<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Chris Barham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbarham@pobox.com">cbarham@pobox.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;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Steve Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stevagewp@gmail.com" target="_blank">stevagewp@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;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Has anyone on this list had any success approaching groups to encourage them to join? </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><br><div>Their club magazine, "Checkpoint", is also looking for contributions on any topic related to endurance cycling (perhaps an OSM introduction would be a goodtopic ?): </div>
<div><span style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre;"><font face="'times new roman', serif">Checkpoint Contributing info: <a href="http://j.mp/6dy77x" target="_blank">http://j.mp/6dy77x</a></font></span></div><br>
</div></blockquote><div><br>Possible, with a bit of creativity to make sure you're providing relevant information as well as requesting help. Probably you'd make the article about how to use a GPS for long distance rides, then point out that they could contribute any traces they collect to OSM, who will incorporate it into data for future maps.<br>
<br>Steve <br></div></div><br>