[OSM-talk] M(')appare Verona - mapping the city centre in Verona - June 15 2008 -

[postdadaismo at libero.it]

All,

1) On Sunday we will have a team of Italian OSM activistis, together with 
GFOSS.it members and AGA Verona members in the old city centre of Verona.


Romeo is still negotiating with Juliet to check if he will be allowed to join 
the crew ;)

If you happen to be close by (e.g. west side of the Garda Zee or 
similar locations...or if maybe you are reading this from an internet cafe in 
Verona), ideally with a bike, you are welcome to join.

2) the meeting point is 
at "Casa Colombare", via Castello S. Felice 9, inside the Colombare park.

3) 
WHY are we doing this (and this will be of interest especially for Scottish 
mappers) ?

In Verona, since 2003, at the end of September, there is a festival 
of ancient street games called "Tocatì" (which means "your turn" in the local 
dialect).

The city centre get closed to car traffic and people wander for 
three days in town, watching (and trying) old and new street games.

This is 
not "just" a fun event...the festival has a very strong foundation of thinking 
on the role of "play" as a social aggregator, and as the "street game" as a 
means to recover a relationship of citizens to their surroundings which has 
been lost to parking sprawls, "architectural barriers" etc etc etc. 

...this 
is kind of interesting: we may say that OSM is a lot driven by "getting  street 
maps back to the people"....AGA Verona is trying to get "the streets" back... 
;) [but not only...there are other off-topic reasons for doing this street game 
awareness raising initiatives]

4) GFOSS.it, the Italian association for free 
geographic information (aka the Italian OSGEO chapter) has proposed to AGA 
Verona (the association organising the Festival) to use an open map as a base 
for their marketing material (web site, brochure etc.) - so we are doing this 
between Sunday and July 15.

After that date the organisers will need to 
finalize their material, and we will "cut off" the data collection (at least as 
far as paper maps will go...the map on the web site will reasonably be within 
some OL page....so that will keep growing within the project).

5) Why is all 
of this of special interest for the Scots ? because each year the Festival, 
which is focused on Italian games, has a visiting foreign group. This year this 
will come from Scotland...

See you in Verona on July 15 (http://wiki.
openstreetmap.org/index.php/Verona) or at the Festival (http://www.tocati.
it/home.php ...page in English available soon)

Andrea Giacomelli -aka pibinko

http://www.pibinko.org