[Talk-us] State of the Map US 2016 to take place in Seattle!

2016-03-01 Thread Alex Barth
a bid. Looking forward to seeing everyone in Seattle! Alex Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] State of the Map US bidders: join the virtual Town Hall!

2016-01-25 Thread Alex Barth
Reminder - the virtual townhall on State of the Map US is happening today at 5PM ET! All the info to join is here: https://openstreetmap.us/2016/01/sotmus-2016/ Spread the word + happy Monday everyone. On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Alex Barth <a...@openstreetmap.us> wrote: > Are yo

[Talk-us] State of the Map US bidders: join the virtual Town Hall!

2016-01-19 Thread Alex Barth
f the Town Hall. You can still submit a bid for State of the Map US until February 15th: https://openstreetmap.us/2016/01/sotmus-2016/ Cheers! Alex -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstr

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap US elections: October 12 townhall with candidates

2015-10-08 Thread Alex Barth
for elections! Get your name up on the list by October 10th. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Elections/2015#Candidates -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Consider running for the OSM US board? Join the October 1st campfire chat!

2015-10-01 Thread Alex Barth
, Alex Barth <a...@openstreetmap.us> wrote: > *RSVP for an October 1st campfire chat with active board members* to > learn more about activities of the organization and responsibilities of the > board: > > > https://docs.google.com/a/openstreetmap.us/forms/d/1s7H_jnL6SBRGcico33n

[Talk-us] Consider running for the OSM US board? Join the October 1st campfire chat!

2015-09-29 Thread Alex Barth
are OpenStreetMap US board elections*. Consider running! OpenStreetMap US is a great place to promote OpenStreetMap with events and outreach programs small (think mapathons) and large (think State of the Map US). http://openstreetmap.us/2015/09/do-you-want-to-be-on-the-osm-us-board/ -- Alex Barth Vice

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap US elections October 18th 2015

2015-09-10 Thread Alex Barth
the word* For example by retweeting us: https://twitter.com/OpenStreetMapUS/status/642098276561473536 -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [Talk-us] Railway crossing challenge for MapRoulette

2015-07-07 Thread Alex Barth
This is great work, thank you for setting this up Martijn! On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hi all, I have done some work to turn the FRA crossing data into a MapRoulette challenge to fix missing railway crossings. Here is the description I have come

Re: [Talk-us] State of the Map US: ticket sales close June 1

2015-06-01 Thread Alex Barth
We just extended registration until June 3 noon Eastern - the very last moment to ensure you'll be on the security list for the UN. http://stateofthemap.us/ See you in NYC! On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: If you haven't gotten your ticket yet for State

[Talk-us] State of the Map US: ticket sales close June 1

2015-05-20 Thread Alex Barth
York City! Alex -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Low State of the Map US hotel room rates

2015-05-04 Thread Alex Barth
We've secured crazy low hotel room rates for State of the Map US starting at $60 / night for three nights at the New School's 13th Street Residence. Book fast! https://twitter.com/sotmus/status/595299230928908289 https://twitter.com/sotmus/status/595299230928908289 -- Alex Barth Vice

Re: [Talk-us] Happy weekend - join the #Mapathon!

2015-04-13 Thread Alex Barth
to plan for things like that weeks in advance... - Serge On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: Join this weekend at the US wide spring #mapathon. Find the official locations on the OpenStreetMap US blog or just join from home. All you need to join is tag

[Talk-us] Happy weekend - join the #Mapathon!

2015-04-10 Thread Alex Barth
/2015/04/spring-mapathon/ Happy weekend everyone - Alex -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-04 Thread Alex Barth
is interested in help lead a foot survey at State of the Map US, get in touch: sot...@openstreetmap.us . -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-04 Thread Alex Barth
://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-04 Thread Alex Barth
walking around outdoors on a college campus. This is why we're doing mapathons (previously editathons) - they bring new people into the community! How awesome is that? -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-04 Thread Alex Barth
@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-03 Thread Alex Barth
Not sure it is necessary to suggest all nonhackers and non humanitarians on this list are couch potatoes to further the argument. Osm is a place where imports happen, we have rules to stick to, we want to have educated discussions about those rules. I am tired of import bashing as an

