Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MassGIS Building Import Start

2012-12-12 Thread Toby Murray
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote: > IMO, the process by which blocks are placed, who does the asking of the user > to follow the guidelines, and those with authority to block users needs to > be documented and reviewed. If it already is, please provide a pointer. > Strikes me as

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MassGIS Building Import Start

2012-12-12 Thread Jeff Meyer
Paul - thanks for the link! I'll send a separate note to the DWG with my concerns. - Jeff On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Data_Working_Group > > ** ** > > *From:* Jeff Meyer [mailto:j...@gwhat.org] > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 12, 201

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MassGIS Building Import Start

2012-12-12 Thread Paul Norman
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Data_Working_Group From: Jeff Meyer [mailto:j...@gwhat.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 9:47 PM To: Paul Norman Cc: impo...@openstreetmap.org; OpenStreetMap US Talk Subject: Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MassGIS Building Import Start IMO, the process by w

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MassGIS Building Import Start

2012-12-12 Thread Paul Norman
CanVec operates with each user using a dedicated account. Using a dedicated account doesn't mean sharing an account. From: Clifford Snow [mailto:cliff...@snowandsnow.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:37 PM To: nicholas ingalls Cc: OpenStreetMap US Talk Subject: Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] M

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MassGIS Building Import Start

2012-12-12 Thread Jeff Meyer
IMO, the process by which blocks are placed, who does the asking of the user to follow the guidelines, and those with authority to block users needs to be documented and reviewed. If it already is, please provide a pointer. Strikes me as fairly ominous and potentially arbitrary. Can anyone point m

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MassGIS Building Import Start

2012-12-12 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:15 PM, nicholas ingalls < nicholas.inga...@gmail.com> wrote: > In regards to this and previous imports, I have found that this is by no > means the law when it comes to imports. In Canada we have / and still are > in the lengthy process of importing canvec data for the wh

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MassGIS Building Import Start

2012-12-12 Thread Paul Norman
Imports which don't follow the guidelines may be asked to stop or blocked. This includes imports where the appropriate community consultation wasn't done, imports with legal problems, imports without a dedicated account, and various weird problems. Most cases are dealt with via a private messag

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MassGIS Building Import Start

2012-12-12 Thread nicholas ingalls
In regards to this and previous imports, I have found that this is by no means the law when it comes to imports. In Canada we have / and still are in the lengthy process of importing canvec data for the whole country. We do this in a distributed approach. Each user can upload the data with their ow

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MassGIS Building Import Start

2012-12-12 Thread Jeff Meyer
Paul - can you elaborate on the point about users being blocked if not using a dedicated account? The guidelines don't point this out & it seems contrary to the spirit of there being no "right" way of doing things in OSM. (Not a policy I agree with, but que sera...). Who does the blocking? Thank

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import Start

2012-12-12 Thread Paul Norman
A couple of initial comments: Has some kind of simplify been run on the data? Although most of the buildings are quite good some of the curved ones are overnoded (e.g. http://took.paulnorman.ca/imports/massgis/noded.png) If your documentation conflicts with the requirements of the import g

[Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import Start

2012-12-12 Thread Jason Remillard
Hello Everybody, I would like to kick off the MassGIS building import. This following is copy/paste from the current wiki ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MassGIS_Buildings_Import). The external links will work on the wiki. -- On Dec, 2012 MassGIS

Re: [Talk-us] Mappy Hour suggestions?

2012-12-12 Thread Paul Norman
> From: Steve Coast [mailto:st...@asklater.com] > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Mappy Hour suggestions? > > Try to find new audiences, this mailing list is saturated with your > target market already. So, try google ads or a banner on osm.org. Work > with existing local groups (e.g. the seattle group had

Re: [Talk-us] Mappy Hour suggestions?

2012-12-12 Thread Steve Coast
Try to find new audiences, this mailing list is saturated with your target market already. So, try google ads or a banner on osm.org. Work with existing local groups (e.g. the seattle group had no real heads up about at least 2 out of the 3 meetings). On Dec 11, 2012, at 10:46 PM, Martijn van