On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Kannappan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:k.sirchabesan@corp.aol.com">k.sirchabesan@corp.aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Hi </div><div>  We are from the MapQuest team here at AOL India.. We would love to get in touch with the OSM community here and explore options of collaboration/technical contribution.. As some of you might know, we just had a launch of <a href="http://open.mapquest.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://open.mapquest.co.uk/</a>  using OSM data at State of the Map Conference in Girona..</div>

<div><br></div><div><a href="http://stateofthemap.org/mapquest-announced-major-investment-in-osm/" target="_blank">http://stateofthemap.org/mapquest-announced-major-investment-in-osm/</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-aol-launches-open-source-maps-projects-in-u.s.-uk/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://paidcontent.org/article/419-aol-launches-open-source-maps-projects-in-u.s.-uk/</a></span></div>

<div><br></div><div><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/09/aols-mapquest-looks-to-wikipedia-model-for-mapping/" target="_blank">http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/09/aols-mapquest-looks-to-wikipedia-model-for-mapping/</a></div>

<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>To start off, we are thinking of giving a couple of talks related to OSM. Looking forward to more fruitful partnerships with the OSM community..</div><div><br></div><div>Would love to hear your thoughts..</div>

<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Kannappan</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Wonderful! I was wondering when anyone in India would show any interest in OpenGeoData, especially considering the GIS industry is so huge abroad.</div>

<div><br></div><div>There a good chunk of people interested in OSM in Bangalore, can we arrange a small meet here?</div><br>-- <br><a href="http://j.mp/ArunGanesh">http://j.mp/ArunGanesh</a><br>