[Talk-is] Mapping Party

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 16:29, Brian Suda <brian.suda at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was listening to the BBC program about maps, and they made a small
> off comment about a few countries that stopped printing paper maps. I
> sort of laughed to myself until they said Iceland. (Listen to episode
> 9 about Digital maps)
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rd8z5
>
> That got me wondering if it was time to try and have another mapping
> party, maybe try to focus on other parts of the country?
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Mapping_parties_in_Höfuðborgarsvæðið
>
> Is it worthwhile to try and organize some sort of "State of the Map in
> Iceland" meet-up to discuss the next steps?

It would be very neat to get meet-ups going again. To-date there's
been one proper meetup (in a café) with a few ill-attended but
productive mapping parties.

FSFÍ has been doing meet-ups in the pub recently. Maybe there would be
interest in OSMers piggy-backing on one of those meet-ups?