I watched it after Ian sent the link. According to the video, it uses Potlatch 2 to gather a very limited set of POIs in the initial pilot area of Colorado. I was kind of curious if there was going to be any interaction with OSM other than using the tool stack.
Brad On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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