Re: [Talk-us] press from SOTM US

2012-10-20 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Richard Welty wrote: > we got some. Carl Frantzen of Talking Points Memo asked me about coming to > SOTM US and > i urged him to do so. he did and here we are: > > http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/openstreetmap-part-1-new-cartographers.php Not quite s

Re: [Talk-us] press from SOTM US

2012-10-20 Thread Mike N
On 10/19/2012 11:48 PM, Richard Welty wrote: we got some. Carl Frantzen of Talking Points Memo asked me about coming to SOTM US and i urged him to do so. he did and here we are: That was fantastic coverage; looking forward to the next 2 parts. I wonder how far the series will reach into the

Re: [Talk-us] press from SOTM US

2012-10-20 Thread Paul Norman
> From: Toby Murray [mailto:toby.mur...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 12:59 AM > To: Talk Openstreetmap > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] press from SOTM US > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Richard Welty > wrote: > > we got some. Carl Frantzen of Talking Points Memo asked me about > >

Re: [Talk-us] press from SOTM US

2012-10-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 10/20/2012 09:59 AM, Toby Murray wrote: The discussion was about the fact that some companies are very afraid of share-alike licenses and it is preventing them from using our data to its fullest potential. There are several sides to this. Of course the share-alike license prevents comp

[Talk-us] Stripping TIGER tags

2012-10-20 Thread Paul Norman
I've been going through my time-lapse photos from the way down to Portland. A large part of what I'm doing is adding tags to the I 5, mainly lit=yes/no since you can't get much else at night. Because I'm editing the tags anyways, I'm stripping off unnecessary or incorrect tiger:* tags. Often this

[Talk-us] my lighting talk from SOTM US

2012-10-20 Thread Richard Welty
i've just written this up in a blog posting. The lightning talk was entitled "Maps for First Responders". this is a little bit expanded: http://www.averillpark.net/thisendup/index.php?/archives/101-OpenStreetMap-Emergency-Services.html ___ Talk-us mai

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-20 Thread Michal Migurski
Based on feedback from route relation mappers and people on this list, here's a list of 7,575 route relation changes I'd like to make: http://mike.teczno.com/img/OSM-Extracted-Routes-changes.csv.zip Some of the rules I've followed: - Shortening ref tags to just what goes on a shi

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-20 Thread Paul Norman
> From: Michal Migurski [mailto:m...@stamen.com] > Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 4:01 PM > To: OpenStreetMap U.S. > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations > > Based on feedback from route relation mappers and people on this list, > here's a list of 7,575 route relation changes I'd lik

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-20 Thread Michal Migurski
On Oct 20, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Paul Norman wrote: >> From: Michal Migurski [mailto:m...@stamen.com] >> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 4:01 PM >> To: OpenStreetMap U.S. >> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations >> >> Based on feedback from route relation mappers and people on this list,

Re: [Talk-us] my lighting talk from SOTM US

2012-10-20 Thread Mike N
On 10/20/2012 5:55 PM, Richard Welty wrote: i've just written this up in a blog posting. The lightning talk was entitled "Maps for First Responders". Great post! The politics are the hardest part of the process - the Trimet-Portland program is a great way to use OSM, and I hope it can find

Re: [Talk-us] my lighting talk from SOTM US

2012-10-20 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/20/12 10:07 PM, Mike N wrote: On 10/20/2012 5:55 PM, Richard Welty wrote: i've just written this up in a blog posting. The lightning talk was entitled "Maps for First Responders". Great post! The politics are the hardest part of the process - the Trimet-Portland program is a great wa