[OSM-talk-be] OSM introduction

[Ben Abelshausen]

Jo,

Thanks for the quick reply and your expertise on JOSM will be welcome!!

Probably this will take place in Gent! I don't know if there is anyone
involved with HOT. I hope to hear the answer here on the list! :-)

The meeting will be informative for them, but also for me, getting to know
them and hear about their activities. I know they are trying to get some
work done in Bukavu (
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=28.8495676422&minlat=-2.5155410862&maxlon=28.8695695496&maxlat=-2.49554084778)
and at some point even had a project when locals went out with gps and
paper!!

Some of the participants will be completely new and others I think know some
basics about GIS in general! Do you know this person that presented to
'Trage Wegen'? Is he/she on this list?

Regards,

Ben


On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> I can certainly help you out with JOSM. Is this meeting to take place
> somewhere in Belgium? I can do a presentation in English, Dutch or French.
> Are there people involved with HOT here in Belgium? Will they work all over
> Africa, or in specific regions?
>
> The Openstreetmap project has been presented like this to participants of
> Trage Wegen in Haaltert a few months ago. The person who did this, did it
> very well. Completely adapted to newcomers and people who were not very
> 'computer savvy'.
>
> Unfortunately we ran out of time though :-)
>
> Jo
>
> 2011/8/19 Ben Abelshausen <ben.abelshausen at gmail.com>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I contacted an organisation doing mapping in some parts of africa
>> (Africa4U http://www.africa4u.eu/ website a bit out of date) and
>> introduced the president of the organisation to OSM. There appears to be a
>> lot of interest now from several participating members to get an
>> introduction session about OSM.
>>
>> My questions: has anyone done something like this already and more
>> specifically is someone interested in organizing this in collaboration with
>> myself. The introduction has to be in Dutch/English I guess.
>>
>> If none of you are interested is there anyone who can introduce only JOSM?
>> I don't have experience with that editor but to me, objectively, it seems
>> the best one for the job... Also an introduction about licence and what
>> sources they can and can't use seems important to me.
>>
>> Even better would be if someone involved with HOT would be present! I
>> don't know exactly how many participants will show up but the ones that will
>> seem pretty enthusiastic about all this...
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Ben Abelshausen
>>
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