On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 10:20 -0400, Lars Ahlzen wrote: > On 09/30/2011 10:25 AM, Richard Weait wrote: > > 1) What would you like to see the US local chapter do? > > When Cloudmade hosted events, their representatives brought banners, > brochures, stickers, loaner GPS units and similar things. I'm not sure > GPS units are needed these days (with a smartphone in everyone's > pocket), but advertising material - like the tall OSM banners - really > make an event look a little more professional.
Never overestimate the accuracy of phone GPS. Google Maps does well with positioning because they're using wifi and cell networks as secondary location sources, the GPS alone is usually off by several city blocks. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
