[OHM] State of the Map 2013 Update

[Tim Waters]

Hi folks,

just thought I'd update you all on the recent 2013 State of the Map
Conference in Birmingham now the videos are being uploaded.

David Evans did a great OHM talk: http://lanyrd.com/2013/sotm/scphdh/
Video: starts around 2hrs 38mins :
 http://citizen.civico.net/openstreetmapfoundation/stateofthemap/1138

Susanna Annas did a talk on the Wikimaps project:
http://lanyrd.com/2013/sotm/scphgd/
Video: http://citizen.civico.net/openstreetmapfoundation/stateofthemap/1138
3hrs 54mins

There were also some other presentations (I missed these) which had some
historical content, including one about finding a lost river in Japan. If
you came across other highlights do share!

We had a very short shared BoF of wikimaps and OHM which was attended by
mainly interested and curious mappers. I filled in folks about OHM project
and Susanna about wikimaps, but I don't think there was much to report,
more a case of chatting with folks who wanted to know more.

During the Code Day following the main conference we were able to do some
brainstorming, and I helped guide some folks with the rectification of out
of copyright Irish town lands maps which are going up on mapwarper.net.

In general, for me the theme of the conference is increasing diversity and
widening audiences, and I believe that OHM taps into interested communities
of historians, genealogists etc.

Cheers, and hope to catch up at foss4g if folks are coming!

Tim
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