[Talk-us] D.C. OSM News/Events

[Kate Chapman]

Hi US-OSMers,
In the Washington D.C. area we've formed a group called MappingDC.  I
suppose it might eventually want to become a local chapter or something when
that is all worked out.

Anyway I wanted to let everyone know about a couple things going on in DC.

1.  September 12th we are having a mapping party to map the National Zoo.
 We thought it would be a good way to teach people how to use the tools and
we could do some fun renderings of the data when we are finished.
2. The D.C. Government is changing the Terms of Service on their Data
Catalog website so that we can import all of the data into OSM.  We are
hoping to have a planning meeting sometime next week to discuss.  Then at
some point we will have an import party to start getting the data in.
3.  We are trying to have mapping parties fairly often, since we are getting
so much data for DC proper they will probably focus on the suburbs.  I'll
post information on those as they come up.

If you are interested in any of this you can contact me or there is a
MappingDC Google Group.  http://groups.google.com/group/mappingdc


Thanks,

Kate Chapman
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