Re: [Talk-us] New North America coverage of Osmose QA

2015-04-02 Thread Alex Barth
Thank you Frédéric and Osmose team! On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Frédéric Rodrigo fred.rodr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Osmose QA is a Quality Assurance tool. It detects and reports errors based on more than 200 rulesets. http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr

[Talk-us] Get your $90 early bird ticket to State of the Map US by TUESDAY

2015-03-30 Thread Alex Barth
Tuesday 31st is the last day to get an early bird ticket at $90 to State of the Map US at the UN in New York City. Thereafter the tickets will be $150. http://stateofthemap.us/ Looking forward to seeing you in NYC! -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc

Re: [Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

2015-03-25 Thread Alex Barth
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: I apologize for coming in so late on this thread. Looking at my small county, we have 55 place=hamlet according to an overpass query. Note we're only talking about `place=hamlet` in urban areas. I wasn't 100 % clear

[Talk-us] This Sunday: last opportunity to submit a talk to State of the Map US

2015-03-21 Thread Alex Barth
-- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

2015-03-19 Thread Alex Barth
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for another TIGER tool. I used it to look at some areas and made changes. The map reminds me of another map that MapBox produced several years ago using a slider tool. Useful features: * Timely updates. The

Re: [Talk-us] Your opinion about SOTM US

2015-03-15 Thread Alex Barth
, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','a...@mapbox.com'); wrote: Here's a map showing where TIGER is better than OSM: https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/lxbarth.647bc246/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoibHhiYXJ0aCIsImEiOiJFVXdYcUlvIn0.bbaHTEWlnAwGgyVwJngMdQ#5

Re: [Talk-us] Communication Working Group Proposal

2015-03-14 Thread Alex Barth
osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc

[Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

2015-03-14 Thread Alex Barth
What do people think about how to properly retag place=hamlet in US urban areas? My colleague Eliane rendered out a map of all hamlets in urban areas in the US: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/samely/diary/34541 I just posted how we could fix this:

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

2015-03-14 Thread Alex Barth
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: The editor visits a site which accesses the JOSM remote control protocol. They fix up the TIGER date and indicate Yes, I'm done or Needs more work, and after a couple of Yes votes, it gets taken out of rotation.

[Talk-us] Scholarships and talks deadlines - we'd like to hear from you!

2015-03-10 Thread Alex Barth
you in New York - Alex PS: if you'd like to help spread the word: https://twitter.com/sotmus/status/575450081886781441 -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

2015-03-09 Thread Alex Barth
Casting the net a little wider: What do you think are the big topics and challenges for OpenStreetMap as we're about to go into the second decade? What does this mean for State of the Map? On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hey all, I put together a 3

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for outdoor mapping party

2015-03-09 Thread Alex Barth
It would be great to have this topic at State of the Map US as a talk, workshop or a mapping party http://stateofthemap.us/ On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Andrew Wiseman awise...@gmail.com wrote: I'd also suggest the Pushpin app for iPhones too, it's a very quick way to add points that you

Re: [Talk-us] Get your early bird ticket to State of the Map US!

2015-02-04 Thread Alex Barth
in there if you're attending on your own behalf. Thanks! On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com wrote: On 01/28/2015 02:39 PM, Alex Barth wrote: Hello everyone! Early bird ticket sales for State of the Map US are open, find out all the details on our web site: http

Re: [Talk-us] Get your early bird ticket to State of the Map US!

2015-02-04 Thread Alex Barth
- and we are fully planning to sell out the conference :) -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Get your early bird ticket to State of the Map US!

2015-01-30 Thread Alex Barth
for a call for session proposals. We'll be announcing it here, but another way of staying in the loop is signing up for the newsletter on http://stateofthemap.us Alex -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list

[Talk-us] Get your early bird ticket to State of the Map US!

