Archive for the ‘OSM’ Category

OpenStreetMap in the First Month After the Haiti Quake

Who made most of the contributions to OpenStreetMap in the first month after the earthquake in Haiti? Was it those already participating in OSM or those that signed up specifically to help after the earthquake?

September 6, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Crisis Mapping, OSM  4 Comments

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Mission 3 to Haiti – Day 1

Thoughts as I travel to Haiti with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

June 14, 2010   Posted in: Crisis Mapping, OSM  2 Comments

Talking MappingDC at Ignite DC

Ignite DC is an event where 16 speaks talk for 5 minutes each about a topic they are passionate about. I spoke about my work with MappingDC and OpenStreetMap.

February 10, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: MappingDC, OSM  One Comment

CrisisCamp/CrisisCommons Movement

Since the earthquake in Haiti the amount of people looking for ways to help has exploded. CrisisCommons has organized CrisisCamps all over the United States and parts of the world where people can get together and build applications to help.

January 23, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: CrisisCommons, OSM  One Comment

Routing with the new Google Maps Data

I spent some time look around Google Maps since they stopped using Teleatlas in the United States this week.  Essentially I poked around looking for errors that are usually in the street vendor data.  Mostly these are minor errors such as a single line segment misspelled.   The problems usually appear to have originated with [...]

October 8, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Map Commentary, OSM, routing  5 Comments

MappingDC OSM Editing Tips and Tricks

On Wednesday this week we are having the first edition of “OSM Editing Tips and Tricks” for MappingDC. Every time I get together with other OpenStreetMap contributors I learn something that makes it easier to edit/add data to OSM.  The last time I edited together in a room with others was at WhereCamp5280.  Mostly [...]

September 21, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: MappingDC, OSM  No Comments

Mapping the Zoo!

On September 12th MappingDC is going to join the OpenStreetMap meme of mapping zoos in great detail.  A good example of this is the Dresden Zoo.
Other well mapped zoos I found were in Hannover, Berlin, Leipzig and Frankfurt.
We plan to start by digitizing from the imagery available ahead of time and then utilizie GPS and Walking Papers [...]

September 5, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: GPS, OSM  4 Comments

WhereCamp5280 Day One Highlights

I attended a previous WhereCamp this year in Palo Alto, that said I wasn’t sure what to expect from WhereCamp5280. For those unfamiliar with BarCamps they are unconferences which means the topics and schedule are determined by the participants the morning of the event. Also if the event is two days the [...]

August 15, 2009   Posted in: OSM, unconferences  No Comments

D.C. OpenStreetMap Mapping Party

One of the projects I contribute to is the OpenStreetMap project.  OSM is similar to Wikipedia but is for geographic data, it is editable by anyone and can be used with attribution by anyone.  One of the ways that people are introduced to OpenStreetMap is through mapping parties and I am helping organize one on [...]

June 6, 2009   Posted in: GPS, OSM, entrepreneurism, unconferences  No Comments

OSM Badge Proposal

So one of the topics that was prevelant at Where 2.0 and WhereCamp last week was how to get more people mapping for OpenStreetMap.  I’ve been thinking about this topic quite a bit lately and my conclusion is some healthy competition might keep people interested.  Introducting competition has the potential to encourage people to map, [...]

May 28, 2009   Posted in: OSM  4 Comments