[Chat] Fw: OpenStreetMap Baltimore Mapping Party - rescheduled - Saturday April 04, 2009 at 11:00 AM until Sunday April 05, 2009 at 4:00 PM

[Schlegel, William B CW4 RES USAR USARC]

Here is another chance to use a GPS to map your neighborhoods.

Baltimore, MD Mapping Party
Saturday April 04, 2009 at 11:00 AM until Sunday April 05, 2009 at 4:00 PM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Nelson" <russ at cloudmade.com>
To: <baltimore-interested-parties at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 12:55 AM
Subject: OpenStreetMap Baltimore Mapping Party


> Hi.  No, I haven't subscribed you to a mailing list.   This email is 
> going to 6 people who
> sent me email about the previous attempt at a mapping party in  Baltimore 
> in
> late February.
>
> I'm hosting a mapping party in the city next weekend (April 4th and  5th), 
> and NO I will not cancel it, come hell or high water!  A mapping  party is 
> a social event where you meet other people interested in  maps, and we 
> help each other improve OpenStreetMap.  It's fun, and you  get a sense of 
> why the great artists would paint and overpaint until  they felt satisfied 
> that they'd captured everything they saw.
>
> I have GPS receivers to loan out to people.  I'll show you how to use 
> them to gather location information, and edit OpenStreetMap.  Even if  the 
> weather is bad, we can do online mapping off aerial photos.
>
> A new feature added in the last month is faster Mapnik rendering, so  that 
> if you make edits during the afternoon of next weekend, by the  time you 
> get home, those edits will likely be rendered and visible for  all to see. 
> Very exciting!
>
> Here are the details.  Please share this email with anyone you know  loves 
> their community, likes to walk, hike, and bicycle, or makes maps.
> http://community.cloudmade.com/event/custom/generic/show/131
>
> --
> Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson
> russ at cloudmade.com - Twitter: Russ_OSM - 
> http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson
>
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