Re: [Talk-us] Geography Awareness Week

I'm working on planning an event with the Parisian OSM gang, since I'll be there on vacation, although I anticipate that just being a local OSM meetup, rather than an outreach event. Mostly because I don't speak French. (Meeting with the Dutch and Belgian, and maybe even the English mappers the p

Re: [Talk-us] Role of the Wiki

> > *Some of these resources may require a > little effort on your part, and they may not all be as well advertised > **or interconnected as they should be,* but you have to realize that > OpenStreetMap is eternally a work in progress, run entirely by > volunteers who are working really hard to kee

Re: [Talk-us] Know of a local user group? Update the page!

I'd be interested in helping with this. What I lack in OSM prowess I like to think I make up in online and offline community organization skills. On Dec 10, 2012 6:39 PM, "Jeff Meyer" wrote: > Noticing how many of these user groups host sites outside of OSM, is there > any update on making the OS

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Large Edit Committee Meeting 12/20

Hi Greg, That's an interesting point. What alternatives would you suggest for virtual meetings? KD On Dec 18, 2012 8:56 AM, "Greg Troxel" wrote: > > Or if you'd like to join, and Google+ is a problem, please drop me a > line. > > I object to the use of google anything. That requires people t

Re: [Talk-us] Kathleen starting with community outreach for OSM-US

Hey Everyone-- I'm really excited to work more with the local OSM groups in the coming weeks and months. My first plan is to do research on what communities are already out there and figure out how OSM-US can be supporting each of you. I'm also really interested in how the different local groups m

Re: [Talk-us] Kathleen starting with community outreach for OSM-US

ap&radius=Infinity but > I'm sure you're aware of that because GeoDC is on there as well ;) > > Good luck and let us know what you need! > > Martijn > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Kathleen Danielson > wrote: > > Hey Everyone-- > > > > I&#x

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Edit-a-thon January 26th

Hi Steve, Sorry we didn't get word out to you earlier-- we've put this together somewhat rapidly, and I'm still in the process of organizing all of the local user group community research I'm working on. Reaching out to you is on my list! :) I don't see any reason that your event on the 27th can'

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Edit-a-thon January 26th

No problem. What would folks think of making this a semi-organized quarterly thing? Monthly is probably too frequent, but quarterly might be the right pace. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Alex Barth wrote: > We should definitely have 1 - 2 months lead time next time around. I know > John's

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Edit-a-thon January 26th

Awesome! So glad you'll be joining us! On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Sax-Barnett, Melelani wrote: > I just wanted to spread the word that Portland will be having its own > meetup for Saturday's OSM Edit-a-thon too. Sorry for the late notice-- we > had some trouble finding a venue. > > We'll b

[Talk-us] Welcome, OSM-St Louis!

Exciting News-- St Louis is getting their very own local user group! Rick Marshall is getting things rolling with their very first meetup this Thursday, January 31 at 7pm. You can find the event details on the OSM-US calendar

[Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

Calling all OSM Local User Group organizers-- Over the last several weeks I have reached out to many of you, but I am certain that I missed a few. I am working on wrapping my initial findings on the local OSM communities in the US, but I want to ensure that you're all represented. If we have NOT

Re: [Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

York Chicago Washington, DC Boston San Francisco (I'm combining this with Sunnyvale, but let me know if that's incorrect and they are really two separate entities) Seattle St Louis Tampa Portland Cleveland Salt Lake City On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Kathleen Danielson < ka

Re: [Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

or someone to do > this. > > Steve > > On Feb 6, 2013, at 6:13 AM, Kathleen Danielson < > kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I heard from a few of you, so thanks a ton! I just realized this will be a > lot easier if I give you the local groups I already have on

Re: [Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

Excellent point-- what I had in mind was something along the lines of what the Boston Python Workshop has done-- they provide intro to Python workshops that encourage diversity within the local python communities. They have had a lot of success packaging the

Re: [Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

I think a lot has to do with where it thinks you're located. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > It's nice, though I question it's accuracy: I'm not listed there. At > all. Anywhere. And I *should* be in the gold category on that at this > point. Weird. > > > On Wed, Feb

Re: [Talk-us] Turn restriction dispute

Out of curiosity, is asking someone to leave the project something that we have done before? I'm wondering what kind of precedents we've set for ourself. I am only vaguely familiar with the circumstances around this user being removed from the list, so I'm curious about the decision to ban someone

Re: [Talk-us] OSMers in NYC?

