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[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robin Paulson
Sent: 10 June 2008 2:15 AM
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Subject: [OSM-talk] osm talk at local LUG
i'm thinking of giving a talk at my local LUG in the near future on
OSM - we could do with some extra mappers in the area, and any extra
OSM publicity
, be prepared for the usual why not just use Google? questions. I
did a short lightning talk on OSM at my local LUG a few months ago and
being able to cite uses of the data other than the plain slippymap was
quite good (such as the Welsh language version (as I am in Wales :), the
cyclemap, the pistemap
aspect of the project and the licence.
Yes, be prepared for the usual why not just use Google?
questions. I
did a short lightning talk on OSM at my local LUG a few months ago and
being able to cite uses of the data other than the plain slippymap was
quite good (such as the Welsh language
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, SteveC wrote:
Isn't it easier with such a group to ask 'why not use windows?'
Quite possibly, but that isn't quite the same thing. Windows is not free
(as in beer), so a lot of people (even LUG attendees) often get hung up on
the zero cost side of things, so when faced
the free aspect of the project and the licence.
Yes, be prepared for the usual why not just use Google? questions. I
did a short lightning talk on OSM at my local LUG a few months ago and
being able to cite uses of the data other than the plain slippymap was
quite good (such as the Welsh
On Tuesday 10 June 2008 10:09:22 Steve Hill wrote:
The level of interest seemed quite high at the time, but sadly I
don't think we've got any new mappers from that group.
I attended my first mapping party two weeks ago, along with 2 other
newbies. Having cycled my allotted residential street
2008/6/10 Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Is there a crib sheet for symbols and details anywhere, along with
the respective tabs?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_features ?
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After the Stevenage LUG organised a talk, their area seemed to get
mapped quite soon after:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.9097lon=-0.2024zoom=14layers=0B0FT
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Steve Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The level of interest seemed quite high at the time, but
i'm thinking of giving a talk at my local LUG in the near future on
OSM - we could do with some extra mappers in the area, and any extra
OSM publicity is always useful
any advice or suggestions on things to include/exclude, focus on, etc?
i've had a quick look at some of the lectures in svn which
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