<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:46 PM, John Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com">deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/12/16 John Smith <<a href="mailto:deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com">deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> Well the first part is mostly off-road type enthusiests that could<br>
> help improve the amount of GPX data available to make maps.<br>
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</div>Actual another demographic that might be good to target and give<br>
examples highlighting the benefits of OSM would be bush walkers/hikers<br>
etc...<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Mountain bikers, road cyclists...pretty much anyone who has been disenfranchised by maps and particularly satnavs focusing almost exclusively on the needs of car drivers...<br>
</div></div><br>Has anyone on this list had any success approaching groups to encourage them to join? It occurs to me that, done the right way, it ought to be possible to get groups like mountain bikers to at the very least contribute their .gpx files, which many of them are collecting anyway. Even a network of totally undescribed "highway=track bicycle=yes" is worth something, and it's far easier to add the metadata than to add the route.<br>
<br>Steve<br>