Re: [OSM-talk] AfricaMap

2008-05-23 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:30:31PM +0100, John McKerrell wrote: > Ben spoke at one of the evening "Bird's of a Feather" sessions about > AfricaMap. They have various goals for the project, but the first is > to digitise and georeference the maps of Africa that they have > available within the

Re: [OSM-talk] AfricaMap

2008-05-23 Thread John McKerrell
"... at Where 2.0" that first sentence should have had at the end. Where 2.0 being the O'Reilley organised conference near San Francisco last week. On 23 May 2008, at 18:30, John McKerrell wrote: > Ben spoke at one of the evening "Bird's of a Feather" sessions about > AfricaMap. They have var

Re: [OSM-talk] AfricaMap

2008-05-23 Thread Mikel Maron
Talk Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 10:30:31 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] AfricaMap Ben spoke at one of the evening "Bird's of a Feather" sessions about AfricaMap. They have various goals for the project, but the first is to digitise and georeference the maps of Africa that they have av

Re: [OSM-talk] AfricaMap

2008-05-23 Thread John McKerrell
Ben spoke at one of the evening "Bird's of a Feather" sessions about AfricaMap. They have various goals for the project, but the first is to digitise and georeference the maps of Africa that they have available within the Harvard vaults. He seemed very open to the idea of making these maps

[OSM-talk] AfricaMap

2008-05-23 Thread Alan Millar
I came across this recently which may be of interest to OSM participants in Africa. http://africamap.harvard.edu It is a project, apparently just starting, to put every available map for Africa online in one coordinated system. I emailed Ben Lewis, the contact on the website, who said they def