Once I get our data uploaded into ESRI Community Basemaps (which is a
simpler process, has technical support, and will accept and integrate our
authoritative data even without an editor community), I'm
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Lord-Castillo, Brett
blord-casti...@stlouisco.com wrote:
Just thought I would add that both the Google and ESRI programs allow for
community edits, which we can get back out into our systems.
Community BaseMaps even makes the data directly available to end
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Joe Woycke woy...@gmail.com wrote:
[...] if osm chooses to exclude the local govt and refuse their data they
will lose out on a rich data source that is better than the tiger data that
osm currently uses as its base data.
Again, no one is suggesting that we
I got the impression after SotM US that there was a huge interest in doing
imports correctly. For me, correctly means the following:
1. Get permission
2. Convert to OSM format
3. Compare to existing data
4. Upload to the data
I think a tool could be made that automated most of these steps (or at
After a half mile walk to CVS and an unsuccessful attempt at writing a
driver for the $10 USB camera I bought, I just installed Ustream on my
phone.
Here's the link:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/state-of-the-map-us-live
No guarantees on uptime :-).
, but they serve two different purposes/missions.
SEJ
Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands from beans. -Empedocles
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:12, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder if our friends at the USGS know about this data. If they do,
there must be a good reason why
I think I remember Eric (ebwolf: owner of said changeset) mentioning
something about a bulk upload a few weeks ago. I bet he'll respond to your
OSM message if he doesn't see this thread.
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From: Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at
I'm have a private tilecache for NAIP and am working on a public one right
now.
I'll publicize it when I get it working.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Eric Wolf ebw...@gmail.com wrote:
I know this seems like a silly question, coming from me and all, but where
are you getting your NAIP
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Alan Mintz
alan_mintz+...@earthlink.netalan_mintz%2b...@earthlink.net
wrote:
It sure would be nice if these individual image sets were available through
a common interface, instead of having to find/add all the separate links.
1) Check out
I've noticed lots of leaf-on imagery in my WMS URL in the Wisconsin and
Minnesota area (which were flown pretty recently), so I wonder if that
decision was already made.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Eric Wolf ebw...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting. I'll have to do a little sleuthing tomorrow
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Jaak Laineste jaak.laine...@gmail.com
wrote:
Map is a hand-written 2D picture of the world. It is definitely more a
kind of art than a digital photo in flickr, there is more subjectivity
and
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Patrick Kilian o...@petschge.de wrote:
Hi,
There is a big difference between pointing out the current form of the
contributor terms means that we will loose 80% of the data in Australia.
Do you really want to proceed? and jumping into every thread and
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, SteveC wrote:
Maybe a line saying mailing list posts should follow the topic of the
list
Fine
Talk= talk
and when you get plenty you are upset?
Talk is not how I would describe what's happening on the
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 03:04:00PM -0600, SteveC wrote:
Someone mentioned that in addition there should be some topic
guidelines per mailing list too […]
I think this should be a general code of conduct, and each
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:43 PM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote:
Most of the cases you are probably familiar with involve simple lists of
telephone numbers and subscribers. The moment you add even the slightest
originality to a collection of facts then it become eligible for copyright.
Can you
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:14 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:
On Aug 6, 2010, at 11:09 AM, John Smith wrote:
On 7 August 2010 03:04, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:
Sounds like you've never been to court. Who's right or wrong is a
secondary consideration here, the first order of
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:21 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote:
On 7 August 2010 03:14, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:
If they have several orders of magnitude more money then probably the
cost/benefit tradeoff would suggest throwing out the data is the better
option.
Even
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