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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-05-11 06:45 AM, Richard Weait
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<pre wrap="">OpenStreetMap presentation by Stewart Russell
Tuesday 12 May 2015
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gtalug.org/meeting/2015-05/">http://gtalug.org/meeting/2015-05/</a>
- Formal presentation including Question and Answer.</pre>
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Eep! Formal, is it? I don't think that anyone's ever called anything
I've ever done ‘formal’. What I'm going to talk about is more on the
licen<u>c</u>e, open data and community side:<br>
<blockquote>OpenStreetMap is more than just a web mapping platform.
It's a comprehensive, community-maintained map/geodatabase of the
world that you can hack on. Since the last GTALUG talk on OSM over
five years ago, it's grown a lot, and developed a huge community
of mappers, developers and data users. In this talk, we'll discuss
the basics of using OSM, how it survived a major licence change
with only a little drama, and how it succeeds as a community.<br>
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… and it's pretty much going to be like that. Or it will be, when I
finish writing it. I'll be stopping for dinner at Mappy Hour
tonight, but heading out early to ensure people have something to
think about tomorrow. (Something other than ‘<i>that guy who tried
to end a GTALUG talk with a half-hour kazoo solo</i>’, at any
rate.)<br>
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Stewart<br>
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