Talk tomorrow: http://www.meetup.com/webmapsocial/calendar/9978081/
OSM java editor: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM
Upcoming Mapping Parties- Henry Coe Park — this weekend: http://tinyurl.com/osm-henrycoepark
Santa Cruz, May 9 & 10: http://tinyurl.com/osm-santacruz-education
Beginners Guide to OpenStreetMap: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_Guide
Where Camp: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2403002/?ps=5
Ito world (OSM animation): http://www.itoworld.com/static/osmmapper
http://calebwaldorf.net/reblog/typologies-from-the-new-cartographic-explosion/
Bay Area OpenStreetMap mailing list (quiet list used for event information): http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us-bayarea
Bay Area Open Source GIS group (group I mentioned to you, we host happy hours together): http://www.baugos.com/
University of Maryland campus map: http://map.umd.edu/map/

-ArcScript that exports .shp files as .kml (Export to KML Version 2.5.3, by Kevin Martin of the Portland Bureau of Planning: http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=14273)

-For borrowing imagery from Google Earth:
1) Establish corner placemarks, record those coordinates, and use them to manually georeference an imported image in ArcGIS.
2) Use the worldfile thus created to shortcut the georeferencing of a placemark-free (and generally clean) version of the same image (simply rename the .jgw).
3) Also, record all the metadata you can at this stage; there’s no telling when Google may update its imagery and the image you’ve downloaded disappear.
4) The Primary Database–>More–>DigitalGlobe Coverage layer in Google Earth will give you footprints of various images (and, for any selected image, the relevant metadata), and the Status Bar will, when you’re zoomed in, tell you the date of the imagery you’re looking at.
-Full instructions for Nico Tripcevich’s (slightly different but conceptually equivalent) version of this are on the web: http://mapaspects.org/courses/gis-and-anthropology/weekly-class-exercises/week-3-acquisition-digital-data#ge. I’d recommend placemarks rather than the graticule, myself, and keeping systematic track of the placemark coordinates.