<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>In fact there is a commission working on that. Please join it! Maria<br><br><div><br></div><div><div id="Signature"><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><b>----------------------------------------------------</b></font></span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli<br>Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor<br>Politecnico di Milano</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><b><br>FOSS4G ASIA - Don't miss it!<br></b></font><font><a id="NoLP" target="_blank" href="http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2014/" tabindex="0">http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2014/</a> <br></font><font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p><font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET <br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1/0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1/0">Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO</a> (ITALY)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Tel. <a href="tel:+39-031-3327336" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1/1">+39-031-3327336</a> - Mob. <a href="tel:+39-328-0023867" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1/2">+39-328-0023867</a> - fax. <a href="tel:+39-031-3327321" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1/3">+39-031-3327321</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">e-mail1: <a id="NoLP" href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" tabindex="0"></a><a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1/4">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a id="NoLP" tabindex="0">e-mail2</a>: <a href="mailto:prorettrice@como.polimi.it" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">prorettrice@como.polimi.it</a></p></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font> </font></p></font></span></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>Il giorno 24/ott/2014, alle ore 01:58, Stefan Keller <<a href="mailto:sfkeller@gmail.com">sfkeller@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Hi,</span><br><span></span><br><span>I just stumbled (too) over this: <a href="http://internationalmapyear.org">http://internationalmapyear.org</a> 2015:</span><br><span>see below.</span><br><span>I'd love to make FOSS4G Europe 2015 Como a place where OSM meets ICA</span><br><span>in order to explain to cartographers what OSM is ("Neogeography meets</span><br><span>Paleogeography?" :-))</span><br><span></span><br><span>Yours, Stefan</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>---------- Forwarded message ----------</span><br><span>From: Christoph Hormann <<a href="mailto:chris_hormann@gmx.de">chris_hormann@gmx.de</a>></span><br><span>Date: 2014-10-22 12:39 GMT+02:00</span><br><span>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] International Map Year</span><br><span>To: <a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>On Wednesday 22 October 2014, Jochen Topf wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Just stumbled over this:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://internationalmapyear.org">http://internationalmapyear.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Seems to be some UN thing: The International Map Year 2015/16. Maybe</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>some OSM groups want to get involved in some way.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>This is an ICA (International Cartographic Association) initiative</span><br><span>apparently endorsed by the UN. The ICA is an international association</span><br><span>of national cartographic societies (in Germany the DGfK) which is</span><br><span>mostly focussed on traditional cartography and generally fairly</span><br><span>reserved towards crowd sourced geodata and community projects. The</span><br><span>book "The World of Maps" they are promoting on that site contains a</span><br><span>chapter on "Volunteered Geographic Information":</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://internationalmapyear.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/19_Volunteered_Geographic_Information.pdf">http://internationalmapyear.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/19_Volunteered_Geographic_Information.pdf</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>which is fairly superficial but includes a quite detailed and well</span><br><span>illustrated tutorial on contributing to OSM.</span><br><span></span><br><span>--</span><br><span>Christoph Hormann</span><br><span><a href="http://www.imagico.de/">http://www.imagico.de/</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>