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Last week the OpenStreetMap community came together in Denver, Colorado for The State of the Map. Our editors dig into the news from the event and ponder the future of this crowdsourced map of the world.
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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team » Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development.
Prepare for disaster with DepictionPrep, a new preparedness mapping tool for individuals & families - Directions Magazine
State Of The Map 2011
OSM 2008: A Year of Edits on Vimeo
State of the Map (#SOTM) 2011 RoundUp - All Points Blog
Spanish GIS Educator Helping out Indian University and other Education GIS News - All Points Blog
USGS Releases Report on OpenStreetMap Collaborative Prototype (Phase I) - All Points Blog
CloudMade Makes Maps Differently
Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Project Workbook, from Esri Press, provides the data, software, and guidance needed to perform a complete GIS analysis for a spatially-based issue. · The workbook helps you develop geographic problem-solving skills as you work through a project using ArcGIS 10. · For more information, visit esri.com/esripress.
Is it time for a global licensing framework for geospatial data? The GSDI Legal and Economic Working group thinks so and offered a presentation and a way forward at the GSDI 13 conference held in Quebec City in May. The effort aims to harmonize existing licensing without changing fundamental access policies and funding models and be compatible with the diferences in national legal systems. That's a tall order, but an important one as the world moves toward geodata sharing. Geoff Zeiss reports.