Re: [OSM-talk] Help from Tourist office?

2009-09-28 Thread Paul Houle
Dave F. wrote: Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: (Which is a pretty stupid thing, given that tourists ought to know all the local web portals when preparing a trip, instead of going to e.g. OSM or Wikitravel) I dunno. That kind of site is usually a site for sore eyes. If they've got

Re: [OSM-talk] Help from Tourist office?

2009-09-28 Thread John Smith
2009/9/29 Paul Houle p...@ontology2.com:    In a lot of places the Tourist Office is actually (or practically) a cooperative sponsored by certain businesses,  generally the larger and more expensive ones.  This is true of restaurants as much as it is of hotels. In regional parts of Australia

Re: [OSM-talk] Help from Tourist office?

2009-09-28 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Lunes, 28 de Septiembre de 2009, Paul Houle escribió: [...] If they've got the attitude that we want our site to be the only source of information about our area it means that they don't get the web and that the site isn't going to be a good source of information. No, it doesn't mean

[OSM-talk] Help from Tourist office?

2009-09-26 Thread k...@vielevisels
Hi, i recently travelled to a city with nearly 40.000 inhabitants and was surprised, that almost no hotels, restaurants and other amenities were in OSM. So I had the idea to contact the tourist office with a short introduction on OSM and how to tag, to give this to shops, hotels, restaurants

Re: [OSM-talk] Help from Tourist office?

2009-09-26 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, Great idea, What im working on (for Across Canada). Is actually going ahead and filling in those amenities that the typical town-visitor would like to see (myself). So I will be able to, probably using KOSMOS, create a nice map of the town, then just donate the map to the tourist office.

Re: [OSM-talk] Help from Tourist office?

2009-09-26 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Sábado, 26 de Septiembre de 2009, k...@vielevisels escribió: I had the idea to contact the tourist office [...] What do you think of the idea? It may work, it may not work. Some tourist offices may want to do their job and promote the city and the services and amenities it offers. On the

Re: [OSM-talk] Help from Tourist office?

2009-09-26 Thread Dave F.
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Sábado, 26 de Septiembre de 2009, k...@vielevisels escribió: I had the idea to contact the tourist office [...] What do you think of the idea? It may work, it may not work. Some tourist offices may want to do their job and promote the city and the

Re: [OSM-talk] Help from Tourist office?

2009-09-26 Thread Sam Vekemans
Yes, tourist boards are on commission, to sell the advertized hotels 1st. Anyway, to answer the initial question better, i would (will) make a map for, and give to (along with neighbouring town maps) Back Packers Hostels/ Bike shops-rental / libraries / community centers / coffee shops. As the