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Party on

Some upcoming mapping parties and events to mention!

If you’re in the midlands, get down today to Birmingham for beer and balti social.
Feb 17-18, Toronto mapping party. First in north america!
Feb 24-25, Bristol mapping party.
10/11th March, south london party concentrating on footpaths at an interesting zero-carbon outfit. Make friends, bring a car!
21-23rd March Lars Aronsson is speaking about OSM at Swedish cartographic conference “Kartdagar 2007” held in JÃ¶nkÃ¶ping

Open mapping in your car

Check out this and this video from this thread on the OSM talk mailing list.

News roundup

Some fun bits: Mikel has an article up on mybrightonandhove.org.uk. Cambridge has been completely mapped. Theres a LiveGPS plugin for JOSM for mapping on the move.

London mapping party retrospective

An enormously good time was had at the London mapping party this weekend just gone. We all met up at multimaps offices to divide up the city on Saturday morning and then went out and got on with it. A hour or two at lunchtime led to a lot of applet use (and mutterings about its various shortcomings) an data entered. Then off for an afternoon and the pub for drinks and food. Sunday saw much morning mapping and then nestoria-sponsored drinks. A lot done and a lot of mapping talk! 🙂 Special thanks to Dutch_DK for the above animation.

OSMonth: Day 18

Load up the new planet… done. New tiles rendered should use full world vmap0 layer and correct pri/sec/trunk road colouring
And again today – london party stuff is showing up
conf/party organsising stuff and then IRC SOTM meeting – going to be tons to do
put the hacky tile autogen stuff in svn look here but its very very hacky

London mapping party this weekend – final details!

are kindly sponsoring office space for the meetup this weekend to map central London. Saturday 10am, their offices is the start time – all the info is over here.

have kindly offered to sponsor celebratory drinks after mapping on Sunday at the wind down! This’ll be at the John Snow in SOHO (see the wiki page for more.

It’s shaping up to be an awsome weekend!

OSMonth: Day 17

Synced the tile generation xml with upstream (fixes a/b/trunk road colouring)
installed apache2-mpm-prefork on tile. -worker causes problems with multiprocessor machines and mod_ruby (fixes broken tiles not downloading)
removed the old mapnik layer and wms-c. Moved mapnik tiles to a nicer place (not /test/).
some mapping party organising (see following post in just a sec)
Brought the rails front page up to what the current one looks like.
Replied to a ton of email and did some conference organising stuff – looking good
Initial steps of importing an OSM dump in to the rails port to see what’s left to do and if it succeeds.

OSM progress animation

Tim Payne writes ‘I’ve been playing around with the latest planet.osm to see what the overall coverage is like. […] 1 frame = 1 month. Goes from Feb 05 to Jan 07.’:

Podcast: Geospatial Vision

I previously blogged about geospatial vision and the cool things they’re doing. I got the chance to go up and talk to them and this podcast with their technical director, Geoff Cross is the result. Have a look at their site to get a better idea. Enjoy!

OSMonth: Day 16

Brought the mapnik db map layer on the front page up. It automagically renders data if it’s not there or if it’s too old.
done some more organising of the various upcoming parties, see previous post for one bit
deploying Nick Burch’s applet fixes… done. Also added a little ant task to sign the jars.
edited down the geospatial vision podcast (see next post). Might be able to get some audio out of talking to people at the pub at the oxford meetup too, not sure yet.
good IRC meet about the OSM international conference organised by andy robinson, lots of little jobs to fulfill!

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