[OSGeo-Discuss] The Rise of OpenStreetMap as a World Mapping Agency

[Suchith Anand]

Benoît , many thanks . I am working to setup tele meeting facility for the meeting and as soon as i know the details i will share with the community. Please share with all interested and welcome all interested. It is key that we use this great synergies between OSGeo and OSM (which you greatly represent) for expanding ideas for the future. Thanks again for reaching out.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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From: Benoit Fournier <ben.fournier at gmail.com>
Sent: 02 March 2017 10:09 AM
To: Anand Suchith
Cc: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org; discuss at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Rise of Open Street Map as a World Mapping Agency

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



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