Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-03-09 Thread PJ Houser
Hi Alan, The aerials are owned by Trimet, so we (the Trimet interns) can derive data from it, and then provide the derived data to OpenStreetMap. However, we cannot distribute the aerials themselves. -- PJ Houser Trimet GIS intern, 503-962-5711 (office) On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Alan

Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-03-03 Thread PJ Houser
Hi Alan, The aerials are currently for jurisdictional use only. There does seem to be a push for making data public - maybe someday they will be available. I don't know. We are using the aerials to determine the accuracy of OSM and RLIS, so we just use it as a background layer. In some cases,

Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-03-03 Thread Alan Mintz
IANAL, but this tickles my derivative work sensor a little. How would this be any different than using Google, or another copyrighted imagery source? If a road, intersection, or feature is moved in OSM as a result of looking at its position in the imagery, is that not deriving from the imagery?

Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-03-03 Thread Alan Mintz
I wrote: IANAL, but this tickles my derivative work sensor a little. How would this be any different than using Google, or another copyrighted imagery source? If a road, intersection, or feature is moved in OSM as a result of looking at its position in the imagery, is that not deriving from

Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-03-03 Thread PJ Houser
Hi Alan, Let me forward this to my employer for more clarification. I'm thinking that the Trimet interns (I'm included in that group) can use it because we are also checking RLIS data to make sure it is correct, and for that, we definitely need the aerials. I'll get back to you on this. I was

Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-03-02 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2011-02-10 18:28, PJ Houser wrote: 6 inch aerial imagery flown Fall 2010 Wow - that's among the highest-quality and most recent imagery available anywhere. It should result in very accurate alignment, as long as it's been well referenced/ortho'd. Would it be possible to make

Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-03-01 Thread PJ Houser
Hi Dave Talk-US Imports, We decided against using Trimet in our name since as Richard pointed out, OSM is a collection of individuals. This is us right now. I will let you know if we change our names. Should we include RLIS (the data source) in our user names? We are all using our personal

Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-03-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On 03/01/2011 05:29 PM, PJ Houser wrote: And our workflow is changing a lot since we ran into significant problems with ArcMap OSMEditor, though we are working with ESRI to improve the editor. I hope to send an updated workflow really soon for input! Not many changes to OSM have been done

Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-03-01 Thread Dave Hansen
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 22:57 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: But most importantly, all changes are being done one at a time. Nothing is bulk. Every change is done by hand. I am doing my best to make sure nobody else's hard work is overwritten or deleted! Has there been significant thought put

Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-02-26 Thread Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 18:28 -0800, PJ Houser wrote: OSM User Names: TriMet_PJH, TriMet_MSB, TriMet_GNH, TriMet_BB Hi PJ, I was just looking for your user pages so I could spy on your improvements: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TriMet_BB for instance. Did you end up using some

[Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-02-10 Thread PJ Houser
* * *TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area beginning Monday February 21, 2011*. Geographic Extent: Multnomah, Clark, Washington, and Clackamas County Timeframe: 6 months, February 18, 2011 – August 18, 2011 OSM User Names: TriMet_PJH, TriMet_MSB, TriMet_GNH, TriMet_BB

Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-02-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:28 PM, PJ Houser stephanie.jean.hou...@gmail.com wrote: TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area beginning Monday [ ... ] Input? I've replied to PJ with some suggestions off-list. ___ Talk-us mailing list

[Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-02-10 Thread PJ Houser
OSM - way by way, node by node. Please let me know if you have further questions. Thanks again. -- PJ Houser Trimet, GIS -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Weait rich...@weait.com Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:22 PM Subject: Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements