[CALUG] CALUG May 9 Meeting Announcement - OpenStreetMap

[Chuck Frain]

Greetings All,

For our next meeting on Wednesday May 9 we will be welcoming Travis
Pinney giving us an introduction to OpenStreetMap.

Please join us from 6:30-7 for pizza and soda provided by Praxis
Engineering (http://www.praxiseng.com). At 7 we will start the meeting
and presentation by Travis.

As normal, this all takes place at the offices of Tenable Network
Security (http://tenable.com) located at 7063 Columbia Gateway Drive
Columbia, MD 21046. Please enter at the back patio with the blue tables.

BIO

Travis Pinney is a geospatial software developer. A long contributor to
geospatial open-source software, in Travis's free time he likes to hack on
OpenStreetMap. Currently he is working on osmdevbox (
http://github.com/tlpinney/osmdevbox) a project that give developers a
headstart in contributing to OpenStreetMap development.


TALK

OpenStreetMap aims to provide a free map of the entire world. It is similar
to Wikipedia but consists of geospatial data. Anyone can sign-up and
contribute, add missing information, correct mistakes and map their own
neighborhood. Over 600,000 user accounts have been created so far. Learn
how you can contribute to OpenStreetMap as well as utilize the data in your
own projects.

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Chuck Frain 
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