On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:09:22AM +0100, Steve Hill wrote: > 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. :( >
Combining the talk with a mapping party (it doesn't need to be large or widely advertised, could be just internal) would be a good strategy. Well, at least it did work in our case :) We got several new mappers in my town, and we got most of the city center mapped during that saturday. We had the talk on a thursday, with a mapping party the following saturday. OSM has a pretty steep learning curve - not as much on the technical aspects as in good choices for tags on different types of ways, good strategies, etc. Being able to do that together with more experienced mappers the first time is so much easier than trying to find out how to do it yourself. The "why not just use google" will of course be asked, but in a LUG, you should at least get a few people who understand the licensing concepts. -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
