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

[PJ Houser]

I am working on updating the wiki for our data sources (RLIS and CCGIS -
search wiki for each of those acronyms). Perhaps I can make a page with a
summary from the meet & greet.
--
PJ Houser
Trimet
GIS intern, 503-962-5711 (office)



On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Josh Doe <josh at joshdoe.com> wrote:

> I'd be very interested, though I'm all the way over in Virginia. A
> webinar or at least providing a summary and your presentations online
> would be valuable.
>
> Thanks,
> -Josh
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:43 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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