Hi to all the OSMers! A brief thought from the 9th GRASS - GFOSS Italian Meeting [1] held in Perugia the last week, where I was invited to held a talk about OpenStreetMap.
The interest about OSM was amazing. The audience was composed by the top Italian GIS developers and users, in my talk I tried to focus on both the community approach and on technical details. I feel good attention and several people asked me after the talk. I heard someone saying - as a joke - that we are like GIS hooligans: we do not bother topology, we ignore other spatial reference systems, we tag unpaved traks as "highway" (sound very confusing for Italian people!). Despite that we got an amazing feedback. The community approach, the achieved results and the deployed technical solutions were accepted with extreme interest. After the meeting several people joined the Mapping Party [2] that was favoured by an early spring with a warm and sunny Saturday and Sunday (more to come on this). I wish to thanks all the partecipants and the organization which make this event possible. [1] http://www.grassmeeting2008.unipg.it/ [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_Italy/IX_Convegno_GRASS-GFOSS_Perugia -- Niccolo Rigacci Firenze - Italy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
