Chris Hill <[email protected]> 18/08/2009 17:08 To Nick Whitelegg <[email protected]> cc [email protected] Subject Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter
Nick Whitelegg wrote: >>>What is the point of local chapters in England? We don't have language >>>conversion issues, currency issues or time zone issues. Cheers, Chris >>One need would be to organise and coordinate local mapping. For instance, >>in my area (the "Solent" area or "central southern England" for want of a >>better word) a goal to work towards might be to get all towns done, or to >>map local national parks / recreational areas e.g. the New Forest or South >>Downs. Nick >This just feels horribly like a layer of bureaucracy to me. Why would the foundation want to get involved with organising local mapping? I certainly >don't need some "official" body to prod me into completing an area. >Cheers, Chris That wasn't my intention, it was more local social/organisational groups etc. It wasn't intended to be an "official" body, more like a local user group, along with promoting use by local business, etc. It's certainly not my intention to be bureaucratic, but without county / region level user or advocacy groups, takeup will remain stubbornly slow I expect. At the moment it's more or less myself alone mapping the New Forest National Park. If we had a local group, promoting the goal of mapping the New Forest NP and crucially promoting the value of OSM data to people who could *use* the data, then OSM could take off round here a lot faster than it is doing at the moment. Nick _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
