Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Rise of Open Street Map as a World Mapping Agency

2017-03-02 Thread Benoit Fournier
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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-18 Thread Benoit Fournier
Maria, all, I would slightly disagree here, because I think all data can be of various degrees of quality and freshness. Maria, I can re-read your entire message with '(any) data' instead if 'open data' and it makes much more sense to me. Commercial data, paid data, authoritative data, open data,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G

2016-05-24 Thread Benoit Fournier
Hi Johan and all, I have been involved or simply attended a few conferences, in particular OSGeo-FOSS4G France/Europe/World and OSM-SotM France/World. I would like to comment on the cost and comparison of the different events. TL;DR: I feel like FOSSDEM and State of the Map are in the same

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Announcing the ​​OSGeo Seal Design Contest Winner

2016-03-29 Thread Benoit FOURNIER
Anita​ > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Dirk Frigne <dirk.fri...@geosparc.com> > wrote: > >> Congrats, Beniot! >> >> If I may, I'll use the image in my OSGeo presentation I give next week! >> >> Dirk >> >> On 21-03-16 22:44, B

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Announcing the ​​OSGeo Seal Design Contest Winner

2016-03-21 Thread Benoit FOURNIER
Dear OSGeo community, Anita, Thanks for conducting this vote and the choice of my design. I am very happy that this seal will be used on important and significant pieces of paper for OSGeo! :) I am sending the SVG file to Anita right now and offering the design to the community with great pride