Hi, Great idea, What im working on (for Across Canada). Is actually going ahead and filling in those amenities that the typical town-visitor would like to see (myself). So I will be able to, probably using KOSMOS, create a nice map of the town, then just donate the map to the tourist office. And they can make copies of it.
What i would then do is ask the people at the tourist office, for when they actually draw on the map, and indicate things which are not listed, to make a 'working-copy', so then i can go back to the tourist office at a later date, and show them (in person) how to edit the map. And make a new version, and print it off. (Considering we know that most of the time there are LOTS of things missing on other tourist maps.) :-) Alot of the tourist offices i have been to offer a computer with internet access todo local searches and email. (sometimes for a fee), and some have wi-fi. since i use a mini-notebook, it's easy to show people on-the-fly. ... at least thats what i plan on doing, once this Canada Import is well underway. .. Probably for next year. Have fun, Cheers, Sam Vekemans Across Canada Trails Twitter: @Acrosscanada Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 6:45 AM, k...@vielevisels <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > i recently travelled to a city with nearly 40.000 inhabitants and was > surprised, that almost no hotels, restaurants and other amenities were in > OSM. > So I had the idea to contact the tourist office with a short introduction > on OSM and how to tag, to give this to shops, hotels, restaurants and so on. > So with no effort, all these shops can have their business in OSM. > Did anyone try this? What do you think of the idea? > Kai > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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