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So, one <i>incredible</i> 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:<br>
<blockquote><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">http://www.openstreetmap.org/</a><br>
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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.<br>
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One great local project has been "mapping weekends" in various parts of
the globe. For example, the "Mapchester" event to map Manchester last
year:<br>
<blockquote><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapchester">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapchester</a><br>
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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:<br>
<ul>
<li>Would it make sense to run such an event under the CC Canada
name? "Creative Commons Canada to help improve free maps of
Montreal..."?</li>
<li>Would it make sense to synchronize with other cities and towns
across the country, and do it all in one weekend?</li>
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-Evan<br>
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