As we are developing our social mapping website for sustainable communities, the Open Green Map, we are meeting more developers of open technologies.

OpenStreetMap.org is an exciting example of a free geographic resource. It's a kind of wikipedia for maps - a free editable map of the world, and anyone can add roads, bike paths and other geographic data to it. Around the world, many are contributing to it. In some places, mapping parties are being held to spur the collection of data.

Green Map System is pleased to provide the venue for NYC's first open mapping party, hosted by OpenStreetMap's initiator, Steve Coast, at our global office. Steve says:

"We run mapping parties which are events where anyone can come along, we lend a GPS and show you how to go out and do some mapping and get the data in to openstreetmap. They are informal events with no explicit time commitment and often a social element / beer afterwards".

So, see you at Green Map Saturday June 28, 10am-4, or Sunday June 29, 11am-2. Turn up at any point, but the earlier the better.

Where: Green Map System's location is 220 E 4th Street, between Avenues A & B in Manhattan's East Village.

More about the specific event:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/New_York_City

Background:
openstreetmap.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/FAQ