Re: [Talk-us] US GPS Set for Mapping Parties

2008-09-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would there be any interest in getting together a box of GPS devices to be sent around for North American mapping parties similar to what they have across the pond? [1] Maybe Garmin would sponsor something? [2] I

Re: [Talk-us] US GPS Set for Mapping Parties

2008-09-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would there be any interest in getting together a box of GPS devices to

[Talk-us] MSP mapping party Oct 4-5

2008-09-25 Thread Richard Weait
Dear all, We're building a mapping party for the MSP area for next weekend, Oct 4-5. I'd love to have help from a local expert to make this one huge. Are you an MSP local? Where should we host? What local cycle, hiking, geocache, community groups should we contact? Are you up to help out? And

Re: [Talk-us] US GPS Set for Mapping Parties

2008-09-25 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] MSP mapping party Oct 4-5

2008-09-25 Thread Adam Schreiber
Richard, I'm curious, who is this mysterious 'we' in your announcements and listings in the wiki? Cheers, Adam On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Richard Weait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, We're building a mapping party for the MSP area for next weekend, Oct 4-5. I'd love to have help

[Talk-us] Detroit mapping party Oct. 11-12

2008-09-25 Thread Richard Weait
Dear Detroit area mappers, We're building a mapping party for the Detroit area for Oct. 11-12. I'd love to have help from a local expert. Are you a Detroit local? Where should we host? What local cycle, hiking, geocache, community groups should we contact? Are you up to help out? And come on

Re: [Talk-us] MSP mapping party Oct 4-5

2008-09-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Richard Weait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, We're building a mapping party for the MSP area for next weekend, Oct 4-5. I'd love to have help from a local expert to make this one huge. Are you an MSP local? Where should we host? What local cycle,

Re: [Talk-us] MSP mapping party Oct 4-5

2008-09-25 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 12:07 -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote: Richard, I'm curious, who is this mysterious 'we' in your announcements and listings in the wiki? Dear Adam, We is all of us. The community. The Royal We. Or just me. Every mapping party starts with one person who builds it into

Re: [Talk-us] US GPS Set for Mapping Parties

2008-09-25 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: [Talk-us] US GPS Set for Mapping Parties

2008-09-25 Thread Etienne
Ian As someone said, it's possible that Garmin would consider OSM a potential competitor, however that's not certain and it does us no harm to try. Perhaps you could draft up your responses to the questions on the form and post them here for review. If we can achieve a well worded proposition it

Re: [Talk-us] US GPS Set for Mapping Parties

2008-09-25 Thread Etienne
Looks good. I think you need to spell out what's in it for Garmin. Something like: A significant number of new users at mapping parties will go on to be regular OpenStreetMap contributors. They will want to purchase their own GPS receiver and if they have learned with a Garmin device at a

Re: [Talk-us] US GPS Set for Mapping Parties

2008-09-25 Thread Alan Brown
As someone said, it's possible that Garmin would consider OSM a potential competitor, however that's not certain and it does us no harm to try. OSM would be a competitor to Navteq or Tele Atlas, I'd think - not Garmin. Which makes me curious - Garmin may get a small profit for repackaging