Re: [Talk-us] Mapping party in DC around WikiMania

2012-05-26 Thread Katie Filbert
And I will announce it separately soon with more details, but we're also planning an OSM /maps track for the Wikimania hackathon, with some tutorials + hacking. (and the mapping party) Cheers, Katie On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Katie Filbert wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Steven

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping party in DC around WikiMania

2012-05-26 Thread Katie Filbert
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Steven Johnson wrote: > Count me in. > > Great! :) We're still figuring out the location but we might have it at the zoo again, since it's still plenty more to map there. (and can invite some of their staff to join us) Though, open to other suggestions, perhaps

Re: [Talk-us] Federally Funded Research R&D Centers: landuse=military?

2012-05-26 Thread stevea
On 5/25/2012 5:41 PM, stevea wrote: I muse whether "Federally Funded Research and Development Centers" (FFRDCs) are amenable to either "landuse=military" or something like it. I'm not proposing a vote because this may be peculiarly USA-centric. (Then again, maybe it isn't, as there may very well

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping party in DC around WikiMania

2012-05-26 Thread Steven Johnson
Count me in. --SEJ Sent via telepathy. On May 26, 2012, at 13:25, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > > Who wants to help run a mapping party in DC around Wikimania? > Wikimania itself is July 12-15, the mapping party would likely be on > the 10th or the 11th. > I would love to try balloon

[Talk-us] Mapping party in DC around WikiMania

2012-05-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, Who wants to help run a mapping party in DC around Wikimania? Wikimania itself is July 12-15, the mapping party would likely be on the 10th or the 11th. I would love to try balloon mapping but I've never done that before so I'd need some experienced help with that! It may be too much for a

Re: [Talk-us] Federally Funded Research R&D Centers: landuse=military?

2012-05-26 Thread Kevin Kenny
I, too, am interested in this question. I have such a facility in my neighbourhood, for which I have official cadastral data. I asked on IRC about it, and was quite brusquely rebuffed with, essentially, "barrier=fence is the only way to map it." (When I pointed out that the fence doesn't necessar