Hi,
we have found out that Google Wave has an excellent use as a wiki for
organizing mapping parties, especially for introducing new users to
OpenStreetMap.
Almost everybody has google account but not so many have OSM accounts so
introducing OSM via collaborating on OSM mapping party is easier
On 5 April 2010 19:55, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Almost everybody has google account but not so many have OSM accounts so
I didn't know there was only about 135 million people in the world :)
You could make a similar claim about any number of social networking
sites, and in fact several sprang up
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:05:17 +1000, John Smith wrote:
> You could make a similar claim about any number of social networking
> sites, and in fact several sprang up specifically to organise meat space
> meetings...
Facebook is also nice tool for promoting OSM.
We started discussion on Facebook, a
Hi,
Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Almost everybody has google account but not so many have OSM accounts
I have an OSM account (several, in fact), but no Google account, and do
not intend to get one.
It is a good idea to "pick up people from where they are", as long as
you don't tell interested newc
On 6 April 2010 05:37, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> which they don't fully realise. Making the assumption that "almost
> everybody has a Google account" (often followed by "and if you don't
> have one you can set one up in a minute") is a first step in that direction.
I found it weird that someone was
Maybe some people will be more interested in creating an account *after* or
*during* the meetup. I like the entusiasm, Valent. If you can manage to
introduce people to OSM who otherwise wouldn't be interested, this is
great. Maybe you can act as a liason between the interested parties on Wave
an
On a mapping party wiki page(or anywhere else), it's good to mention that
sign up isn't required, but it's good to know so the organisers expect
people and can make sure to get some GPSes if needed.
London and UK events often also create the event on Yahoo's Upcoming website
as it is used by gadge
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:25:48 -0400, Anthony wrote:
> Maybe some people will be more interested in creating an account *after*
> or *during* the meetup.
That is the idea, if at least half of 20 people who will come to meetup
open account and if only 5 continue contributing that is a huge success
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:37:45 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Making the assumption that "almost
> everybody has a Google account" (often followed by "and if you don't
> have one you can set one up in a minute") is a first step in that
> direction.
You are absolutely right. Thank you for your insigh
The source code behind Etherpad has been released. Perhaps someone could set
up an OSM-specific Etherpad install and use it for organizing mapping
parties?
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Valent Turkovic
wrote:
> Hi,
> we have found out that Google Wave has an excellent use as a wiki for
> organi
On 6 April 2010 12:47, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> You are absolutely right. Thank you for your insight.
> In fact it seams that almost everybody has google account but everybody
> has facebook accounts. I searched my friends...
As I was reading this I thought you were going to do a comparison of
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:50:22 -0600, Ian Dees wrote:
> The source code behind Etherpad has been released. Perhaps someone could
> set up an OSM-specific Etherpad install and use it for organizing
> mapping parties?
+1
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