On Thursday 10 November 2011, Steve Chilton wrote: > On Dec 1st I am manning a (paid for) stand at the Mapping Showcase on behalf > of the Society of Cartographers and want to use the occasion to also > spotlight OpenStreetMap > http://www.londonmappingfestival.org/mapping-show-2011/ > I would like to offer a "get out and add to the best map of London" > opportunity to people coming by the stand. > Is anyone available to help me for all or part of the day please? > My plan is to print some very small sections of the map in advance, together > with an overview map to help locate them. > Then give people briefing on what they can map, ask them to go out for 30 > mins or so and return with annotated map. > Plenty of POI detail and even some addressing that could be filled in if you > look around the Emirates Stadium > Then either take it off them (and edit myself later) or teach them basics of > editing on the spot. > So need a couple of helpers, who can come along with a laptop and enthusiasm. > It won't cost owt to get in and could be another good advert for the project. > I have 300 of the publicity leaflets from cyclestore to use on the day. > The space available to SoC is quite limited but just need to work with that > difficulty > > PS: I have managed to get a double page spread on OSM in the book that is > tied to the event too: > http://www.londonmappingfestival.org/2011/11/coming-soon/ > It is of Hyde Park, with two small enlargements for detail > > We could also form a team for the pub quiz later too!
Sure, count me in! robert. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
