AzGeocaching and The Phoenix Linux Users Group (PLUG) will be teaming up
to do an OpenStreetMap training and Mapping party.
What is OpenStreetMap you ask....
OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as
street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because
most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical
restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in
creative, productive, or unexpected ways.
Contributors to OpenStreetMap take handheld GPS devices with them
on journeys, or go out specially to record GPS tracks. They record
street names, village names and other features using notebooks, digital
cameras, and voice-recorders.
Back at the computer, contributors upload those GPS logs showing
where they travelled, and trace-out the roads on OpenStreetMap's
collaborative database. Using their notes, contributors add the street
names, information such as the type of road or path, and the connections
between roads.
That data is then processed to produce detailed street-level maps,
which can be published freely on sites such as Wikipedia, used to create
handheld or in-car navigation devices, or printed and copied without
restriction.
This all starts out at PLUG's East side meeting which is held on the
second Thursday of every month, the 14th of this month, with an
introduction to OpenStreetMap given by a OpenStreetMap representivive
Hurrican McEwen, on what is OpenSteetMap and how to use it.
Then on the 16th and 17th, there will be mapping parties using Boulders
On Broadway as a base camp.Ope
For more details see:
http://azgeocaching.com/index.php/the-news/93-mapping-party.html
Brian Cluff
AzGeocaching.com
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