Thanks to everyone who came out last week for OSM’s Birthday!
It never ceases to amaze me how many people get excited about OSM! We had about 40 people show up to celebrate, so many that we ran out of seats!
Nevertheless, Alan still managed to do an OSM 101 tutorial in Stamen’s conference room. Some people in there made their very first edits!
Posted Aug 14 2013
California Water Atlas workshop time
Tonight we tried a little something new – a participatory workshop by our friends working on the New California Water Atlas. The organizers, Chacha Sikes and Laci Videmsky, brought many maps of water in the state – including well location and groundwater – for the group to discuss and ask questions about.
Posted Aug 14 2013
Celebrate OSM’s Birthday at MapTime!
This week, [Open Street Map celebrates its 9th birthday](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Birthday, and we’ll be joining the festivities at MapTime with all kinds of OSM activities, including OSM 101 and the OSM #birthdaySprint! The studio will be set up so that people can either work on their #birthdaySprint projects or partake in learning and project sharing.
Here’s the schedule for the evening:
6:30 Doors open, c’mon down! 6:45 OSM 101 7:00 Project show and tell! Share what you’re working on and get feedback 7:30 Everybody work on OSM stuff! 8:30 Wrap up
So come out and join the mapnerdery! Just be sure to sign up on Meetup.
Posted Aug 07 2013
Learning Leaflet
For people who are new to mapping (and to coding in general), going through something like Leaflet’s most basic tutorial – the Quick Start guide – can be truly daunting. What do you mean there are script tags around that line of code? Was I supposed to put that in the head or the body? Such basic questions can simply be invitation into a rabbit hole of internet despair, which can thwart learning more about this styling tool.
Meghan and I – two new Leaflet users at tonight’s MapTime – were very lucky for a slow night at MapTime, with our only company being MapBox ID creator John Firebaugh. It ended up being a great session for question-answering and at some points some flat out handholding.
Posted Aug 06 2013
First ever
This is so great! I love that so many people showed up tonight to learn about making maps!
Things we learned today include:
Relations = collection of nodes and ways (or, really, a collection of objects). For example, in OSM, Lake Merritt is a relation comprised of the outlines of multiple islands and a shoreline.
CartoDB! some of us played with CartoDB. I managed to import all of the nodes from the SF Green Map, producing the image below. Next up: playing with CartoCSS to make San Francisco look a little less infected!
Posted Jul 19 2013