How about Tulsa, Oklahoma? Closest major metro area to the lower 48's
centroid. Can't get much more heartland than that.
On Wednesday, November 13, 2013, Eric Theise wrote:
No question DC could host SotM US in style, but I'd be thrilled to see
it move to the heartland. Too big of a stretch
Then that kind of eliminates everything but Oklahoma from the running.
Most affordable state in the nation.
On Wednesday, November 13, 2013, Alex Barth wrote:
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
Seeing as how the “official” location of the lower 48’s centroid is in
north-central Kansas, I’d have to dispute your claim that Tulsa is the closest
major metro area. Looks to me that Lincoln, Nebraska would be the closest.
There’s also Wichita, Omaha, Topeka, and Kansas City.
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It would be nice to have the SOTM-US within driving distance from Denver,
but I enjoy the travel too. I'd suggest Philly if I wanted to get a bid
together, but I don't think I'll be doing that this year.
I would love to see some good bids this year, and hopefully if those bids
aren't selected,
Just to remind everyone, we have a sign in the Fremont neighborhood of
Seattle that claims it is the Center of the Universe.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
On Friday, November 15, 2013, wrote:
Seeing as how the “official” location of the lower 48’s
Sorry, the center of the universe is in Tulsa on the pedestrian bridge across
the railroad tracks downtown.
Also, Postgres tells me that the geographic center of the lower 48 is at
39.5359,-99.1558 (ish)
Yours in precision,
-Nathan
Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote:
Just to remind
If those KDOT signs are near Meades Ranch then they are likely correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meades_Ranch%2C_Kansas
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Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse my brevity.
Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
On Friday, November 15, 2013, wrote:
Seeing as how the “official”
Yeah, second this statement, I regularly take out of town guests to the
Center of the Universe, particularly if we're on a pub crawl and need a cab
(since there's few cabbies that don't know where the center of the universe
or the airport are).
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Nathan Mills
I got Caney and Coffeyville backwards. They're roughly midway between
Coffeyville, KS and South Coffeyville, Oklahoma on US 169, IIRC (
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=129916#map=13/37.0054/-95.6294). I
know when I saw them, they were surprisingly far south for what I thought.
I strongly
On 11/15/13 6:39 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
Just to remind everyone, we have a sign in the Fremont neighborhood of
Seattle that claims it is the Center of the Universe.
yeah, but i live a short distance away from a community with a sign
that proudly announces that it's the only Stephentown on
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Nathan Mills nat...@nwacg.net wrote:
Sorry, the center of the universe is in Tulsa on the pedestrian bridge
across the railroad tracks downtown.
Also, Postgres tells me that the geographic center of the lower 48 is at
39.5359,-99.1558 (ish)
That is only the
This actually is the Center of the Universe (
http://urbane-chaos.hubpages.com/hub/TulsaCenteroftheUniverse), it's
located in downtown Tulsa (http://osm.org/go/T4_e8jEsA?m=). There's even a
festival there every summer
Hi Jeff,
We didn't receive any location proposals, so we're working on locations and
will announce when we have something set up.
Since the global SotM event is usually held in the second half of the year
we've moved the time frame for SotM US up to Spring so that it's not too
close to the
What about DC that time of year? I'd really like to see more cooperation among
USG agencies using and contributing to OSM and that may be a great time/place
to kick that off. I'm sure Bonnie et al wouldn't object ;) I believe my
employer (boundless) would be willing to help organize if it was
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
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 kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Jeff,
If you or someone at Boundless (or someone else in DC) would like to put
If we're going to be getting proposals from folks, I think I'd like to see
that within a week, so 11/20 at the latest. We're moving very quickly on
our end to come up with viable solutions, so I don't want to delay. I hope
you understand!
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Jeffrey Johnson
On 11/13/13 8:23 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
What about DC that time of year?
it would be nice for it to come back to the east coast. the recent history:
2010 - Atlanta
(2011 Denver SOTM, no SOTM-US that year)
2012 - Portland
2013 - San Francisco
there had been a DC proposal in 2010 as i vaguely
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.
On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:37, Kathleen Danielson kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com
wrote:
If we're going to be
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.
