[Lancaster] Help map the world!

[Martyn Welch]

Hi Guys,

I've recently thought about getting a GPS unit and software so that I can have 
a geeky map in my car.

Yes, I could by TomTom or similar and probably will end up getting one of 
these for my mobile. I would like to run an app on my PDA, but that runs 
linux and guess what, no GPS software with UK maps. It's not that I don't 
want to pay for it, I'll happily pay the going rate, it just doesn't seem to 
exist. The biggest barrier being the maps.

Enter OpenStreetMap[1]. This project aim to, with the hand of GPS logs, the 
web satelite imagery and budding part-time cartographers, create open 
maps[2].

What about as a Linux User Group we try to get some/all of 
Lancaster/Lancashire (with the help of surrounding Lugs?) mapped?

Martyn

[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Editing
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Martyn Welch (welchm at comp.lancs.ac.uk)

PGP Key : http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/~martyn/pgpkey/
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