[HOT] Hello All

2012-06-10 Thread Big Fat Frog
Hi, Firstly I'd like to thank Kate Chapman for her unwitting introduction to HOT. I saw a post of hers to OSMF-TALK and got the intro to HOT from her blog. I've been contributing to OSM since last year and have been concentrating on my local area, however to find a way of improving the maps

Re: [HOT] Feedbacks about smartphones use for OSM field surveys

2012-06-10 Thread Banick, Robert
Hi everyone, I'm happy to see this discussion taking place, as I've been personally researching and debating this question myself for a little while now. It's my gut feeling that as software for data collection improves smartphones will increasingly play a complementary role to traditional GPS

[HOT] Open Source Disaster Relief Drone

2012-06-10 Thread David Schmitt
Hi, some here might be interested in the OpenRelief project, who have done a first release of an open source autopiloted mini drone: Project page: http://openrelief.org/ Press coverage: https://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/586942-openrelief-launches-open-source-disaste