Re: [Talk-GB] A newbie question - 'What are you doing ?'

2010-07-17 Thread Russ Phillips
On 16 July 2010 20:47, Ciarán Mooney general.moo...@googlemail.com wrote: It has, the wiki has a flyer that can be  printed and folded into a nice, here you go size. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Flyer I'm pretty sure I have some printed out leaflets. Remind me before the next LUG

Re: [Talk-GB] A newbie question - 'What are you doing ?'

2010-07-17 Thread Shaun McDonald
The explanation I've found best to use since most people understand it the fastest is to ask if they know what the Wikipedia is, and then compare OSM to Wikipedia by instead of an encyclopaedia that anyone can edit, it's a map that anyone can edit. Shaun On 16 Jul 2010, at 20:31, Iain Simpson

Re: [Talk-GB] A newbie question - 'What are you doing ?'

2010-07-16 Thread Chris Hill
Iain Simpson wrote: I've just started with OSM in Stafford (52.81, -2.13) and am starting by surveying my local suburb - nearly blank on the map. Yesterday I was walking down a nearby lane with my GPS - by a private residential caravan park - when the owner(?) came out and asked, quite