[Talk-us] Night of the Living Maps

2012-10-25 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi, Have you heard of Night of the Living Maps? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Night_of_the_living_maps At NOTLM, mappers all over the globe (well, Europe mostly, but that needs to change) gather and armchair-map together for a night. We're talking about promoting a US project like fixing

Re: [Talk-us] US chapter board meeting

2012-10-25 Thread Martijn van Exel
It looks like we can invite people by calling them on their regular phone numbers from a hangout. So there's an alternative for folks who don't care to create a google account but still want to listen in. Martijn On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:37 PM, the Old Topo Depot oldto...@novacell.com wrote:

[Talk-us] Local Chapters Discussion

2012-10-25 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi First post here? I just joined OSM US before attending SOTM-US. So hi :) I heard that the OSM US Board was deliberating the topic of Local Chapters. I know a little of the history of Local Chapters from my (now over) time on the OSM Foundation Board (I'm still on the OSMF Management Team).

[Talk-us] which boundaries are these?

2012-10-25 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, I want to do a more thorough look into TIGER ghost towns and am thinking about a town-by-town analysis. For that I need proper 'town' boundaries. I like the ones you get when you search for a place on Google Maps: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=princeton,+nj

Re: [Talk-us] which boundaries are these?

2012-10-25 Thread Michal Migurski
On Oct 25, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: Hi all, I want to do a more thorough look into TIGER ghost towns and am thinking about a town-by-town analysis. For that I need proper 'town' boundaries. I like the ones you get when you search for a place on Google Maps:

[Talk-us] Local Chapters Agreement

2012-10-25 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi First post here? I just joined OSM US before attending SOTM-US. So hi. I heard that the OSM US Board was deliberating the topic of Local Chapters. I know a little of the history of Local Chapters from my (now over) time on the OSM Foundation Board (I'm still on the OSMF Management Team).

Re: [Talk-us] which boundaries are these?

2012-10-25 Thread Martijn van Exel
Would those be the same ones you download here http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/2010DP1.html (under Places, County Subdivisions and Related Areas)? That link is a geodatabase, but already has population etc so would be useful for ghost town ranking. Martijn On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at

Re: [Talk-us] Local Chapters Agreement

2012-10-25 Thread Ian Dees
TEST POST PLEASE IGNORE :) I accidentally released from moderation this after Mikel had already re-posted it after figuring subscription stuff out. On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi First post here? I just joined OSM US before attending SOTM-US. So

Re: [Talk-us] which boundaries are these?

2012-10-25 Thread Dale Puch
You may want http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2012/PLACE/ For a more direct download. All the other tiger downloads are available by browsing from there. Dale On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Would those be the same ones you download here

Re: [Talk-us] Local Chapters Discussion

2012-10-25 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/25/12 2:38 PM, Mikel Maron wrote: For specific reasons why OSM-US should care, a couple concrete things off the top of my head are trademarks and promotion. OSM Foundation holds the trademarks, like OpenStreetMap and the logo. The promotion space for events on the OSM.org website (like

Re: [Talk-us] Night of the Living Maps

2012-10-25 Thread Mike N
On 10/25/2012 12:34 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: We're talking about promoting a US project like fixing TIGER deserts / Ghost towns[1] for the next NOTLM (date to be set). Good idea? I would say that this is a good idea. If a curious person (non-OSM contributor) were to look at a garbled

Re: [Talk-us] Night of the Living Maps

2012-10-25 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/25/12 9:14 PM, Mike N wrote: On 10/25/2012 12:34 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: We're talking about promoting a US project like fixing TIGER deserts / Ghost towns[1] for the next NOTLM (date to be set). Good idea? I would say that this is a good idea. If a curious person (non-OSM

Re: [Talk-us] Night of the Living Maps

2012-10-25 Thread Brian DeRocher
For reference here's the TIGER reviewed and TIGER roads comparison maps Peter demonstrated at SOTM US. http://www.itoworld.com/map/162 http://www.itoworld.com/map/240 -- Brian DeRocher http://brian.derocher.org http://mappingdc.org http://about.me/brian.derocher