I’ll be in Rio for Rio+20 and launching InfoAmazonia. I’d love to do some OSM work there, I’m thinking walking papers. Please get in touch if you’re interested.

I’m working with Rub21 right now on improving Lima. We’re finding a lot of disconnected streets there. What’s the story behind these? I’m seeing that at least some of the remaining streets are by user Telecom IP - I’ll be sending him a message. Not sure whether this is license change related, I remember seen these disconnected roads in Lima well before the bots kicked in.

Right now our plan of action is to repair the streets that match nicely with Bing satellite imagery and not touch those that don’t. I’d like to eventually repair or remove the ones that appear to be garbage, too.

I just posted a quick report on walking papers work in Brasilia on our blog, check it out:

http://mapbox.com/blog/surveying-brasilia/

Take aways:

• Brasilia block system was tricky to figure out…
• … and is now tricky to enter. Please join the discussion for a solution

Debriefing with Lima

If you’re in Brasilia, join us on Sunday for some Walking Papers action, here are the details: http://mapbox.com/blog/osm-mapping-brasilia/

I will be in Sarajevo from Wednesday (Feb 15) to Sunday (Feb 19) for POINT conference:

- Thursday 7PM: Geo Data workshop, OSM, TileMill, QGis, etc. - would love to connect with OSM'ers!
- Friday 3.15PM: Talk about Fast and Beautiful Maps made of Open Data

http://mapbox.com/blog/2012/feb/13/point-sarajevo-open-data-mapping/

Poke me on Twitter http://twitter.com/lxbarth if you're interested in joining in for the workshop or just catching up.