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

[Stefan Keller]

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



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Christoph Hormann <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


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.

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Christoph Hormann
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