Thanks for the encouragement Steve and Alex. I am already planning to host our next quarterly meeting of the OSM St Louis Group to correspond with the Spring Editathon so that we can participate. I will invite the ASPRS group also.
Rick Marshall -- Rick Marshall, PhD, GISP President Vertical GeoSolutions, Inc (VerticalGeo) 130 Sawgrass Ln O'Fallon, IL 62269 (618) 670-4259 [email protected] http://www.verticalgeo.com http://www.culturescapes.net Vertically Thinking Blog: http://verticalgeo.wordpress.com On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Alex Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > Like Steve said: awesome you ran an event. > > In case you're looking for an excuse, April 20 / 21 is a great opportunity > to run one again, maybe this time with ASPRS folks invited ;-) > > http://www.openstreetmap.us/2013/03/april-spring-editathon/ > > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Steve Coast <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Awesome that you ran an event :-) >> >> >> On Mar 14, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Rick Marshall >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > We held our initial OSM St Louis meeting on January 31. We had 7 >> > people attend and we had a great time discussing OSM. As we were >> > getting ready to start the meeting I ran across an old friend that has >> > been a Board Member for many years in the St Louis Region American >> > Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Group. Today I >> > received an E-Mail from the group's Board of Directors asking for a >> > presentation on OSM and its capabilities. This will be a very >> > interesting mix of open source software/crowdsourced information meets >> > the rigid standards of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing >> > professionals. It could be an exciting opportunity to get some very >> > technically capable professional mappers involved in OSM St Louis, or >> > it could be a total disaster. >> > >> > Do any of you working with/in other OSM local groups or at OSM US have >> > any experience with the ASPRS? I have been a member of ASPRS for >> > years and I am not sure how well they will receive the >> > opensource/crowdsourced flavor of my presentation. Randy Hale I know >> > you are also a member of ASPRS. Have you had any success in >> > integrating both groups? >> > >> > Take care and I look forward to your input. >> > >> > Rick Marshall >> > >> > -- >> > Rick Marshall, PhD, GISP >> > President >> > Vertical GeoSolutions, Inc (VerticalGeo) >> > 130 Sawgrass Ln >> > O'Fallon, IL 62269 >> > (618) 670-4259 >> > [email protected] >> > http://www.verticalgeo.com >> > http://www.culturescapes.net >> > Vertically Thinking Blog: http://verticalgeo.wordpress.com >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
