I don't have any information on this beyond what is in this email but thought it would be of interest to some people. I do know that the openstreetmap project is an interesting concept.<br><br>Chuck <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Russ Nelson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:russ@cloudmade.com">russ@cloudmade.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:46 PM<br>
Subject: [baltolug] OpenStreetMap mapping party in Baltimore<br>To: <a href="mailto:Baltolug@baltinet.com">Baltolug@baltinet.com</a><br><br><br>Hi. I'm flying in to Baltimore next weekend to host an OpenStreetMap mapping party. It's being held from 10a.m. to 4p.m. at Red Emmas on both Saturday and Sunday. I have a set of GPS receivers to loan out to people, and I'll teach all skills needed to improve the map of Baltimore.<br>
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Why? Because all the existing maps are closed, expensive, and out of date. Because this open street map is free, open, and as current as you want it to be. Because if you want to write a mapping program, or present your data against a map, you have no good starting point. Let's fix that.<br>
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OpenStreetMap is a database of geospatial information, licensed under the CC-BY-SA license, and is managed by a UK non-profit foundation (I'll let you guess the name.) (hint: it's not "OpenStreetMap Rumbottom").<br>
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More information about OpenStreetMap: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/</a><br>
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More information about this mapping party: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Baltimore" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Baltimore</a><br>
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Hope to see you there; if you have any questions, send email, or call my call: 315-323-1241. Feel free to forward this email to anyone you know who loves maps.<br>
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Russ Nelson - <a href="http://community.cloudmade.com/blog" target="_blank">http://community.cloudmade.com/blog</a> - <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson</a><br>
<a href="mailto:russ@cloudmade.com" target="_blank">russ@cloudmade.com</a> - <a href="http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson" target="_blank">http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson</a><br>
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