Mappy New Year everyone! Over here at OpenStreetMap US we'll celebrate OpenStreetMap's big 1-0 with State of the Map US April 12 and 13 in Washington DC
http://stateofthemap.us/ I invite everyone (not just US based mappers) to join, propose a session and share their ideas and experiences in growing OpenStreetMap as a community and as a map. I'd like to add to Richard's call to get active in your community. In the US we regularly create an excuse for this with our quarterly #editathons. Next one is in January 18/19, you can get yourself still on this list: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/11/january-winter-editathon/ Here's to 2014 Alex On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I hope that you are off to a great start on your mapping activities for > 2014. > > OpenStreetMap is certainly off to a great start. User emacsen wrote a > compelling article today that drove a significant number of new > mappers to OpenStreetMap. That's some great advocacy, right there. > The article is really aimed at folks who are not yet mappers, so not > really the same audience of these lists, as we're already mappers. > but you might enjoy the article anyway. Have a look. > > http://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2014/01/04/why-the-world-needs-openstreetmap/ > > In 2014 we will see the 10 anniversary / birthday of OpenStreetMap. > What are you going to do to celebrate? We (the local mappers in > Toronto) will host another OpenStreetMap Mapiversary party, details to > be determined, how about your local group? > > On that subject, is this the year that you'll start a local mapping > group in your town? > > I've never understood why it is that the German community has groups > of mappers that meet each month, in just about every city, town and > village of size, while in North America those groups are very rare. > It could be that the difference is you. You can start a successful, > self-sustaining local group that meets each month to discuss > OpenStreetMap. So you should do that. It's great fun. > > Part of our fun in Toronto in 2013 included, the 9th birthday party, > including a map cake. Twelve regularly scheduled Mappy Hour events, > two formal presentation events, three special guest events to > celebrate august mappers visiting from other places. (and a little > bit of a flood, but we soldiered on anyway.) > > What about this thread? Tell me, what your plans are for 2014? > > and have a Mappy New Year, > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > t...@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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