2015-01-28 Thread Alex Barth
Hello everyone! Early bird ticket sales for State of the Map US are open, find out all the details on our web site: http://openstreetmap.us/2014/12/early-bird/ Looking forward to seeing you in NYC! Alex -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc

Re: [Talk-us] Mappy Hour

2015-01-22 Thread Alex Barth
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Re: [Talk-us] Please review: new proposed bylaws for OSM US, open for comments until Jan 20th

2015-01-20 Thread Alex Barth
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Our new proposed bylaws are open for comments until **January 20th 3PM Eastern**. Will these new bylaws be compatible with getting Local Chapter status? Yes. ___ Talk-us mailing

[Talk-us] Please review: new proposed bylaws for OSM US, open for comments until Jan 20th

2015-01-14 Thread Alex Barth
at members...@opensteretmap.us -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Meet the new board - offices elected

2014-12-02 Thread Alex Barth
Hello everyone - Today we elected the offices of the new 2014/2015 board of OpenStreetMap US, see the resulting new roles here: http://openstreetmap.us/2014/12/board-roles/ -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Meet the new board - offices elected

2014-12-02 Thread Alex Barth
Paul - On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Previously it was stated that the OSM US conference announcement (SOTM-US) would happen after the new board selected their roles. With the conference announcement happening in November, what happened during the last

Re: [Talk-us] OSMF AGM election results

2014-11-10 Thread Alex Barth
Alan - STV hasn't come up in the more recent past for osm us. Certainly open to using it in 2015 election. Alex (osm us board member) On Sunday, November 9, 2014, Alan McConchie alan.mcconc...@gmail.com wrote: Richard, thanks for the great work you and the other election monitors did to make

Re: [Talk-us] SotM-us 2015

2014-10-24 Thread Alex Barth
Richard - The bids were submitted private. As soon as the board will reconstitute after the elections we'll take a decision on the next location for State of the Map US. FWIW, I personally don't see a reason to not share the submissions together with the board decision, but I'd love to get the

Re: [Talk-us] Outreach Program for Women

2014-10-05 Thread Alex Barth
Great! On Saturday, October 4, 2014, alyssa wright alyssapwri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I am pleased to announce that we are providing funding for an internship with HOT through the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. This is an incredible organizations with proven success in bringing more

Re: [Talk-us] tasks.openstreetmap.us

2014-09-27 Thread Alex Barth
Hey there Paul - This is you, right? https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Paul%20Johnson I just made you admin on tasks.osm.us. Alex On Saturday, September 27, 2014, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Who would I talk to about getting access to create tasks on this Task Manager? I'd

Re: [Talk-us] NYC building details

2014-09-18 Thread Alex Barth
Colin - You're essentially describing OpenStreetMap's standards. Of course we don't have the imagery you used for digitization but we should make at least sure to stick to tracing footprints, not rooflines. I'll drop the user robgeb who created the changeset in question a friendly note to make

[Talk-us] Scholarships for Argentina

2014-09-17 Thread Alex Barth
/512270288823025664 Cheers and hope to see you in Argentina!!! -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Geography Awareness Week #mapathon Nov 15 and 16

2014-09-16 Thread Alex Barth
For this fall's #mapathon we're joining National Geographic's Geography Awareness Week. Add your city on the map and host a #mapathon in your community + help spread the word: http://openstreetmap.us/2014/09/fall-mapathon/ Cheers! -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc

[Talk-us] Call for Locations: State of the Map US 2015

2014-08-22 Thread Alex Barth
! -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap US elections Oct 4-12

2014-08-19 Thread Alex Barth
/status/501850499814260736 -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Happy 10th Birthday OpenStreetMap! Join the Celebration in Your City

2014-08-05 Thread Alex Barth
Here's a full list of all registered cities for this weekend's 10 year birthday celebrations. If you'd like to host a birthday mapathon yourself, it's not too late - find all you need to know on: http://openstreetmap.us/2014/06/happy-10th-birthday/ Cheers! -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap

[Talk-us] Birthday party - get your city on!

2014-07-23 Thread Alex Barth
In only a bit more than 2 weeks it's OpenStreetMap's birthday and we're putting together a US wide mapathon + birthday party - join the event and get your city on the list! https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapathon/US_Summer_Mapathon_2014 -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States

Re: [Talk-us] More road name expansion thoughts

2014-07-21 Thread Alex Barth
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: OSM maps of DC now just look a bit bizarre. The MapBox folks seemed to have figued this out US-wide and re-contract the road names and the directional identifiers. Mapbox has an exception for DC that contracts

