This interests me, but traveling 20+ hours for a meetup of 2,5h doesn't exactly appeal to me. Is there any way to participate virtually?
Polyglot 2018-02-05 16:22 GMT+01:00 Sebastian Kürten <[email protected]> : > Dear Wikidata Community, > > funded by the OpenKnowledge Foundation's Prototype Fund[1] I am working > on a project called OpenMetroMaps[2] since last September. The project > is an open-source and open-data project. I develop free software, > libraries and data formats for storing, editing and processing data > about transit networks and for designing schematic maps. The idea is to > provide the infrastructure for local communities to collect free data > about their transit network and to enable them to make use of such data > with a current focus on schematic network maps. > > The project is concerned with data collected and topics addressed in > both the Wikidata and the OpenStreetMap projects. Albeit there are > license incompatiblities involved preventing direct import of data from > one project into the other, both projects might benefit from tools that > visualize and validate their data. > > Since I am currently working on the project mostly alone, I have > organized a meeting with the intention to meet other people interested > in the topic. I would like to discuss ideas about where to go with the > project and problems that should be addressed in the Wikimedia family > of projects as well as the OpenStreetMap when it comes to data about > public transport. It will take place on February 11 from 14h to > 16:30h in the Berlin office of Wikmedia Germany[3]. Please let me know > if you would like to attend so that I roughly estimate how many people > are going to participate. > > You can also read the invitation on the German OpenStreetMap mailing > list[4] for some more details. > > I hope to see you on Sunday, > Sebastian > > [1] https://prototypefund.de > [2] http://www.openmetromaps.org > [3] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TU23 > [4] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2018- > February/114636.html > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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