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 “coaches” (could be t-shirts, name tags,...);... · Although the clips on tv do not mention OSM, we should be aware of their potential to attract more mappers. Just one idea (I’m sure there could be more): I guess the participating universities will be happy to spread a short report about Saturday to their students, including links to the clip and of course clearly mentioning OSM. This might be a way to reach a lot of people. · And last but not least: Marc even managed to make the link from missing maps to local mapping in only ten seconds, what an achievement! All in all, I think it’s fantastic we made it onto radio and television. I now even can explain to my mother-in-law why I spent a Saturday behind a computer. And I’m sure next time, we will get a few more details right. Have a nice start of the week, Seppe Van: joost schouppe [mailto:joost.schou...@gmail.com] Verzonden: zondag 17 april 2016 22:45 Aan: OpenStreetMap Belgium Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk-be] MissingMaps National Yes, Marc, you did great. I really liked the vrt clip actually. At the VUB, we knew full well the VTM was coming, but I didn't think for a second about how we should shape their message. I did talk to them quite a bit, but they didn't ask to interview me. They did interview the professor, and that seemed good to me: one of "ours" and one of "theirs" having a prime time moment. How on earth they think Google has anything to do with the project - you can't imagine how people think, I guess. Everything I heard sounded good to me at the time though. We had already seen the vrt clip, so honestly I was expecting them to do a copy-paste of that clip. Anyway I don't think any of us expected exposure of this magnitude, so we never actually took a minute to think about it. Maybe of some more people would have joined the organization, someone would have thought of that :) The reason VTM does show the Google Earth logo is probably that they have a standard setup they use everyday and they know they have to do that. They actually added that thing as the image at the tasking manager didn't cover all the area being mapped as it was split over three tasks. As was said here, what has been aired has been aired. But I will send a 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 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 promotion. Then again 200 mappers is incredible, IMHO. Joost
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