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<br>Maybe no-one cares but Roger was paid ($80,000 apparently) to create articles and promote Gibraltar.<br><br>I see this is part of that. Promote Gibraltar by linking it to OSM, get on the OSM wiki pages, etc, etc.<br><br>Personally I do feel uneasy working on crowded sourced/open sourced projects on the request of others that are paid to do it.<br><br>I would have thought they could at least chip in for the flights, accomadation, etc<br><br>http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericgoldman/2012/10/05/wikipedias-pay-for-play-scandal-highlights-wikipedias-vulnerabilities/<br>http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/09/20/roger_bamkin_gibraltor_s_repeated_appearance_on_did_you_know_provkes_existential_crisis_for_wikipedia_.html<br><br>Just want to let people know the score beforehand.<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: ajrlists@gmail.com<br>To: nomoregrapes@googlemail.com; chippy2005@gmail.com; shaun@shaunmcdonald.me.uk<br>Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 15:31:30 +0100<br>CC: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org<br>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Gibraltar - Mapping Party?<br><br><style><!--
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--></style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sounds like there is a the comings together of interest for perhaps early in the New Year? I’ll communicate that back to Roger and see where we go. I think he’s looking for OSM to organise themselves but I’ll get confirmation of what accommodation was on offer and what, if any, strings are attached with going at their request.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Cheers</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Andy</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> Gregory [mailto:nomoregrapes@googlemail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 05 October 2012 13:26<br><b>To:</b> Tim Waters<br><b>Cc:</b> Andy Robinson; Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-GB] Gibraltar - Mapping Party?</span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal">"<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">basic accommodation in an old fort might be available free of charge"</span></p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">You've got me listening.</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">But advance notice and doing it after Christmas is more likely to work for me.</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">I presume this would end up as an Isle of Wight type exercise. Make a really good example(buildings & addressing) and cover the whole land in a short time.</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Then if we finished earlier than planned we could pop over to Spain for the remaining days and stay in Gibraltar, or if people planned to stay longer & arranged their own accommodation then Spain mapping could be planned too.<br></span><br clear="all"></p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal">-- <br>Gregory<br><a href="mailto:osm@livingwithdragons.com">osm@livingwithdragons.com</a><br><a href="http://www.livingwithdragons.com" target="_blank">http://www.livingwithdragons.com</a></p></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><hr style="color:#A0A0A0" align="center" noshade="" size="1" width="100%"></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="">No virus found in this message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com" target="_blank">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 2013.0.2677 / Virus Database: 2591/5809 - Release Date: 10/04/12</p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________
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