Yeah, I've tried to "sell" OSM for them, but they didn't care, they've written a project as a NGO, got a lot of money, and hired a programmer to do a poor Google Maps mashup. Claudomiro even flew from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro to have a meeting with them, but they didn't cared much. Maybe we'll have more luck as a foundation chapter, I don't know.
They, however, give me the permission to copy the POIs they've managed to get with N95 cellphones (the tracks are useless IMHO), that's how I came up with this Cidade de Deus (City of God) map: http://osm.org/go/OVcZ0uwG Cheers 2010/3/28 Claudomiro Nascimento Junior <claudom...@claudomiro.com> > Me and Arlindo had talks with then last year to bring then to OSM and to > help then build "Real" maps - for now, then have only collected POIs that > appear without any context on Google Maps. But it seems that they where not > really interested on this cooperation. > > > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Aun Johnsen <li...@gimnechiske.org>wrote: > >> It seems like there are many similar initiatives in Brazil. For some >> reason the words of OSM havn't been spread enough, and many >> similar-but-not-the-same projects have popped up. >> >> Often when entering contact with such "competing" projects, they >> either havn't heard about OSM, or thought OSM as "just another >> initiative" when starting. Many of these projects have also only a >> small community, or focus only on a relatively small geographical >> area. >> >> The Brazilian community on OSM is not very large, and we might need >> some more help on how to spread the word in order to merge with some >> of these projects, many of them have compatible terms with OSM, so a >> complete merge of databases should be just a matter of getting the >> content in the right formats. >> >> -A[] >> >> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Christian Rogel >> <christian.ro...@club-internet.fr> wrote: >> > Some information here : >> > >> > http://gislounge.com/mapping-via-cell-phone-in-brazil/ >> > >> > Christian >> > >> > >> > Stefan de Konink a e'crit : >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> >> Hash: SHA512 >> >> >> >> http://wikimapa.org.br/ >> >> >> >> Just on CNN, could someone tell something about it? >> >> >> >> >> >> Stefan >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > talk mailing list >> > talk@openstreetmap.org >> > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-br mailing list >> talk...@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-br >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-br mailing list > talk...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-br > >
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