Re: [Talk-us] Burning Man old data, publicity opportunity

2014-04-23 Thread robmorgan78
Hello everyone, I am doing a project in my GIS class that involves working with a shape file and exporting to a KML file. I have been going to Burning Man for the past few years now and thought it would be interesting to work with data from BM. I stumbled across this discussion and now instead of o

Re: [Talk-us] Burning Man old data, publicity opportunity (robmorgan78)

2014-04-23 Thread Michael Patrick
> > First question, does anyone know where I can get shapefile data from past > Burning Man events? > You could contact the organizers or frequent participants ( there are several list serves) and ask if anyone has any GPS traces or KML files. Probabilistically, there may be some GIS attendee that

Re: [Talk-us] Burning Man old data, publicity opportunity

2014-04-23 Thread Brad Neuhauser
You might want to check out this thread from last year: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-August/011641.html Cheers, Brad On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:16 PM, robmorgan78 wrote: > Hello everyone, I am doing a project in my GIS class that involves working > with a shape file a

Re: [Talk-us] Burning Man old data, publicity opportunity

2014-04-23 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I have to say that I have very mixed feelings about Burning Man being in OSM. While I think that it's interesting because the event is so large and there's potential utility, there are two things that bring me a bit of concern: 1. Based on past years, the data is added but not deleted. The event

Re: [Talk-us] Burning Man old data, publicity opportunity

2014-04-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: > You might want to check out this thread from last year: > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-August/011641.html > > Cheers, Brad > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:16 PM, robmorgan78 wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, I am doin

Re: [Talk-us] Burning Man old data, publicity opportunity

2014-04-23 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Richard Weait wrote: > Secondly, OpenStreetMap data is supposed to be current, rather than > historical. There is a separate mailing list for those with an > interest in OpenStreetMap and historical objects. The two older > version of BM map are an exception in

Re: [Talk-us] Burning Man old data, publicity opportunity

2014-04-23 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi Rob Let's talk. Lots of cool opportunities. I put the data from past years data up, years ago. I'd like to get those years, and other years, available on an archive tile server - mini site ... perhaps OpenHistoricalMap if we can get that running again ... or just on it's own set of static ti

Re: [Talk-us] Burning Man old data, publicity opportunity

2014-04-23 Thread Dale Puch
A bit off topic here, but all the tools for making and running an OSM database are available and opensource. I'm not sure if it is a good or bad idea for OSM but other layers of data could be developed and stored on other servers. That would keep OSM focused, but allow for more esoteric datasets t

[Talk-us] Where are my local mappers at?

2014-04-23 Thread Martijn van Exel
Inspired by Dennis's talk at SOTM US and ensuing discussions I decided to dust off some old code that tells you what your local mapping community looks like. Here's what LA County looks like: http://mvexel.github.io/bravemappers/# Here's the source data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a