Hi Derick! I'm so glad you reached out! I actually did the same thing recently when I was in Europe-- I met up with mappers in Paris, Amsterdam, and Belgium. I'd suggest you reach out to this OSM NYC meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/osm-nyc/ Many of them are on this list however, so they migh

Re: [Talk-us] SOTM-US list for room shares

Hey folks-- just a reminder to add your names to the room share list in the wiki if you're looking for one. Room reservations need to be made pretty much immediately because of WWDC coming into town right on our heels. Also, the special SOTM-US rate is only in effect until *this Friday,* after whic

Re: [Talk-us] meta question

Hi Alyssa, You might want to think about distributing a survey to the list. The results would be self-selecting, of course, but it could provide you with more robust demographic data than is collected by the talk list system. I'll be interested to hear about your research at SOTM! On May 11, 20

Re: [Talk-us] New National Parks Mailing List

Quick question: will there be opportunities for armchair mappers to help, or are you only looking for on-the-ground knowledge? On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Clifford Snow wrote: > During discussions in presentations at this years SOTM-US, participants > expressed a desire to create a mailing

Re: [Talk-us] Onboarding new mappers | Keeping track of changes

How clever! +1 On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2013/6/26 stevea > >> I regularly click on the History tab in a wide swath of Bay Area (my home >> turf) looking for new edits, and especially, new mappers. > > > > You might be interested in this ITTT recipe by Sim

[Talk-us] Happy Birthday, OSM-- let's have a Birthday Sprint!

Hi Everyone, I hope you're all enjoying your Independence Day celebrations! I'm thinking toward another upcoming anniversary-- OpenStreetMap's 9th birthday! I know that folks are planning various celebrations in cities around the world, and I thought that it might be a good idea to plan a Birthday

Re: [Talk-us] Happy Birthday, OSM-- let's have a Birthday Sprint!

. TeachOSM, Diversity Task Force. Within > HOT, we have a lot of policy and communication needs. > > -Mikel > > * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron > > -- > *From:* Kathleen Danielson > *To:* OpenStreetMap US Talk > *Sent:* Thursday

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

Hi Clifford, Wow--thanks for sharing those stats! They are really interesting! I just took a look at the link you shared and it looks like we're seeing the number of mappers contributing on any given day. Do you know if it's possible to find the number of mappers contributing in a week or even mo

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

Kai-- those are some really great ideas around publicity! Personally, I think we'd need a dedicated PR person on staff to fully accomplish this. That's not really feasible in the near term, though-- so maybe we should think about ways that we can break that down into volunteer-sized tasks? This se

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

"Clifford, of your 4 ideas only getting coverage in mainstream press would probably be effective." Hey folks, just a quick note to be mindful of the way we're responding to each other's ideas, and to be especially careful since as we all know, tone is easily misread online. (And thanks to Jason

Re: [Talk-us] Shields are up!

These look *amazing. * Great work!!! On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Toby Murray wrote: > We finally managed to get Phil's highway shield rendering up on the OSM-US > server today! You can see the tiles here: > > http://tile.openstreetmap.us/osmus_shields/preview.html > > This is a pretty bas

Re: [Talk-us] Cemeteries in OSM?

