HOSUG meeting Tuesday 12 December 2006

[Christopher Browne]

On 12/8/06, Interlug Lists <interluglists-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Richard will introduce us to the awesome Open Source geographic data project
> called "Open Street Map", which he describes as "a project aimed squarely at
> creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone
> who wants them; the project was started because most maps you think of as
> free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding
> back people from using them in creative, productive or unexpected
> ways." He plans to demo the steps in collecting, categorizing and
> contributing data to OSM.

That is indeed an interesting project.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page

The notion is that you can (typically aided via GPS waypoints) collect
information about routes and contribute them into a common GIS.  The
result of this is free maps.

It seems to me that contributing data is a tad involved; in order for
the result to be of "cartographic value," it probably needs to be...
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