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

[PJ Houser]

I'm told by my employer that Trimet is the first transit agency in the
United States to choose OpenStreetMap as a data source, and invest in
updating the area's data. Does anyone else know of others?
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PJ Houser
Trimet
GIS intern, 503-962-5711 (office)



On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> PJ Houser
>> Trimet
>> GIS intern, 503-962-5711 (office)
>>
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>
> --
> Martijn van Exel
> http://about.me/mvexel
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