<div class="gmail_quote">On 2 March 2011 21:23, davespod <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:osmlists@dellams.fastmail.fm">osmlists@dellams.fastmail.fm</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
The Cabinet Office's "Office for Civil Society" has just published a report<br>
citing "international examples of The Big Society". Case study number 1 is<br>
OpenStreetMap:<br>
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<a href="http://www.arnaudriegert.com/wp-content/uploads/international-examples-big-society.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.arnaudriegert.com/wp-content/uploads/international-examples-big-society.pdf</a><br clear="all"></blockquote>
</div><br>Goodness, whoever wrote the case study needs to read the civil service classic 'Plain words': <a href="http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140511994,00.html">http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140511994,00.html</a><br>
<br>'OpenStreetMap has come to the level of competing with... the community is estimated to several hundreds of thousands contributors... the website has virtually infinite possible inputs but also outputs.'<br><br>
Tom<br><br>-- <br><a href="http://tom.acrewoods.net">http://tom.acrewoods.net</a>   <a href="http://twitter.com/tom_chance">http://twitter.com/tom_chance</a><br>