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

2017-03-02 Thread Dirk Frigne
Till Thank you for your great success story, At OSGeo.be we invited people from OSM in the plenary sessions of the FOSS4G conferences to promote their community. This year, March 16, OSGeo.be organises a separate track on the BeGeo conference[1]. Registration is free of charge and we expect

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

2017-03-02 Thread Till Adams
Hi Jachym, in short we invited the OSM people to join our conference not only as participants. In the first year (I think it was 2010) we had our regular FOSSGIs conference followed by one day OSM talks. We switched at noon, so that communities could meet. >From 2011 on we mixed up both worlds

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

2017-03-02 Thread Peter Mooney
Hello everyone, Hello Suchith, The idea of OpenStreetMap (OSM) as a World Mapping Agency is very exciting. In many ways it is already happening. Through the OSM API, Geofabrik, Mapzen, etc etc I can easily access high quality, up-to-date geographic for any region, city or country in the world. Or

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] The Rise of Open Street Map as a World Mapping Agency

2017-03-01 Thread Till Adams
Hi, these are really good news. I wanted to add 2 Cents in the form, that we might encourage our local OSGeo chapters for a close relationship to the local OSM communities. FOSSGIS, the german speaking local OSGeo chapter for example, stands also for the german speaking OSM community. On our

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

2017-03-01 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear Colleagues, The Geospatial IG [1] of the Research Data Alliance will be meeting in Barcelona on 5th April 2017 to keep building ideas for the global research agenda for Geospatial Data Science . https://www.rd-alliance.org/ig-geospatial-rda-9th-plenary-meeting I would also like to make