Re: [Talk-us] Senseless Germans, again.

Hi guys, I am willing to help re-map the sidewalks in question that got deleted or fix them up, just point me in the right direction please, any links? Now about this discussion: I am one of those mappers who has stopped mapping so much a bit, but life has gotten in my way. I would like to add

Re: [Talk-us] Slack: Do we need an Alternative (was Planning an import in Price George...)

Hi all, I have had good experience with riot.im matrix.org it is open source, mobile friendly and has an irc gateway. On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 3:27 AM, Simon Poole wrote: > > > Am 10.06.2018 um 05:21 schrieb Bryan Housel: > >> I'm also interested in how others feel about Slack. Is it good for

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger Zip Data Removal Project (Update)

Hans, Just wanted to say to not give up working on osm. Open Knowledge and Open source brings out the worst in people sometimes, just look at the wikipedia edit wars, and other strife, for example the systemd discussion. Some people get very territorial about 'their' section of the map and upset

Re: [Talk-us] School districts

I have been thinking about it and the best I can come up with is a relation of type collection that contains either the areas, streets or houses associated with the school district cachement area. On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com > wrote: >

[Talk-us] Fwd: School districts

Hi guys, Need advice on how to setup a OSM searchable school district lookup system using a static js driven site. Can we start adding the school districts for the map in the usa? For Lawrence Township they assign individual houses or streets. Here is the best map I have come up with for

Re: [Talk-us] Flash Map Mobs!

I own the domain flashmobr.com and would setup a subdomain osm.flashmobr.com if you want. On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Eleanor Tutt wrote: > Very cool & good pointers! > > Am I correct that you set the location on Meetup in the morning and then > you meet in the

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > Except that osm is part of the Free Sofware / Open Data world, and it > isn't reasonable to expect contributors to have a relationship with an > advertising company. second that. So, it woudl be nice to be able to invite

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 9:11 PM, stevea wrote: > OSM needs the same kind of medium. Today, or soon. It really WILL > increase our number of mappers. How about single sign on, we dont need multiple accounts for all these web resources. -- James Michael DuPont

Re: [Talk-us] Extra wide shoulders / travel lanes in NJ

d on the ORSM backend for clues on how they're handling shared lanes >>> and such. Looks like one of these tagging combos will work: >>> https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/blob/8f8bd05f83fa2ccc542c2c44761f548a1e8b7579/features/bicycle/cycleway.feature >>> >>>

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

Many people don't use mailing lists. What about an recent edits around me feature? What if we could comment or vote (like) directly on a changeset/node/line? What if the discussion could be directly a part of the editing process. Community could form more naturally. So you could subscribe to a

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

Hi there, I would organize a local mapathon for a specific project that people are interested. Lets map X that you care about. On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > Martijn's recent diary post "How can we double the number of active mappers > in the US

Re: [Talk-us] Extra wide shoulders / travel lanes in NJ

red lanes >> and such. Looks like one of these tagging combos will work: >> https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/blob/8f8bd05f83fa2ccc542c2c44761f548a1e8b7579/features/bicycle/cycleway.feature >> >> Elliott >> >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:15 PM Mike Dupo

Re: [Talk-us] Extra wide shoulders / travel lanes in NJ

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > A hard shoulder is not a bike lane and should not be tagged as such. If you look at the supporting document some sections are declared as bikable by the city planning. there are share the road signs in some areas. I am

Re: [Talk-us] Extra wide shoulders / travel lanes in NJ

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > cycleway=lane I think these are just shoulders used for biking not bike lanes. I have not seen any bike lanes so far. -- James Michael DuPont Kansas Linux Fest http://kansaslinuxfest.us Free/Libre Open Source and Open

Re: [Talk-us] Extra wide shoulders / travel lanes in NJ

Take a look at this map of the area http://www.dvrpc.org/asp/bikemercer/ It would not be used as a source, but it gives you an idea of what people call bike-able around here. On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Elliott Plack wrote: >> I am now

[Talk-us] Extra wide shoulders / travel lanes in NJ

Hi there, This road cr 546 (http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/566939) and many others here in the area has extra wide wide shoulders that people use for walking or biking. How do you want to tag them as such so that we can also use that for routing? Here is a table of the segments with lane

Re: [Talk-us] perceptions of OHM and other similar projects

Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Mike Dupont writes: On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: If the two were layers in the same database, or if they have been tagged using railway=dismantled and railway=abandoned, then it's no problem to look at them

Re: [Talk-us] perceptions of OHM and other similar projects

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: If the two were layers in the same database, or if they have been tagged using railway=dismantled and railway=abandoned, then it's no problem to look at them, render them, edit them, analyze them I still dont understand

Re: [Talk-us] Mappy Hour - Next Monday

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:48 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: OpenHistoricalMap. Read about it here: http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/about but better still, come join the Mappy Hour next week. That is great! nice to hear about that project. Good job! -- James Michael DuPont

