[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: OpenStreetMap - Open Data for Mapping - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting 2009-06-04

[Peter Dobratz]

In response to some previous postings on this list about
OpenStreetMap, I was inspired to start mapping around my house in
Derry, NH.  See the map so far here:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.88044&lon=-71.3262&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF

I'm running the JOSM Jar file on Ubuntu and using gpsbabel to grab GPS
traces from my Garmin etrex.

Peter

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Bill McGonigle<bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> [ bring some cash for dinner as it makes the single-party bill far
> simpler to settle ]
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> The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held:
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>                  Thursday, June 4th, 7-9PM
> at:            Dartmouth College, Carson L02
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>                All are welcome, free of charge.
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>                            Agenda
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> 5:30  Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's.
>
> 7:00  Sign-in, networking
>
> 7:15  Introductory remarks
>
> 7:20  OpenStreetMap - Open Data for Mapping
>         presented by Russ Nelson
>
>       Russ is currently pitching Open Data. The left hand to Open
>       Source's right hand, Open Data is an essential part of many
>       programs. You may think "Oh, but my program doesn't use any
>       data". But what about fonts? What about configuration files?
>       What about any files your program reads or writes?
>
>       OpenStreetMap is geodata, a collection of locations
>       (intersections), connections between them (roads), and
>       connections between the connections (bus routes). All of these
>       can have arbitrary amounts of metadata stored with them, like
>       names, speed limits, purpose of the road, etc. All of this is
>       stored in a PostgreSQL database and available through an API
>       which presents a simpler interface than raw SQL queries.
>
>       With all of this data in hand, you can make a map. But maps
>       aren't new; why is OpenStreetMap (OSM) new? OpenStreetMap is
>       licensed under a community reciprocal license, so that people
>       who contribute to it are confident that the people who
>       distribute it will reciprocate under the same license. Unlike
>       public domain data like the Census's TIGER data, OSM has a
>       custodian who wants your contributions. Unlike proprietary data
>       like Google Maps, or its underlying proprietary geodata, OSM
>       is freely copyable and open to all for editing.
>
>       Russ Nelson is an early Linux adopter; in fact an early adopter
>       of all sorts of technology, including the first non-Compaq iPAQ
>       reflashed to run Linux. He finally gave up on assembly language
>       a few years ago and now programs in C and most languages
>       beginning with P. He almost got a PhD from Clarkson University
>       but managed to escape writing a dissertation.
>
>       Russ has been giving away his software since he started
>       writing it in 1974. Prior to his GPLed Freemacs package,
>       there weren't many people to distribute it to. He really came to
>       the fore with his Packet Driver Collection, begun while a
>       staff member at Clarkson. A GPL'ed set of DOS Ethernet
>       drivers, they arguably put GPL'ed software on more CPU's than
>       anything prior to Linux. Supporting free software full-time
>       since 1991, Russell is a founding member of the Open Source
>       Initiative and a Cloudmate Community Ambassador. He lives in
>       Potsdam, NY with his wife and two nearly-adult children, but
>       was born in NYC and raised in Baldwin out in Nassau County.
>
>
> 8:50  Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make
>          announcements or ask a Linux/FLOSS question of the group.
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