Re: [Talk-us] New local groups
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Who has started a new[1] local OSM group? [ ... ] What incentive would it take to push you over the edge to make you actually do it? What would it take to get you to organize and host six local OSM meetings in the next six months? Think about it. Tell the list (or me). How about this, after your have six successful local meetings, we[2] send an OSM celebrity[3] to attend your next event? Whaddaya think? Looks like you don't think much of this at all. :( Did anybody take the challenge and host six events in the last six months? Does anybody have an update on their local OSM meetings? Looks like NYC is back! That's great. They have a couple of interesting events coming up. Chicago? Denver? DC? LA? SF? anybody? Somebody else will do it. That's what you told yourself last time. :-) Your turn. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] New local groups
Who has started a new[1] local OSM group? From seeing announcements once in a while it looks like Tampa might be running, Columbus is dead, Seattle is on baby-hiatus, SLC, Boston and Albany each had one meeting and failed and Denver is the only one still running. Is that about right? How many meetings have you had? Is it time for a new one? If you haven't started one yet and you are thinking about it; what's stopping you? I don't mean that in the jerky, passive-aggressive way, I mean really? What's stopping you and how can I help? What incentive would it take to push you over the edge to make you actually do it? What would it take to get you to organize and host six local OSM meetings in the next six months? Think about it. Tell the list (or me). How about this, after your have six successful local meetings, we[2] send an OSM celebrity[3] to attend your next event? Whaddaya think? Best regards, Richard [1] new since SotM - Denver [2] *mumble* *hand wave* [3] FSVO celebrity ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] New local groups
On 3/26/2012 10:52 AM, Richard Weait wrote: What incentive would it take to push you over the edge to make you actually do it? I tend to be a hands-on person, and ultimately the motivation would be that there is an immensely useful data consumer. It doesn't help that the first project I worked on in OSM (a rails-to-trail fitness trail) just got a map applet commissioned for it. You'd think they'd have used OSM data? No, they sent out their own team to survey all the drinking fountains, ATMs, restaurants, and POIs along the trail, put them into their own app and released that separately. Even the premiere OSM Nav app (Skobbler's Nav2) doesn't yet use OSM address data in the US because there just isn't enough of it. And for cases where I've entered OSM address data for popular destinations, they haven't yet begun to use OSM address data. Now with a bunch of South Carolina's capitol city losing most of the roads and local knowledge due to the license change, an opportunity would be to advertise the situation: Fill in the missing roads around our city and start some meetups that way. It's a bit far for me to travel for six meetings though. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
