Open Street Map and GTALug.

[Bob Jonkman]

Sounds like the picnic could be an opportunity for a mapping party. Sadly I am unable to be there...

But could you put an entry in the GTALUG calendar too?

--Bob.

Colin McGregor <colin.mc151 at gmail.com> wrote:

>As noted on our announce list GTALug will be having a picnic in
>Dufferin Grove park August 17th and in with the announcement was a
>link to the Open Street Map view of the park (it would be ... silly
>... to have a picnic celebrating open source with a link to a
>proprietary map).
>
>So, there were some serious issues with the Dufferin Grove park map.
>Saturday morning I walked around the park for about 45 minutes with a
>hand held GPS to collect path tracks and note some of the features of
>the park. I've been entering what I saw into Open Street Map, so the
>map is now a lot better, but...
>
>There is still a LOT of room for improvement, so, I would really
>appreciate it if people who really know Open Street Map and/or
>Dufferin Grove Park could further improve the map:
>http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.65651&lon=-79.43537&zoom=16&layers=M
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>Colin McGregor
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