[Ica-osgeo-labs] International Map Year 2015 and FOSS4G Europe 2015 Como

[Suchith Anand]

Hi Chris,

You are very welcome to join and contribute your ideas for the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies. Just join  http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ica-opensource

Great work you are doing with Map Story. It  is good idea to plan using Map Story to spread the good word about ICA's Map of the year. In fact, it will be a good opportunity to put an open challenge for those interested to participate to get involved in this. What do you think?

Best wishes,

Suchith

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From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Tucker [tucker at mapstory.org]
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To: b.j.kobben at utwente.nl
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Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] International Map Year 2015 and FOSS4G Europe     2015 Como

All,

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 (http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/).  What does it mean to get involved?

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 (www.GeoNode.org<http://www.GeoNode.org>) 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.

A major MapStory.org<http://MapStory.org> 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 MapStory.org<http://MapStory.org>.

I look forward to hearing from anyone and everyone about how we can contribute!

Thanks

Chris

Dr. Christopher K Tucker
Chairman and CEO
The MapStory Foundation
@MapStory
tucker at mapstory.org<mailto:tucker at mapstory.org>
703-981-9373




On Oct 24, 2014, at 11:17 AM, b.j.kobben at utwente.nl<mailto:b.j.kobben at utwente.nl> wrote:

I really like the idea of ICA being involved in FOSS4G Europe, and as a
member of both ICA's Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies as
well as OSGEO, I'd volunteer to help with that.

I do ask myself why you specifically mention OSM, I am sure all of FOSS4G
software would be relevant here? And I do of course have to protest that
you imply all of ICA is from the pre-history! Please take a look at the
website of for example the beforementioned commission
(http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/) and how they (especially Suchith,
the chair) have been taking the lead in the OSGEO-ICA OS labs initiative...

Barend

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Barend Köbben
Senior Lecturer ­ ITC-University of Twente
PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)
@barendkobben




On 24-10-2014 01:58, "Stefan Keller" <sfkeller at gmail.com<mailto:sfkeller at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi,

I just stumbled (too) over this: http://internationalmapyear.org 2015:
see below.
I'd love to make FOSS4G Europe 2015 Como a place where OSM meets ICA
in order to explain to cartographers what OSM is ("Neogeography meets
Paleogeography?" :-))

Yours, Stefan



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From: Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann at gmx.de<mailto:chris_hormann at gmx.de>>
Date: 2014-10-22 12:39 GMT+02:00
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] International Map Year
To: talk at openstreetmap.org<mailto:talk at openstreetmap.org>


On Wednesday 22 October 2014, Jochen Topf wrote:
Just stumbled over this:
http://internationalmapyear.org

Seems to be some UN thing: The International Map Year 2015/16. Maybe
some OSM groups want to get involved in some way.

This is an ICA (International Cartographic Association) initiative
apparently endorsed by the UN.  The ICA is an international association
of national cartographic societies (in Germany the DGfK) which is
mostly focussed on traditional cartography and generally fairly
reserved towards crowd sourced geodata and community projects.  The
book "The World of Maps" they are promoting on that site contains a
chapter on "Volunteered Geographic Information":

http://internationalmapyear.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/19_Volunteered_
Geographic_Information.pdf

which is fairly superficial but includes a quite detailed and well
illustrated tutorial on contributing to OSM.

--
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/
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