[Talk-us] OSM St Louis Announcement

[Rick Marshall]

Thanks for the encouragement Steve and Alex.

I am already planning to host our next quarterly meeting of the OSM St
Louis Group to correspond with the Spring Editathon so that we can
participate.  I will invite the ASPRS group also.

Rick Marshall

-- 
Rick Marshall, PhD, GISP
President
Vertical GeoSolutions, Inc (VerticalGeo)
130 Sawgrass Ln
O'Fallon, IL  62269
(618) 670-4259
rick.marshall at verticalgeo.com
http://www.verticalgeo.com
http://www.culturescapes.net
Vertically Thinking Blog: http://verticalgeo.wordpress.com

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:
> Like Steve said: awesome you ran an event.
>
> In case you're looking for an excuse, April 20 / 21 is a great opportunity
> to run one again, maybe this time with ASPRS folks invited ;-)
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.us/2013/03/april-spring-editathon/
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> >
>> > --
>> > Rick Marshall, PhD, GISP
>> > President
>> > Vertical GeoSolutions, Inc (VerticalGeo)
>> > 130 Sawgrass Ln
>> > O'Fallon, IL  62269
>> > (618) 670-4259
>> > rick.marshall at verticalgeo.com
>> > http://www.verticalgeo.com
>> > http://www.culturescapes.net
>> > Vertically Thinking Blog: http://verticalgeo.wordpress.com
>> >
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