I wouldn't mind coming back to Reading, I started a lot of the mapping there. I'll contact the people who came to the first few mapping parties, the local Green Party might be interested too. They used OSM maps for the national conference in Reading back in the spring!
I'm also talking to an architects firm who want to do some OSM stuff in Stoke, I'll chase that up and see if it could fit into the mapping party schedule. Tom On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:40:26 +0000, "Matt Amos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can i put in a good word for reading? i don't live there any more and > i don't know anyone in LUGs there. but there is a university with a > "cybernetics" course, so there should be plenty of geeks. these guys > might be interested, and their next meeting is on dec 10th, so it > might be possible to go down in advance of a mapping party to warm > them up: > > http://www.sclug.org.uk/ > > this area to the west of reading centre is all suburban houses and > represents a definite target: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.455&lon=-1.0228&zoom=14&layers=000BFTF > > sadly there isn't any aerial imagery. travel to reading is easy, with > direct train lines from london, bristol, south wales, birmingham, > oxford, cornwall/devon, etc... > > cheers, > > matt > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi OSMers, >> >> As many of you will be award Cloudmade are generously sponsoring a >> monthly >> mapping party at the moment and so far we have had great success in >> Bradford, Manchester, Stratford-upon-Avon and Evesham. >> >> Now that Winter is upon us I'm struggling a little to get the level of >> interest for the next three parties on the following dates: >> >> Dec 13/14, 2008 >> Jan 24/25, 2009 >> Feb 21/22, 2009 >> >> My provisional plans for December till now have been for a party that >> weekend in Plymouth, which has a 250,000 population (similar to >> Bradford), >> Yahoo imagery and very little mapping to date. However I'm struggling to >> find people locally with availability that weekend. It's possible that >> the >> run up to Christmas is getting in the way as well perhaps as a perceived >> concern about the weather at this time of year (though last year we had >> good >> dry weather all the way till Christmas). >> >> As a result I thought I would open the debate up to the list to see if we >> can indeed get enough interest for Plymouth or whether others have better >> suggestions, and more importantly think we can get a decent show of >> participants. >> >> A few pointers from previous events: >> >> 1. Locations with an active Linux User Group are usually well supported. >> It's these groups (and other computer groups) that appear to give us most >> new users or who best spread the word. >> 2. We normally find that attendance on Sundays is 50% that of Saturdays >> 3. Participants prefer informal venues (where we can organise >> refreshments) >> and access to wifi is definitely preferred. >> 4. Being able to identify a clear target area or theme for the mapping. >> Completing the target has been one of the successes of the first three >> Cloudmade sponsored events. >> >> I'd like to hear from anyone who has good contacts locally with their >> local >> Linux or similar group and with a logical suggestion of a mapping >> location. >> I'll be doing most of the legwork in setting up but local knowledge about >> venues and any assistance will be gratefully received. >> >> If anyone else is interested in Plymouth for the December event then >> please >> also get in touch. If I see some interest from OSMer's I'll still push >> ahead >> and get Plymouth on the map. As a fall back we can also Yahoo! trace it >> first. >> >> Cheers >> >> Andy >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
