[OSM-talk] GIS hooligans at Perugia (GRASS - GFOSS Italian Meeting)

[Niccolo Rigacci]

Hi to all the OSMers!

A brief thought from the 9th GRASS - GFOSS Italian Meeting 
[1] held in Perugia the last week, where I was invited to held a 
talk about OpenStreetMap.

The interest about OSM was amazing. The audience was composed by 
the top Italian GIS developers and users, in my talk I tried to 
focus on both the community approach and on technical details.

I feel good attention and several people asked me after the talk.

I heard someone saying - as a joke - that we are like GIS 
hooligans: we do not bother topology, we ignore other spatial 
reference systems, we tag unpaved traks as "highway" (sound very 
confusing for Italian people!). Despite that we got an amazing 
feedback.

The community approach, the achieved results and the deployed 
technical solutions were accepted with extreme interest.

After the meeting several people joined the Mapping Party [2] 
that was favoured by an early spring with a warm and sunny 
Saturday and Sunday (more to come on this).

I wish to thanks all the partecipants and the organization which 
make this event possible.

[1] http://www.grassmeeting2008.unipg.it/
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_Italy/IX_Convegno_GRASS-GFOSS_Perugia

-- 
Niccolo Rigacci
Firenze - Italy