Re: [Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap

Here in Kansas we have very many abandoned railways (and many pickup trucks to replace them) that are turned into trails or paved over and still visible. I would say if there is any sign of them left to keep the information in some way. On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:12 AM, Bryce Nesbitt

Re: [Talk-us] OSM topics at Kansas Linux Fest

27, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Howdy, I am working on an free/libre open source software/open knowledge festival in Kansas on March 21-22 2015, kansaslinuxfest.us and would like to invite OSM people to talk and attend! mike -- James Michael DuPont

[Talk-us] OSM topics at Kansas Linux Fest

Howdy, I am working on an free/libre open source software/open knowledge festival in Kansas on March 21-22 2015, kansaslinuxfest.us and would like to invite OSM people to talk and attend! mike -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://www.flossk.org Saving

[Talk-us] Event Invite: Intro to Openstreetmap March 29 Lawrence Creates On March 29 at 18:00-21:00

Intro to Openstreetmap March 29 Lawrence Creates On March 29 at 18:00-21:00 at Lawrence Creates we will be organizing a intro to openstreetmap.org Location https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2480338498 512 E 9th St. (9th and NJ), Lawrence, KS 66044-66044 Lawrence United States of America All are

Re: [Talk-us] US Bicycle Route mapping projects

KANSAS Model: Not Determined Phase I: Planning There is interest in the U.S. Bicycle Route System with momentum behind USBR 66 and 76. To find out more about bicycle and pedestrian transportation in Kansas, and to view our Kansas Bicycle Guide, please visit the DOT Bike/Pedestrian program. For

[Talk-us] Mass deletion in shawnee county, ks

Hi all, I would like some help here. I have spent the past 6 months working on the shawnee county and now douglass county.. Now paul norman has decided to delete massive amounts of data and refuses to even discuss or work with me on this. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16288086 Is

Re: [Talk-us] shawnee county landuse

. On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Sorry, I did not finish that. I have already written to legal about it. Trulia and Zillow are using this data in full. I have stripped out all personal and contact information so I think that it should not fall under

Re: [Talk-us] shawnee county landuse

of this specific law, this does match my conversation with the Riley county GIS department. As long as names aren't used, they do not have any problems with their information being used in OSM. Toby On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Well I

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] shawnee county landuse

, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: I have added the info to the wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kansas/Shawnee_County/Import also the scripts are updated. I am been manually replacing the plot info with just the building, so the only info being imported

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] shawnee county landuse

to resell the data. Someone could take the OSM address data and do a mass mailing based on it. ** ** I guess **you** might get into trouble based on it but the person doing so would probably be okay since they didn’t make the K.S.A. 45-220(c)(2) certification. ** ** *From:* Mike Dupont

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] shawnee county landuse

relying on the fact that others haven’t gotten into trouble as support for this import being legally okay? ** ** *From:* Mike Dupont [mailto:jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Friday, December 21, 2012 6:51 PM *To:* Paul Norman *Cc:* imports; talk-us@openstreetmap.org *Subject:* Re

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] shawnee county landuse

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Martin Koppenhöfer dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote: Am 15/dic/2012 um 22:39 schrieb Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com: 3. **What tagging are you proposing? addr:* and landuse the only additional tag are the four detailed landuse tags eg

[Talk-us] shawnee county landuse

Hi, Paul Norman pointed out that I forgot to mail people about my work on topeka. I have recently moved here and have been working on fixing things up. I am working on the topekabikelanes.org as a volunteer and have put in all the bikelanes as proposed routes. I am using the county gis system

[Talk-us] Fwd: osm and K.S.A. 45-220(c)(2)

-- From: Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com Date: Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 2:02 PM Subject: osm and K.S.A. 45-220(c)(2) To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-t...@openstreetmap.org Hello, Would putting the data in osm be in violation of the kansas law K.S.A. 45-220(c)(2)? http

Re: [Talk-us] Now you can see how much vandalism the OSMF will carry out on April Fools

I also did not click decline, and I dont see why it has to be that easy. I have said many times, all my work outside of kosovo and albania you can relicense. I dont see a button for that? Why should I make it easy for you? I put months of work into it, and spent also alot of money traveling around

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] The Open Source OpenStreetMap Book

besfort was working on a book as well in albanian, http://besiguri.wordpress.com/libri-book-openstreetmap-krijoni-harten-tuaj/ mike On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: That would be great. I also saw that someone cloned it to do a French translation. On Sun,

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] The Open Source OpenStreetMap Book

It is not the price that matters, but the freedom to derive translations. what good is a book that we cannot translate. Why would you ever translate your book to some obscure language, and then who would print it? thanks, mike On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag

My idea was to write letters to the editors of all the local newspapers, in each letter we would tell the about the map and invite them to look at the local map of thier area I wrote a script to automate the usage of the press center : http://capwiz.com/aauw/dbq/media/ here is the code, you can