UPCOMING MEETINGS

Unless otherwise noted, our meetings are held on the first Tuesday and third Monday of each month, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

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• Friday, May 16, 2008
  Steve Coast, Founder, OpenStreetMap Foundation - "The OpenStreetMap Project"
  

  OpenStreetMap.org (OSM) is a map of the world which anyone can edit, where the data is given away freely. Much like Wikipedia allows the collaborative creation of an encyclopedia, OSM allows users to trace aerial imagery or use GPS units to create geometry. That geometry is then "tagged" with key/value pairs such as highway:motorway and name:Baker Street.

  Started in August 2004, OSM is now approaching 35,000 users around the world. The majority are in Western Europe and the UK and Germany in particular. OSM is not a complete map, however, mass participation and imports of TIGER (US public domain map dataset) and donated data from AND in relatively larges areas and countries.

  About the Speaker:
  Steve Coast is founder of OpenStreetMap and co-founder of CloudMade and has worked for many years on diverse heavy-lifting computing applications around open systems. Steve interned at Wolfram Research before studying computer science and then physics at UCL. He left early to pursue research and development work at universities and leading web companies prior to founding CloudMade.

  Special Meeting Date and Location! Free pizza!
  To accomodate Steve's visit from the UK, LUGOD has moved its meeting to Friday, May 16th. We will be meeting at 1006 Giedt Hall, UC Davis. LUGOD will be serving free pizza from the Village Bakery. This meeting is being held in conjunction with GLOBAL:geography club.

  A flyer is available (PDF).

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  Meeting Details | | Flyer

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• Tuesday, June 3, 2008
  - "Social Gathering"
  

  Social gathering at Crepeville restaurant in Davis.

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• Monday, June 16, 2008
  Speaker TBA - "Topic TBA"
  

  Speaker and topic to be announced. (Would you like to speak at LUGOD?)

  Note: Location TBA. (The library was reserved.)

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• Meeting Subject Wishlist

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