[Talk-us] OSM St Louis Announcement
Steve Coast
steve at asklater.com
Thu Mar 14 18:22:12 UTC 2013
Awesome that you ran an event :-)
On Mar 14, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Rick Marshall <rick.marshall at verticalgeo.com> wrote:
> We held our initial OSM St Louis meeting on January 31. We had 7
> people attend and we had a great time discussing OSM. As we were
> getting ready to start the meeting I ran across an old friend that has
> been a Board Member for many years in the St Louis Region American
> Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Group. Today I
> received an E-Mail from the group's Board of Directors asking for a
> presentation on OSM and its capabilities. This will be a very
> interesting mix of open source software/crowdsourced information meets
> the rigid standards of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
> professionals. It could be an exciting opportunity to get some very
> technically capable professional mappers involved in OSM St Louis, or
> it could be a total disaster.
>
> Do any of you working with/in other OSM local groups or at OSM US have
> any experience with the ASPRS? I have been a member of ASPRS for
> years and I am not sure how well they will receive the
> opensource/crowdsourced flavor of my presentation. Randy Hale I know
> you are also a member of ASPRS. Have you had any success in
> integrating both groups?
>
> Take care and I look forward to your input.
>
> Rick Marshall
>
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