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

2015-10-14 Thread Randy Meech
, project management, events, etc. are part of the work of a board. It's too bad we also require the ability to don a radiation suit to deal with threads like this. -Randy Dear US electorate, Am Thu, 08 Oct 2015 20:16:50 -0700 schrieb Alex Barth: > And - it's not to late to run for elections! Get y

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

2015-06-11 Thread Randy Meech
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Randy Meech randy.me...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: Seattle has very defined neighborhoods and even sub-neighborhoods. The prior discussions kept us from adding the boundaries. Maybe

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

2015-06-11 Thread Randy Meech
mistaken, this only supports admin_level=2, meaning country borders? This new project exposes all the other admin levels as well, in order to display cities, neighborhoods, etc. We saw demand for this in feedback on Metro Extracts and elsewhere. -Randy

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2015 in New York, NY, June 6-8

2014-11-09 Thread Randy Meech
scholarships in our proposal (and other ways to defray costs). We're getting started now, and will keep you up-to-date on deadlines. I would love to see everyone from SotM Buenos Aires there -- as well as everyone who couldn't make it here. New York really is nice in June... -Randy On Wed, Nov 5

Re: [Talk-us] Presenting your new OSM-US board

2014-10-15 Thread Randy Meech
more voters than last year's OSMF election. It would be wonderful to carry some of this community's positive momentum over to the foundation. -Randy ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

2014-03-15 Thread Randy Meech
, the better community, etc. I am not quite sure yet but am keeping an open mind. -Randy On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Hello everyone - I've been sitting on writing about the detrimental effects of OpenStreetMap's share-alike license (ODbL) for a while

Re: [Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

2014-01-19 Thread Randy Meech
entrepreneur starting something like Yelp or Foursquare now were to do this successfully, that would be interesting. Of course the point can't be editing a map -- there has to be something to lure in your average user. -Randy ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

2014-01-19 Thread Randy Meech
user would never edit a map. They certainly would given the right incentive. Highlighting their waterfront real estate would seem a pretty big incentive if the tools were highlighted. -Randy ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-us] Local user groups

2014-01-15 Thread Randy Meech
A corporation might offer a grant for that to OSM US if it wanted to manage that (especially if tax deductible), but it would be challenging to offer it to a number of smaller groups. -Randy On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3

[Talk-us] new geocoder

2014-01-12 Thread Randy Meech
! -Randy ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] new geocoder

2014-01-12 Thread Randy Meech
I think someone might possibly search for. -Randy ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] OSM US board

2013-10-06 Thread Randy Meech
-Randy ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] New List: osm-professional

2010-03-03 Thread Randy
be gmane.comp.gis.professionals_interested_in_mapping. Surely no one is so dictatorial about anarchy that they couldn't stomach that! -- Randy ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] New List: osm-professional

2010-03-03 Thread Randy
Randy wrote: Richard Weait wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Stop. - Are you saying that osm-professional is intended as a copy of osm-talk just moderated? I see osm

Re: [Talk-us] State of the license discussion.

2009-12-20 Thread Randy
from someone who has been keeping up will most likely be biased and lead to more discussion. The rest of us have probably been ignoring it after the first hundred or so messages, just like you. Let's not do that here. -- Randy ___ Talk-us mailing

Re: [Talk-us] Using prefixes for regional mail list topics

2009-12-03 Thread Randy
Richard Welty wrote: On 12/3/09 12:50 AM, Randy wrote: I'm reposting this, as it was rather stupid to post it under a San Fransico/Bay topic that was only remotely related (i.e. being regional). This may very well already be the defacto standard, but if not, might I suggest that we establish

Re: [Talk-us] Admin Level for Neighborhoods?

2009-12-03 Thread Randy
. -- Randy ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] OSM Mentioned in NYTimes

2009-11-17 Thread Randy
in an appellate court after the state Supreme Court refused to hear the case. For, 150 years, nobody cared, but when a tax base started building there, things changed. -- Randy ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

2009-11-15 Thread Randy
of context to the original question. -- Randy ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag - apology

2009-11-15 Thread Randy
are frequently legally subdivided as well: There are tax lots within the building itself! Oops. My apologies, Paul. I was to short, and you were not responding to my post. -- Randy ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Randy
photograph a turd and call it aerial photography of central Idaho for the accuracy of TIGER...heck, that photo might actually agree with the TIGER data better! Your mileage may vary. -- Randy ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging next exit services

2009-11-13 Thread Randy
Paul Johnson wrote: Randy wrote: Dale Puch wrote: Personally I do not think the signs should be put in OSM, just the actual POI's are tagged. There may be reasons to put in signs, I just do not think this is one of them. Dale -- Dale Puch Don't forget the intent of the requester's original

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging next exit services

2009-11-13 Thread Randy
the amenities are all mapped, the relation can be deleted, if desired. -- Randy ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

2009-11-13 Thread Randy
in the building, and related with is-in? -- Randy ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

2009-11-13 Thread Randy
Matthias Julius wrote: Randy rwtnospam-new...@yahoo.com writes: Dale Puch wrote: For the same reason as doing nodes at a mall or similar. To know the stores/services available, not just the type of stuff that is usually there. If your tagging fast food, why would you not tag the McDonalds

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging next exit services

2009-11-12 Thread Randy
. -- Randy ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Parking on the Street, Variable Availability Parking

2009-10-23 Thread Randy Thomson
a little more research. There is a a href=http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/parking_laned raft parking_lane/a page. You may want to look at, and contribute to. (Don't know if the link will work from this NNTP client. If not you can copy paste.) -- Randy