Re: [Talk-ca] How did you start in OSM?
On 6-7-2012 13:27, Richard Weait wrote: Do you remember how you first heard of OSM, or first got mapping? I think the first sign I saw of OSM was in a post on slashdot in June 2006. Share your story. How'd you get started? ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca I probably heard for the first time about OSM years ago on the PlanetGS.com blogroll. It must be around 2005 / 2006. There were talks about mapping parties at the Isle of Man and later Isle of Weight in the United Kingdom. At that time I would think it would be nearly impossible to create a worldwide street map. Later I went to the FOSS4G conference in Vancouver, and talked with some guys about it. I would swear James Ewen was one of them, but the conference was in 2007. As the project grew, I became more interested :) Anyways, in spring 2008 I got my old GPS (which I've used for geocaching, but only a few times), and went exploring the area around Quebec City, where I was living at that time. Being Dutch but living abroad, I didn't have a big social network. So, being a mapping geek OSM was a great way to explore the environment where I was living. Frank ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] How did you start in OSM?
Easy to remember for me. I started in january 2010, mapping refugee camps following the Haiti Earthquake. Since then, I am involved both in Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and mapping locally. Pierre De : Richard Weait rich...@weait.com À : Talk-CA OpenStreetMap talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Vendredi 6 juillet 2012 7h27 Objet : [Talk-ca] How did you start in OSM? Do you remember how you first heard of OSM, or first got mapping? I think the first sign I saw of OSM was in a post on slashdot in June 2006. Share your story. How'd you get started? ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] How did you start in OSM?
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Do you remember how you first heard of OSM, or first got mapping? March 2008... not sure how I heard about OSM, I think it was through something geocache related, maybe a post by someone. I went to the OpenStreetMap website signed up and started adding roads in my neighborhood. I went out and drove every road in my neighborhood, came back uploaded the track from my GPS, and got after it. First GPS trace upload March 3,2008. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/VE6SRV/traces/80805 Found the wiki and created a page for Strathcona County a couple days in... still waiting for anyone to find the page and join in on mapping the area though. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Alberta:Strathcona_County There's a bit of a difference in the map from when I started! There are a couple map captures on the page. Without the CanVec data, the map would still be looking pretty bleak! -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] How did you start in OSM?
I probably read the same article as RWeait. Couldn't contribute much, as I didn't have a GPS at the time though. My father got a GPS that Christmas, so I added my home street. I'm pretty sure it was the first street to be added to British Columbia. I think it was a couple months later that the Yahoo aerial imagery was made available, then the NRN road dataset, and now Canvec. I've since gotten a new GPS unit (Garmin is much better than Magellan, especially for us Linux folk), and am now mapping out hiking trails in the Yellowknife area. Adam On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:16 AM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Do you remember how you first heard of OSM, or first got mapping? March 2008... not sure how I heard about OSM, I think it was through something geocache related, maybe a post by someone. I went to the OpenStreetMap website signed up and started adding roads in my neighborhood. I went out and drove every road in my neighborhood, came back uploaded the track from my GPS, and got after it. First GPS trace upload March 3,2008. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/VE6SRV/traces/80805 Found the wiki and created a page for Strathcona County a couple days in... still waiting for anyone to find the page and join in on mapping the area though. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Alberta:Strathcona_County There's a bit of a difference in the map from when I started! There are a couple map captures on the page. Without the CanVec data, the map would still be looking pretty bleak! -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] How did you start in OSM?
I think I used maps generated from OSM data on my Lowrance GPS before I knew what OSM was. I was looking for freely available maps of Poland for a trip I did there with my family a few years ago. More recently I used similar maps on my Garmin when my wife and I traveled to Prague and Poland. A little after that I created an account on OSM and uploaded my first GPS track of a forestry 4x4 road near Lac Le Jeune in BC. Even more recently geocaching.com removed the Google satellite image option from their mapping, however I found the OSM generated maps to be superior in many ways and got interested in the project again. Since then I have been uploading all my old GPS tracks from our hiking/biking/4x4 sledding trips in the Interior. In the Lac Le Jeune area where we like to explore I have been frustrated by the lack of detail of commercial and even the Ibycus topo maps. The best thing about OSM is that I can change that and add roads and trails in the area that interests me and others do the same. Now when I download maps for my Garmin from osmmaps.com I see the roads and trails whene we go exploring. It's a win all round. Cheers Steve On 7/6/2012 4:27 AM, Richard Weait wrote: Do you remember how you first heard of OSM, or first got mapping? I think the first sign I saw of OSM was in a post on slashdot in June 2006. Share your story. How'd you get started? ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] How did you start in OSM?
You know, I haven't a clue. I signed up in May 2007, but didn't actually start mapping until July 2010. Stewart -- http://scruss.com/blog/ - 73 de VA3PID ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] How did you start in OSM?
I had heard of it a few years ago, but it wasn't until last summer at the ESRI GIS user conference in San Diego that I talked to someone about it. ESRI developed an extension to ArcGIS for OSM editing. It never worked for me, but i then found out about the Potlatch then JOSM. I much prefer JOSM. Now I turn on my GPS enabled phone whenever I am somewhere new. -- Matthew Buchanan -- Kamloops, BC On 6 July 2012 09:58, Stewart Russell scr...@gmail.com wrote: You know, I haven't a clue. I signed up in May 2007, but didn't actually start mapping until July 2010. Stewart -- http://scruss.com/blog/ - 73 de VA3PID ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] How did you start in OSM?
I'm a geeky guy who's always been into mapping. My first GPS was the Garmin GPS 38 (a single channel receiver that could track up to 8 satellites but took forever to get a lock). But right from the beginning, I was hooked - I even used it in 1999 to do a Study of the Accuracy of Averaged Non-Differential GPS Measurements (http://www.syz.com/gps/gpsaveraging.html) when selective availability was still turned on. From there, I always experimented in ways of coaxing more and more accuracy out of GPS receivers, culminating with putting together 3 Motorola Oncore VP boards and writing my own software to do carrier phase positioning. I got down to sub-centimeter accuracy with that. But how I got more specifically into OSM - as a software developer, I wanted to make a worldwide topographical map app for the iPhone, that didn't require a live data connection to use it (unlike Google Maps), since a lot of those who need topographical maps are often backcountry folk out of range of a cell tower. I source the elevation data from a variety of sources elsewhere, but as far as the main mapping data goes, OSM was a natural fit that I stumbled upon quickly when I started to do my research on the project. The result was something I call Mapster (http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/mapster/id409304946?mt=8) Since OSM works so well for me in that sense, I enjoy being able to contribute back, so I remain reasonably active adding data to places I'm familiar with. I've also done (and continue to do) a lot of Canvec importing in areas otherwise lacking data. That's been something of a challenge in itself, as I learn of the various gotchas in the Canvec data set, but I'm getting better all the time. The recent Bing update added some high resolution photos of areas familiar to me, so I've been playing around with that somewhat as well. Dan -- Syzygy Research Technology Box 83, Legal, AB T0G 1L0 Canada Phone: 780-961-2213 ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
