Re: [Talk-us] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Paul Norman
How can we get more effective press coverage from events? Part of it is probably more people volunteering for the communications working group, but is there more? Note: If you want to help with the CWG, email communicat...@osmfoundation.org. From: James Mast

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Mike N
On 5/25/2013 6:15 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Also osm is indexed by search engines To varying levels - I searched OSM for some unusual POI names from January 2013, and they aren't indexed. I did notice some content indexed from 2010. ___

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Russ Nelson
Paweł Paprota writes: Sure but have you ever seen a link to OSM object (way/relation/node) in the internet? Sure. I link to them all the time (warning, these are all associated with railroads, so if you're not a railfan, click at your peril!): This search:

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 25/mag/2013 um 12:22 schrieb Paweł Paprota ppa...@fastmail.fm: Sure but have you ever seen a link to OSM object (way/relation/node) in the internet? Yes, I noted this because of a misspelled street name, but it also works for correctly spelled ones, if you put osm to the search term