Open Street Map and GTALug.

[Colin McGregor]

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman-w5ExpX8uLjYAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Sounds like the picnic could be an opportunity for a mapping party. Sadly I am unable to be there...

A potentially good thought.

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

Now done.

> --Bob.
>
> Colin McGregor <colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> 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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