That question, explicit or implied, often comes up. There are at least two
possibilities. The questioner might be suspicious of your motives ("Is this
guy a spy sent from a marketing survey company to case my area so as to
target shotgun mailings..."). Alternatively, she/he may be simply unable to
comprehend that someone else could be doing something for motives other than
material or pecuniary self-interest.My usual response is that my psychoanalyst says that it is an archetypal behaviour resulting from hyperrational repression of the early anal phase which has resulted in erotic and neurotic attachment to geoscopophilia and ordering of information coupled to primordial passivisation of polymorphism. And that my psychoanalyst and I are working on it. That usually satisfies the questioner. Paddy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Guest Sent: 01 May 2009 16:32 To: Discussion of Open Streetmap in Ireland; [email protected] Subject: [OSM-talk-ie] open street map - what's in it for you? A few days ago I drove into a new housing estate to add it to the map of the locality. After explaining to a concerned resident what I was at (free-as-in-freedom maps, no trap roads, accuracy etc) , I was asked a rather Life-of-Brian-esque question: "yes but, what's in it for you?" Has anyone else been asked similar questions, and what was your response? k. -- http://short.ie/savenenaghhospital/ _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
