OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap has Ugandan discussions in ZDNET:
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014327o-2000331765b,00.htm
There is only one way someone can beat Google at the mapping game now (OSM)
"Google disrupted the mapping space by making navigation free, your turn to disrupt the mapping space by making maps free as in speech."
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=3315
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap (OSM) founder, Steve Coast, opened the conference and touched on many, many significant issues. The one that sticks with me: "We trust our contributors." The comparison of OSM to Linux and Wikipedia may make some nervous, depending on their feelings about that operating system and encyclopedia. As a user of both of those things, his discussion made me more confident in the vision and inevitable growth and usage of OSM.
mike
Pogovor
Komentar uporabnika h4ck3rm1k3 dne 31. oktober 2009 ob 10:16
I mean real discussions about uganda :
One such good idea has been happening in Uganda: Using OpenStreetMap mapping to help with rural development projects. Robert Soden of US communications firm Development Seed has been working with some development groups working in Bigoda, a small Ugandan village, who are now using OpenStreetMap and Quantum GIS to map out the village.
not this :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurring_in-jokes_in_Private_Eye
# "Ugandan discussions", or a variation thereof, is often used as a euphemism for illicit sex, usually while carrying out a supposedly official duty. The term originally refers to an incident at a party hosted by journalist Neal Ascherson and his first wife, at which fellow journalist Mary Kenny had a "meaningful confrontation" with a former cabinet minister in the government of Milton Obote, later alleging that they were "upstairs discussing Uganda". The poet James Fenton apparently coined the term.[1] The saying is often wrongly attributed to the antics of a female Cabinet minister in Idi Amin's government, who was caught having sex in a public lavatory at Heathrow Airport. The euphemism is spread further, for example, before his marriage a senior member of the Royal family allegedly went on holiday with an ageing ex-Page Three girl, whereupon Private Eye reported he had contracted a "Ugandan virus". In 1996, "Getting Back to Basics" was suggested as a replacement euphemism after the notoriously hypocritical policy of the same name adopted by John Major's government.