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GTALUG OSM Talk last week

Title OpenStreetMap: Building a great map while everyone tells you you’re doing it wrong.

frontpageNotes/Links:

  1. ‘The Map’ — http://www.openstreetmap.org . It supports routing now, too.
  2. QGIS, an open GIS manager. It’s rather good — http://qgis.org/
  3. The OSM Wiki; ridiculously complete documentation: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/
  4. OSM Help Stack Exchange-style question/answer: https://help.openstreetmap.org/
  5. All of the OSM stats! — https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats
  6. Toronto map growth animation — http://www.geofabrik.de/gallery/history/index.html#toronto
  7. Crowdsourced geocoding (+ lawsuit from Canada Post) — http://geocoder.ca/
  8. Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) — http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
  9. Canada’s new Open Government portal — http://open.canada.ca related: Toronto Open Data — http://toronto.ca/open
  10. CIPPIC Open Licensing Project (CLIP) — http://clipol.org/
  11. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [HOT] — http://hotosm.org/
  12. OpenCycleMap — http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/43.6666/-79.3785&layers=C
  13. The rather wonderful /uMap/https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/

Original GTALUG note: OpenStreetMap links from the other night.