From benni.kirschner at intevation.de Fri Oct 19 18:52:29 2007 From: benni.kirschner at intevation.de (benni kirschner) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:52:29 +0200 Subject: [Intevation News] =?utf-8?q?Free_data_of_Osnabr=C3=BCck_contribut?= =?utf-8?q?ed_to_OpenStreetMap?= Message-ID: <200710191852.29366.benni.kirschner@intevation.de> Free data of Osnabr?ck contributed to OpenStreetMap Vector data of the City of Osnabr?ck, Germany has been contributed to OpenStreetMap [1] (OSM). The data was created 2003 during the Frida [2] project led by Intevation GmbH [3] and in cooperation with lat/lon GmbH and the City itself. Result of the project was a digital streetmap of an European city, which is free to use, improve and copy for non-commercial and commercial purposes. "The project has been a great success", says Jan-Oliver Wagner, Managing Director of Intevation. The data is used in powerful Free Software Geographical Information Systems (GIS) like Thuban [4], GRASS [5] and other applications. It proofed especially useful for improving the software and teaching GIS. To contribute the data to OSM, Intevation has converted the dataset and re-published it under the Creative Commons ShareAlike 2.0 license. OpenStreetMap allows users to create and maintain data all by themselves. It provides for geodata, what a wiki software provides for text. With a simple GPS-device anybody can record waypoints, and then use a computer to add attribute information. Up to do day, more than 9 billion waypoints have been uploaded by OSM users this way. Links: [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page/ [2] http://frida.intevation.org/index.en.html/ [3] http://www.intevation.net/ [4] http://thuban.intevation.org/ [5] http://grass.itc.it/index.php -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/news/attachments/20071019/fd8eb816/attachment.bin