Lots of OpenStreetMap events in Scotland over the next week or so:

Pub Meet-up in Glasgow

On the third Tuesday every three months (November, February, May and August we have social meetings at 7:30pm at the CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts Everyone is welcome. This is an opportunity to meet with others and hear about what’s going on and learn new mapping techniques or just general chat. We also welcome anyone from outside the Glasgow area to come and meet with us.

The date for the next meetings are: November 20th 2012

We will be in the bar on the top floor (Terrace Bar) - look for a hi-viz jacket. Alternatively, look for us downstairs in the CCA centre.

There is free parking on the surrounding streets after 6.30pm. The CCA is a 10min slow walk from Queens Street or Central Station. The nearest subway stop is Charing Cross.

Follow events on twitter at @OSMScotland

Edinburgh Hack Weekend

The Edinburgh hack weekend on Nov 2012

Will take place on 24th and 25th in Edinburgh hacklab. Hacklab is currently at Out of the Blue (Drill Hall), just off Leith Walk. Start time 11:00am both days (finish time tbc…) Studio S5, Out Of The Blue, 36 Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh, EH6 8RG

Thanks to Edinburgh Hacklab member for offering to host us at their venue. This venue is limited to 8 people max. First come, first served - indicate your attendance on the wiki and which day(s). Please add to the list of hack challenges and share your ideas. If more than 8 people sign up, you can always drop by to chat but you may end up squeezed out into the corridor.

The State of the Map Scotland 2012 Unconference (SOTMS) will be held in Edinburgh on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th October 2012 10am-4pm on both days. It is free event, everyone is welcome. It will be held at Inspace which is the building next to the Informatics Forum of University of Edinburgh. The primary focus of our conference is to get Openstreetmap.org volunteers to meet and discuss what they have done over the past year and for those new to Openstreetmap to meet us. We also would like to use this opportunity to meet with academic, government or private business groups that are using OSM or freely available data to show us what they are working on

Conference booking: Here

Conference schedule: Here

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Hi,

All welcome to join the Shotts Mapping Party, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

One-day Shotts Mapping Party

Last Tuesday I met with other OSMers in Edinburgh, we usually meet every 3 months in the Guildford Arms just off Princess Street. There’s no wifi and poor phone reception but I like the old place and there’s a good selection of beer (and soft drinks too). 10 people turned up with a mix of old and new faces. It was great to see OSM attracting more and more interest. There was a small pre-meeting ad-hoc mapping party along Leith Walk. (I’ve made a few edits but still lots to do).

We chatted about all sorts from app development, UAVs to climate change and cloud computing. We had a few members of Edinburgh Hacklab join us - we share a love of making things. Other collaboration is going on with Wikipedia members with an event being planned around mapping, photography and wiki writing about monuments. Also there was talk of Edinburgh Council releasing some Open Data which could be really interesting.

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Natural features such as woodlands, trees and gardens as well as built infrastructure like paths, gates, fences and parks can all be mapped on OpenStreetMap. All this information is key to understanding our green infrastructure and presents a new platform for communities and citizens to map and share their local knowledge. This idea lead to an application to Central Scotland Green Network’s fund via Clyde Valley Green Network for resources to organise a ‘mapping party’ at New Lanark and a map making workshop at the Electron Club, CCA, Glasgow. Providing a learning opportunity to local mappers and groups to use OpenStreetMap to map natural and built features around New Lanark and create their own customise maps. The location was chosen because of the great mix of natural woodland and cultural features in this World Heritage Site.</p>

A snapshot of the level of detail can be seen in the map below (created at the mapping workshop): 

These mapping events were successfully held in March. Attracting mapping enthusiasts, local people concerned for their environment and various environmental and community representatives. All these volunteers helped create a really detailed map of New Lanark using various mapping techniques including using smartphones, cameras and paper-based methods. The data was further enhanced by tracing from aerial imagery and maps from non-copyrighted sources. See the results [here](osm.org/?lat=55.6646990776062&lon=-3.7822151184082&zoom=14")

Corra Linn, New Lanark (photo taken by Chris Fleming while mapping): ![Falls of Clyde] (http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7202/6952363439_ec6bd7d121.jpg)

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Hi

I have been looking at other 'open' projects today. There is a good list of citizen science projects at www.scistarter.com

Unfortunately, it's surprising how many 'open' projects don't release their data as open data.

I did find a great project called openBmap, which is currently looking for support to keep its open project going (yes, really 'open' under odbl).

www.openbmap.org collects info on phone signal coverage - allowing you to see the best operators etc in your area. They also collect wifi data.

Best of all, they use OpenStreetMap as a baselayer on maps!

Hope someone can support this truly open project. Perhaps as a sister project?

After an amazing 2011 of OSM activity in Scotland including State of the Map Scotland huge amounts of mapping, networking, talks and cake eating - what's happening this year?

SOTM - Scotland 2011

Here's the plans so far

Social meet-ups:

Thursday 16 Feb 2012 Stirling
Tuesday 21 Feb 2012 Glasgow
Tuesday 20 Mar 2012 Edinburgh

Mapping Party:

New Lanark Mapping Party

Workshop:

Mapping Workshop

Hope you can make it along

State of the Map Scotland starting now. Chris Fleming giving intro talk.

