NewTlug Meetings:2008-08-26

From GTALUG

Date

Tuesday August 26, 2008

Time

7:00 pm

Topic

OpenStreetMap

Speakers

Richard Weait <richard@weait.com> is a regular at KwLUG and co-founder of the Ontario Linux Fest.

Description

OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways."

The presenter will discuss maps in general and established on-line maps in particular. Current frame-breaking uses of OpenStreetMap will be demonstrated along with tools from each portion of the OSM tool chain so that you can begin using OSM right away. Lively discussion of the State of the Map and Crowd Source data will ensue and a good time will be had by all. You'll laugh; you'll cry; it will be better than Cats.

Richard has old slide deck for Introduction to OpenStreetMap, at:

       http://weait.com/node/23

The new presentation is greatly expanded.

also, some of us plan to go to Tim Horton's on Keele St (just north of Pond Rd) for some apres-meet discussion/debate/IT-world-problem-solving, so if you can't make the 1st meeting come to the 2nd.

Location

This month's NewTLUG meeting will be held at Seneca College on the YorkU campus Room S1208 Stephen E. Quinlan building

Building number 40 on the map:

http://www.yorku.ca/web/futurestudents/map/KeeleMasterMap.pdf

The Seneca@York Campus, which is physically located in the south east part of York University, at Keele/Steeles.

Directions

For detailed directions and info on public transit, please see: http://cs.senecac.on.ca/~praveen.mitera/seneca-directions.html

Parking

Paid parking is available on campus (about: $8). Building #84 on the map above is a close-by parking garage. - note #87 the parking lot is no longer for visitors so PLEASE use the parking garage (#84)