<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">We're in the early stages of planning some OSM action after FOSS4G in Cape Town.<br><br>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenMappingAfrica2008<br><br>All help, references, suggestions, links, welcome.<br><br>-Mikel<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: John McKerrell <john@mckerrell.net><br>Cc: OSM Talk <talk@openstreetmap.org><br>Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 10:30:31 AM<br>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] AfricaMap<br><br>
Ben spoke at one of the evening "Bird's of a Feather" sessions about <br>AfricaMap. They have various goals for the project, but the first is <br>to digitise and georeference the maps of Africa that they have <br>available within the Harvard vaults. He seemed very open to the idea <br>of making these maps available then through WMS layers or tiles so <br>that we could then derive maps from them. Andrew Turner was also there <br>and fired a few questions at him. I wrote some notes about the <br>discussion here:<br><br><a href="http://blog.johnmckerrell.com/2008/05/14/where-20-africamap/" target="_blank">http://blog.johnmckerrell.com/2008/05/14/where-20-africamap/</a><br><br>On 23 May 2008, at 17:05, Alan Millar wrote:<br><br>> I came across this recently which may be of interest to OSM <br>> participants<br>> in Africa.<br>><br>> <a href="http://africamap.harvard.edu"
target="_blank">http://africamap.harvard.edu</a><br>><br>> It is a project, apparently just starting, to put every available <br>> map for<br>> Africa online in one coordinated system.<br>><br>> I emailed Ben Lewis, the contact on the website, who said they <br>> definitely<br>> want to work with OSM, both providing maps and images for OSM and<br>> incorporating OSM road data into AfricaMap.<br>><br>> I don't know any more about it than this, but I'm just trying to let<br>> interested people know since I had not noticed it come up in <br>> discussions<br>> yet. Some of you OSM mappers in Africa may want to check it out.<br>><br>> - Alan<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> talk mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br>> <a
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