No question DC could host SotM US in style, but I'd be thrilled to see
it move to the heartland. Too big of a stretch for it to be in
Chicago?
Eric
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok well don't let me get in your way! DC is always just a pretty easy
Personally, I'm angling for Honolulu.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Eric Theise ericthe...@gmail.com wrote:
No question DC could host SotM US in style, but I'd be thrilled to see
it move to the heartland. Too big of a stretch for it to be in
Chicago?
Eric
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:41
Y'all can come see me in San Diego if you just want to get warm :)
Ian, Chicago sounds great tbh, who could potentially arrange that?
I'm sure the board are already looking at good locations, throwing DC out there
because it's probably easy to pull off and would be awesome.
On Nov 13, 2013,
I'm working on Chicago and am discovering that it is very hard to find a
venue here that can fit us. If you have any ideas I'd love to hear 'em.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Eric Theise ericthe...@gmail.com wrote:
No question DC could host SotM US in style, but I'd be thrilled to see
it
Having recently visited St Louis, I think that would be a great location.
Inexpensive, well connected by air, and with several charming, walkable
neighborhoods. Plus there are a number of Universities that might have
inexpensive facilities.
I would prefer that to expensive cities like Chicago
On Nov 12, 2013, at 10:21 PM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com wrote:
Also curious why it couldn't be held in the fall in conjunction with FOSS4G
in Portland? Haven't heard much of anything on the global event either at
this point.
If by global event you mean FOSS4G and not SOTM, rest
I meant the more 'global' SotM, not sure what the plan is for that in
the fall. Its been very close to FOSS4G for the last several
iterations, and wondering if that will be the case again in portland?
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.org wrote:
On Nov 12, 2013,
St. Louis sounds great! I've actually never visited there. One other
place that could be super interesting is Research Triangle in NC. I've
met up with quite a large number of people from the Code for America
community there including in each of Cities and their brigades etc and
they are all doing
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.orgwrote:
Having recently visited St Louis, I think that would be a great location.
Inexpensive, well connected by air, and with several charming, walkable
neighborhoods. Plus there are a number of Universities that might have
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com wrote:
According to the CfP, the decision should have been made by the end of
last month. Anyone have any idea where the decision making progress is at?
Also curious why it couldn't be held in the fall in conjunction with
I meant the more 'global' SotM, not sure what the plan is for that in
the fall. Its been very close to FOSS4G for the last several
iterations, and wondering if that will be the case again in portland?
No one from SOTM has been in contact with us about it. We're certainly happy to
help to the
On 11/13/13 11:10 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
I meant the more 'global' SotM, not sure what the plan is for that in
the fall. Its been very close to FOSS4G for the last several
iterations, and wondering if that will be the case again in portland?
according to the wiki page, the call for venues
ericthe...@gmail.com
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Having recently visited St Louis, I think that would be a great
location. Inexpensive, well connected
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at'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 come up with a final budget and a
decision on where to do SOTM-US in 2014. I'd love to keep focused on
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:
On 11/13/13 3:46 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
at'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 come up with a final budget and a
decision on where to do
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:
i note from the wiki page that SOTM is trying to go for a longer
baseline in organizing these events. i think that OSM US should
also think in those terms. it would be really nice if, during the
closing session of
We just wrapped up the Locating the Future conference here in St Louis and
it is probably coming back here next year (and I think I've been
volunteered to be a conference chair next year). So, I'll be in
conference planning mode soon. Perhaps I can work with those interested to
put together a St
I sent what I found for Phoenix to the board email address just now for
cost comparisons. I was as far as talking with the Phoenix Convention
Center and the Visit Phoenix for area information before missing the
deadline. I found that this was a short lead time for the details involved
and
According to the CfP, the decision should have been made by the end of last
month. Anyone have any idea where the decision making progress is at? Also
curious why it couldn't be held in the fall in conjunction with FOSS4G in
Portland? Haven't heard much of anything on the global event either at
Hi everyone,
The call for locations for State of the Map US 2014 is open! Find out all about
it on the openstreetmap.us blog:
http://openstreetmap.us/2013/09/call-for-locations-sotm-us/
State of the Map US is a great opportunity to bring US and international
mappers together with folks from
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