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Date: 26 April 2012

Time: 6.15pm for networking. Talk starts at 6.30pm.

There will be drinks and snacks available.

Location: Red Gate Software. See map on the right-hand side for full
details.

This event is FREE to all.

You do not need to be a member of the BCS to attend this event.

You do not need to print this ticket. Just tick you name on the
attendees list, on the day.


Talk summary

The arrival of web-based mapping from Google and others has
revolutionised, in the space of only five years, the way many people
interact with maps and map data. And the success of projects such as
Wikipedia highlight how collation of small amounts of information from
large numbers of people - an approach called 'crowdsourcing' - can
challenge traditional models of data collection and ownership.

Bringing these concepts together is OpenStreetMap, a collaborative
project to create a free editable map of the world. Well-established
enterprises such as the Ordnance Survey are coming under increased
pressure from this new model, and large companies such as MapQuest and
Microsoft are starting to use and invest in it.

Martin Lucas-Smith, one of two main developers of the leading UK-wide
cycle journey planner website, CycleStreets, will discuss
OpenStreetMap, its use within a range of systems (from cartography,
routing, and even its central role helping deal with the Haiti
disaster), the challenges it poses to traditional forms of data
collection.

He will talk about how CycleStreets works, as well the design and
innovation challenges that CycleStreets as a social enterprise has
faced.


About Martin Lucas-Smith

Martin Lucas-Smith is one of the two lead developers of CycleStreets,
the UK wide cycle journey planner website. He is also employed by the
University of Cambridge as a web developer in the Department of
Geography.