--- On Sat, 1/8/09, Liz <ed...@billiau.net> wrote:
> (same designer both web sites)
Bundaberg might be bit far, dunno. I was thinking about contacting the Kingaroy
LUG too.
Do we have something worded to send them yet? This is the latest draft I'm
toying about with....
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On the 15th of August at Nambour there will be an informal social meet-up for
GPS and OpenStreetMap enthusiasts.
Until recently coverage of the Nambour area in OpenStreetMap was non-existent,
so a meeting was proposed to try and rectify the situation.
So why do we do we go to the trouble of making street data when google maps is
free?
There are many free maps on the internet, most of them are only for private use
and must not be re-distributed. They are often not up-to-date, incomplete or
contain errors which are only corrected slowly.
In all those maps you don't have the original data used to create them, only
images of the data. There are all kinds of fantastic things you can do with map
vector data but unfortunately mapping companies usually stifle this kind of
innovation due to restrictive licensing of the data.
OpenStreetMap has people like you and me collecting raw data ourselves, all
over the world. With our own data and software we are independent from
commercial providers. Think of it as the Wikipedia of maps, everybody can take
part.
This is an informal social event, there are no hard and fast rules about what
you can and can't talk about but there will be people on hand if you wish to
ask questions.
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