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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “osm”

• Linus’ Law and OpenStreetMap

  
  Po Ve Sham - Muki Haklay's personal blog — Authority: 406
  One of the interesting questions that emerged from the work on the quality of OpenStreetMap (OSM) in particular, and Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI) in general, is the validity of the ‘ Linus’ Law ’ for this type of information. The law came from Open Source software development and states that ...
  2 days ago

• OpenStreetMap Data On Demand with Quantum GIS Mimas

  
  Mapperz - The Mapping News Blog — Authority: 507
  OpenStreetMap Data On Demand with Quantum GIS Mimas Getting the data you want. One of the hardest things about OpenStreetMap [#OSM] is getting access to the data you want and for the location you require. You can download large files for entire regions or countries, but why only if your going to use a small ...
  4 days ago

• Kenyans Collaborate to Map Kibera

  
  27 months — Authority: 401
  With a population of around one million inhabitants, Kibera is widely known as Africa’s largest slum and counted among the biggest on earth. It’s also one of the most studied slums in Africa, given its close proximity to the center of a modern city, Nairobi, and the headquarters of UN-HABITAT , the United ...
  6 days ago

• GPS data logging and, a nifty data logger

  
  Random thoughts and serendipity — Authority: 108
  Primarily due to Kushal’s enthusiasm, I got myself a GDL-3204 GPS Data Logger from Sparc Systems Limited . In spite of the somewhat “home brew” looks it is a nifty little device with great accuracy. Kushal has been having fun with it during his recent visit to Malda and, we ( Runa and me) have been ...
  2 weeks ago

• read-write mapping: NACIS Conference Keynote by Michal Migurski of Stamen Design

  
  Kelso's Corner — Authority: 123
  Im just getting back from the annual NACIS conference and decompressing from backpacking, family and friends in the Golden State. And that little last minute tax filing. Our great keynote speaker this year was Michal Migurski of Stamen Design who talked up the OpenStreetMap project, of which Ive been making more use ...
  3 weeks ago

• Atlanta Mapathon - Creating the Best Mapped City

  
  Mapperz - The Mapping News Blog — Authority: 507
  Atlanta, the capital of the US state of Georgia will soon be the worlds most digitally mapped city, according to organisers of a massive " Mapathon ". Source: BBC News http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=33.792&lon=-84.336&zoom=10 What is a Mapathon? Mapping on-mass [ crowdsourcing ] ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Old Google Mind Trick…

  
  James Fee GIS Blog — Authority: 459
  Michael Jones’ “article” on Directions Magazine does a great job of pointing out all the great crowdsourcing projects Google has going. I know that users are now better served with an easily correctable, rapidly updatable, widely usable base-map built from the synthesis of hundreds of data feeds, hundreds of ...
  4 weeks ago

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