Hi everybody, for those that still doesn't know about http://www.openstreetmap.org/ (OSM) I would explain it as a Wikipedia of Maps, a collaboritve project started only 4 years ago and with a huge community and volunteers geolocating until cover the last corner of the world.
In vietnam OSM it doesn't cover too much, Hanoi is the city most geolocalized. IMHO this project very important because nowadays GIS services are growing up and it helps the IT sector in Vietnam to create their own GIS sites and programs without having to pay license oversea to Microsoft VE, Google Maps,etc An example of a vietnamese case is this site: http://newhanoian.xemzi.com/venue/category/28/NGOs-Charities#1/28 , allowing you to search and localize Services in Hanoi. Anyway, the reason of this email is to encourage the people that has already participated editing the Maps of OSM to get a free GPS device from them. Is very easy, just go to this site and apply. http://foundation.openstreetmap.org/gpstogo/ Best Regards to everybody and keep geolocating :-) Ivan Garcia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hanoilug.org/pipermail/hanoilug/attachments/20090129/b54b3806/attachment.htm
