[Talk-ca] How did you start in OSM?

[James Ewen]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> Do you remember how you first heard of OSM, or first got mapping?

March 2008... not sure how I heard about OSM, I think it was through
something geocache related, maybe a post by someone. I went to the
OpenStreetMap website signed up and started adding roads in my
neighborhood. I went out and drove every road in my neighborhood, came
back uploaded the track from my GPS, and got after it.

First GPS trace upload March 3,2008.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/VE6SRV/traces/80805

Found the wiki and created a page for Strathcona County a couple days
in... still waiting for anyone to find the page and join in on mapping
the area though.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Alberta:Strathcona_County

There's a bit of a difference in the map from when I started! There
are a couple map captures on the page.

Without the CanVec data, the map would still be looking pretty bleak!

-- 
James
VE6SRV