Here is another chance to use a GPS to map your neighborhoods. Baltimore, MD Mapping Party Saturday April 04, 2009 at 11:00 AM until Sunday April 05, 2009 at 4:00 PM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ Nelson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 12:55 AM Subject: OpenStreetMap Baltimore Mapping Party
> Hi. No, I haven't subscribed you to a mailing list. This email is > going to 6 people who > sent me email about the previous attempt at a mapping party in Baltimore > in > late February. > > I'm hosting a mapping party in the city next weekend (April 4th and 5th), > and NO I will not cancel it, come hell or high water! A mapping party is > a social event where you meet other people interested in maps, and we > help each other improve OpenStreetMap. It's fun, and you get a sense of > why the great artists would paint and overpaint until they felt satisfied > that they'd captured everything they saw. > > I have GPS receivers to loan out to people. I'll show you how to use > them to gather location information, and edit OpenStreetMap. Even if the > weather is bad, we can do online mapping off aerial photos. > > A new feature added in the last month is faster Mapnik rendering, so that > if you make edits during the afternoon of next weekend, by the time you > get home, those edits will likely be rendered and visible for all to see. > Very exciting! > > Here are the details. Please share this email with anyone you know loves > their community, likes to walk, hike, and bicycle, or makes maps. > http://community.cloudmade.com/event/custom/generic/show/131 > > -- > Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson > [email protected] - Twitter: Russ_OSM - > http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson > > _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list [email protected] http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
