Re: [talk-au] Interesting opportunity
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:05 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/15 Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com: NearMap seems to have pretty extensive coverage of WA. I was browsing and found another spec (Tammin) which I am currently filling in Tammin seems to be part of a large chunk of coverage around Perth, on the other hand I can't figure out why there is coverage around Carnavon as it's north of Perth by 1000km, give or take. I'm sure the council or a large business there bought the coverage off nearmap, as I believe that is there business model. They'll sell you up-to-date coverage for less than what you would pay for satellite coverage. For me the opportunity is this. 1. We map caranvon 2. OSM Local foundation and nearmap release press release saying look carnavon is mapped and now the locals there have a high quality map which they can use on the internet or on their gps free of charge. 3. Contact local paper there and try and get them to cover it 4. Post the message about nearmap onto the global list but before we go any further we should first kick off the local foundation. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Interesting opportunity
2009/11/17 ed...@billiau.net: And although the OSMF has a plan for local chapters the plan is missing critical details. Actually it's not that simple there seems to be various ideas as to what a local chapter should be. They need to be sure that the local chapter is appropriate before permitting use of the name, but without a local chapter we can't prove whether we would be appropriate or not. This is part of the reason why I published a lot of the supporting documentation online. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] Interesting opportunity
For some reason NearMap has imagery in Carnavon, WA which is a spec on the map more or less. I think this would be a very interesting opportunity for OSM in Australia to show case how extensively a place can be mapped and then use this to encourage other towns and regions to want to be mapped next. Because of the size it really shouldn't take a few people more than a few days to completely map Carnavon to the nth degree. http://osm.org/go/s1Dmo0G ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Interesting opportunity
NearMap seems to have pretty extensive coverage of WA. I was browsing and found another spec (Tammin) which I am currently filling in cheers On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:52 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason NearMap has imagery in Carnavon, WA which is a spec on the map more or less. I think this would be a very interesting opportunity for OSM in Australia to show case how extensively a place can be mapped and then use this to encourage other towns and regions to want to be mapped next. Because of the size it really shouldn't take a few people more than a few days to completely map Carnavon to the nth degree. http://osm.org/go/s1Dmo0G ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Franc ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
