[OSM-dev] Proposed Developers' Day in Birmingham- experienced volunteers wanted Sat May 22nd

[Brian Prangle]

We are trying to stimulate some local expertise up here to complement our
surveying and increasing contacts with public sector bodies which will soon
produce demands  to produce more customised maps from our data.  So we have
got a small local TV production company(based in the centre of Birmingham)
to donate us their conference facilities for a day on Saturday May 22 and
wehave produced the following outline agenda

Proposed outline of topics. It is a bit ambitious and we
probably cannot include all of it in one day. It really depends on
finding people with knowledge in the different areas.

1. A short introduction to free Maps and OpenStreetMap in particular
  - using datasets (data.gov.uk)
  - Ordnance Survey mapping (trace, import).
  - expand on use scenarios like footpaths and cycleroutes
  - customisation potential of OSM
  - perhaps including the license topic (see point 7) here?

2. The Basics: Adding a map to your website
  - How to use OpenLayers to embed a simple slippy map on a website.
  - Using different maps (Mapnik, Cyclemap, etc)
  - Adding basic map controls (scale, pan/zoom, permalink, etc)
  - Mention: Plugins for Wordpress, etc

3. Advanced maps
  - Using Nominatim to find locations or to do reverse geo-coding
  - Display information on top of the map (markers, lines, photos, ...)

4. Creating custom map styles
  - Cloudmade's style editor
  - Create map styles with mapnik
  - Overlaying transparent map layers

5. Beyond maps: Accessing the data
  - Using XAPI and SSS for overlays
  - Routing

6. Mobile Maps

7. The License
  A short explanation of what the current license mean for developers
  and what will change with the ODBL.

These topic do not really fit with the web developers scheme of the
day but might neveretheless be interesting for some:
  - Creating maps for GPS devices
  - Printing large scale maps

Session four and five could perhaps be done in parallel.

Session 1 and 2 being introductory could be offerd for the morning and th
more advanced stuff for the afternoon so that potentially 2 different groups
of developers/mappers could be catered for and eacxh night only have to give
up half a day

What we don't have is anyone with sufficient depth of knowledge or
experience to deliver any of this stuff So anyone like to volunteer to
deliver some of this ( or suggest any other topics which would be OK for an
introductory day?

Regards

Brian
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