There is an opportunity for hosting a 'virtual couch' mapping party to map all the aborigional lands in Canada :-)
Anyone interested? (via Tinychat) Sam p.s. OSM & Google co-exist, i use Google Earth with KML overlay :) with more people using it, it could become standard in the GE package, just as everytrail.com is. Push everytrail to use OSM & donate tracks, and there is are ticket in. :) On 12/23/09, Roy Wallace <waldo000...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: >> >> ... I view all this Google activity not with the same >> skepticism that others seem to have. I think someone who is mapping for >> Google is still better than someone who is not mapping at all! > > That's not skepticism, but it's a good point :) > >> It takes >> enormous resources to (where reqired) >> >> - explain to people what maps are ;-) >> - make them understand that maps are not god-given or a government thing >> but >> you can (help) make them yourself >> - train people to look out for the things that are important for map >> making >> >> A population that has these skills and this knowledge is a much more >> fertile >> environment for OSM to flourish in - even if that initial awareness has >> come >> from Google. > > But what if that population then consists entirely of Map Maker users? > Is that really beneficial for OSM? I know what you're saying, but it > is reasonable to expect Map Maker users to jump ship to OSM? Is that > even what we should be hoping for? > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk