Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-27 Thread Tom Hughes
On 27/07/09 14:09, Simone Cortesi wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:54, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)ajrli...@googlemail.com wrote: Did you mean impo...@osmfoundation.org perhaps? Which I've just realised is not yet set up. Have now done so. Actually it is. I just can't read the control

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-27 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 15:16, Tom Hughest...@compton.nu wrote: That is still the address for the WG but following a request at SOTM there is now a mailing lists for general public discussion of imports as well. Who is in the working group? And what are they doing? I could not find any

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Simone Cortesi wrote: Who is in the working group? And what are they doing? I could not find any information about this It is a new style of working group. OSM never had physical working groups (PWG); ours were always remote working groups (RWG) where people would ususally work by e-mail

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-26 Thread Mike N.
I had an interesting experience related to my first mapping project. I was trying find convenient entry points into a new local fitness trail to check it out. Although there is an official Google map with a GPX trace, it's hard to find entry points, parking, etc because they're a bit hidden

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-26 Thread John Smith
--- On Sun, 26/7/09, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote:   I swear that neither the questioner or the last poster is a sock puppet account! Yes, some times the slightest of actions have the most effect :) ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-23 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Tom Hughes wrote: Sent: 11 July 2009 9:01 AM To: Russ Nelson Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org; Hillsman,Edward Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM On 11/07/09 09:42, Russ Nelson wrote: On Jul 9, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Hillsman, Edward wrote: By the way, whom in the OSM network should I

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-23 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
gahhh, Did you mean impo...@osmfoundation.org perhaps? Which I've just realised is not yet set up. Have now done so. Actually it is. I just can't read the control panel properly ;-) Cheers Andy ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-22 Thread Sarah Manley
I have been working on an education project. Here is the wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Education I plan to add in more information over the next couple of weeks. Please add in more here, and get in touch with me directly to chat more about this. There is definitely huge

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Thu, 9/7/09, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote:   I'm planning to send the emails about the time the faculty returns from summer vacations and prepares for the new school year in August.   I will have the added incentive that a nearby university has gone viral and completely mapped out

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-21 Thread Liz
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote: The school is in the middle of no where and there is very little mapped so it'll be interesting to see how far they get. 'remote' is agreed ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 21/7/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: 'remote' is agreed Ya know it's a remote place when small towns have 3 run ways :) Mind you the town is surrounded by open cut gold mines apparently so that might have something to do with it too :)

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-11 Thread Russ Nelson
On Jul 9, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Hillsman, Edward wrote: By the way, whom in the OSM network should I contact about getting help with the uploads this fall? A couple of months ago there was some discussion here about developing some sort of support team for uploading files, and I don’t

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-11 Thread Tom Hughes
On 11/07/09 09:42, Russ Nelson wrote: On Jul 9, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Hillsman, Edward wrote: By the way, whom in the OSM network should I contact about getting help with the uploads this fall? A couple of months ago there was some discussion here about developing some sort of support team for

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-11 Thread Russ Nelson
On Jul 11, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: On 11/07/09 09:42, Russ Nelson wrote: On Jul 9, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Hillsman, Edward wrote: By the way, whom in the OSM network should I contact about getting help with the uploads this fall? A couple of months ago there was some discussion here

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-09 Thread Peter Childs
2009/7/9 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com: Tracing rivers and such on OSM gave me an idea for a possible way to promote OSM, geography students. I mean what better way to teach kids about geography than doing a little cartography :) Back when I was at School, If I could have done a

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-09 Thread Mike N.
I was thinking this also - I was going to send an email to the local faculty who are responsible for the GIS curriculum at each local school, and also offer to speak or help get students started (first edit sessions can be frustrating). It's important to keep the mail as low key and let the

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-09 Thread John Smith
--- On Thu, 9/7/09, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote: I was thinking this also - I was going to send an email to the local faculty who are responsible for the GIS curriculum at each local school, and also offer to speak or help get students started (first edit sessions can be frustrating). 

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-09 Thread John Smith
--- On Thu, 9/7/09, Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com wrote: There are different target groups, primary school, secondary, college/uni so we need targeted plans for each. I was mostly thinking secondary, I didn't think primary would be that interested or able to produce useful data,

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-09 Thread Jack Stringer
For the UK its GCSE and A-Level Geography students are the ones to look at I guess. Though I know we might not be able to use information from 11yr old kids it still does not mean we can not help provide education information to them. I know its not what OSM is about but educating the youth in

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-09 Thread Hillsman, Edward
2009/7/9 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com: Tracing rivers and such on OSM gave me an idea for a possible way to promote OSM, geography students. I mean what better way to teach kids about geography than doing a little cartography :) By coincidence, I gave a short invited

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-09 Thread John Smith
--- On Thu, 9/7/09, Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org wrote: Back when I was at School, If I could have done a GCSE or A-Level in Cartography I would have done. Its a much under taught subject. It either needs to be taught as a Subject in its own right or as Part of Technical Drawing, Its

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-09 Thread John Smith
--- On Thu, 9/7/09, Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com wrote: Though I know we might not be able to use information from 11yr old kids it still does not mean we can not help provide education This would fall into the category of PR more than anything I assume, does anything like this

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-09 Thread John Smith
--- On Thu, 9/7/09, Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com wrote: Though I know we might not be able to use information from 11yr old kids it still does not mean we can not help provide education This would fall into the category of PR more than anything I assume, does anything like this

[OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-08 Thread John Smith
Tracing rivers and such on OSM gave me an idea for a possible way to promote OSM, geography students. I mean what better way to teach kids about geography than doing a little cartography :) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org