[HOT] GIS Meetup
Good afternoon, I am exploring some ideas for a meetup on our campus here in Los Angeles. Considering a meetup on working with OSM on some urgent needs that I can find posted at the tasking manager. Any suggestions? We have a variety of students in the graduate and undergraduate program in information technology, many with GIS and some with programming experience. [image: --] Warren Roberts [image: http://] about.me/gisteacher http://about.me/gisteacher(typos intensional) http://about.me/gisteacher http://about.me/gisteacher ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] GIS Meetup
Hi Warren, There is a new group of mapping meetups called Maptime, with strong ties to OpenStreetMap and open source development. There have been some Tasking Manager sessions in other cities. You can read more about it at http://maptime.io and contact the Maptime for Los Angeles at https://twitter.com/maptimela -- Nick Doiron On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Warren Roberts gisteac...@gmail.com wrote: Good afternoon, I am exploring some ideas for a meetup on our campus here in Los Angeles. Considering a meetup on working with OSM on some urgent needs that I can find posted at the tasking manager. Any suggestions? We have a variety of students in the graduate and undergraduate program in information technology, many with GIS and some with programming experience. [image: --] Warren Roberts [image: http://] about.me/gisteacher http://about.me/gisteacher(typos intensional) http://about.me/gisteacher http://about.me/gisteacher ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] GIS Meetup
Warren -- I am exploring some ideas for a meetup on our campus here in Los Angeles. Considering a meetup on working with OSM on some urgent needs that I can find posted at the tasking manager. Any suggestions? We have a variety of students in the graduate and undergraduate program in information technology, many with GIS and some with programming experience. Once suggestion is to connect with an existing Meetup group, if there is one -- it gets you a pool of already-interested people. A search on Meetup.com did not find an OpenStreetMap Meetup group in LA, but there is a Maptime.io group: http://www.meetup.com/MaptimeLA/ I was unfamiliar with this organization -- it intends to be a more inclusive / diverse gateway to the mapping community. They do use OSM. Since you have actual GIS folks, and programmers, you might look at things other than the actual mapping tasks. I'm on a couple of the GIS coordination chats for ebola response, and there may be some useful work around uploading treatment center data (and verifying that it is license-compatible...), and also querying and extracting data. There are a couple of discussions on the HOT list about imagery tags and about subtasks of tasking manager squares. OTOH, if these folks have never used OSM, it might be worth a first session just to get set up and start mapping. Writing a JOSM plugin or iD feature would likely go better after having used JOSM or iD. ;-) -- Pat ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