Scotland is 93% "complete"

Perhaps need map conference in North Scotland next year.

Discussion on tracing and gps mapping. Need more people on the ground.

Big challenge with engaging with wider community.

Lots to talk about.

Will be posting talks slides later.

State of the Map Scotland
26-27 Fri-Sat August, CCA, Glasgow

Join the Scottish OpenStreetMap community to talk, workshop and hack for this two day event.

Last chance to get your FREE tickets to this event:

http://sotmscotland.eventbrite.com/

(please don't confuse with State of the Map - Denver, USA)

We are pleased to announce sponsorship from GECO and DevCSI

The M74 motorway extension has been mapped in Glasgow and updated on the day it opened. Other well know maps still don't show it...

Congrats to the many contributors who helped with this: drnoble, Julian Gibson, tms14, marscot, callum et al.

There's plenty of other good mapping going on in Glasgow and beyond, with a goal to map >95% of all the street names in Scotland before the State of the Map Scotland 'unconference' on August 26/27.

If you are interested to join the Scottish OSM community to discuss what we have been working on and plans for the future, details can by found here:

http://sotmscotland.eventbrite.com/

We also have regular social meetings:

osm.wiki/Scotland#Social_Meetings

For those interested in environmental OSM projects and features please see the updated environmental OSM wiki page for details of how to map trees, plant species, natural features, waste, sustainable transport, greenspace etc.

Lots more features to debate, join the discussion and add your examples here:

osm.wiki/Environmental_OSM

Hi,

I wanted to gauge interest in a Scottish - State of the Map - 'unconference' August Fri 26- Sat 27 2011

Join the Scottish OpenStreetMap community to talk, workshop and hack for this two day event. We are being kindly hosted by the Electron Club at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. This will be an 'unconference' event, where all delegates can make suggestions for presentations or workshops and give lightening talks throughout the day(s).

We hope to attract mappers, hackers, artists, journalists, cyclists, cartographers and any organisations interested in participating in the OpenStreetMap project.

The facilities include the Electron Club room with 16 spaces for laptops and a 70 seat cinema for presentations. There are also two open bar/cafe areas within the building and free wifi throughout.

Let me know what you think.

Reserve your free ticket here http://sotmscotland.eventbrite.com/ or contact me for more info.

Thank you

Tim / Hawkeye

When: Saturday November 6th 2010 11:00-16:00
Where: CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts - Electron Club room

Contact
User:Hawkeyes - Tim

osm.wiki/Mapping_Party/Glasgow

I just want to say that I am really impressed with OSMTracker app for my android phone. Makes mapping really easy and productive. Many thanks to the developer; nguillaumin. It free and open resource too. Added lots of POIs to my local area with today.

Hi -Please circulate...

The Electron Club is hosting a OpenStreetMap mini-mapping party at 10:30am Saturday 22 May and you are invited!

OpenStreetMap is a free, open source map of the world that can be contributed, edited and used by anyone anywhere (like wikipedia). The event is free and open to all.

We hope new mappers, Green Map-ers, old mappers, map hackers, art cartographers, community action geographers, common good mappers, new media locators, geo-locating photographers, cyclists, hikers and anyone who has ever taken a wrong turn will be interested.

More info here:

osm.wiki/Mapping_Party/Glasgow

RSVP: please let us know that you will join us by registering on here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5579556/gb/Glasgow/OpenStreetMap-Mapping-Party/Centre-for-Contemporary-Arts-CCA/?ps=7 - or just turn up

May want a packed lunch - or can stop at cafe/shop

User: Hawkeye/Tim

Hi -Please circulate...

The Electron Club is hosting a OpenStreetMap mini-mapping party at 10:30am Saturday 22 May and you are invited!

OpenStreetMap is a free, open source map of the world that can be contributed, edited and used by anyone anywhere (like wikipedia). The event is free and open to all.

We hope new mappers, Green Map-ers, old mappers, map hackers, art cartographers, community action geographers, common good mappers, new media locators, geo-locating photographers, cyclists, hikers and anyone who has ever taken a wrong turn will be interested.

More info here:

osm.wiki/Mapping_Party/Glasgow

RSVP: please let us know that you will join us by registering on here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5579556/gb/Glasgow/OpenStreetMap-Mapping-Party/Centre-for-Contemporary-Arts-CCA/?ps=7 - or just turn up

May want a packed lunch - or can stop at cafe/shop

User: Hawkeye/Tim

Hi

Join us for the next OpenStreetMap social meeting on Tue 16 Feb 7:30pm at the Drum and Monkey, St Vincent Street, Glasgow.

We will be discussing future mapping opportunities, collaborations, developments and mapping trivia while having a few drinks. Please bring along your GPS or any other stuff that may be interesting to other mappers.

Everyone is welcome - new or experienced. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Hope to see you there,

Hawkeye

p.s. we will be in the room at the back of the pub, look for a bright orange jacket

For more info, osm.wiki/Glasgow

Game developers called Micazook are developing a 3d virtual world based on open source GIS data. Not sure if it this includes OSM or just other free info but interesting none the less...

http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/a-brave-new-world?

The first Glasgow OSM meet up!

more details on the Glagow wiki: osm.wiki/Glasgow

Come along for some map talk and a few drinks.

All welcome.