Police in Scotland are using our map

http://www.scotland.police.uk/your-community/edinburgh/

Nice one

Edinburgh

http://tangrams.github.io/tangram-docs-assets/?procedural/tronish.yaml#17/55.95049/-3.19274

Main Article

http://mashable.com/2015/03/22/tron-map-of-the-world/

http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html

Please send out notifications to your social media of choice

Counting down to State of the map Scotland 2013

wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Scotland_2013

Cheers

Bob

Hi,

We have a good selection of speakers set up from outside the community on Friday for State of the map Scotland 2013 - Including International Rescue Corps.

We would like to see if there are volunteers that would like to present info for either the 20 minute of 10 minute sessions on the Saturday.

We are also having a hackday on Sunday at techcube and would welcome tutors to step forward to teach new folk basics as well as joining in on larger hacking projects

If there is any way of advertising the event that would also be useful.

Finally we will be looking for a different location for State of the map Scotland 2014. Preferably a little more north. Please let me know.

State of the map Scotland 2013 Details

wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Scotland_2013

Cheers

Bob

Everyone welcome

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#Social_Events

Cheers

Bob

MakLab in Glasgow

http://www.thelighthouse.co.uk/create/maklab/what-is-it

have invited us to use their premises for our meetings. At present they have a project where they are creating a 3D map of Glasgow so there is an overlay.

In Edinburgh, Hacklab have moved into their new place and may be a good place for us to meet. I have checked the pub and that seems to work well.

http://edinburghhacklab.com

OK,

We have an excellent venue

We have 67 booked in and are expecting another 30 win walkins. We have an amazing set of speakers that are comming to meet with Openstreetmap.org because they realise how important it is becoming and share a common interest in the upsurge of interest in GIS

Speakers list here

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_Scotland_2012#Area_1:Main_Presentation_Area-_Schedule

We will have a small gallery of digital and paper maps, Spherical displays, and quadcopters.

It should be an excellent event, I hope you can make it

We are having a meeting down at the pub on Tuesday

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#Upcoming_Pub_Meetings

We will be discussing the upcomming State of the Map Scotland event

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_Scotland_2012

For State of the map Scotland we are hoping to mix mappers with GIS professionals from a wide variety of area’s

Details and booking here

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_Scotland_2012

Edinburgh Council has recognised the benefits of using Openstreetmap

http://edinburgh.cdmf.info/public/map/map.htm

This has spurred me on to try and get all of the houses in Edinburgh mapped by the end of next year

From the BBC : Six way to never get lost in a city again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15125287

Leads to the TV program on Iplayer

All road lead to home

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012yq4v

Very late posting,

There will be a meeting today Saturday 1st October 2pm-4pm at the Beehive in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh Scotland

location

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=55.947213&lon=-3.196368&zoom=18&layers=M

http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html

half a million by the end of the year ?

Hi,

I am finding it frustrating that I cannot get decent satellite images of the famine struck regions of northern Kenya and Somalia, I have taken it upon myself to add comments to any story in the Independent newspaper that concerns this story. I am just pointing out that with all the billions of dollars of aid that is slowly going to the region that there are no publicly available maps for the region. With the UN and the largest Aid Agencies going there, yet there is no discussion about the necessity of maps to help these agencies or to start planning for long term development. The fact that the refugee camp in Daadab has been there for 20 years and yet there is no map of it.

So I am asking for a little help. If you see an article in a newspaper about the famine can you post a comment about public maps and the availability of UN Satellite images. We all pay for the UN so I would have thought that the images should be under a public domain licence

The Independent newspaper is here

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/

but if your prefer you own newspaper then thats good too

Cheers

Bob

Is there any up-to-date satellite images of Daadab, Kenya so we can help with the refugee crisis by mapping the area ?

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.0447&lon=40.327&zoom=13&layers=M

Next Tuesday June 14th Guildford Arms 7:00 pm

see

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#Social_Events

we will be discussing State of the Map Scotland

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_Scotland_2011

and how best to use Cakes

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapCraft

Cheers

Bob

After a good night of chat here I are some links that might be of interest

OSGeo Live CD

http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html

For those that have never tried Linux, this is a full operating system that can be downloaded as a CD. You can then start up you computer from the cd and enjoy lots of mapping goodies. Once you switch off the computer and remove the CD the computer goes back to normal. Just make sure that when you use the CD you do not install it on your computer because you may wipe everything that is on it.

Wheelmap.org

http://wheelmap.org/en?zoom=14&lat=55.94834&lon=-3.19327&layers=BT

For those needing wheelchair access this website and iphone app helps pinpoint what access is like. Available in several major languages and a few minor ones like Klingon

Foragers

http://forage.rs/

For those that like foraging for your food

There is now Openecomap for Glasgow and Edinburgh

http://www.openecomaps.co.uk/map.php?pack=LDN&zoom=1&lon=-0.1&lat=51.5

cheers

Bob

For those dye hard cyclists out there, I noticed that the august 2011 cycle bog snorkelling championship location has not been mapped.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.10639&lon=-3.63707&zoom=16&layers=M

See video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBi65UNrxY4

Hi,

I noticed there was a lot of buzz recently about a cheap, lightweight HD camera on some RC aircraft lists.

This Camera has been used on Bike Helmets, RC Quadcopters, cars and planes and seems to be doing well. It looks like the firmware is hackable to a small degree. Unfortunately, I can't find direct UK Suppliers.
The price seems to be about £30

A good review of the camera is here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj26JjSiazQ

Does anyone know of suppliers in the UK or of other very light weight HD cams

Cheers

Bob