Suchith Anand wrote: > [...] to further discuss ideas on the rise of Open Street Map > (OSM) as a World Mapping Agency (WMA) build by the efforts of thousands of > volunteers. It is also interesting to see the community links of the Open > Street Map and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) expanding > rapidly both locally and globally. OSM has now reaching the level of a > Global Mapping Agency build by the efforts of thousands of volunteers and > OSGeo is the world's largest geospatial ecosystem. What a great combination > of synergies. Both initiatives are just over a decade old and have > fundamentally changed the whole geolandscape.
What a great way to describe and connect these two wonderful projects and communities! Thank you Suchith. > Myself and colleagues are working on a paper on OSM and OSGeo and i want to > use this meeting to discuss more ideas with the community. I look forward to > welcome you all to RDA meeting in Barcelona. I am not sure that all interested people could make it to the RDA meeting, quite unfortunately. I think this is even more true for the OSM community; indeed my feeling is that the average OSM volunteer is less expert/professional/academic than the average OSGeo volunteer. If you and your coworkers do not have great familiarity with the OSM community and ecosystem, I would respectfully suggest that you try to engage with an academic with this expertise. Furthermore, I think you should also try to connect with the OSM community at large, just like you just did with the public mailing list for the OSGeo community. I will be happy to help you on both aspects if you need assistance to connect. > Best wishes Best wishes for your work, discussion and paper! A final nitpick about rather common spelling mistakes: "OpenStreetMap" is written 'upper camel case' without spaces. Please avoid "Open Street Map", "Openstreet Maps", "Openstreetmap"... Thanks again for all your efforts and sharing BenoƮt OpenStreetMap / OSGeo France _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss