I had a very difficult time trying to convert the hierarchy into terms I
understand, and when I took to the wiki, I would come up against
contradictory understandings.
As for the other contributions you mention? They are less interesting to me,
personally, probably because they are usually of
On 10/2/2011 11:07 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
The swamp, being mostly water, is of
course, level, and without any tree cover or hills for nearly a half
mile in any direction, and having been using the GPS for pedestrian
navigation all afternoon, made me quite surprised to see the geolocation
data
On 09/30/2011 10:25 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
1) What would you like to see the US local chapter do?
When Cloudmade hosted events, their representatives brought banners,
brochures, stickers, loaner GPS units and similar things. I'm not sure
GPS units are needed these days (with a smartphone
In article 4e88732c.6050...@ahlzen.com l...@ahlzen.com writes:
When Cloudmade hosted events, their representatives brought banners,
I have one of the cloudmade tall banners in Los Angeles. It will go
in the trash in a week unless someone aranges to pick it up or pay
shipping. (I can't take it
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 12:13 PM, openstreetmap-talk...@scd.debian.netwrote:
In article 4e88732c.6050...@ahlzen.com l...@ahlzen.com writes:
When Cloudmade hosted events, their representatives brought banners,
I have one of the cloudmade tall banners in Los Angeles. It will go
in the trash in
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 10:20 -0400, Lars Ahlzen wrote:
On 09/30/2011 10:25 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
1) What would you like to see the US local chapter do?
When Cloudmade hosted events, their representatives brought banners,
brochures, stickers, loaner GPS units and similar things. I'm not
On 10/02/2011 02:41 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 10:20 -0400, Lars Ahlzen wrote:
On 09/30/2011 10:25 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
1) What would you like to see the US local chapter do?
When Cloudmade hosted events, their representatives brought banners,
brochures, stickers,
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:05:22 -0400, Lars Ahlzen wrote:
I completely agree with you, though. The trace from my cellphone is
horrifically bad compared to that of my GPSMap60, so I still use the
latter a lot for mapping.
What phones are you guys using? The TI chips Nokia uses seem to usually
get
What I still like to use a dedicated GPS for is for georeferencing the
photos I take while out mapping. My camera does not have a built in
GPS and I prefer to use a dedicated camera over my phone camera which
would yield georeferenced images.
And maybe even more importantly, to upload the traces
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 20:05 -0600, Martijn van Exel wrote:
What I still like to use a dedicated GPS for is for georeferencing the
photos I take while out mapping. My camera does not have a built in
GPS and I prefer to use a dedicated camera over my phone camera which
would yield georeferenced
Hi,
On 10/01/2011 04:24 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
That consensus is very hard to reach :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:State_route_naming_conventions_poll/Account
Are any of the people mentioned by username on that page involved in OSM
today?
Bye
Frederik
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Frederik Ramm ##
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
On 09/30/2011 08:36 PM, Mike N wrote:
Really? Are there people who say I'd rather not map because there is no
consensus on the roads tagging? Are those people the 20,000 missing
mappers in the US?
It is more
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Scott Rollins organ...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.orgwrote:
Really? Are there people who say I'd rather not map because there is no
consensus on the roads tagging? Are those people the 20,000 missing
As someone currently in the OSM US group, I thought I'd share what I hoped
we could accomplish:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
I'd like to see more discussion and guidance for the US local chapter.
So, questions for the community:
1) What would you
I'd like to see more discussion and guidance for the US local chapter.
So, questions for the community:
1) What would you like to see the US local chapter do?
2) Why should this be done by the local chapter, and not by individual mappers?
3) Why should this be done by the local chapter and not
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
1) What would you like to see the US local chapter do?
Come up with a consistent way to tag roads for the country. Somehow
get a consensus from current mappers about how tag
US/state/county/whatever highways. Update this
I believe that the core tasks of the US Chapter should be 1) to
support and help grow the community, and 2) engage with existing and
potential professional users to stimulate awareness and adoption.
Defining the map itself should not be among them, this is and should
always be a community effort,
Yes, OSMF US shouldn't mandate a certain tagging scheme, but they
could certainly help to facilitate a consensus among the community.
Peter
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:
I believe that the core tasks of the US Chapter should be 1) to
support and help
Peter Dobratz wrote:
Yes, OSMF US shouldn't mandate a certain tagging scheme,
but they could certainly help to facilitate a consensus among
the community.
I'm definitely of the small government party for what OSMF (and by
extension local chapters) should do.
But one of the roles of OSMF,
Hi,
On 09/30/2011 07:48 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
I think
you could make a case that OSM in the US is being held back by the
community's failure to agree on a common tagging scheme for roads
Really? Are there people who say I'd rather not map because there is no
consensus on the roads
Personally I'd think a per-state consensus would already be quite good.
Greece and Norway use different tagging schemes - so why would anyone be
held back if Texas uses something other than Alaska?
Simply put, Greece and Norway are different countries. When I drive
across the border into
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Brian Wilson br...@wildsong.biz wrote:
Personally I'd think a per-state consensus would already be quite good.
Greece and Norway use different tagging schemes - so why would anyone be
held back if Texas uses something other than Alaska?
Simply put, Greece
Brian, just to save you the trouble, the closest there is to a standard is
the FHWA Highway Functional Classification System. There's a wiki page [1]
and lengthy discussion about its pros and cons on this page if you want to
wade through [2]. Definitely would be a new thread if you want to
Hi,
On 09/30/2011 08:36 PM, Mike N wrote:
Really? Are there people who say I'd rather not map because there is no
consensus on the roads tagging? Are those people the 20,000 missing
mappers in the US?
It is more like I don't see anyone using the map except for Skobbler,
so why should I invest
Frederik Ramm wrote:
Really? Are there people who say I'd rather not map because there is
no consensus on the roads tagging? Are those people the 20,000
missing mappers in the US?
I don't think it's all 20,000, no. :) But it's certainly significant and it
is - correction, it _should_ be -
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
[ ... ]
This is an interesting thread, but I don't think we need to have a
discussion about tagging consistency on this thread.
Consider Advocate for tagging (especially highway) consistency added to
the list of things a US
-Original Message-
From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:nerou...@gmail.com]
On 9/30/2011 1:48 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
I think
you could make a case that OSM in the US is being held back by the
community's failure to agree on a common tagging scheme for roads
(about five years after
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Frederik Ramm wrote:
Really? Are there people who say I'd rather not map because there is
no consensus on the roads tagging? Are those people the 20,000
missing mappers in the US?
I don't think it's all 20,000,
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
On 9/30/2011 2:23 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Really? Are there people who say I'd rather not map because there is no
consensus on the roads tagging? Are those people the 20,000 missing
mappers in the US?
It is more like I don't
If it hasn't been mentioned already, I think you should add help to
organize SOTM-US each year (or whatever time interval is appropriate).
Tanya
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
I'd like to see more discussion and guidance for the US local chapter.
So,
On 9/30/2011 7:37 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
What if anything can we learn from Wikipedia?
That consensus is very hard to reach :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:State_route_naming_conventions_poll/Account
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