Dear everyone, The slides and videos of SOTM2012 in Tokyo are now available in the wiki [0].
I recommend you watch Ikiya and Hameed's presentation on the very personal mapping stories they shared [1]. - Hameed is mapping Afghanistan and sometimes encounter IEDs along the way. - Ikiya is from Fukushima where he did mapping before and after the quake and tsunami. A good review of Ikiya's presentation by Alyssa is available in OpenGeo's blog [2]. There is also a funny and amusing talk by Tim Waters on OSM Addiction [3] which I'm sure some of you can relate to. The majority of the talks centered on the use of OSM in disaster and routing but what I like the most are the personal mapping stories. Personally, I had some amusing encounters during mapping (like being chased by 5 angry dogs, hiding my GPS to avoid the scrutiny of military checkpoints, being questioned by local "tambays" when taking geo-tag photos because they suspected me as an election officer documenting election poster violations during the campaign period) but nothing like encountering IEDs or exposure to nuclear radiation. [0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2012 [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2012/Thursday [2] http://blog.opengeo.org/2012/09/18/state-of-the-map-2012-tokyo/ [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2012/Saturday -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph