MAINE! Introductions:

[Liz Barry]

Hi Ron, Beth, Victor, George, and the good people at Maine Farmland Trust

I'm starting a thread with Chris and Jeff, local Public Lab Organizers who want to help you guys connect and start some local research. I'm also copying regional lists Boston and Northeast in case there are other Mainers on there who i haven't yet met. 

There's a specific need for high resolution aerial imagery on the toxic site by the old chemical plant on Penobscot Bay. See Ron's thread on the main list here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/publiclaboratory/tBBW34cfOac 

Please write in to say hello and express interest / perspectives in getting together at Penobscot Bay. 

Yours, 

Liz

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[Liz Barry]

Hi Victor, 

This is amazing. I'm copying the crew back in to see your awesome offer of support. 

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Victor Damian <victor...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Liz, i can help. I still have the balloon kit you send me a few months ago. I will try and touch base with Ron,

Ron, let me know how and when we can get together in person or remotely. I'm in the Portland area and have a balloon kit we can use. 

Regards

Victor

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[Liz Barry]

Also copying in Sara Wylie who has offered regional organizing support on this as well. 

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[Liz Barry]

I'm forwarding parts of a thread from another open source community that is focusing on mapping Coastal Maine--OpenStreetMap. Eric Kidd seems to be a local. Perhaps we could connect him to Ron's efforts? Mapknitter integrates well with OpenStreetMap.

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Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Coastal Maine needs love
To: Peter Dobratz <pe...@dobratz.us>
Cc: Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org>, OSM US Talk <tal...@openstreetmap.org>

Thank you, everybody, for your advice. Special thanks to Peter for his experience with similar issues in New Hampshire.

Earlier today, I added 4 towns on the Boothbay peninsula, which was a nice, low-risk change.

Just a moment ago, I updated the southern half of Lincoln county with the TIGER 2014 county data, splicing it into Sagadahoc and Knox counties on either side. This is a pretty big change, and I was as careful as I could be, but I'd appreciate another set of eyes.

Wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Ekidd/Coastal_Maine_problems

County: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26104709#map=8/44.090/-68.730

Everything was done with boundary lines and relations, and I cleared up all JOSM validation errors on the parts I touched.

Overall, this sort of cleanup seems like it would help coastal Maine a lot. The maps are a lot nicer looking, and Nominatim is working now. That only needs 7 counties that are in need of love. :-) (And one which is in need of review.)

-Eric

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From: Eric Kidd <emk....@randomhacks.net>
Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:56 AM
Subject: [Talk-us] Coastal Maine needs love
To: tal...@openstreetmap.org

Recently, I wanted to fix a few local islands and public parks in coastal Maine, where I have local knowledge. But much to my dismay, the local area was pretty thoroughly broken:

• The county lines along the coast are based on a really old (and incorrect) data set.
  
• There's some confusion between towns (admin_level=8) and sub-town boundaries (admin_level=?).
  
• Most towns are marked with nothing more than GNIS points.
  

As a result, the local maps are incorrect, ugly (thanks to the bad county lines everywhere) and incompatible with Nominatim.

I've prepared a more detailed explanation of what's wrong, with pictures, examples, and a couple of possible ways to improve things:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Ekidd/Coastal_Maine_problems

Personally, I'd be interested in tackling 4 small towns and maybe the Lincoln county boundary. But it looks like a large portion of the Maine coast suffers from similar problems. If anybody feels qualified to address the larger problems, I'd be grateful—and happy to help out.

Thank you for your feedback and suggestions!

-Eric

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[Liz Barry]

Hey Andrew, I just found your great research note! 

http://publiclab.org/notes/code4maine/08-05-2014/aerial-mapping-drone-for-under-60

Is there any way you can get over to where Ron is trying to get aerial images of the Maine coast, or perhaps send your gear with a friend?

Can you give me a call at 336-269-1539 when you get a chance?

Sara, are your students in process of getting up there?

Yours, 

Liz

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