Have GPS and a bit of free time?
What are you doing this weekend? If you live in Brisbane, this blog may just have become your entertainments officer, because there's an Open Street Map Mapping Party on this Saturday (the 17th of April). It's on at the Brisbane City Library, so it's not a roaming the streets mapping event, it's a sit down one designed to get people together to talk about the mapping that's going on in Brisbane with an eye to sharing the knowledge, fixing errors and improving the quality of the mapping alignments.
David Dean, one of Brisbane's OSM heros, says there will be people there who know about Potlatch, JOSM, Merkaartor and Mapzen, and who can give you hints and tips – so this is your chance to become involved in mapping your part of Australia for posterities sake.
If you're inspired, or if Saturday's not enough notice for you, there's also a Mapping Party going on in Coomera, one of the largest suburbs on the Gold Coast, on Saturday the 15th of May. This suburb not only has varied terrain – from mangroves to hills and even its own island, it's also got changing traffic conditions – so it needs some OSM love.
David spoke to us in his interview about how easy it is to get involved and help out mapping your local locale.
