Hi talk-au, I've gotten an interesting request from Chris McAlister and Alex Webster for OSM to get involved in a MapMyTown event at Bell, Qld. It would tentatively be scheduled for 31 October.
I will be collaborating with Chris and Alex in getting OSM involved in this event, and having access to the data afterwards. If anyone else is interested, please let us know. I've attached a brief overview of the event to this email, but if talk-au doesn't work with attachments let me know and I'll send the text in a future email. - David ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Dean <dd...@ieee.org> Date: 13 July 2010 10:06 Subject: Re: OSM Mapping Party - Bell 31 Oct? To: Chris McAlister <madamefishfigh...@rocketmail.com> Cc: Alex Webster <alexander.webs...@gmail.com> Chris, Alex, Answering Alex's first question, the next OSM meetup will be at Grange library on Monday 16th August. Details of all past and future events are available at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Brisbane_Mapping_Party. I think that the local OSM community would be very interested in taking part in the MapMyTown event. It looks like a few local mappers (mostly cybercrypt and Roscoe - see http://imgur.com/ivJMd.png) have already gotten most of the streets in the town: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-26.93368&lon=151.45209&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF, but I'm sure there's still plenty of detail left for inclusion in http://osm.org. We would also be very interested in using the final surveys from your project to improve the data in OSM, assuming that the data will be made available under a suitable license. We do have a mapping meetup at the Grange library (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Brisbane_Mapping_Party) planned for October 18th, but I'm sure we can get interested OSMers to both events. Please keep me in the loop and let me know if you need any help organising the event. With your permission, I'd like to forward this email to a interested people in the local OSM community to get feedback from a wider audience. Thanks for the email, and happy mapping, - David Dean On 12 July 2010 21:44, Alex Webster <alexander.webs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > Won't be able to make the Mapping party this weekend but keen to know when > the next one is. Attached is a brief for a project the SSSI YP Committee > doing this year. The tentative date is set for 31 October. It would be good > to know if you would like to be part of the project and involve the OSM > initiate/Mapping party as an activity of the project. > > If you are interested, could you please reply back to Chris (cc:). > > Cheers, > > Alex > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
