Yes, tourist boards are on commission, to sell the advertized hotels 1st. Anyway, to answer the initial question better, i would (will) make a map for, and give to (along with neighbouring town maps) Back Packers Hostels/ Bike shops-rental / libraries / community centers / coffee shops. As the indirect approach. ... The authors of those 'tourist maps' are also free to use OSM, ccBYsa.
So completing the map helps everyone :-) cheers, Sam On 9/26/09, Dave F. <dave...@madasafish.com> wrote: > Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: >> El Sábado, 26 de Septiembre de 2009, k...@vielevisels escribió: >> >>> I had the idea to contact the tourist office [...] What do you think of >>> the >>> idea? >>> >> >> It may work, it may not work. >> >> Some tourist offices may want to do their job and promote the city and the >> >> services and amenities it offers. On the other hand, however, some tourist >> >> offices may want *their* tourism web portal to be the *only* source of >> information for the city. >> >> (Which is a pretty stupid thing, given that tourists ought to know all the >> >> local web portals when preparing a trip, instead of going to e.g. OSM or >> Wikitravel) >> >> >> So, good luck ;-) >> >> >> > I have to concur with Ivan. Whenever I've travelled the English tourist > board appears to have a limited number of hotels on its books, usually > of the middle to expensive variety. > Does anybody know if they work on commission? > > Also with the credit crunch, so many tourist amenities are > opening/closing & even reopening! it's hard for anyone to keep up. If a > hotel is going out of business the last thing on the owners mind is to > 'phone up the local tourist board. > > Best thing is to walk around your home town collating info & hope > there's an equivalent in the city you next want to visit. > > Cheers > Dave F. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
