Roger Bamkin, prior chair of Wikimedia UK board and following a prompt from Andy Mabbett, has sent me an email asking if OSMer's would be interested in a mapping party based in Gibraltar where he has links to the Government. He was suggesting November but I'm thinking that's too soon and something next year would be more logical if there was enough interest. He indicated that basic accommodation in an old fort might be available free of charge so the main cost would be airfare. Roger's interest is in improving the link between Wikipedia articles and OSM mapping, they have some sort of contract with the Government on that.
Gibraltar itself looks fairly well mapped but across the border in Spain it looks like there is plenty to do and North Africa is a short journey away where there are more opportunities. I've pointed out to Roger that the OSM community in the UK may not be large enough to draw from but if folks are interested we can widen it out to see if there are others who might be interested in a more international get-together. Anyway, I'll come back with more once I catch up with Roger. In the meantime, would this idea float anyone's boat? Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
