[Talk-us] OSM St Louis MeetUp Page

2013-05-16 Thread Rick Marshall
Fellow OSMers, We have finally created our own MeetUp Page for OSM St Louis. It is located at: http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-St-Louis-Mid-America-Mappers/ We are planning our next meeting to be held Wednesday, May 29 from 6:00-8:00pm at the O'Fallon Family Sports Park in O'Fallon,

Re: [Talk-us] OSM St Louis MeetUp Page

2013-05-16 Thread Steve Coast
Awesome, well done Rick :-) Steve On May 16, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Rick Marshall rick.marsh...@verticalgeo.com wrote: Fellow OSMers, We have finally created our own MeetUp Page for OSM St Louis. It is located at: http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-St-Louis-Mid-America-Mappers/ We are

[Talk-us] New member

2013-05-16 Thread Amy.Daniels
Hi Everyone, I wanted to introduce myself - I am Amy Daniels and I am a GIS Instructor with Greenville Technical College in South Carolina. I am interested in keeping OpenStreetMap Data for our college campuses as up-to-date and complete as possible. I have a lot to learn about contributing

Re: [Talk-us] New member

2013-05-16 Thread Mike Thompson
Amy, Welcome! Mike On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:33 AM, amy.dani...@gvltec.edu wrote: Hi Everyone, I wanted to introduce myself – I am Amy Daniels and I am a GIS Instructor with Greenville Technical College in South Carolina. I am interested in keeping OpenStreetMap Data for our

Re: [Talk-us] New member

2013-05-16 Thread Alex Barth
Hey Amy - Welcome! Great to see you work on college campuses. Just post any questions you might have here on the list. Alex On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: Amy, Welcome! Mike On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:33 AM, amy.dani...@gvltec.edu wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] OSM St Louis MeetUp Page

2013-05-16 Thread Alex Barth
+1 for using meetup. You'll get a lot of visibility from it for free. Here in DC we boosted our node.js meetup attendance by factor 2 just by switching from a custom site + twitter to meetup + twitter. That was a bit over a year ago. Also just tweeted you:

Re: [Talk-us] New member

2013-05-16 Thread Mike N
On 5/16/2013 1:33 PM, amy.dani...@gvltec.edu wrote: I wanted to introduce myself – I am Amy Daniels and I am a GIS Instructor with Greenville Technical College in South Carolina. I am interested in keeping OpenStreetMap Data for our college campuses as up-to-date and complete as possible. I

Re: [Talk-us] New member

2013-05-16 Thread David Fawcett
You might also be interested in how the University of Wisconsin redesigned their campus map and based it on OSM data. http://www.sco.wisc.edu/news/evolution-of-a-campus-map.html The developers are giving a presentation on it at the FOSS4G NA Conference next week in Minneapolis. David. On Thu,

Re: [Talk-us] New member

2013-05-16 Thread Steven Johnson
Hi Amy, Great to have you and happy to see more educational institutions contributing to the project. If you're looking for inspiration, you might want to take a look at TerpNav [1] and see how Univ of Maryland has used OpenStreetMap to create an interactive campus map. Looking forward to seeing