Hi everyone, As I work to bring CommonMap to fruition I'm heartened that I'm not the only one that wants to see it happen.
If you're handy to Brisbane tonight then come join the CommonMap association as part of the Samford Mapping Party (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Samford_Mapping_Party_January_2010) and vote to see it incorporated (http://commonmap.info/w/index.php/Association/Incorporation/Agenda). With reference to the blog post below, I'm just putting it out there that CommonMap is designed to be a place "where that conflation happens". With your help perhaps we can be ready for the next time the world needs it. Thanks, Brendan http://geosquan.blogspot.com/2010/01/haitian-earthquake-emphasizes-danger-of.html: "But OSM and MapMaker aren't talking and I think it is a big problem - if you want to help rescue efforts in Haiti where do you go to digitize? OSM? MapMaker? "As it stands right now, even though the MapMaker data is free for non-profit use, projects like OSM can't use the data because there are commercial uses for OSM and the data belongs to Google, not OSM. "The data is similar, but different, and needs to be conflated. Where that conflation happens, how it happens, I don't know - but I do know that we need to do something to fix this split before it gets people hurt." _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