There is the Congressional Cemetery in DC: http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.88099&lon=-76.97739&zoom=17&layers=M The MappingDC folks had a mapping party there a year or two ago. And there's also Arlington National Cemetery, although it doesn't have the level of granularity you're talking about: ht

Re: [Talk-us] Chapter Board Elections

Hi Martijn (and other board members), Can you talk about the responsibilities of the board as well as the time commitment that is expected? That would be helpful for people who are considering running. And the board is limited at 5 members, is that correct? On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Mar

Re: [Talk-us] Chapter Board Elections

s > are much easier to change.) > > > On 7/30/13 1:56 PM, Kathleen Danielson wrote: > > Hi Martijn (and other board members), > > Can you talk about the responsibilities of the board as well as the time > commitment that is expected? That would be helpful for people who

Re: [Talk-us] Happy Birthday, OSM-- let's have a Birthday Sprint!

time, feel free to ping me with any questions, or let me know if you'd like to include your project in the sprint! (We'll just need someone to take ownership for it, a place where contributors can find tasks and ongoing discussion, and a lot of enthusiasm!) On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:11 PM

[Talk-us] Mark your calendars for the #BirthdaySprint! (Now with snazzy website!)

As you all know, in honor of OpenStreetMap's 9th birthday, we are holding a Birthday Sprint next weekend, August 10th - 11th. Since we can't all be in the same room (this time), this will be a distributed code sprint, so you won't even need to get off the

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

I only know a little about Burning Man (seriously, just what I read in Cory Doctorow's Homeland), but mapping BRC makes sense to me. Is it on the exact same location every year? In that case it seems like it would make sense to update the map annually. If they are on different parts of the dessert

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

e past, and been given > advance private access to survey shapefiles. > > Yup, we have them for this year already, but are not always allowed to > release them without permission. Will report back ASAP. > > > -mike. > > > > On Aug 5, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Kathleen Da

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

Clay, does this give you something to work with? On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Michal Migurski wrote: > I'd love to help with this, but I'm not much of a burner (first & last: > 2001) so I won't be able to follow up. Sorry! > > -mike. > > On Aug 5, 2013, at 11:54 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: >

Re: [Talk-us] Mark your calendars for the #BirthdaySprint! (Now with snazzy website!)

istributed event, though, so you definitely don't have to show up in person to participate. Let me or Mikel know if you have any questions-- we're excited to celebrate OSM's birthday with all of you! Kathleen On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Kathleen Danielson < kathleen.daniel.

Re: [Talk-us] Mark your calendars for the #BirthdaySprint! (Now with snazzy website!)

emillard wrote: > Hi, > > Also, it looks like we have some actual locations for some US events > this weekend too. San Francisco, Denver, Nashua, NH. > > Thanks > Jason > > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Kathleen Danielson > wrote: > > As you all kno

Re: [Talk-us] Mark your calendars for the #BirthdaySprint! (Now with snazzy website!)

joined: > http://www.meetup.com/OSM-Colorado/ - details are there if you (or > others) do want to add us to webpages, etc. > > ** ** > > Thanks, > > =Russ > > ** ** > > *From:* Kathleen Danielson [mailto:kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesda

Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore County GIS Data is now public domain

Congratulations, Elliott! I know you've been working toward this for a long time! On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Elliott Plack wrote: > TO: > [talk-us] > [imports-us] > > FROM: > Elliott Plack > [elliott.pl...@gmail.com] > [epl...@baltimorecountymd.gov] > > 27 Sep 2013 > > Greetings OpenStreet

[Talk-us] Running for the OSM US Board

Hi Everyone, Some of you know this already, but I've decided to throw my metaphorical hat in the ring and run for a position on the OSM-US Board. You can read why in my latest diary entry . Don't forget to check out the Elections wiki

Re: [Talk-us] USA border

That, or there's a New York separatist movement I haven't heard of. On Oct 5, 2013 11:07 AM, "Richard Welty" wrote: > On 10/5/13 10:10 AM, Richard Welty wrote: > > > > there's a portion of the border between NY and PA along the > > Delaware River that's in the admin_level 2 border "United > > St

Re: [Talk-us] Fall Editathon Seattle Edition

Mele, That resource page is awesome! We should definitely put that into our toolkit to help future editathon organizers! DC's Editathon is happening later today! KD On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Melelani Sax-Barnett wrote: > Things went well in PDX too-- we had about 14 people who came and

[Talk-us] Call for Locations: 2014 Winter #Editathon!

http://openstreetmap.us/2013/11/january-winter-editathon/ Our next #Editathon will be held the weekend of January 18-19, 2014. We've opened up a call for locations [1]-- so add your city to the list! During our most recent editathon we had 12 cities participating, and the event has been growing s

