Archive for September, 2009
Mapping Ordizia with Jakintza school kids
Sep 30th
Last monday we celebrated an OSM mapping party with the girls and boys in the Jakintza Ikastola. With the help of their teachers Maite and Jokin, they added and corrected much data to their town’s ( Ordizia ) map in OpenStreetMap. They did a great job and showed us what “Digital Native” term means.
- Pictures of the event on Flickr
- Summary of the work done, with an animation (before and after)
- Ordizia map in OpenStreetMap
Let’s map the world, step by step
Sep 16th
You already might know we’re really involved creating the free wiki world map. As individuals, we’re mapping several areas of the Basque Country (users Gari Araolaza, mikeltxo, kere, dreguera, aitzol).
Tagzania Services has also supported OpenStreetMap by sponsoring the State of the Map conference; we’re also talking with our public administrations to liberate their (their?) geo-data. But we can’t be waiting forever, that’s why we’ve started organizing mapping parties. Don’t hate the media, become the media.
These mapping parties goal is making OSM more popular in our area, and, of course, getting some new devote mappers to the project.
This is our mapping party agenda (you can find them also in the OSM wiki current events)
We’ve also organized a special mapping party in Ordizia with some high school students by the end of September.
We hope this is just the begining. That’s why we encourage people in our area to contact us for organizing more mapping parties.
