On Wednesday 22 October 2014, Jochen Topf wrote: > Just stumbled over this: > http://internationalmapyear.org > > Seems to be some UN thing: The International Map Year 2015/16. Maybe > some OSM groups want to get involved in some way.
This is an ICA (International Cartographic Association) initiative apparently endorsed by the UN. The ICA is an international association of national cartographic societies (in Germany the DGfK) which is mostly focussed on traditional cartography and generally fairly reserved towards crowd sourced geodata and community projects. The book "The World of Maps" they are promoting on that site contains a chapter on "Volunteered Geographic Information": http://internationalmapyear.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/19_Volunteered_Geographic_Information.pdf which is fairly superficial but includes a quite detailed and well illustrated tutorial on contributing to OSM. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
