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

[Posta Maria]

In fact there is a commission working on that. Please join it! Maria


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> Il giorno 24/ott/2014, alle ore 01:58, Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Christoph Hormann
> http://www.imagico.de/
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