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Submission + - OpenStreetMap Sends UK Volunteer Mapper to Antigua (openstreetmap.org)

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Gerv

on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @07:40AM

Gerv writes: "When Google launched their Map Maker community mapping tool last year, they included loads of Caribbean islands. This led Ed Parsons (chief Google Maps guy) to say that he was sad there wasn't any fieldwork involved. Well, now OpenStreetMap have gone one better — following a successful Pledgebank pledge, they have got together the money to send one randomly-chosen guy to Antigua for a week to work on the OpenStreetMap map!"

Submission + - Worldwide Firefox 3 Release Parties (mozillaparty.com)

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Gerv

on Thursday June 05, 2008 @10:53AM

Gerv writes: "The Mozilla project's Party Tool is now up and running, arrange Firefox 3 release/Mozilla 10th Anniversary parties all around the world at some point this month. The map shows parties in your area; if there isn't one, start one. :-) There are 255 at the moment; for Firefox 2 there were 648 parties with 5754 registered partygoers. So some way to go to beat that..."

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