Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-10 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-07 21:40, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:28:26 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: > Lastly, it matches the > overwhelming majority of print usage and signage. If print usage and signage were consistent even between cities in the same state, I'd tend to agree. Given that what areas

Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

2010-08-10 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-03 00:24, Kevin Atkinson wrote: One more specific question below: On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Alan Mintz wrote: 2. Some, however, do use the prefix on the signs and in verbal. The direction appears in front of the name in the same font: name = "West 17th Street" name_prefix = "W" name_pref

Re: [Talk-us] Free emergency calls from payphones (was [Tagging] emergency=*)

2010-08-10 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-09 11:59, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:31:33 +0100, Dave F. wrote: > On 08/08/2010 20:07, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Emergency phones would be handy, since it's increasingly common in the >> US for public pay telephones to disallow... 911 (emergency services). > > If true, I'

Re: [Talk-us] How to get college students involved?

2010-08-10 Thread Stefan Brandle
On 8/10/10 7:00 AM, talk-us-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: > It would be cool to create a wiki page with ideas, resources, tips, > and tricks for campus mapping. The page could include links to past > efforts. Good idea. I'll have to start by learning this myself, but it would be nice to have

Re: [Talk-us] How to get college students involved?

2010-08-10 Thread Brian Fischer
I teach a Web Mapping class at a University and have been thinking of having a lesson on crowd sourcing and geowiki stuff. I figure it might be a good way to introduce students to OpenStreetmap. Is anyone aware of class lessons or exercises that have been developed for OpenStreetmap? Brian Fi