[Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Google launches "Indigenous Mapping" workshop

[Sam Vekemans]

There is an opportunity for hosting a 'virtual couch' mapping party to
map all the aborigional lands in Canada :-)

Anyone interested?
(via Tinychat)

Sam

p.s. OSM & Google co-exist, i use Google Earth with KML overlay :)
with more people using it, it could become standard in the GE package,
just as everytrail.com is.  Push everytrail to use OSM & donate
tracks, and there is are ticket in. :)

On 12/23/09, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>>
>> ... I view all this Google activity not with the same
>> skepticism that others seem to have. I think someone who is mapping for
>> Google is still better than someone who is not mapping at all!
>
> That's not skepticism, but it's a good point :)
>
>> It takes
>> enormous resources to (where reqired)
>>
>> - explain to people what maps are ;-)
>> - make them understand that maps are not god-given or a government thing
>> but
>> you can (help) make them yourself
>> - train people to look out for the things that are important for map
>> making
>>
>> A population that has these skills and this knowledge is a much more
>> fertile
>> environment for OSM to flourish in - even if that initial awareness has
>> come
>> from Google.
>
> But what if that population then consists entirely of Map Maker users?
> Is that really beneficial for OSM? I know what you're saying, but it
> is reasonable to expect Map Maker users to jump ship to OSM? Is that
> even what we should be hoping for?
>
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