Hi all, as an OSM evangelizer I realize that convincing people that has not too much interest on GIS to join the OSM army is a bit difficult, that's why I had the idea of going to the http://www.google.com/mapmaker site and contact by mail the contributors and try to convince them to join the OSM idea.
By scrolling the map you'll realize that in the bottom-right side of the screen will appear the top contributors and if you are lucky they will have a google profile where you can send them a email, or contact them trough their blog, google picassa, etc In an afternoon I was able to find a group of 6 ecuatorians very interested in tracing streets(they were google map makers of course) that didn't know anything about OSM and that didn't know that Google is taking advantage of their efforts that they do for free. Most of them are very interested in OSM and they just need a bit of help of how to start. I think you guys can do the same, let's try to let know the google mapmakers that there is a project similar of what they are doing named OpenStreetMap where their efforts will not be closed later by any company or similar. Best Regards. Ivan Garcia.
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