OpenStreetMap News and State of the Map 2011 Roundup

Fri, 2011/09/16 - 11:29 — Alex

With State of the Map 2011 now behind, here's what I found on the geoblogs that we haven't mentioned yet. Thanks to Slashgeo editor Nicolas Gignac, we were able to provide on-site coverage this year.

APB offers a State of the Map 2011 RoundUp
And in another entry, APB mentions the USGS OpenStreetMap Collaborative Prototype, a snippet of the released report: "The OSM software proved effective in providing a usable platform for collaborative data editing."
SS shares his account of State of the Map 2011's opening keynote by Richard Weait
Another SS entry is named OpenStreetMap for Commercial Applications
SS goes on with an entry named The Clever Evolution of Walking Papers, a paper-based solution for contributing to OpenStreetMap that we mentioned before
SS also shared, just before SotM 2011, a perspective named Why should open geospatial data and software be taken seriously?