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

[Frank Steggink]

On 6-7-2012 13:27, Richard Weait wrote:
> Do you remember how you first heard of OSM, or first got mapping?
>
> I think the first sign I saw of OSM was in a post on slashdot in June 2006.
>
> Share your story.  How'd you get started?
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I probably heard for the first time about OSM years ago on the 
PlanetGS.com blogroll. It must be around 2005 / 2006. There were talks 
about mapping parties at the Isle of Man and later Isle of Weight in the 
United Kingdom. At that time I would think it would be nearly impossible 
to create a worldwide street map. Later I went to the FOSS4G conference 
in Vancouver, and talked with some guys about it. I would swear James 
Ewen was one of them, but the conference was in 2007. As the project 
grew, I became more interested :)

Anyways, in spring 2008 I got my old GPS (which I've used for 
geocaching, but only a few times), and went exploring the area around 
Quebec City, where I was living at that time. Being Dutch but living 
abroad, I didn't have a big social network. So, being a mapping geek OSM 
was a great way to explore the environment where I was living.

Frank