Hi everyone, I saw a tweet from @USGS today mentioning that the National Map Corps are starting up again. If you don't know what the National Map Corps is, think of it like "OpenStreetMap for the US Government". Volunteer mappers correcting and adding to the topo maps all over the country. I'm sure there are others with much more information, but it was a pretty epic project and is the source for lots of the free and public domain data we use to this day.
For the last year or two (or three?) Eric Wolf's been working to adapt the OpenStreetMap stack to the USGS's needs, and it looks like it that work has finally been released. Check out this video for more information: http://gallery.usgs.gov/videos/552. Skip to 4:10 or so to see it in action. Hopefully Eric and others will respond here and tell us more about it! -Ian
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