Agree about PR value of timely information. Thanks Christoph, Andy, Brian. Meanwhile, I'm posting the updates to Twitter. Is there a way for new and inexperienced mappers to participate in updating the map? Andrew
On 14 Jan 2010, at 17:31, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > That would be the plan. It's still fresh in everyone's minds right now so I > suspect the newspapers would pick up on it if we got it done in the next few > days and that’s a real possibility. Might be nice to do something jointly > with BCC too. > > Cheers > > Andy > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: talk-gb-westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- >> westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Jeni >> Sent: 14 January 2010 5:23 PM >> To: Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org >> Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting routes in Birmingham >> >> If we can get this to a point where it is more or less complete (for the >> area) before the next big freeze happens, there could be some good PR >> for OSM in the local area if someone were to issue a press release? >> >> Jeni >> >> Christoph Böhme wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I created a map overlay showing the gritting routes (there are not >>> many yet!) in Birmingham: http://mappa-mercia.org/bham-gritting/ >>> >>> The overlay works only from zoom layer 10-16. It is also not >>> automatically updated. So, please drop me an email when you added >>> new routes [1] and want them to appear on the map. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Christoph >>> >>> [1] Andy put a list of all routes up on the wiki: >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/BirminghamGrittingPriority >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list >>> Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list >> Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands _______________________________________________ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