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping event in Baltimore

2014-07-07 Thread Alex Barth
Patrick - you're on: http://openstreetmap.us/calendar/ On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Patrick Maynard patrickmayn...@gmail.com wrote: Would someone with access be handy to add this calendar item? I don't believe I have the required privileges. On 7/3/14, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org

Re: [Talk-us] Summer editathon: OpenStreetMap Summer Camp

2014-06-16 Thread Alex Barth
Ha, awesome. Great way to make the event more inclusive for folks who don't want to spend their weekend day away from family. Someone at SOTM-EU gave me the same idea. Why not do Aug 9 on OSM's birthday? At OSM US we were planning on calling the next editathon on Aug 9. Alex On Thu, Jun 12,

Re: [Talk-us] attribution

2014-06-06 Thread Alex Barth
Steve - it's attributed, click on the Terms Feedback link on the page. For our plans to improve this see http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21847 Thanks - Alex On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: I just had a tornado warning and some exciting

Re: [Talk-us] ODBL for Spatial Analysis

2014-06-06 Thread Alex Barth
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, William Morris wboyk...@geosprocket.com wrote: Please let me know if I should direct this at a different list, but I have a basic question about the implications of the ODBL: OSM is

Re: [Talk-us] Telenav goes OSM with Scout

2014-05-20 Thread Alex Barth
Congratulations to you and the team, Martijn. This is awesome to see this work come to fruition! On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.comwrote: Hi all, At Telenav we have started making the switch to OSM today, as you may have seen around the web and twitter.

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

2014-04-29 Thread Alex Barth
are mainstream! On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.usjavascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','a...@openstreetmap.us'); wrote: This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in the US. Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend? Put

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

2014-04-22 Thread Alex Barth
will be holding a mapping party this upcoming weekend. - Serge On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in the US. Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend? Put your place

[Talk-us] Come out and map this weekend: spring editathon

2014-04-22 Thread Alex Barth
We have 10 cities who're joining this spring as physical locations for #editathons. But really, you can join from everywhere: http://openstreetmap.us/2014/04/spring-editathon/ By the way, it's called editathon, but that doesn't mean you can't go outside and map ;-) -- Alex Barth Secretary

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

2014-04-22 Thread Alex Barth
I really like #mapathon. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Martijn van Exel mart...@openstreetmap.uswrote: We have talked about just calling them #mapathons - how does that sound? It can cover both armchair and survey type events. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Alex Barth

[Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon

2014-04-21 Thread Alex Barth
all about #editathon's here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Notes from TeachOSM BoF at SotMUS

2014-04-17 Thread Alex Barth
I'm sorry I missed the BoF. What are the take aways? What actions are people planning? On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I created a Hackpad[0] to consolidate my (loose) notes from Sunday's birds-of-a-feather session at State of the Map.

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Boston Meetup group

2014-04-16 Thread Alex Barth
Fantastic On Wednesday, April 16, 2014, Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com wrote: On 04/16/2014 10:24 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: Thanks for starting this up! And it was good seeing you again at SOTM US. You too Martijn! Let me know if there's any way I can help out. I am just in the middle of

[Talk-us] Vandalism in NYC - reverted

2014-04-08 Thread Alex Barth
Changeset http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/21580748 by user alejandroflores removed a series of roads in lower Manhattan: http://cl.ly/image/3U0E262u0d1g I just reverted with: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/21582260 Using the JOSM reversion plugin. Paul: could you block and

[Talk-us] Added more tickets for State of the Map US - squeeze in

2014-04-07 Thread Alex Barth
on getting one, those 30 are going fast. Looking forward to seeing you in DC. Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] State of the Map US selling out fast - only 20 tickets left

2014-04-03 Thread Alex Barth
For everyone who was planning to come to State of the Map US on April 12/13 in DC: We are selling out fast and we have only 20 tickets left. Please get your ticket as soon as possible to secure a spot. http://stateofthemap.us/ Looking forward to seeing everyone - Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-17 Thread Alex Barth
Just posted my comments to key points that came up in the conversation over on the diary: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21221#comment25849 On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Hello everyone - I've been sitting on writing about the detrimental

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread Alex Barth
Hello everyone - I've been sitting on writing about the detrimental effects of OpenStreetMap's share-alike license (ODbL) for a while and finally decided to, um, share. I've been listening long to many OpenStreetMappers I respect a ton telling me it's not so bad and it's just what we're stuck

