Bouncing to people who can help :-) On Jul 21, 2010, at 5:49 AM, Tony Mitchell wrote:
> Hi Steve, > I've just discovered OSM and I'm extremely impressed by it. Although I've > always loved maps I'm not a cartographer but this is drawing me in I have to > say! > > Basically I'm London based and my girlfriend in Fukuoka, Japan is setting up > a website where GoogleMaps to map restaurants, bars, boutiques etc would be > an essential feature were it not for the sky-high cost. So looking around for > an alternative lead me to OSM. > > I've added a couple of tiny streets basically from memory and plonked a > fantastic little bar/restaurant that I used to frequent (called izakaya in > Japanese actually). Should I only be adding street etc using GPS? Anyway they > haven't shown up yet but it was only half an hour ago > > The idea was that she could essentially mark her clients' premises on the > map, export them as HTML and embed them in her site. Is that something that > is a) possible and b) ok with you guys at OSM? I know what I'm proposing is > for commercial use rather than purely for the love of map-making but Fukuoka > is such a cool city and there seems to be very few places of interest > currently marked out so I guess we could help there. > > If it is an option then we'd gladly become members of the foundation and make > a contribution to your work. > > And if it is possible, is there also a way to use our own tiny logo to mark > bars, boutiques etc? > > Anything I can do to help her get her website running so we can start to live > in the same city (being separated by 6,000 miles for 5 months is something I > wouldn't wish on anyone!) And we're trying to get started with limited funds > so something like OSM could reall help. > > Kind regards, > > Tony Mitchell > > > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
