[talk-au] A geospatial conference that comes to you - This November 20th
Some of you may know two terms *SOTM* - State of the Map which is normally an annual conference around OpenStreetMap. Sitting under that are SOTM annual conferences in regions, ours is Oceania *FOSS4G* - Free and Open Source Software 4 Geospatial and these are also normally annual conferences and yes Oceania is covered. Oceania decided to merge both of these into one conference. It sold out in Melbourne in 2018 and sold out again in Wellington 2019 and we want to sell it out in the year 2020. This year, the plan was Fiji, however the FOSS4G-SOTM crew are agile and responsive and have opened up 13 hubs around the pacific for a one day get together including three in New Zealand, Perth, Canberra, Hobart, Cairns and Melbourne and all the hubs would welcome you on Friday November 20th. *Melbourne *are hosting their conference at the Mint directly opposite the Flagstaff Gardens train station. For $25 you not only get lunch and a drink but you get to listen to local speakers before all hubs join together for the keynote speakers on the big screen. We hope that the day will also allow you to unpack some of the baggage from the last seven months and enjoy discussing all things Geo. This appears to be the first conference to be held in Melbourne since lock down so do yourself a favour as Molly would say. Melbourne tickets are limited and we cannot expand the size sadly. All the information for all the hubs is located at https://2020.foss4g-oceania.org/index.html#map and if you are keen on Geo, OSM or both then the FOSS4G crew would love to see you there. Let's make it a big day! Feel free to email directly for any queries or contact the hubs directly Ewen Hill ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] Perth mapping party 2020-11-21
Hi all, As part of FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2020, we're going to hold a mapping party in Perth on Saturday November 21st. https://2020.foss4g-oceania.org/hubs/perth/#osm_mapping_party At the conference the day before I'm going to give a little lightning talk about how to edit OSM (just a general thing, aimed at people who might have a small inkling of what OSM is), and hopefully we'll get a bunch of people to come along on the Saturday. The idea is to hand out printed Field Papers and tips for what to map in the morning, have everyone head out for a couple of hours of exploring/photographing/etc, and then spend the afternoon learning JOSM and iD and getting the data into OSM. (And I know, mapping the CBD of Perth isn't probably the most brilliant as far as interest goes, but there's enough missing and out of date data, and it's close to the Riff coworking space where we've been given a free venue.) If any Perth mappers want to come along that'd be great! And if anyone else has any ideas for how to make it a good mapping party (I've not organised one before), please share! Thanks, Sam. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
