On 8 Jul 2008, at 17:32, James Ewen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:12 PM, SteveC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> But you're sort of giving up before you started. OSM didn't start by >> having universal member density throughout Europe or something. > > I agree, however, you need to entice people into the concept before > you can put them to work. You are talking about putting on events when > there are no members to attend these events. We need to spread the > word and build the membership base around here currently.
Absolutely wrong. I'm running lots of mapping parties in the US where OSM is totally unknown. I contact the geography departments, hikers, cyclists and so on and the results are good. > We need to find and enlist GPS enabled users currently... I found out > about OSM from the Geocaching community, if I recall correctly. Hmm, I Disagree again - I carry around a pack of 10 GPS units to lend to people at mapping parties. Best Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-ca
