The OSM Georgia meetup group is today, Feb 5, from noon to 3 PM at Raging Burrito in Decatur, Georgia, USA.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143384779054605 Bill R. WASHBURN On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 04:02, Bill R. WASHBURN <[email protected]>wrote: > OK, I'll bite. > > Anyone in the Atlanta area willing to meet up (or north of the fall line in > Georgia who can come in to the MARTA service area), please send me a message > and we'll see if we can work out the timing off-list. I know there are a > bunch of mappers in the Decatur area so I'll propose that we meet up near > Decatur, Emory, or some place downtown. > > Bill R. WASHBURN > aka, dygituljunky > > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 02:09, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why aren't you getting more fun out of OpenStreetMap? >> >> Because you don't know the right people. >> >> That's right. You'll enjoy OSM even more than you do now, once you >> meet some additional local mappers. But to do that you have to >> actually meet them. Yes, email is nice, IRC is fine, but you have to >> meet them in person. And you won't know how much more fun that is >> until you do it. >> >> Do you have an OSM group that meets in your town? You should. There >> are regular OSM meetings in every town in Germany with more than two >> traffic signals.[1] But there are only three OpenStreetMap groups >> that meet regularly in the US. That means that there are only six >> traffic lights in the USA![2] That is wrong! >> >> You need to start a local OSM group in your town. Other mappers are >> waiting for you to pluck up your nerve, pick a location and a date, >> AND DO IT! Book it. Add your local group to the OSM calendar[3], >> announce it on talk-us@ and IRC. Invite the local cycling group, Open >> Data group and Linux user group. They are all waiting to hear from >> you. That's all the planning you have to do. The toughest part is >> just setting the first date and that doesn't sound hard at all. Now >> do it. >> >> You'll meet the right people. And have more fun. >> >> [1] 17% of statistics in this email are fabricated >> [2] Some of the logic is stretched too >> [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Current_events >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> > >
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