I'm told by my employer that Trimet is the first transit agency in the United States to choose OpenStreetMap as a data source, and invest in updating the area's data. Does anyone else know of others? -- PJ Houser Trimet GIS intern, 503-962-5711 (office)
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds like a great idea. I won't be joining, but I wonder if there's more > initiatives like this one in the US? > > Martijn > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:43 PM, PJ Houser < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> In case I missed any of the local mappers in my ITO World search, you're >> invited to... >> >> TriMet, Portland's regional transportation agency, is holding a Meet & >>> Greet for local OSM Mappers: >>> >>> Friday May 13, 2011 >>> 4:00pm - 6:00pm PST >>> TriMet Center Street Administration Building >>> 4012 SE 17th Ave. >>> Portland, OR 97202 >>> >>> Why? >>> • Meet other local OSM Mappers and the PSU students that are working on >>> OSM improvements in the 4-county regional area. >>> • Observe our OSM editing process first hand and provide feedback: it is >>> a manual and labor intensive process, it is not a data import. We are using >>> up-to-date regional jurisdictional data and 6-inch ortho-rectified digital >>> imagery flown in August 2010 as a reference with permission from the >>> sources. >>> • Learn why we chose to invest in OSM and the community, rather than a >>> proprietary mapping solution. >>> • See a sneak preview of the Open Trip Planner, TriMet's new open source >>> multi-modal trip planner scheduled for release in Fall, and meet the >>> developers involved in the project. >>> • Explore opportunities for collaboration and on-going maintenance (ex: >>> local cities and counties can make street data available to the OSM >>> community). >>> >>> Using http://www.itoworld.com/static/osm_mapper.html, we were able to >>> find some past and present active mappers for the Metro region. >>> >>> Let us know if this time doesn't work for you, or if you are not local >>> but interested - we can schedule a webinar or make other arrangements. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Bibiana McHugh (manager), PJ Houser, Betsy Breyer, Grant Humphries, and >>> Melelani Sax-Barnett >>> TriMet, GIS and Location-Based Services >>> >> >> >> -- >> PJ Houser >> Trimet >> GIS intern, 503-962-5711 (office) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> >> > > > -- > Martijn van Exel > http://about.me/mvexel >
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