At State of the Map, an initiative was started to improve our coverage of the Caribbean, as a little friendly competition with Google MapMaker.
It works like this: people pledge using Pledgebank to spend one hour or more adding to OpenStreetMap by tracing over Yahoo! aerial imagery on a Caribbean island, and to make a donation of £10 to the OpenStreetMap Foundation. This also gives you the chance to go there to do some fieldwork. If we get enough people (60), the OSMF will(*) pick one pledger at random to go to the Caribbean (probably Grenada) for a week or two to get road names, finish the map and do some evangelism. Sign up here: http://www.pledgebank.com/osmfieldwork To make this work, we need 60 people willing to contribute an hour of their time and £10 to the OSMF. If that's you, sign up today! Gerv (*) Or "may". There is no promise, because then this would become a lottery. But then, we can't make the fieldworker promise to work on the map while they are in the Caribbean either. So it's trust on all sides. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
