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

[b.j.kobben at utwente.nl]

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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On 24-10-2014 01:58, "Stefan Keller" <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
>
>
>
>---------- 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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