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
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:
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).
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
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:
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).
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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