[OSM-talk] State of the Map

[Richard Fairhurst]

Sorry I couldn't make IRC last night. But (a bit late) here's a  
suggestion for a theme, sort of touched upon in the log, but worth  
making explicit:

I'd like to see a theme of _using_ OSM data. How hackers,  
cartographers, and masher-uppers can extract the data and do funky  
stuff with it. As yet we've been a fairly inward-looking community,  
concentrating on collecting and presenting the data rather than  
shipping it out to the wider world; addressing uses of the data could  
increase the potential audience severalfold.

A few specific topics/workshops under this theme could include:

- Getting the data into a format you can use
- Route-planning with OSM data
- Licence musts, must nots and myths - what CC-SA means for your map/mashup
- Mapstraction?

and, of course, all the cartography stuff could fall under this theme, too.

It might be interesting to run with this and have a challenge of  
producing Manchester map mashups. How about a Manchester music map?  
Let's get Tony Wilson as a guest speaker. Or maybe Shaun Ryder. ;)

cheers
Richard