<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>All,</div><div><br></div>I find all this very exciting. I must admit that I have not been active in ICA. I am more of a FOSS4G/OGC kind of guy. But, I am excited to learn about the commission (<a href="http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/">http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/</a>). What does it mean to get involved?<div><br></div><div>MapStory is akin to OSM, except it is a global data commons for crowdsourcing (and soon crowd-editing) spatio-temporal data (what we call StoryLayers) and narratives (what we call MapStories) about anything that has ever happened on earth. And, MapStory is built on the GeoNode (<a href="http://www.GeoNode.org">www.GeoNode.org</a>) which began as a collaboration between OpenGeo (now Boundless) and the World Bank. The MapStory Foundation, the US Army Corps of Engineers, the World Bank, the US State Department and many others have co-invested quite a lot in the GeoNode, and actively work to coordinate our investment roadmap into this open source platform with the larger community.</div><div><br></div><div>A major <a href="http://MapStory.org">MapStory.org</a> re-engineering and re-design is underway right now, targeting a re-launch at the beginning of 2015. We would love to have MapStory help be a vehicle for spreading the good word about ICA's Year of the Map, and we would love to participate in the ICA Open Source Geospatial software Commission to coordinate the requirements of the larger global community and realize them within the GeoNode platform and our implementation of it at <a href="http://MapStory.org">MapStory.org</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to hearing from anyone and everyone about how we can contribute!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br><div><div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dr. Christopher K Tucker<br>Chairman and CEO<br>The MapStory Foundation<br>@MapStory<br><a href="mailto:tucker@mapstory.org" style="color: purple; ">tucker@mapstory.org</a><br>703-981-9373</div><div><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div><div>On Oct 24, 2014, at 11:17 AM, <a href="mailto:b.j.kobben@utwente.nl">b.j.kobben@utwente.nl</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I really like the idea of ICA being involved in FOSS4G Europe, and as a<br>member of both ICA's Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies as<br>well as OSGEO, I'd volunteer to help with that.<br><br>I do ask myself why you specifically mention OSM, I am sure all of FOSS4G<br>software would be relevant here? And I do of course have to protest that<br>you imply all of ICA is from the pre-history! Please take a look at the<br>website of for example the beforementioned commission<br>(<a href="http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/">http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/</a>) and how they (especially Suchith,<br>the chair) have been taking the lead in the OSGEO-ICA OS labs initiative...<br><br>Barend<br><br>--<br>Barend Köbben<br>Senior Lecturer ITC-University of Twente<br>PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)<br>@barendkobben<br><br><br><br><br>On 24-10-2014 01:58, "Stefan Keller" <<a href="mailto:sfkeller@gmail.com">sfkeller@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br><br>I just stumbled (too) over this: <a href="http://internationalmapyear.org">http://internationalmapyear.org</a> 2015:<br>see below.<br>I'd love to make FOSS4G Europe 2015 Como a place where OSM meets ICA<br>in order to explain to cartographers what OSM is ("Neogeography meets<br>Paleogeography?" :-))<br><br>Yours, Stefan<br><br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Christoph Hormann <<a href="mailto:chris_hormann@gmx.de">chris_hormann@gmx.de</a>><br>Date: 2014-10-22 12:39 GMT+02:00<br>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] International Map Year<br>To: <a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><br><br>On Wednesday 22 October 2014, Jochen Topf wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Just stumbled over this:<br><a href="http://internationalmapyear.org">http://internationalmapyear.org</a><br><br>Seems to be some UN thing: The International Map Year 2015/16. Maybe<br>some OSM groups want to get involved in some way.<br></blockquote><br>This is an ICA (International Cartographic Association) initiative<br>apparently endorsed by the UN. The ICA is an international association<br>of national cartographic societies (in Germany the DGfK) which is<br>mostly focussed on traditional cartography and generally fairly<br>reserved towards crowd sourced geodata and community projects. The<br>book "The World of Maps" they are promoting on that site contains a<br>chapter on "Volunteered Geographic Information":<br><br><a href="http://internationalmapyear.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/19_Volunteered_">http://internationalmapyear.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/19_Volunteered_</a><br>Geographic_Information.pdf<br><br>which is fairly superficial but includes a quite detailed and well<br>illustrated tutorial on contributing to OSM.<br><br>--<br>Christoph Hormann<br>http://www.imagico.de/<br>_______________________________________________<br>ica-osgeo-labs mailing list<br>ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs<br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>ica-osgeo-labs mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org">ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>