Title OpenStreetMap: Building a great map while everyone tells you you’re doing it wrong.
Notes/Links:
- ‘The Map’ — http://www.openstreetmap.org . It supports routing now, too.
- QGIS, an open GIS manager. It’s rather good — http://qgis.org/
- The OSM Wiki; ridiculously complete documentation: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/
- OSM Help Stack Exchange-style question/answer: https://help.openstreetmap.org/
- All of the OSM stats! — https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats
- Toronto map growth animation — http://www.geofabrik.de/gallery/history/index.html#toronto
- Crowdsourced geocoding (+ lawsuit from Canada Post) — http://geocoder.ca/
- Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) — http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
- Canada’s new Open Government portal — http://open.canada.ca related: Toronto Open Data — http://toronto.ca/open
- CIPPIC Open Licensing Project (CLIP) — http://clipol.org/
- Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [HOT] — http://hotosm.org/
- OpenCycleMap — http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/43.6666/-79.3785&layers=C
- The rather wonderful /uMap/ — https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/
Original GTALUG note: OpenStreetMap links from the other night.