[clug] April Canberra Linux Users Group meeting

Chris u4123459 at anu.edu.au
Wed Apr 25 05:28:10 GMT 2007


Paul is also planning to talk about dar, so I think we can have all 
three combined.

Chris

Brad Hards wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 April 2007 10:17, Andrew wrote:
>   
>> Chris,
>>
>> I have never been to a clug meeting, I just read the list.  Anyway, I
>> could do a talk about OpenStreetMap, which I contribute to, tomorrow or
>> in the future.  OpenStreetMap seeks to be to map data what Wikipedia is
>> to encyclopedia's.  Street location data is collected by contributors
>> with gps, or from Yahoo aerial photography under an agreement with
>> Yahoo.  Pretty much any other feature data can be put in, as
>> contributors desire, all data is (currently) under a Creative Commons
>> license.  
>>     
>
> I'm certainly interested in hearing more about this.
>
> The "new distro" stuff would be nice to hear about too. Perhaps OpenStreetMap, 
> then order pizza, then distrowars until the pizzas show up.
>
> Brad
>   



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