http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/24/1276 Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:48:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/24/1276/comment-page-1#comment-59589 Brain Off » How do *we* determine the names for things? :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:13:55 +0000 http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/24/1276#comment-59589 [...] OpenStreetMap had the start of its first edit war in the fall. It won’t be the last. At issue was the territory of North Cyprus, in a nearly universally regarded illegal (excepting Turkey) invasion by Turkish forces over 30 years ago. A English expatriate living in North Cyprus was labelling places with Turkish names. A Greek Cypriot, whose father fled from North Cyprus, had been switching to the Greek names. And back and forth. Traditionally places had both Greek and Turkish names, and Greek and Turkish people, and people used whatever localisation they choose. With the political/military conflict, and a global platform for communication, the conflict has spread to open databases. The Wikipedia article on Cyprus is often in conflict, and now OSM. [...] [...] OpenStreetMap had the start of its first edit war in the fall. It won’t be the last. At issue was the territory of North Cyprus, in a nearly universally regarded illegal (excepting Turkey) invasion by Turkish forces over 30 years ago. A English expatriate living in North Cyprus was labelling places with Turkish names. A Greek Cypriot, whose father fled from North Cyprus, had been switching to the Greek names. And back and forth. Traditionally places had both Greek and Turkish names, and Greek and Turkish people, and people used whatever localisation they choose. With the political/military conflict, and a global platform for communication, the conflict has spread to open databases. The Wikipedia article on Cyprus is often in conflict, and now OSM. [...]

]]> http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/24/1276/comment-page-1#comment-54812 Brain Off » Merano Open Data Imported :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:33:44 +0000 http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/24/1276#comment-54812 [...] An interlude from India to Italy. Back in November, the municipality of Merano released _all_ of their GIS data, so that it could be imported into OpenStreetMap, or reused in any other manner. We’ve now completed the first round of import of that data, into OpenStreetMap and OpenAerialMap. Merano is liberated! [...] [...] An interlude from India to Italy. Back in November, the municipality of Merano released _all_ of their GIS data, so that it could be imported into OpenStreetMap, or reused in any other manner. We’ve now completed the first round of import of that data, into OpenStreetMap and OpenAerialMap. Merano is liberated! [...]

]]> http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/24/1276/comment-page-1#comment-47521 Alexandre Leroux Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:47:15 +0000 http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/24/1276#comment-47521 Interesting, as usual :-) FYI, the UN have more than one university, take a look at upeace.org in addition to the other you found :-) Interesting, as usual FYI, the UN have more than one university, take a look at upeace.org in addition to the other you found

]]> http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/24/1276/comment-page-1#comment-47450 Brain Off » Progress and Retreat Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:20:02 +0000 http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/24/1276#comment-47450 [...] Chris Schmidt has built a working version of the OpenAerialMap concept. Excellent. We’re moving from talking to hacking, and this seems poised to grow rapidly. I’m going to add imagery from Merano when I have the chance. [...] [...] Chris Schmidt has built a working version of the OpenAerialMap concept. Excellent. We’re moving from talking to hacking, and this seems poised to grow rapidly. I’m going to add imagery from Merano when I have the chance. [...]

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