Hi all, I'm looking forward to OSM's 10th birthday. It occurred to me that we should perhaps use it as a potential opportunity for some press coverage, ideally to get press coverage outside the usual tech/gis world. To do this we'd need some kind of event which makes a story.
There are already plans for OSM birthday celebrations/meetups, and that's all good. I'm NOT talking about a social event but some event, perhaps even just brief, as long as it's got something that might appeal in a soft-news kind of sense. And maybe in London, since London is the birthplace of OSM. A couple of ideas: * We could organise a march following the route of the first ever GPS track (carrying Steve Coast aloft, sitting crosslegged on a splashmap) * We could visit the first ever tea-shop added to OSM, then the first ever park, then of course the first ever pub. We could give a plaque to each place to commemorate its place in history. To make it a press-worthy event, it needs to be something that we can write a press-release about in advance, and it needs to be something photogenic. So let's get more creative... * We could 3D-print a candle in the shape of all the OSM nodes in London! and put it on top of an earth-shaped cake! * We could print out a map of London at 1:1 scale... Anyone interested in working on something? Anyone got crazier ideas than me? Dan _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
