[compsoc-announce] Tonight: food, OpenStreetMap, OpenGuides and friends

[Will Thompson]

Hey people,

Just a reminder about tonight's talk.  If you haven't got other plans,
why not come to Noodle Bar on Gloucester Green[0] at 6:30 and eat with
Dom and the committee?  Feel free to give me a ring or an SMS if you
have any questions about meeting up.

[0] http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?id=Noodle_Bar

In case you'd forgotten what Dom's speaking about:

OpenStreetMap, OpenGuides and friends
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When: Thursday 15th February, 20:00
Where: Keble College, Pusey Room

    The last few years has seen an explosion of interest in
    geographically-aware applications, especially web applications,
    powered partly by the availability of cheap GPS units. Flickr, a
    leading photo hosting provider, has integrated geo-tagged photo
    processing to its site, and Google Earth and Google Maps has
    popularised the use of high quality mapping and satellite imagery.

    OpenStreetMap[1] and OpenGuides[2] are two projects that are
    harnessing this enthusiasm in the "Free" data and code spheres.
    Together, and with many other projects, they are helping us to
    describe the world we live in richly, and make this information
    availble to all in open formats and under open licences.

    Dominic will be introducing both projects; giving an overview of
    their aims and processes; explain how to participate in the
    projects; and hopefully to show off some cool technologies and uses
    the data is being used with.

[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/
[2] http://openguides.org/

Again, if you came to the EA talk last term, this is in the same place.
If not, http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/about/tour might prove useful.  The
Pusey room is on the Pusey Quad, roughly opposite the lodge.  Someone
will be hovering in the lodge to point you in the right direction in any
case.

Earlier in the week, I promised you an entertaining link.  Today, I give
you...  MONORAIL-MOG.

http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/10972/1171410774.gif

Well, I liked it.  See you later,

Will
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