[OSM-talk] Cartography meetup

[Richard Fairhurst]

SteveC wrote:

> Cool... now we just need actual Cartographers :-)

Coincidentally, Steve8 and I have been having a couple of outline  
discussions for the past week about how to raise the profile of  
cartography within OSM - and of OSM within cartography. An Oxford  
meeting sounds like an excellent idea and I'd be delighted to come  
along wearing both an OSM hat and a cartographer hat.

Worth also noting the BCS/SoC "Map Designers" event at Futuresonic,  
Manchester, on 10th-12th May:

http://www.futuresonic.com/07/futuresonic2007/

(Incidentally... I uploaded a 23Mb public domain Illustrator file to  
my webspace yesterday comprising contours, coastline and built-up  
areas for the whole of the UK; and posted to Carto-SoC accordingly.  
Within a couple of hours I'd had 100 page accesses, a bandwidth bill  
from my hosts, and a followup posting from Tim "XYZ Maps" Rideout  
telling people to buy his £495 dataset which offered that and much  
more. :) I think that illustrates there's a pretty massive appetite  
for open data among cartographers.)

cheers
Richard