It’s a big blank patch right now but Mikel’s on the case
The State of the Map
Thanks to a lot of hard work from all involved, we have a conference web site up over here. Please spread the word! This will serve as a base for info for the upcoming event:
- The State of the Map – First openstreetmap international conference
- Manchester, England
- 14-15 July 2007
There’s a Call for proposals up. Got something to speak about? We’re interested in a broad range of topics:
- Freeing Up Access to Geodata – The political, commercial and opensource implications of open Geodata
- Redrawing the Map the OSM Way – GPS, surveying, data editing methods and additional sources of base data.
- New Uses For A New Style of Geodata – A look at new and existing uses for OSM data.
- Cartography 2017 – where are we headed?
- Building Blocks for Collaborative Mapping – Data storage, processing, scalability and delivery in a wiki-like environment.
It doesn’t have to be exclusively about openstreetmap – feel free to suggest mini-talks, talks, BOF sessions, posters and more. Oh, and it wouldn’t be an openstreetmap conference without mapping all of the city either, would it?
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 Jönköping
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.’:
