Re: [OSM-talk] How to present OSM to an audience of potential newbies?

2009-06-08 Thread Celso González
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 11:17:13PM +0100, Tim Morley wrote: In a few weeks, I'll have the chance to present OSM to an audience of youngish (18-30), intelligent, open-minded people, who more than likely haven't yet come across the project. There may well be people who are familiar with

Re: [OSM-talk] How to present OSM to an audience of potential newbies?

2009-06-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 23:17 +0100, Tim Morley wrote: In a few weeks, I'll have the chance to present OSM to an audience of youngish (18-30), intelligent, open-minded people, who more than likely haven't yet come across the project. There may well be people who are familiar with free and

Re: [OSM-talk] How to present OSM to an audience of potential newbies?

2009-06-07 Thread David Earl
On 07/06/2009 13:48, Richard Weait wrote: What about quality control? OpenStreetMap has more surveyors and more quality assurance. Anybody can fix it. You've seen the failings in commercial maps (slow updates, limited data, unmapped areas) and in commercial maps you can't fix that. You,

[OSM-talk] How to present OSM to an audience of potential newbies?

2009-06-06 Thread Tim Morley
In a few weeks, I'll have the chance to present OSM to an audience of youngish (18-30), intelligent, open-minded people, who more than likely haven't yet come across the project. There may well be people who are familiar with free and open source software, but that probably won't be

Re: [OSM-talk] How to present OSM to an audience of potential newbies?

2009-06-06 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Domingo, 7 de Junio de 2009, Tim Morley escribió: Failing that, how do *you* explain to someone that uses Google Maps every day why you spend your time re-creating the same thing under a different name? (Slightly provocative question, perhaps, but it must be a very common one too -- what's

Re: [OSM-talk] How to present OSM to an audience of potential newbies?

2009-06-06 Thread Steve Singer
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Tim Morley wrote: Some videos of OSM themed talks are available at [1] and [2] You might get ideas from those. [2] has starts out with a discussion on different freedoms a map might give (or not give). Searching for OpenStreetMap on slideshare.net also gives many slidedecks