On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Simon Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > It would appear that the amount of OSM'ers here in Canada is a little > limited. especially in the rural areas. The bigger cities have be more or > less mapped out from the high resolution aerial photography, however many of > the street names are missing and there is very little detail on the ammenity > front. > > The only way this is going to be resolved is if we can get more locals > involved in the project.
Hold some mapping parties - hold lots of mapping parties - one every other weekend for the whole summer. Contact every newspaper, forum, linux group, walkers group, cycling group etc that you can find. > > I was contemplating putting up a small OSM poster on the local community > notice boards. Is OSM ready for a flood (ever optimistic ;-) of newbies? Yes! > > Text could read something like: > --- > Put your community on The Map! > > The work has started, volunteers at OpenStreetMap.com have been logging the > roads and rivers in your community, but now they need your help to add > details of street names and local ammenities (resturants, gas stations, etc.). > > So why not just use Google Maps (or the like)? > > Although Google makes it's maps available on the internet, it is a company > that is more interested in charging people and companies to license it's > data. This "look, but don't touch" means that you can't reuse the maps they > provide (without paying), and should anything be wrong good luck with trying > to get it corrected. > > OpenStreetMap.com is different in that the data is available to everyone, > for whatever purpose they want. It is based on the 'Wiki' concept where > anyone can edit the maps marking the location/names of roads, ammenities, > resturants, etc. In fact you can add the location of anything you want. > > The resultant maps are available to browse on the internet (just like > Google's maps), but they are also available to download and use how you want > to. If you don't like the way they look, you are able to download the source > data and render your map however you like. > > It has been said that even the most recent map is always out of date. With > OpenStreetMap as soon as a change is made on the ground, local volunteers can > correct the maps and the results will be (almost) instantly available to the > world. > > So what is needed to partipate in OpenStreetMap? > > For advanced mapping tools such as GPS recievers and digital cameras are > useful, but simply having access to the internet will allow you to contribute > by checking/editing the maps and to add that all important local information. > The only real requirement is that the information is 'first hand' and is not > copied from copyrighted sources (such as Google maps). > --- > > Any comments/suggestions on the concept or the wording? > Mungewell. This is a great idea. Can I suggest that you put a copy of the text and the final poster up on the wiki so we can reuse it in other areas? Cheers, > > PS. I'm not an artist, so don't expect anything too fancy. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Nick Black -------------------------------- http://www.blacksworld.net _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
