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

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

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