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

[Benoit Fournier]

Suchith Anand wrote:
> [...] 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.

What a great way to describe and connect these two wonderful projects
and communities!
Thank you Suchith.


> 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.

I am not sure that all interested people could make it to the RDA
meeting, quite unfortunately.
I think this is even more true for the OSM community; indeed my
feeling is that the average OSM volunteer is less
expert/professional/academic than the average OSGeo volunteer.

If you and your coworkers do not have great familiarity with the OSM
community and ecosystem, I would respectfully suggest that you try to
engage with an academic with this expertise.
Furthermore, I think you should also try to connect with the OSM
community at large, just like you just did with the public mailing
list for the OSGeo community.

I will be happy to help you on both aspects if you need assistance to connect.


> Best wishes

Best wishes for your work, discussion and paper!

A final nitpick about rather common spelling mistakes:
"OpenStreetMap" is written 'upper camel case' without spaces.
Please avoid "Open Street Map", "Openstreet Maps", "Openstreetmap"...


Thanks again for all your efforts and sharing

Benoît

OpenStreetMap / OSGeo France