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 =====================================
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 -- Will Thompson, Oxford University Computer Society President Jabber: resiak@feayn.org; Mobile: +44 (0)7771 77 40 70 http://www.ox.compsoc.net