Re: [Talk-us] Rural Montana - can we find local mappers?

2014-03-25 Thread Russell Deffner
Wolfgang, Lots of rural United States, as well as many places do not currently have a local mapping community. We are working on it, and a good chance to 'recruit' help is at the State of the Map - US (stateofthemap.us) coming up in a couple of weeks. I am also co-organizer for OSM-Colorado ('un

Re: [Talk-us] Rural Montana - can we find local mappers?

2014-03-25 Thread Martijn van Exel
Some ways to proceed: * check meetup.com for local groups in the area - not even necessarily OSM specific, but perhaps geocaching, outdoor enthusiasts, etc. and drop them a line * check for the nearest OSM group (meetup, or the local group map[1]) in a larger town / city and ask them. [1] http://

Re: [Talk-us] Rural Montana - can we find local mappers?

2014-03-25 Thread Brad Neuhauser
Wolfgang, you might also try looking at contributors with activity in this area, via the Who's Around Me? map. ( http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/oooc?zoom=7&lat=47.8062&lon=-113.57002&layers=B00FTT) I don't see anyone active in the exact county you mention, but there are a few fairly regular OSM

Re: [Talk-us] Rural Montana - can we find local mappers?

2014-03-25 Thread Martijn van Exel
That is indeed a very useful tool. It would be nice if someone put together a friendly 'how to find mappers in my area' guide containing some of this info and perhaps more. I'd really like to have something like that on openstreetmap.us. On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: >

Re: [Talk-us] mappy hour apologies

2014-03-25 Thread Brian DeRocher
richard, On Monday 2014 March 24 20:39:22 Richard Welty wrote: > not going well here. google hangouts is repeatedly insisting that i install > a package that i've already installed. i have no idea when i'll get this > working. I once had that issue. I'm using Debian Linux on my laptop. I solved

[Talk-us] Launching OpenAddresses

2014-03-25 Thread Ian Dees
Hi all, As some of you know, I've been working on collecting as much address data as possible for the last couple years. I had created a spreadsheet to track progress for myself and others had contributed their own entries. That spreadsheet hit more than 300 entries tracking millions of address po

Re: [Talk-us] Launching OpenAddresses

2014-03-25 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > As some of you know, I've been working on collecting as much address data > as > possible for the last couple years. I had created a spreadsheet to track > progress for myself and others had contributed their own entries. That > spreadsheet hit m

Re: [Talk-us] building=house vs building=detached

2014-03-25 Thread Russ Nelson
There are hundreds of building=house in Potsdam, NY. -russ Elliott Plack writes: > Interesting. I think this might be one of those UK centric ones. According > to the wiki, you're correct. However here in the USA, I think many people, > especially new ones, would draw their house on OSM, and th