[Talk-us] Portland, Oregon & surrounding areas - OSM mappers

[Martijn van Exel]

Sounds like a great idea. I won't be joining, but I wonder if there's more
initiatives like this one in the US?

Martijn

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:43 PM, PJ Houser <stephanie.jean.houser at gmail.com
> wrote:

> In case I missed any of the local mappers in my ITO World search, you're
> invited to...
>
> TriMet, Portland's regional transportation agency, is holding a Meet &
>> Greet for local OSM Mappers:
>>
>>      Friday May 13, 2011
>>      4:00pm - 6:00pm PST
>>      TriMet Center Street Administration Building
>>      4012 SE 17th Ave.
>>      Portland, OR  97202
>>
>> Why?
>> • Meet other local OSM Mappers and the PSU students that are working on
>> OSM improvements in the 4-county regional area.
>> • Observe our OSM editing process first hand and provide feedback:  it is
>> a manual and labor intensive process, it is not a data import.  We are using
>> up-to-date regional jurisdictional data and 6-inch ortho-rectified digital
>> imagery flown in August 2010 as a reference with permission from the
>> sources.
>> • Learn why we chose to invest in OSM and the community, rather than a
>> proprietary mapping solution.
>> • See a sneak preview of the Open Trip Planner, TriMet's new open source
>> multi-modal trip planner scheduled for release in Fall, and meet the
>> developers involved in the project.
>> • Explore opportunities for collaboration and on-going maintenance (ex:
>> local cities and counties can make street data available to the OSM
>> community).
>>
>> Using http://www.itoworld.com/static/osm_mapper.html, we were able to
>> find some past and present active mappers for the Metro region.
>>
>> Let us know if this time doesn't work for you, or if you are not local but
>> interested - we can schedule a webinar or make other arrangements.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bibiana McHugh (manager), PJ Houser, Betsy Breyer, Grant Humphries, and
>> Melelani Sax-Barnett
>> TriMet, GIS and Location-Based Services
>>
>
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