On Monday 2nd March we'll have an OpenStreetMap pub meet-up at the Parcel Yard Pub in Kings Cross station from 6:30. Join us for friendly social beers and chit chat on the subject of OpenStreetMap (contributing/using experienced/beginners, whatever interests you in and around OpenStreetMap!)
The pub is quite big, but hidden away at the back of the main station curvy roofed bit, up some steps. (1st floor. We won't be on the 2nd floor posh dining area) We'll try to get a table, but at first we may have to loiter near the bar. If we are organised we'll have OSM polo shirts or hi-vis jackets on show. If you don't know anyone it'll be a bit easier to find us if you show up a bit late. ...not too late though. We'll probably end up going to eat burritos on the station balcony later on.
Set yourself as attending on here! (if you can figure out how to). Sign-up not actually required. It is just a pub after all. You can expect between 5 and 10 people attending.
More details: wiki.openstreetmap.org
Attending: Harry Wood Grant Slater
About OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a free, editable map of the whole world that is being built by volunteers largely from scratch and released with an open-content license. The OpenStreetMap License allows free access to our map images and all of our underlying map data. The project aims to promote new and interesting uses of this data. OpenStreetMap powers map data on thousands of web sites, mobile apps, and hardware devices.
The map is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. OpenStreetMap emphasises local knowledge. If everyone maps their neighbourhood, then all we need to do is have one person in every neighbourhood joining the project! The community is diverse, passionate, and growing every day. Our contributors include enthusiast mappers, GIS professionals, engineers running the OSM servers, humanitarians mapping disaster-affected areas, and many more.
Similarly you'll see a diverse range of events, whether it's a gathering of outdoor enthusiasts getting together to map an area, a humanitarian remote-tracing mapathon, a user group for people working with map data, a technical hack-weekend, or many other event formats besides. The OpenStreetMap Foundation also holds a large annual international community conference called "State Of The Map". Many spin-off country or continent-sized regional conferences are organised at a more local level.
The most "central" all-encompasing list of events is maintained on the OpenStreetMap wiki: wiki.openstreetmap.org but we also have many on meetup.com, some of which are *not* listed there. Perhaps we should try to list some here on OpenTechCalendar
Quite a big pub inside Kings Cross, but hidden away at the back of the main station curvy roofed bit, up some steps.
1st floor is a normal pub area. 2nd floor is quite a posh dining area.
