Rob Nickerson wrote: > If anyone is holding off from doing something just because the OSM UK > company is "coming", please don't. For one, you can make a great start > before OSM UK, but also there is no guarantee that OSM UK will work > on your specific idea.
The main issue is that there are a few things - not many, but a few - where a formally constituted organisation is required. Lobbying is the main one - I'm quite capable of writing rants in a truly do-ocratic fashion, but for a Government consultation response, OSM-UK's voice will count for more than that of J Random Nutcase, Charlbury. And, as you say, there will also be cases where it's a matter of connecting people: for example, OSM-UK could solve the map-in-UK-colours issue in a month by putting up a Kickstarter to fund someone to develop it (openly-licensed, obviously), and with crowdfunding there's nothing lost if it doesn't get funded. Do you have an estimated date for when OSM-UK will be able to embark on its first doing-something? cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/OSM-UK-site-tp5888415p5888539.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb