Ian,
I read through their Web site.
They used Potlatch 1 for two pilot projects in
"crowdsourcing" (yes, they used the word) topographic data.
Apparently they were pleased enough with the results to plan to move
ahead, at some point, with crowdsourced topographic mapping. I hope
they have taken a look at Potlatch 2.
They also mentioned OSM several times on a couple of Web
pages, which was nice publicity.
Charlotte
At 02:50 PM 7/22/2012, you wrote:
Yep. They announced it prematurely. They'll have more information
about it in the near future.
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Adam Schreiber
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
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
<<mailto:[email protected]>[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>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
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