[Talk-us] Moderating agree/disagree comments (was Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike)

2014-03-13 Thread Alex Barth
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: On 13.03.2014 20:17, Jake Wasserman wrote: Figured I'd speak up as it always seems the no votes get all the attention on the list. This is not a vote; it is a discussion. Although the distinction becomes blurred

Re: [Talk-us] Local user groups

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Barth
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote: However the cost is expensive for individuals to start a Meetup group. I recommend either crowd funding a meetup group or getting a local company to sponsor. Like Ian said, at OSM US we've spent quite some cycles on

Re: [Talk-us] Local user groups

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Barth
Simon's comment makes me realize that the central argument for meetup.comhasn't been mentioned. meetup.com covers the bases for core organizing (events + mailing lists) but most importantly, it provides incredible visibility. Esp. in the US, people actively browse meetup for stuff they're

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Interesting use of OSM data in Battlefield 4

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Barth
;-) On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:01 AM, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.comwrote: https://twitter.com/Mapbox/status/395179791680159744 The blog link is redirecting, maybe they weren't supposed to announce it. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Games#Games_using_OpenStreetMap_data On 9

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Mappy New Year

2014-01-06 Thread Alex Barth
Mappy New Year everyone! Over here at OpenStreetMap US we'll celebrate OpenStreetMap's big 1-0 with State of the Map US April 12 and 13 in Washington DC http://stateofthemap.us/ I invite everyone (not just US based mappers) to join, propose a session and share their ideas and experiences in

[Talk-us] State of the Map US 2014 April 12 and 13 in Washington DC

2013-12-11 Thread Alex Barth
in Washington DC - Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Annual General Meeting of OpenStreetMap US

2013-11-19 Thread Alex Barth
to having you at the meeting. Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Locations for State of the Map US 2014

2013-11-13 Thread Alex Barth
Jeff, Alyssa, Kathleen - According to the CfP, the decision should have been made by the end of last month. That's right and we're very close to nailing down NYC or Chicago. We're about to hear back final numbers from a series of venues we've researched and reached out to. This will allow us to

Re: [Talk-us] Locations for State of the Map US 2014

2013-11-13 Thread Alex Barth
Expenses for attendees are a concern in both places, we want to make sure SOTM-US is as inclusive as possible and this means folks with smaller budgets shouldn't be left out. We're running these numbers right now. On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.orgwrote:

[Talk-us] Meet the new board

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Barth
Last night the new 2013/14 board had its first session and elected each member's roles: - Martijn van Exel - President - Kathleen Danielson - Treasurer - Ian Dees - At-Large - Mele Sax-Barnett - Vice President - Alex Barth - Secretary We're looking forward to working with everyone here

[Talk-us] OSM FTW!!! (or why I'm running for OSM US elections)

2013-10-04 Thread Alex Barth
This is why I'm running for the OpenStreetMap US chapter again: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/20139 My first year on the OpenStreetMap US chapter working with my colleagues there and many more community members was an amazing experience and we could bring OpenStreetMap US to a

[Talk-us] Reminder: OSM US board elections - update your membership

2013-09-30 Thread Alex Barth
/elections-2013/ -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Fall Editathon - you can still join with your city until October 5th

2013-09-24 Thread Alex Barth
This year's fall editathon is going to take place on October 19 and / or 20. You can still add your city until October 5th. All you need to know is here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/08/october-fall-editathon/ Looking forward to a weekend of mapping - Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary

Re: [Talk-us] Putting businesses on OSM with onosm.org

2013-08-21 Thread Alex Barth
This is great. - Right now if your business is already on there you're kinda falling through the cracks. - How are you thinking this should develop in the future? Direct editing on OSM? On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: At the Chicago Hack Weekend several

[Talk-us] Chapter board elections Oct 5 - 12

2013-08-21 Thread Alex Barth
://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-July/011595.html -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Is FIXME still a good practice?

