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

[Adam Dunn]

I probably read the same article as RWeait. Couldn't contribute much,
as I didn't have a GPS at the time though. My father got a GPS that
Christmas, so I added my home street. I'm pretty sure it was the first
street to be added to British Columbia. I think it was a couple months
later that the Yahoo aerial imagery was made available, then the NRN
road dataset, and now Canvec. I've since gotten a new GPS unit (Garmin
is much better than Magellan, especially for us Linux folk), and am
now mapping out hiking trails in the Yellowknife area.

Adam

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:16 AM, James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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