[Openstreetmap] Wikimania, August 4-8

[Arnulf Christl]

SteveC wrote:
> I'll be talking about OSM at another conf
> (http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/) on the same weekend.
> 
> I spoke to Jimmy Wales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_wales about
> OSM some time ago. He was uninterested in doing anything unless it was
> part of the wikimedia foundation.

Yes we also tasted some of this attitude when we started off last year 
all enthusiastic about a Wikimaps architecture (still to be found on 
meta). Now we have included some maps into other Wikis which is just 
fine but there are currently at least 5 different strong opinions about 
how to go about this topic. I dont want this to end in a shoot out and i 
am not sure whether it will result in the best possible architecture.

Nonetheless or rather *because of* this i will be talking at the Wikimania:
Summarizing Activities around Open Geospatial Data projects
and try to get people *want* to stick to standards andexisting 
technology and all that crap rather than inventing the next wheel.


> If people going to wikimania can talk / report on how the talks go down,
> that'd be cool.

Maybe we will even have a booth there for people to play around with 
interactive maps, look for Geo-Consortium, CCGIS or Arnulf Christl i'd 
be very happy to meet somebody from openstreetmap, you are way further 
along the road than most other free spatial data projects that i know of.

Best,

> * @ 25/06/05 03:43:48 PM lars at aronsson.se wrote:
> 
>>Wikimania is a conference on everything Wikipedia/MediaWiki, held 
>>on August 4-8 in Frankfurt-am-Main in southern Germany.  Is 
>>anybody on this list going there (more than me)?
>>
>>Read more about the conference at http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/
>>
>>Since Wikipedia was started in 2001, various ideas and subprojects 
>>in the direction of map creation, display, and data collection 
>>have been discussed.  Traces of such discussions can be found 
>>mostly on meta.wikipedia.org under names like "wikimaps" and 
>>"wikiatlas".  The starting points have been a) that Wikipedia 
>>needs maps to illustrate encyclopedia articles, and b) since 
>>Wikipedia has shown that a free encyclopedia can be created, then 
>>maybe free maps can also be created just as easily. As far as I 
>>know, none of these subprojects have been really successful.
>>
>>Geography and mapping are not among the main tracks of the 
>>conference, but there are one paper and two workshops that relate 
>>to this:
>>
>> Paper: Russell Buckley,
>> Extending Wikipedia into the Physical World,
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Paper-RB1
>>
>> Workshop: Arnulf Christl,
>> Summarizing Activities around Open Geospatial Data projects,
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Workshop-AC1
>>
>> Workshop: Tobias Dahinden,
>> Kartengestaltung in Wikipedia - eine Aufforderung für
>> bildschirmgerechte Kartengraphik,
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Workshop-TD1 
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>>  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
>>
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> 
> 
> have fun,
> 
> SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/
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