Re: [Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

2016-02-24 Thread Richard Welty
On 2/24/16 4:52 PM, stevea wrote: > I don't know how to promote this any better than to say this here and > hope it makes its way into local chapters' mind-space. I'd like to > begin a campaign to encourage OSM volunteers to: > > Map Your Train Ride! > i better get over to Huck Finn's Playland

Re: [Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

2016-02-24 Thread Rihards
On 2016.02.25. 03:41, stevea wrote: Thank you to Rihards who clarified that adding highway=footway to a public_transport=platform only makes sense when it is connected to another way containing a highway=* tag. Otherwise, this doesn't make sense, as the platform acting as a

Re: [Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

2016-02-24 Thread stevea
Thank you to Rihards who clarified that adding highway=footway to a public_transport=platform only makes sense when it is connected to another way containing a highway=* tag. Otherwise, this doesn't make sense, as the platform acting as a footway "floats" and can break some

[Talk-us] New MapRoulette - UX ideas

2016-02-24 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, I am working on a new version of MapRoulette. The focus will be on making MapRoulette more fun for newcomers, more effective for power users, and more powerful for challenge owners. Now would be a great time to let me know what you want to see in the new version! :) Especially if you

Re: [Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

2016-02-24 Thread Rihards
On 2016.02.24. 23:52, stevea wrote: I don't know how to promote this any better than to say this here and hope it makes its way into local chapters' mind-space. I'd like to begin a campaign to encourage OSM volunteers to: Map Your Train Ride! Add public_transport=platforms to the map and/or

Re: [Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

2016-02-24 Thread Martijn van Exel
Steve -- Can MapRoulette help here? I already started a railroad crossing challenge a while ago (http://maproulette.org/#t=fix-railway-crossings/262063C) which a lot of people like (and have worked on). If we can entice people to add railway station detail in places with known train stations

[Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

2016-02-24 Thread stevea
I don't know how to promote this any better than to say this here and hope it makes its way into local chapters' mind-space. I'd like to begin a campaign to encourage OSM volunteers to: Map Your Train Ride! Add public_transport=platforms to the map and/or route=train relation of your

Re: [Talk-us] USGS Topo Map Tiles

2016-02-24 Thread Mike Thompson
Ian, Thanks for the reply, and thanks for running this server. Having those tiles is very helpful! The interesting thing is that even areas that I just visited are slow to load (which is doubly strange since JOSM itself should be caching locally too). Mike On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Ian

Re: [Talk-us] USGS Topo Map Tiles

2016-02-24 Thread Ian Dees
These tiles are run by me via OSM US. I recently cleared out a bunch of cached tiles, so the server has to go request them from the USGS server again in new areas. This will take a bit longer than instant, so JOSM might be timing out. Once you visit these areas once, the tiles should stick around

[Talk-us] USGS Topo Map Tiles

2016-02-24 Thread Mike Thompson
Who runs the service that serves the USGS Topo Map tiles? The address is tile.openstreetmap.us... I reported a JOSM issue: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/12562 But the behavior may in part be due to the tile server (see the comment in the ticket). Thanks in advance for your help, Mike

Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

2016-02-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Send me a OSM shirt or something and I'll be happy to throw it on over my fursuit for publicity purposes. On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Greg Morgan wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at

Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

2016-02-24 Thread alyssa wright
There definitely has to be an emoji process! On Feb 24, 2016 4:08 PM, "Greg Morgan" wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 4:58 PM, alyssa wright >> wrote: >> >>>

Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

2016-02-24 Thread Greg Morgan
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 4:58 PM, alyssa wright > wrote: > >> We're also accepting nominations for next year's OSM US pet mascot. > > > I nominate me ! > Paul,

Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

2016-02-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 4:58 PM, alyssa wright wrote: > We're also accepting nominations for next year's OSM US pet mascot. I nominate me ! ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org