On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 04.01.2010 18:25, schrieb Aun Johnsen: >> >> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com >> <mailto:ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com>> wrote: >> >> Now ... >> In this area we have a lot of mappers, activities like mapping parties, >> fair booths, local press contacts, ... in other words: we have a >> community. >> On the software side: We have good aerial imagery from Yahoo! (and >> others), Servers are pretty stable, tools are usable, ... >> >> I see a lot of activity from the German community, I know that Brazil is >> somewhat behind in the track, and we will probably continue to be behind >> for quite some time. We have still not been able to get any good press >> coverage even though we as a community have sent out two press releases >> (from the entire community), I guess that will come as the community >> grows and we get more on the map. Maybe the German community have some >> advice to how we can do it better? > > Maybe that's partially because there's a vital computer geek community here > in germany, that helped with the start ;-) > > I'm really not an expert on press contacts, I'll try anyway to remember the > story and correlate it with the OSM state in germany at that time - because > I think this is important here. Please correct me anyone if I remember it > wrong. > > > IIRC ... > > a) The first german press article I've seen (beside some blogs) were on a > geek computer magazine, the "Linux Magazin". This magazine concentrates on > free and open source themes, so it was natural for them to report about OSM. > At that time a lot of germany was still "almost empty" with the "exception > of a few spots". > > b) Later on, the more general purpose computer magazine "c't" (and "iX"), > reported about OSM. Some cities were already well mapped/usable, e.g. > Karlsruhe. > > c) Then general media "Spiegel", regional TV, ... made stories about OSM, > which resulted in a big rush of new mappers and new map data. At that time, > several larger (especially university) cities were already mapped well. > > > Looking at the brazil map (Rio, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte), I guess you are > somewhere between a) and b) in brazil. > > Hopefully this gives you an idea which kind of media to contact [1]. > >> P.S: A few of us are working on translating the wiki to Portuguese, in a >> hope that this can attract more mappers, I have in that work noticed >> that there are some pages documented in German only, if the German >> community could be so helpfull to give English translations, than we >> would be able to translate more pages to Portuguese (the few words I >> know in German is not worth mentioning in public). > > A lot of people here in germany are at least able to read an english wiki > article. However, there are enough that won't, so there are some german > pages :-) > > Several years ago when I went to brazil, I was confused how little the > number of english speaking people really was. Even the reception of one of > the larger hotels in Juiz de Fora (population: ~500000) wasn't able to speak > english - resulted in funny conversations ;-) > > > If you have a list of articles in question, I can post it on the german list > and ask for help. No promises though. > > Regards, ULFL > > [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Writing_a_press_release >
>From the top of my head I know for a fact that historic=manor english page is a link to german page, I have posted a request of translation on the discussion, also several power tags are well documented in German and mostly stubs in english, I'll see if I can make a more complete list tonight, it is not really the desired activity during business hours. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk