Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-19 Thread SteveC
On 18 Jul 2008, at 17:14, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > (RichardF) >>> Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in >>> mainland Europe easily accessible by train. > > (SteveC) >> ...so you can skip it again? :-P > > There were a number of people absent at this year's SOTM who

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:15 PM, D Tucny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about Hong Kong? Somewhat further east and I'm sure you could get there > almost entirely by train if you really really wanted... Does it really have > to be Europe? Well, can you go by ICE to Hong Kong? The nice thing abou

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-18 Thread Lester Caine
Frederik Ramm wrote: > There were a number of people absent at this year's SOTM who are > quite active and/or important to the project - JonB wasn't there, > Blackadder wasn't there, Artem wasn't there, Jordan Hatcher cancelled, > Martijn van O wasn't there, neither was Franciso Santos, there was >

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, (RichardF) > > Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in > > mainland Europe easily accessible by train. (SteveC) > ...so you can skip it again? :-P There were a number of people absent at this year's SOTM who are quite active and/or important to the project - JonB wasn'

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-18 Thread SteveC
On 15 Jul 2008, at 08:08, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Daniel Glassey wrote: > >> fwiw location-wise I would prefer somewhere more easily and cheaply >> accessible by most people that would like to come than I expect GC >> would be. > > Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-16 Thread D Tucny
2008/7/16 Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in > > mainland Europe easily accessible by train. > > I'd vote for somewhere in south germany, sa

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-16 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in > mainland Europe easily accessible by train. I'd vote for somewhere in south germany, say, in the area of Weissenburg. But that's just me looking for an

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/7/15 Iván Sánchez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'll start working on my 12 MB worth of traces... That "Saint Stephen's Green" > in Dublin needs some work. It sure does. The paths in there as mapped date back to the first mapping party and were sampled from IIRC an armband-mounted SIRFIII lo

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Martes, 15 de Julio de 2008, Dermot McNally escribió: > 2008/7/15 Nick Whitelegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yes, and somewhere with good walking / nice scenery (=mapping party?) > > would be good. Black Forest or Alps maybe? Or southern France or a > > mountainous area of Spain or Italy? I'll be

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Glassey >Sent: 15 July 2008 6:50 AM >To: Talk >Subject: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09 > >Great SOTM08 so thinking ahead ... > >http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=27.987&lon=-15.521&zoom=10&layers=B00FTF > >Gran Canaria. The GNO

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Nick Whitelegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, and somewhere with good walking / nice scenery (=mapping party?) > would be good. Black Forest or Alps maybe? Or southern France or a > mountainous area of Spain or Italy? I was going to submit Trento to held next y

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread bvh
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:12:19PM +0100, Grant Slater wrote: > > Nowadays, there are plenty of airlines that allow you to offset > > the carbon output of your trip. I am not yet aware of train companies > > offering the same, so the treehugger in you might still prefer to fly? > http://www.eurosta

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/7/15 Nick Whitelegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, and somewhere with good walking / nice scenery (=mapping party?) > would be good. Black Forest or Alps maybe? Or southern France or a > mountainous area of Spain or Italy? Austria sounds like a possibility here - it could also do with some extr

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Grant Slater
bvh wrote: > Nowadays, there are plenty of airlines that allow you to offset > the carbon output of your trip. I am not yet aware of train companies > offering the same, so the treehugger in you might still prefer to fly? > > http://www.eurostar.com/UK/uk/leisure/about_eurostar/environment/off_

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread bvh
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:08:55PM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > fwiw location-wise I would prefer somewhere more easily and cheaply > > accessible by most people that would like to come than I expect GC > > would be. > Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in > mainla

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>Daniel Glassey wrote: >> fwiw location-wise I would prefer somewhere more easily and cheaply >> accessible by most people that would like to come than I expect GC >> would be. >Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in >mainland Europe easily accessible by train. >cheers >

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Steve Chilton
: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09 Daniel Glassey wrote: > fwiw location-wise I would prefer somewhere more easily and cheaply > accessible by most people that would like to come than I expect GC > would be. Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in mainland

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Daniel Glassey wrote: > fwiw location-wise I would prefer somewhere more easily and cheaply > accessible by most people that would like to come than I expect GC > would be. Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in mainland Europe easily accessible by train. cheers Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On 2008-07-15, Daniel Glassey wrote: > 2008/7/15 Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > > >> Gran Canaria. The GNOME and KDE free desktop conferences are jointly > >> being held there Friday, July, 3rd until Saturday, July 11th 2009. > >> > >> So I think it would be great if SOTM could be t

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Daniel Glassey
2008/7/15 Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > >> Gran Canaria. The GNOME and KDE free desktop conferences are jointly >> being held there Friday, July, 3rd until Saturday, July 11th 2009. > >> So I think it would be great if SOTM could be there, say, Sat 11th-Sun >> 12th. > > Nothing against

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > Gran Canaria. The GNOME and KDE free desktop conferences are jointly > being held there Friday, July, 3rd until Saturday, July 11th 2009. > So I think it would be great if SOTM could be there, say, Sat 11th-Sun 12th. Nothing against Gran Canaria at all but I don't see a lot of value in do

[OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-14 Thread Daniel Glassey
Great SOTM08 so thinking ahead ... http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=27.987&lon=-15.521&zoom=10&layers=B00FTF Gran Canaria. The GNOME and KDE free desktop conferences are jointly being held there Friday, July, 3rd until Saturday, July 11th 2009. http://dot.kde.org/1215794861/ So I think it woul