[OSGeo-Discuss] The Rise of Open Street Map as a World Mapping Agency

[Till Adams]

Hi,

these are really good news. I wanted to add 2 Cents in the form, that we
might encourage our local OSGeo chapters for a close relationship to the
local OSM communities.

FOSSGIS, the german speaking local OSGeo chapter for example, stands
also for the german speaking OSM community. On our annual FOSSGIS
conference we bring both communities together. We have tracks with
emphasis on OSM and with emphasis on FOSS (also with emphasis on both of
course). Also, we support FOSS and OSM projects with sponsorship and
funding money.

As said, just 2 Cents ...

Regards, Till






Am 01.03.2017 um 10:35 schrieb Suchith Anand:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> The Geospatial IG [1] of the Research Data Alliance will be meeting in
> Barcelona on 5th April 2017 to keep building ideas for the global
> research agenda for Geospatial Data Science .
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> https://www.rd-alliance.org/ig-geospatial-rda-9th-plenary-meeting
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> I would also like to make use of the Geospatial IG meeting opportunity
> at RDA9 in Barcelona to further discuss ideas on the rise of Open
> Street Map (OSM) as a World Mapping Agency (WMA) build by the efforts
> of thousands of volunteers.   It is also interesting to see the
> community links of the Open Street Map and  the Open Source Geospatial
> Foundation (OSGeo) expanding rapidly both locally and globally. OSM
> has now reaching the level of a Global Mapping Agency build by the
> efforts of thousands of volunteers and OSGeo is the world's largest
> geospatial ecosystem.  What a great combination of synergies. Both
> initiatives are just over a decade  old and have fundamentally changed
> the whole geolandscape.
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> Myself and colleagues are working on a paper on OSM and OSGeo and i
> want to use this meeting to discuss more ideas with the community. I
> look forward to welcome you all to RDA meeting in Barcelona.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> Dr. Suchith Anand
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