Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] U.S. Conversion Team?

2009-11-17 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: I was wondering if anyone set-up a wiki page for the US Conversion Team as was proposed in another thread. We've changed our name to the US Conversion Cabal, and cabals don't like to advertise their existence :).

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap in New York Times

2009-11-17 Thread Paul Jarratt
Hi all, OpenStreetMap was featured in an article on the front page of the New York Times today. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/technology/internet/17maps.html?hp Some good exposure on the Atlanta Mapathon. Paul -- Paul Jarratt +1 650 454 6008 ___

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] OSM Mentioned in NYTimes

2009-11-17 Thread Sam Vekemans
Thanks for sharing, thats AWESOME! If someone can take a photo of the actual article, then we can store it in the media archive (or put it on the featured images :) And a big thanks to Mr. Hintz who talked to the reporter who wrote the article, awesome. Im looking at the comments building up.

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] OSM Mentioned in NYTimes

2009-11-17 Thread Randy
Sam Vekemans wrote: And a big thanks to Mr. Hintz who talked to the reporter who wrote the article, awesome. Now, if we can just get him to input to OSM in addition to Google, that would be nice. On a different note,(i.e, different thread if it goes anywhere) is OSM having the same problem as

Re: [Talk-us] [Talk-ca] Modifying GeoBase Ways.

2009-11-17 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi James, (Thanks Daniel for the details) I think we need to fix up the wiki so that the page on Canada Importing Data (from all sources) is more clear (or maybe something bold at the top of the page?). That hasn't been done yet. Unfortunately. The idea for imports (of all types) is that the

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-17 Thread Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 16:24 -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: IMHO it is unfortunate this was not done during the TIGER import. It would have been easy enough. Sure. But, there were 50 other things that were easy enough to do. Joining county borders, eliminating motorway overpass intersections,