[OSM-talk] OSM gets mentioned in KDE4 keynote speech at Google Headquarters

[Matt Williams]

On Monday 21 January 2008 10:42:54 Andy Allan wrote:
> I think it's pretty impressive that for a multi-day KDE event, all
> about their new 4.0 release, that we get practically 5 entire minutes
> of their main keynote speech turned over to the promotion of OSM,
> instead of promotion of KDE! It's not like we got mentioned in an
> incidental speech, or one about Marble specifically. And given that
> they develop an office suite, the talk about ODF support was an
> illustrative aside during the talk about OSM support!

Well, we're all about freedom, and free mapping data is a new idea to many 
people. Aaron was clearly amazed by OSM and I guess he just hoped that people 
listening would be too.

> Is anyone here helping the Marble developers with this? It would be
> nice to help out if they want custom tilesets or the like, and make
> sure that we can crowbar as many OSM-derived maps into the application
> as we can get away with.

Marble already has the ability to download a set of low quality Mapnik tiles 
(about z=8 or something I guess). From what I understand there's currently 
plans to get tile streaming working so that you can go down to almost any 
zoom level.

I'll ask Torsten or Inge what exactly they're planning since I agree that this 
is an excellent opportunity to show of the amazing work that OSM is doing.

Regards,
Matt Williams

> Cheers,
> Andy