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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The problem I see is
simply, "Who is going to do the work of producing plastic
membership cards, then mailing them out annually?" The MWG is
like all working groups a small set of volunteers who run the
MWG in their spare time and I have yet to hear from its members
that they would be willing to add this to the MWG's task list.
And even then, a plastic membership card is IMHO unlikely to
quell paranoia any better than a self-printed business card
would.<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Another approach to
this problem is for the OSMF board to authorize community
members to use the OSM logo for customizing surveyor's vests and
then wearing them while collecting data. On-line retailers offer
them for competitive (=low) prices. Wearing surveyor's vests
while collecting data would allay the concerns of most (but
certainly not all) suspicious and paranoid neighbors. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/1/2023 1:34 AM,
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">What keeps one from first paying a few euros for an official annual
OSMF membership, waiting for the plastic card to arrive by mail and
only _then_ doing photography for their terrorist activities? The
answer is nothing and that this conversation isn't heading in the
right direction. I still believe my suggestion was the best so far.
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