[talk-au] Intro video to OSM in Australia

2009-12-15 Thread John Smith
An idea came to me the other day about some kind of intro to OSM video, with a noticibly Australian slant to it. I've seen a couple of intro videos for different editors, but I had something else in mind, where we could cover things like getting and using a GPS and encouraging people to upload the

Re: [talk-au] Intro video to OSM in Australia

2009-12-15 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:03 PM, John Smith wrote: > > An idea came to me the other day about some kind of intro to OSM > video, with a noticibly Australian slant to it. > > I've seen a couple of intro videos for different editors, but I had > something else in mind, where we could cover things li

Re: [talk-au] Intro video to OSM in Australia

2009-12-15 Thread John Smith
2009/12/16 Roy Wallace : > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:03 PM, John Smith wrote: >> >> An idea came to me the other day about some kind of intro to OSM >> video, with a noticibly Australian slant to it. >> >> I've seen a couple of intro videos for different editors, but I had >> something else in min

Re: [talk-au] Intro video to OSM in Australia

2009-12-16 Thread John Smith
2009/12/16 John Smith : > Well the first part is mostly off-road type enthusiests that could > help improve the amount of GPX data available to make maps. Actual another demographic that might be good to target and give examples highlighting the benefits of OSM would be bush walkers/hikers etc...

Re: [talk-au] Intro video to OSM in Australia

2009-12-16 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:46 PM, John Smith wrote: > 2009/12/16 John Smith : > > Well the first part is mostly off-road type enthusiests that could > > help improve the amount of GPX data available to make maps. > > Actual another demographic that might be good to target and give > examples highli

Re: [talk-au] Intro video to OSM in Australia

2009-12-16 Thread Chris Barham
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > Has anyone on this list had any success approaching groups to encourage > them to join? > Can I make a suggestion that somebody approach Audax Australia as part of any outreach programme?. They do long cycle road rides in areas that OSM is

Re: [talk-au] Intro video to OSM in Australia

2009-12-16 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Chris Barham wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > >> Has anyone on this list had any success approaching groups to encourage >> them to join? >> > > > Their club magazine, "Checkpoint", is also looking for contributions on any > topic

Re: [talk-au] Intro video to OSM in Australia

2009-12-16 Thread edodd
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Chris Barham wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Steve Bennett >> wrote: >> >>> Has anyone on this list had any success approaching groups to encourage >>> them to join? >>> >> >> >> Their club magazine, "Checkpoint", is also looking for contributions o

Re: [talk-au] Intro video to OSM in Australia

2009-12-16 Thread John Smith
2009/12/17 Chris Barham : > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: >> >> Has anyone on this list had any success approaching groups to encourage >> them to join? > > Can I make a suggestion that somebody approach Audax Australia as part of > any outreach programme?. They do long cy

Re: [talk-au] Intro video to OSM in Australia

2009-12-16 Thread John Smith
The Ulysses bike club might be another interesting one to approach, last I heard they had something like 1mill members, for those that don't know of this group you have to be at least 40 to be a junior member and 50 to become a full member and they're mostly accountants and doctors and lawyers and

Re: [talk-au] Intro video to OSM in Australia

2009-12-16 Thread Chris Barham
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:57 PM, John Smith wrote: > there should be examples of these types of map data already in OSM's > DB so we should be able to not only write on the topic but illistrate > it as well. > I can think of a potential 4wd example, LandCruiserPark. I remember thinking that OSM

Re: [talk-au] Intro video to OSM in Australia

2009-12-16 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, wandermap.net already donates tracks to OSM. Having more people contact varies sites; everytrail.com; wikiloc.com; bikely.com; bikemap.net and explain the benifit of both showing OpenCycleMap as a slippymap and donating GPS tracks. ... Will help. Im now regularly using the Google Earth KML ove