[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: OpenStreetMap 10th birthday Aug 9th

2014-07-23 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone -here's email confirmation of our booking - Rob if you can hit twitter I'll compose a blog for mappa mercia. How do we divide up the list of anyone who's registered or contibruted in the west midlands with Rob's suggested email wording? I'll compose a list of organisations we should

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: OpenStreetMap 10th birthday Aug 9th

2014-07-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Brian, Thanks. If you pull a list of organisations together then I'll produce a list of local contributors. Given that google drive worked well for SOTM, I will share the list there and then people can just tick off who they've contacted. Rob On 23 July 2014 19:43, Brian Prangle

[Talk-GB] Celebrating OSM's 10th year in Birmingham (Saturday, 9th August)

2014-07-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, To celebrate OpenStreetMap's 10th anniversary, Mappa Mercia are hosting an event in Birmingham. Join us between 12noon-2pm (Saturday 9th August), at the wonderful Six Eight Kafé [1] on Temple Row - a 5 minute walk from Birmingham New Street railway station (map [2]). We will have cake and

[Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

2014-07-23 Thread Dan S
Hi all, I'm looking forward to OSM's 10th birthday. It occurred to me that we should perhaps use it as a potential opportunity for some press coverage, ideally to get press coverage outside the usual tech/gis world. To do this we'd need some kind of event which makes a story. There are already