[CC-ca] OpenStreetMap in Montreal (and other Canada cities)

Evan Prodromou evan at prodromou.name
Mon Jan 14 10:59:48 EST 2008


So, one /incredible/ project under a CC license is the Open Street Map, 
an effort by people in the UK and elsewhere to provide world-wide maps 
for free:

    http://www.openstreetmap.org/

How does it work? Volunteers trace satellite photos for feature 
information (streets, parks, highways, etc.) and also upload data from 
their own GPS units. That is, they walk the streets of a city, and then 
update their GPS units' data files to a central server, which adds the 
data to the maps. The resulting maps are available under an 
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

One great local project has been "mapping weekends" in various parts of 
the globe. For example, the "Mapchester" event to map Manchester last year:

    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapchester

Coverage of Canadian cities is good, but not perfect; I'm going to try 
to organize a mapping weekend for Montreal for  after the snow melts 
(April or May, say). Two questions about this:

    * Would it make sense to run such an event under the CC Canada name?
      "Creative Commons Canada to help improve free maps of Montreal..."?
    * Would it make sense to synchronize with other cities and towns
      across the country, and do it all in one weekend?

-Evan

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