2013-08-07 Thread Alex Barth
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Mark_estimations_with_FIXME ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Finalizing DC building + address import

2013-08-04 Thread Alex Barth
Hello everyone - I've put together here a proposal to finalize the stalled DC building + address import. - Please review proposal below [1] and post feedback here. - I hope to discuss any open items at import hangout Monday night (is there one scheduled?) - I hope to do first test imports on

Re: [Talk-us] Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US

2013-07-26 Thread Alex Barth
Inspired by this discussion, I've written up a blog post on why we at the OSM-US chapter love calling editathons: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ Like I mentioned before, I think they're a great tool to create an excuse or an impulse for people around the US to get together in

Re: [Talk-us] converting .osm to a particular shapefile schema

2013-07-25 Thread Alex Barth
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: With osmosis there comes a little utility called osmjs You mean Osmium, right? With osmosis there comes a little utility called osmjs ___ Talk-us mailing list

[Talk-us] How did this weekend's editathon go? (was Re: Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US)

2013-07-22 Thread Alex Barth
Snow wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: The local dimension of OpenStreetMap was exactly why OSM US decided to do #editathons. There's one happening this weekend, join us. http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/july-summer-editathon/ Our group is signed up

Re: [Talk-us] Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US

2013-07-19 Thread Alex Barth
+1 to just get going in your city or in your community. Let nothing stop you. The local dimension of OpenStreetMap was exactly why OSM US decided to do #editathons. There's one happening this weekend, join us. http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/july-summer-editathon/ Well I've been promoting this

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Releasing my data into Public Domain

2013-07-18 Thread Alex Barth
Fantastic. You could use cc0 http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/ On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Elliott Plack elliott.pl...@gmail.comwrote: Great news! First of all, I saved my 1000th edit the other day. Secondly, my organization is release all of its data into the public domain! That

[Talk-us] This coming weekend, July 20, 21: summer #editathon

2013-07-16 Thread Alex Barth
, but you can of course always join from home. Here are all the details you need to know: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/july-summer-editathon/ I'll be in DC at the Open Gov hub on Saturday. Hope to see you there and / or online! Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc

[Talk-us] California geo data open

2013-07-10 Thread Alex Barth
FYI: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jul/08/local/la-me-adv-map-ruling-20130709 ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Add your location to the summer editathon!

2013-07-10 Thread Alex Barth
We have already 7 participant locations for the upcoming Summer #editathon on July 20/21. Join us and add your city, too! Ideally until Friday, this way we have you in the upcoming announcement blog post. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Summer_Editathon_2013 -- Alex Barth Secretary

[Talk-us] An editathon in your city!

2013-07-01 Thread Alex Barth
-- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] A new openstreetmap.us

2013-06-30 Thread Alex Barth
Like that idea. On the backlog. On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: The instructions currently read: *1. Create an account on OpenStreetMap.org* *2. Click on “edit” and pick one of the editors to edit the map* Which seems a bit sparse and perhaps

Re: [Talk-us] A new openstreetmap.us

2013-06-28 Thread Alex Barth
directly. Hope this makes sense! Cheers - Alex On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/5/20 Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us OpenStreetMap.us relaunched today. Head over to http://openstreetmap.usand check it out. I think it really looks

[Talk-us] Call for locations: Summer editathon July 20-21!

2013-06-27 Thread Alex Barth
/US_Summer_Editathon_2013 Last #editathon was fun, they are an awesome excuse to get your local OpenStreetMap friends into one place and pull in new folks. I hope many local organizers will join us again this time around. Cheers - Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc

Re: [Talk-us] dirty2osm

2013-06-25 Thread Alex Barth
LOVE IT!!! This should be a Chrome plugin. Open any map in OSM at the right zoom level at a single mouse click or keyboard shortcut. Just throwing this out there, I _have_ read the GitHub sign :-) On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote: Before I whine about what

Re: [Talk-us] SOTM-US compared

2013-06-19 Thread Alex Barth
Frederik - Thank you for taking the time to write up your impressions (and for coming out to San Francisco in the first place) - this is really helpful for creating better conferences. tea, chocolate and delicate mini cakes during practially all the breaks ;) You can't beat that :) On the

Re: [Talk-us] SOTM-US compared

2013-06-19 Thread Alex Barth
Serge - You're not doing yourself justice as initiator and organizer of what are the first sprint days at a US State of the Map. I actually think the sprint days went very well - we had amazing turn out for both days and great work happened. So: I see absolutely no need to feel badly and thank

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