OSM Auckland Meetings
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- 2011
This page is a record of past OSM Auckland meets. To see the details on upcoming meets, please take a look at OSM Auckland.
February 2011
Agenda
When: Thursday, 24th February, 7pm - 8:30pm
Topics - nothing is set in stone, feel free to come along with your own ideas and suggestions:
- How will we build the OSM community in Auckland?
- encouraging mappers
- getting more people/companies/government to use OSM maps and data
- getting more data to import
- Assisting HOT with 2011 Christchurch earthquake mapping
- A logo for OSM New Zealand/Auckland - ideas below if you have any
- The consequences of the license change by OSM
- The LINZ import.
- We have a data set from LINZ, but need volunteers and web tools to import/merge the data
- If you have skills in developing web applications, please come along and tell us what you can do.
- New Zealand-specific tile set - building a tile renderer/server
- Maori names
- ??
- Future subjects for meetings
- JOSM/Potlatch tutorials
- Other imports - Zenbu, DOC
- Collecting data - mapping
Notes
There were 8 attendees at Tangleball, plus apologies from absentees; we talked about a few topics:
Logos:
- Kim will put together some ideas for a OSM New Zealand logo.
- See here for some of what already exists:
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/misc/images
Mapping parties:
- All were interested in a mapping party, probably in North Shore or Manukau. Suggestions welcome
Import of LINZ data:
- Discussions and decisions to date were briefly laid out
- A number of the attendees have experience programming and are willing to help, but time is a limiting factor. We decided there are not enough resources at the moment - we will build the community more through mapping parties and then re-evaluate.
- We also discussed manually merging the data. Possible lack of mappers may hamper this, so left as a fallback if a dedicated web application cannot be built. To be discussed more next month
- See here for what has been achieved so far: LINZ
School mapping parties:
- John will mention the idea of mapping parties to teachers at his school, to find out if they are interested in hosting an event.
The OSM license change:
- The nature and background of the two licences was briefly laid out and discussed; as this is a detailed topic, we will return to this at a later date.
- See here for more information: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License
Further subjects for meets:
- Tutorials for map editors (Potlatch, JOSM, Merkaartor, etc.)
- Selecting suitable GPS devices for mapping.
- Some recommendations from OSM: Hardware_Guide and GPS_Reviews
Mar 2011
no meeting
Apr 2011
no meeting
May 2011
May 26th, 7pm at Tangle Ball, 27 Edinburgh Street
There were 5 in attendance
Topics:
- Tutorial on editors
- Potlatch
- JOSM
- any other editors participants know
- Mapping party details
- when
- where
- The LINZ import
- Logo for OSM New Zealand. ideas:
- OSM logo with something New Zealand-related, e.g. Kiwi bird
- Kiwi bird looking at a map
- Report back on items from the first meeting
- Anything else you would like to bring up
Notes:
- potlatch tutorial went ahead.
- no josm users present
- Rudy showed some mock up images he has produced for the osm nz/auckland logo. they will be placed on the wiki for commentary, one or more selected at a meeting and later used on the website and other relevant places
- Abhishek briefly described his progress on the LINZ import application. we have an overall direction; more detail to come.
- the mapping party was not discussed due to time overrun
June 2011
June 24th, 7pm at Tangle Ball
Agenda
- Mapping party details
- Licences. OSM is possibly changing license, from CC-BY-SA to ODBL. We will discuss the consequences, particularly regarding the LINZ import
- LINZ import
- Is anyone else interested in working on the application - Abhishek and Robin have rough ideas for software probably built in javascript, using open layers as a start point (open layers has editing capabilities)?
- the logos
- progression since last month
- feedback on rudy's start point
- new zealand-specific tile set
- further tutorials in potlatch/josm/etc. if required. this will be a standing item in each meeting from now on
Notes
- A contributor to the Te Araroa walking trial [1] attended - the group is willing to provide their data under a compatible license, to be imported into OSM. More info here: Te Araroa import
- More discussion on the import of LINZ data. A basic process was suggested; this will be combined with the work done earlier.
- No potlatch/josm tutorials due to the OSM database being off-line for maintenance
- Brief discussion of a New Zealand tile set, talking over different methods of producing and hosting tiles
- No discussion on logos or mapping parties due to time overrun
July 2011
July 28th
- NZ tile set. robin is working on rendering tiles
- any suggestions what we should include?
- maori place names?
- any suggestions what we should include?
- one of the discussion topics at net hui this year was mix and mash, a competition to mash up free/open data sources. there are cash prizes - i believe an osm contributor did rather well last year, using osm data and some other sources
- this year's competition starts on august 4th; perhaps we could enter as a group: http://www.mixandmash.org.nz/
- more detail on the Te Araroa import - there is a brief outline of a proposed import procedure on the wiki at Te Araroa import
- any suggestions or requests?
- we may use this as a template/trial for the much bigger linz import
- potlatch/josm tutorials as required
- progress on the logos
- mapping in schools - how do we go ahead with this (john suggested at an earlier meet)?
- robin would appreciate some postfix assistance so we can get @openstreetmap.org.nz email addresses up and running. this would make us appear more cohesive
Notes
- a new osm user showed up - short intro to the ideas behind osm, how it works, renders of hiking data
- Brief discussion over what to include on NZ tile set. suggestion to think about it before next meet
- a short demonstration of JOSM for new mappers/potlatch users who want to use more advanced features
- Mapping in john's school is a no go - teachers are not interested
- no time for 'mix and mash' discussion
- the te araroa import - discussion into technical means of import: suggestion of
August 2011
August 25th
- Abhishek and Rudy attended and discussed the progress of the LINZ import status.
- We're pleased by the announcement made by Glen Barnes on the mailing list re ODBL LINZ import data.
- Rudy just returned on 8th August from 6 weeks overseas. He did a little OSM work in Hungary and Croatia, mainly *walkways and a few residential streets.
- Also looked at some new additions of private driveways in Auckland (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?zoom=16&lat=-36.91609&lon=174.7796&layers=B0000TF), making the map look too crowded. Could this be an experiment?