Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Encourage foundation candidates to self-govern

2009-08-19 Thread Sam Vekemans
They arn't, Its just we (as in the OpenStreetMap community) want to ensure that all decisions that get made, are done done so with the best interest of the community. And of course, it will. :-) (even with more CM staff on board As thats great to have) So having representatives who are workin

Re: [Talk-us] Encourage foundation candidates to self-govern

2009-08-19 Thread Matthias Versen
Richard Weait wrote: > The Foundation board should have no more than one candidate from each > company in my opinion. Unbelievable ! Sorry but why is Cloudmade trying to corrupt the free and open Openstreetmap with such actions ? Shame on you ! Matthias

Re: [Talk-us] talk-us-ma: Duplicate nodes in mass

2009-08-19 Thread Bill Ricker
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > But I think we > > need some sort of "find duplicate nodes, and if they match > that was I believe the intention. > > properties, > > or just have different massgis import dates, merge them" bot. > or even same date but different time

Re: [Talk-us] talk-us-ma: Duplicate nodes in mass

2009-08-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Greg, Greg Troxel wrote: > But I think we > need some sort of "find duplicate nodes, and if they match properties, > or just have different massgis import dates, merge them" bot. This is > beyond my clue level presently. There are roughly 7.1 million nodes in Massachussetts, and 270k of them sh

[Talk-us] Encourage foundation candidates to self-govern

2009-08-19 Thread Richard Weait
The Foundation board should have no more than one candidate from each company in my opinion. http://weait.com/content/osmf-candidate-recall ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Looking for a US OSM extract

2009-08-19 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > since US data accounts for something like 70% of the planet, an US extract > does not actually help you a lot in terms of saving download/processing > time. I know I won't save much time when running keepright on the US (as opposed to the

Re: [Talk-us] Looking for a US OSM extract

2009-08-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ian Dees wrote: > I'm thinking about setting up a keepright instance for the US, but I don't > see a United States extract from the planetfile. Does anyone out there have > such a thing running? Cloudmade do extracts by state but I believe they are not updated daily. Geofabrik does a "north

[Talk-us] Looking for a US OSM extract

2009-08-19 Thread Ian Dees
I'm thinking about setting up a keepright instance for the US, but I don't see a United States extract from the planetfile. Does anyone out there have such a thing running? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/

Re: [Talk-us] talk-us-ma: Duplicate nodes in mass

2009-08-19 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
welcome in the world of osm cleanup ;-) there are so many errors in osm data for routing and some are very difficult to find. most people don't care as long as the maps is rendered nice. and without tools it's hard to make mappers aware of them. America doesn't have an instance of keepright either

[Talk-us] Fwd: [Osmf-talk] EVERYONE: PLEASE VOTE

2009-08-19 Thread Richard Weait
Get out your vote for the OpenStreetMap Foundation board of directors. You have until approximately 5pm EDT Thursday for your email vote to be received in London. If you are not yet a paid member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, you can register here for 15UK Pounds (25 or 30 bucks): http://foun

[Talk-us] talk-us-ma: Duplicate nodes in mass

2009-08-19 Thread Greg Troxel
I have been trying to make routable garmin maps with mkgmap, and more or less succeeding. In Mass I have maps that look good but computing routes over any significant distance totally fails, as in you get a route apparently from a basemap. I was recently driving to a place within Stow from Cambr