<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi guys, just followed up on the conversation. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can follow the arguments of Seppe below. Yes, a few media opportunities were missed, but still this was a huge achievement for OSM and shouldn’t be deminished regarding impact. </div><div class="">If you look up mapathon on Google (of all places ;)), you end up on OSM. If you look at the VTM images you can clearly see Open Street Map on the editor. No there hasn’t been a direct mention, but even professional press officers can’t control their message completely. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So it’s good to talk about how things could be better, but I’m sure you’re all aware that this was already an amazing campaign. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Regarding improvements: </b></div><div class="">Open Knowledge Belgium can help with promotional stuff like this if you want. Giving press-training (press-releasing (text) and press-interviews (video)). But also designing and ordering banners, t-shirts, even flyers for that matter. And even beyond that, social media training, logistical support… I’m not saying we know everything, but if have the in-house experience or know someone, but we can see what we can make happen. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regarding support I’m partly to blame because I was only aware of this event just last week when Joost asked me to write about it on the Open Belgium blog. </div><div class="">So please feel free to keep Open Knowledge Belgium in the loop so that we can see how we can be of service. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards,</div><div class="">Pieter-Jan</div><div class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Apr 2016, at 05:20, Marc Gemis <<a href="mailto:marc.gemis@gmail.com" class="">marc.gemis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">thanks a lot for contacting Belga. Good to hear we now have a contact there.<br class="">Hopefully that person from the university was at the Mapathon and<br class="">learned that we do not use G-stuff. :-)<br class=""><br class="">m<br class=""><br class="">On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 6:14 PM, joost schouppe<br class=""><<a href="mailto:joost.schouppe@gmail.com" class="">joost.schouppe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">So I contacted Belga. The report was only used by Metro and Zondag. They<br class="">didn't think anyone else would pick up on it, and did not see any use in<br class="">correcting it in their own database. I did get a personal contact at Belga<br class="">we can call next time we do something, who promised to listen carefully that<br class="">time. And they will also contact Metro to ask and change their article a bit<br class="">(remove the Google Earth mention). I don't think it's a good idea to share<br class="">the e-mail here, but I can send it to anyone who requests it.<br class=""><br class="">Apparently, they contacted someone from the university who said something<br class="">along the lines of "tracing on satellite pictures form the same sources<br class="">available in Google Earth". And they went from there. So yes, a little<br class="">press-training might be in order to avoid things like that.<br class=""><br class="">Joost<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Talk-be mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Talk-be@openstreetmap.org" class="">Talk-be@openstreetmap.org</a><br class="">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Talk-be mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Talk-be@openstreetmap.org" class="">Talk-be@openstreetmap.org</a><br class="">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>