Pieter-Jan,
I often feel like I'm spamming people, but apparently some of the Gent GIS
people felt a bit the same as you: why did I know so late (I did contact
Thimo much sooner, and Geertrui came, so some information flow was there).
So lesson learned: I'll spam till I drop.
All,
I'm putting toge
Hi guys, just followed up on the conversation.
I can follow the arguments of Seppe below. Yes, a few media opportunities were
missed, but still this was a huge achievement for OSM and shouldn’t be
deminished regarding impact.
If you look up mapathon on Google (of all places ;)), you end up on
thanks a lot for contacting Belga. Good to hear we now have a contact there.
Hopefully that person from the university was at the Mapathon and
learned that we do not use G-stuff. :-)
m
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 6:14 PM, joost schouppe
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I contacted Belga. The report was only used
Hi,
So I contacted Belga. The report was only used by Metro and Zondag. They
didn't think anyone else would pick up on it, and did not see any use in
correcting it in their own database. I did get a personal contact at Belga
we can call next time we do something, who promised to listen carefully
t
RE: Talk-be Digest, Vol 100, Issue 18Philippe Casteleyn 14:25 Aan:
talk-be@openstreetmap.orgGelijk wat je een beetje kent, als de media er een
reportage of documentaire over maken dan is die zo onvolledig dat het verkeerd
is. Het is daarom dat ik mijn best doe om het nieuws niet te volgen.De
t;> message to Belga - they should do some decent fact checking if everyone else
>> is just copy-pasting from them.
>>
>> Do add links to our work hackpad to any articles you may find.
>> https://hackpad.com/Missing-Maps-National-April-16th-6yr1qJEQoqq
>>
>>
s://hackpad.com/Missing-Maps-National-April-16th-6yr1qJEQoqq
>
> All in all a great learning opportunity for all of us I think - also in how
> we fail in reaching people who would potentially absolutely love us. As Jo
> said somewhere, it feels like 30 could have been 80 with more promoti
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Santens Seppe wrote:
> ·It might be a good idea to have some promotional material for
> future occasions. I’m thinking: an OSM(.be) banner in the background; flyers
> that explain OSM in a few words and that participants can take home; a way
> to identify t
I think Joost wraps it up nicely.
Some remarks:
·It might be a good idea to have some promotional material for future
occasions. I’m thinking: an OSM(.be) banner in the background; flyers that
explain OSM in a few words and that participants can take home; a way to
identify the “coache
