Ian, The link appears to be dead. Was the video taken down?
Cheers, Adam On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I saw a tweet from @USGS today mentioning that the National Map Corps are > starting up again. If you don't know what the National Map Corps is, think > of it like "OpenStreetMap for the US Government". Volunteer mappers > correcting and adding to the topo maps all over the country. I'm sure there > are others with much more information, but it was a pretty epic project and > is the source for lots of the free and public domain data we use to this > day. > > For the last year or two (or three?) Eric Wolf's been working to adapt the > OpenStreetMap stack to the USGS's needs, and it looks like it that work has > finally been released. Check out this video for more information: > http://gallery.usgs.gov/videos/552. Skip to 4:10 or so to see it in action. > > Hopefully Eric and others will respond here and tell us more about it! > > -Ian > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
