This looks to be quite a good list of objectives. I would suggest adding
discussions with the
existing local groups. How might they
fit in should a national group be formed?
What might a national group be able to provide in the way of support to local
groups.
I would hope that any national body would have some “weight”
compared to individuals and the existing local groups in terms of engaging with
“major organisations” , potential Corporate support and sponsors. I’m not sure
I see the point of a national
body if it isn’t able to facilitate this.
I say “facilitate” because OSM seems to be very much about local
and individual initiatives and I think it is important that this doesn’t change
significantly if such a group is formed.
When it comes to an “engagement initiative” this could in
theory be the launch of a new UK rendering of OSM data but as suggested it is
probably unrealistic, if an inclusive new rendering is to be developed, in the
time scale. Personally
the idea of a vector based system appeals as it seems you could render a
“specialist” map with very little server resources. If my
understanding is correct you would only need to “serve” the script to render
the vector data which would come from a central server, so I’m hoping a £35/pa
LAMP account might be all that you would need.
Another possibility for an engagement imitative might be
some sort of “state of the UK map” event.
I doubt SOTM will be returning to the UK any time soon and it would seem
appropriate for a national body to look at supporting this type of event.
I guess developing some sort
of “policy”/constitution under which it will operate will be a reasonable
priority. Hopefully this can be based on
another (national) organisation rather than starting from scratch.
Regards
Dudley
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:18:50 +0100
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] UK/GB OpenStreetMap survey results
Seeing as the survey put technical stuff like a new render low on the priority
list ( it got one of the lowest "strongly agree" scores) lets refocus on the
community stuff that the survey indicated should be more of a priority. A new
UK render should be a separate task and discussion in my opinion. Here's my
tuppence worth on 100 days
100 members
10 Corporate members (if we decide that's what we want)
1 Flagship sponsor
1 Engagement Initiative launched with 1 new instance
underway
Website and social media in place
Online shop with merchandise (e.g hiviz vests)
5 contacts identified in
major organisations
discussions underway with OSM data user organisations
Committee/Board 2 meetings
1 online policy vote
Sponsor pack in place
Media Pack in Place
1 Press release
1 indepth piece of media coverage
Regards
Brian
On 1 August 2015 at 12:53, Rob Nickerson <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
Thank you for taking the time to fill out the "A UK OpenStreetMap group?"
survey. In the 3 weeks since the survey first opened we received a total of 101
responses. This is a great response rate and indicates that many people are
interested in the prospect of such a group.
So what do the results show? Please follow the link below for a break down of
the results and some suggestions as to next steps for this group.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A8rKyKUW0X01n-JEMLwEUT4ktX-7WrxNP03YTkZs6lU/edit#
I look forward to hearing your views on this. If possible please send replies
to [email protected] so that other members can view your comments
(emails sent to this address are publicly visible).
Best wishes,
Rob
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