[Cross-posted from my personal blog.]
Last night I attended my first meeting of the Vancouver Public Space Network (VPSN) Mapping & Wayfinding group. They are a group of mapping enthusiasts who want to organize collaboratively mapping Vancouver's public spaces and have some interesting ideas on how to do so, including a web service with a REST interface, but also hand-drawn maps. Let it ring throughout the world that I consider Joey deVilla the master of the hand-drawn directional map, after showing me how to get to his work from his former house back when I visited in 2005.
While waiting for the bus at Broadway Station, I happened upon a poster advertising a debate and discussion about Project Civil City, an initiative by Mayor Sam Sullivan to clean up this Stinktown. No more spitting, protesting, and say so-long to Vancouver's proud tradition of jaywalking on Hastings St.
But seriously, after posting a photo of the poster to Flickr, the Vancouver Public Space Network commented at length explaining the use of Olympic imagery, which I noticed as my role of administrator of Vancouver Olympics Protest group on Flickr. (You don't have to oppose the Olympics to be a member of the group, which is interested solely in documenting the resistance.) I quote the comment at length below, which links to the Network's website on Project Civil City.
