"... at Where 2.0" that first sentence should have had at the end. Where 2.0 being the O'Reilley organised conference near San Francisco last week.
On 23 May 2008, at 18:30, John McKerrell wrote: > Ben spoke at one of the evening "Bird's of a Feather" sessions about > AfricaMap. They have various goals for the project, but the first is > to digitise and georeference the maps of Africa that they have > available within the Harvard vaults. He seemed very open to the idea > of making these maps available then through WMS layers or tiles so > that we could then derive maps from them. Andrew Turner was also there > and fired a few questions at him. I wrote some notes about the > discussion here: > > http://blog.johnmckerrell.com/2008/05/14/where-20-africamap/ > > On 23 May 2008, at 17:05, Alan Millar wrote: > >> I came across this recently which may be of interest to OSM >> participants >> in Africa. >> >> http://africamap.harvard.edu >> >> It is a project, apparently just starting, to put every available >> map for >> Africa online in one coordinated system. >> >> I emailed Ben Lewis, the contact on the website, who said they >> definitely >> want to work with OSM, both providing maps and images for OSM and >> incorporating OSM road data into AfricaMap. >> >> I don't know any more about it than this, but I'm just trying to let >> interested people know since I had not noticed it come up in >> discussions >> yet. Some of you OSM mappers in Africa may want to check it out. >> >> - Alan >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
