Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-04-29 Thread Paul Norman
> From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frede...@remote.org] > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:06 PM > To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap > Subject: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name > > I wonder: Is OSMI correct in flagging this for correction, or is this > something

Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon

2014-04-29 Thread Alan McConchie
We had a big turnout in San Francisco, with about 40 people showing up over the course of the day. We think we had a peak of about 30 people all at the same time in the early afternoon, around 2-3pm. By the end of the day the numbers dwindled to about a dozen. Big thanks to Telenav for buying p

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-04-29 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > In looking at its current error messages and warnings, I find many > situations in the US where the way itself has a name tag of "South Apple > Tree Road" but the house has an addr:street tag of just "Apple Tree > Road". This leads to a "st

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Welty
On 4/29/14 4:08 PM, Phil! Gold wrote: > * Frederik Ramm [2014-04-29 21:05 +0200]: >> In looking at its current error messages and warnings, I find many >> situations in the US where the way itself has a name tag of "South Apple >> Tree Road" but the house has an addr:street tag of just "Apple Tree

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-04-29 Thread Phil! Gold
* Frederik Ramm [2014-04-29 21:05 +0200]: > In looking at its current error messages and warnings, I find many > situations in the US where the way itself has a name tag of "South Apple > Tree Road" but the house has an addr:street tag of just "Apple Tree > Road". This leads to a "street not found

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Welty
On 4/29/14 3:31 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > >> I wonder: Is OSMI correct in flagging this for correction, or is this >> something that nobody really cares about and that should not be >> highlighted? I.e. should we, in OSMI, drop the E/N/S/W p

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-04-29 Thread Clay Smalley
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Saikrishna Arcot wrote: > I vote for keeping this check in place (i.e. an exact match of the street > name), because there are some places (in California, I think) where the > prefix/suffix changes from North to West as you are driving down the road, > and I believ

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-04-29 Thread Saikrishna Arcot
I vote for keeping this check in place (i.e. an exact match of the street name), because there are some places (in California, I think) where the prefix/suffix changes from North to West as you are driving down the road, and I believe it's important that we distinguish between the two. -- Saik

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > [ ... ] > I wonder: Is OSMI correct in flagging this for correction, or is this > something that nobody really cares about and that should not be > highlighted? I.e. should we, in OSMI, drop the E/N/S/W prefix of street > names before t

[Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-04-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, the OSM Inspector address layer now has world-wide coverage thanks to a sponsorship from Geotab in Canada - I believe that this has already been mentioned here. In looking at its current error messages and warnings, I find many situations in the US where the way itself has a name tag of "S

Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon

2014-04-29 Thread Steven Johnson
I'll amplify Alex' comment about our DC editathon by adding that two of our participants were a father-son team mapping their neighborhood. Let's do more to encourage parents to bring their kids and get youthful mappers in the pipeline. Get 'em started young and make lifelong mappers out of 'em. -

Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon

2014-04-29 Thread Clifford Snow
Seattle's event had a good turn out. We had about 9 people, although some people came late and others left early. We had a mix of new people and experienced ones. Thanks to the OSM-US we now have OSM vests that Paul Norman brought down from Vancouver. It is interesting that we had new people that h

Re: [Talk-us] weekly metro extracts

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Weait
Thank you for picking these up, Randy. One of the common newcomer questions on the various channels is some variant of "how do I work with some portion of the OpenStreetMap data set?"  I'm sure that we'll be pointing folks to these as well as the extracts from Geofabrik. It's also nice to see y

Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon

2014-04-29 Thread Alex Barth
DC went great with about 25 people showing up. Had a great conversation here with steven johnson about going more directly after student participants. Maybe a model for other editathons too? For dc, it definitely helps branding the editathon as explicitly open to beginners. We routinely have about