On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: >> From my experience you get lots of questions so best keep the presentation > simple and allow enough time to answer stuff. You might also find you get > questions regarding the "free" aspect of the project and the licence.
Yes, be prepared for the usual "why not just use Google?" questions. I did a short lightning talk on OSM at my local LUG a few months ago and being able to cite uses of the data other than the plain slippymap was quite good (such as the Welsh language version (as I am in Wales :), the cyclemap, the pistemap, the ability to use the data for satnav projects, etc.). The level of interest seemed quite high at the time, but sadly I don't think we've got any new mappers from that group. :( I shall try and dig out the slides I wrote, but basically I briefly talked out the benefits of the project over commercial maps and how the surveying is actually done. - Steve xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nexusuk.org/ Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk