[Talk-ca] Announce: TrailHead Ontario with OSM

john whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 1 00:35:33 BST 2010


I'd be very interested in the PDF notes if they could be made available by
April 20th.

Thanks John

On 31 March 2010 17:39, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> Patrick just let me know that at the TrailHead conference, june 21st -25th,
> in Toronto, ON he reserved 45 mins, to talk about the OpenStreetMap
> project.  Specifically how all trail users with can make use of OSM &
> leverage it to make the best map possible.
> http://trailheadontario.com/speakers/patrick-connor/
>
> I'll be putting together a PowerPoint (set of PDF slides notes) showing an
> easy guide to get from GPS tracks to making it show on the map, to how to
> contact the community, with this talk-ca at openstreetmap.org discussion list
> & direct web-interface connecting.   Since it needs to be easily understood
> by everyone.  It will help if others create their own version & we can make
> them all available on the wiki.
> If anyone is planing on attending (it's way to spendy for me), please let
> the list know :)  thanks.   (It would be great to have a free OSM-Workshop
> the following week, somewhere in Toronto so more local mappers can attend &
> perhaps some of the people from the conference might be interested to also
> attend.)
>
> So as you all know, im actively working on getting the trails mapped for
> all over Ontario (with focus on getting the Trails data copied in (JOSM WMS
> link
>
> http://xhema.flossk.org:8080/cgi-bin/mapserv?service=WMS&version=1.1.1&request=GetMap&layers=Roads&srs=EPSG:4326&format=image/jpeg&map=/var/www/mapserver/ca_trails.map&
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Ontario  The source .osm
> files list the attributes which needs to be added to the trails in OSM.  And
> we'll need to make route relations and all that good stuff.
>
> I predict that by June, we should see 'significant' improvement in the map.
> :)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
>
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