Open Source

The third Ontario Linux Fest will be held on Saturday, 24 October 2009.

I'll be giving a talk on OpenStreetMap as it applies to emergency response and search and rescue for CERT / ALERT in Londonderry, New Hampshire, USA, on Thursday February 19th.

What: Introduction to OpenStreetMap for CERT[1] (Community Emergency Response Team)

When: Thursday, 19 February 2009 at 19:00 (7:00PM)

Where:268 Mammoth Road, Londonderry, New Hampshire, 03053

Who: Open to the public. Limited seating. Limited on-site parking. Free.  read more »

The OpenStreetMap.org project provides mapping software and data to you, for your use in creative and important ways. The project is tremendously successful and growing, worldwide. That growth and success stresses the servers used to provide the data you want to use.  read more »

The government of France sees the utility and value of OpenStreetMap.  read more »

The second, now annual, Ontario Linux Fest is coming up in just a few short days. You are going to love the line up of speakers and exhibitors this year. And you'll have fun meeting folks interested in all of the projects that will be represented at OLF this year. This is a full day (plus two social nights) full of Free Software Goodness.

Register now to save your place.

Toronto. Saturday, 25 October, 2008. Be there!

Part two of our look at the Universities of the Big Ten Conference. But not the football. Nope; that's boring. We're looking at their online campus maps and how the OpenStreetMap community is progressing in their area as well. Part one covered Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan,
Michigan State and Minnesota.  read more »

Now we look at the remaining five schools of the Big Ten.

Northwestern University

Ohio State University

So who has the best campus map of the Big Ten? How do their web site campus maps compare and how is their OpenStreetMap campus shaping up? We look at the Big Ten Conference and OpenStreetMap. Where are the OSM hotspots and where shall we map next?

The Big Ten Conference are  read more »
• University of Illinois
• Indiana University
• University of Iowa
• University of Michigan
• Michigan State University

The first Open Everything event was held yesterday in Toronto. The event was brought to my attention by a couple of my favorite Open Source people and that was enough for me to decide to participate. I didn't know exactly why I should be there and I didn't know exactly what to expect but with a couple of friends there I knew that I could find some fun.

So I went with no expectations and an open mind. I couldn't have been more impressed.  read more »