Re: [Talk-us] U.S. Local Chapters

2009-09-15 Thread Peter Batty
Based on some of the other discussion I've seen about local chapters, it seems as though it may well be useful for us to have an OSM legal entity in the US for various reasons. So if it's not too much hassle to set up I think it's probably worth doing. I would vote for doing just one at the US leve

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. Local Chapters

2009-09-15 Thread Kate Chapman
I currently do work with my local group that organizes around a wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MappingDC I think there potentially can be some cash flow. We have been approaching local governments to get permissions to import their data. In the case of the District of Columbia we

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. Local Chapters

2009-09-15 Thread Bill Ricker
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Kate Chapman wrote: > I've heard various talk going on about local chapters in various places. I > did a quick archive search but didn't find that much information regarding > U.S. chapters.  There seems to be people interested, but perhaps working > separately.

[Talk-us] U.S. Local Chapters

2009-09-15 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi all, I've heard various talk going on about local chapters in various places. I did a quick archive search but didn't find that much information regarding U.S. chapters. There seems to be people interested, but perhaps working separately. Let me preface the rest of my email with the statement