Yep. They announced it prematurely. They'll have more information about it in the near future.
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Adam Schreiber < adam.schreiber+...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian, > > The link appears to be dead. Was the video taken down? > > Cheers, > > Adam > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us mailing list > > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > >
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