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

Hi Jeff, If you or someone at Boundless (or someone else in DC) would like to put together a proposal for DC, those of us on the board would be happy to read it! What we need in a proposal can be found here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/09/call-for-locations-sotm-us/ We'll need a very quick turna

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

ffrey Johnson wrote: > Ok, let me ask a few folks what they think, including Bonnie, and I'll get > back to the list. What are the preferred dates? > > On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:29, Kathleen Danielson > wrote: > > Hi Jeff, > > If you or someone at Boundless (or someone

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

To be clear, we (as in, the OSM-US Board and Bonnie, our conference organizer) are totally open to getting proposals from anywhere. We didn't receive any during the CfP period and have been working on selecting a location of our own. We aren't all the way there yet though, so more info is welcome.

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

ov 13, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Jeffrey Johnson > wrote: > > Ok well don't let me get in your way! DC is always just a pretty easy > > default location and Boundless (OpenGeo) has organized conferences there > > before with MapBox. Happy to help if we can. > > >

Re: [Talk-us] Completing the Appalachian Trail relation

Thanks for raising this-- I just took a look at the PA relation which apparently was last edited by me (what?). There's a gap in my hometown (which I may or may not have created). Fixing now! On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Richard Welty wrote: > On 11/27/13 8:26 AM, Richard Welty wrote: > >

Re: [Talk-us] Call for Locations: 2014 Winter #Editathon!

ty to the wiki here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Winter_Editathon_2014 Cheers, Kathleen On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Kathleen Danielson < kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://openstreetmap.us/2013/11/january-winter-editathon/ > > Our next #Editathon will be

[Talk-us] Winter #editathon planning

Hi All, In case you haven't already seen it, we've got a great lineup of events for the 2014 winter #editathon happening in less than two weeks[1]. I wanted to send a note to remind everyone about the event and also put out a call to organizers because we've got some great resources we'd like to s

[Talk-us] Mark Your Calendars: Winter #Editathon Jan 18-19

By now you've seen calls for locations and organizer prep, but here it is-- the official Winter #Editathon announcement! The weekend of January 18th and 19th we'll be gathering in homes, offices, coffeeshops, and more across the US to work on improving OSM. You can work on editing whatever you wha

Re: [Talk-us] Local user groups

Surprising probably no one, I have a lot of thoughts on this topic, so I've been watching this conversation with interest. Not to toot my own horn, but I gave a talk on this very subject at SOTM US 2013, which you can watch here: http://vimeopro.com/openstreetmapus/state-of-the-map-us-2013/video/6

Re: [Talk-us] Meetup group sponsorship

Thanks, Steve and Telenav! This is really great! On Feb 1, 2014 5:49 PM, "Steve Coast" wrote: > Hi > > Do you have a meetup.com group primary for running OSM events within the > United States? > > Have you organized two or more events in the last 6 months? > > If you can answer "yes" to these two

Re: [Talk-us] SOTM EU (yes, EU)

I will be there for (almost) sure! I'm planning to submit a talk, but haven't decided what yet. On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > > I know we're getting really close to SOTM US (only 5 weeks! check out > the program and registration details at stateofthemap.us

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

How exciting! Congratulations Martijn, Steve, Kristen and all the other OSMers at Telenav! On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > > At Telenav we have started making the switch to OSM today, as you may have > seen around the web and twitter. > > I am really excite

Re: [Talk-us] OSM10B Tulsa

A decade of OSM deserves more than a single day of celebration anyway! ;-) On Aug 9, 2014 7:24 PM, "Paul Johnson" wrote: > Tulsa's 10th anniversary party is being postponed, probably one or two > weeks, due to venue unavailability. Code for America is helping organize > this, and we had collect

Re: [Talk-us] SotM in Brussels: Call for session proposals and Scholarship fund

Hi Mikel-- Can you tell us about the program selection process? How will talk proposals be evaluated and selected? Thanks! Kathleen On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Mikel Maron wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm delighted to report that the planning for State of the Map 2016 is > going well. We have now