The next mySociety Disruptive Tech Talk is a week today at 7.30pm at the London Knowledge Lab on Emerald St.
This time we have Steve Coast, founder of Open Street Map. When Open Street Map started a few years ago, I thought it would never take off. Earlier this year I accidentally went to their conference in Manchester, and was blown away. There’s a whole community of active people, collaboratively building a vector map of not just the whole country, but the whole world. And it is very usable now – for example, my home town of Cambridge is extremely high quality.
If you’re interested in mapping, or in how to organise communities that disrupt with technology, then come along. But please sign up as the last event was full to capacity! It’s free.
Is there any chance of something like this coming to Manchester, for those of us who don’t live down south?
We did have an event in Liverpool last year. And our new recruit (more news of that on Monday) is dragging mySociety’s centre of gravity more northwards…