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?
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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-
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.
No
You know, I haven't a clue. I signed up in May 2007, but didn't
actually start mapping until July 2010.
Stewart
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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.
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 Yaho
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Richard Weait 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 sta
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
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