[Openstreetmap] Wikimania, August 4-8

[SteveC]

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.

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

* @ 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/