<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Thrilled at the enthusiastic response to this and the range of suggestions. A bit of homework for us at the OSM Special Interest Group (OSM SIG) is to get a proper application form together shaped by your suggestions.</div><div>I'll discuss this with OSGeo Oceania's SIG which all are welcome to join. Andrew Harvey is currently co-chair, but we're looking for another co-chair for him.</div><div><br></div><div>To address some of the points raised:</div><div><ul><li><a class="gmail_plusreply" id="plusReplyChip-0" href="mailto:violaine@posteo.net" tabindex="-1">@Violaine</a> excellent idea. Definitely in scope.</li><li><a class="gmail_plusreply" id="plusReplyChip-1" href="mailto:forster@ozonline.com.au" tabindex="-1">@forster@ozonline.com.au</a> I love the idea of the signs giving the story behind the tree planting more permanence. If Parks Vic approves, I would imagine the OSM SIG would approve such use of funds. Let us know if something concrete comes up around venue hire/internet. This is also within scope and we could discuss ASAP to get you what you need.</li><li>@Mateusz Good question and one we have not discussed in detail. My own opinion is that there should be some Oceania connection, as that is the mandate of our organisation. This could be a tool developed directly in Oceania that has global reach, or a tool developed globally that has clear benefit to end users in Oceania. </li><li><a class="gmail_plusreply" id="plusReplyChip-3" href="mailto:brenbarnes@gmail.com" tabindex="-1">@brenbarnes@gmail.com</a> every one of these is worthy. For many of these we need someone to volunteer to maintain the program. A camera grant program for Oceania would be wonderful, but we need some volunteers to help put it together. Here is an <a href="https://osmuk.org/community-projects/camera-rental/">example from the UK</a>. Warin raises a good point though. I actually ran a camera grant program for a day job (Mapillary) and the lesson learned over time is that to be successful the cameras really need to be a permanent grant rather than a loan. It becomes too expensive and time consuming to ship cameras across the world, or even Oceania. The dynamics could be different for a rental program, but then someone needs to be willing to manage it.<br></li><li>I like the <a href="https://osmuk.org/community-projects/surveyor-hi-vis-jackets/">UK's high-vis vests</a> idea, but I don't think I'd wear one myself. The iD of some sort along with flyers is a good idea though. If OSGeo Oceania was willing to place an initial order of 50 or so, do you think you'd be able to help design them @graeme?</li></ul><div>I'm very keen to see how many of these brilliant ideas can be turned into concrete actions. To be perfectly honest, the main barrier here is having someone willing to put in the time to drive each initiative. Money is less of a concern and the whole point of OSGeo Oceania and our OSM group is to support initiatives like this.</div></div><div><br></div><div>The OSM SIG will follow up with a concrete platform to submit ideas, but feel free to keep them coming here in the meantime.</div><div><br></div><div>Happy mapping,</div><div><br></div><div>Ed</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 at 21:08, Sam Wilson <<a href="mailto:sam@samwilson.id.au">sam@samwilson.id.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I've also had conversations like that, and have rarely managed to
convince people that I'm not peculiar. I remember one bloke found
it more believable that I was collecting photos of power poles
than that I was contributing to a map!<br>
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<p>OSM UK has <a href="https://osmuk.org/community-projects/surveyor-hi-vis-jackets/" target="_blank">high-viz
surveyor vests</a>, or rather instructions for how to get a
work-wear company to make such a thing on order. I wonder if we
could do something similar here?<br>
</p>
<p>But yeah, I agree that a 'official' OSM Oceania leaflet or
lanyard or something would be great. I mean, I realise I could
just print such a thing, but there's something better about it
having some sort of community standing.</p>
<p>—Sam.</p>
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<div>Bit of an out-there idea that I've had a couple of times.</div>
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<div>Occasionally, when doing an on-street survey in populated
areas, I've thought that the sight of some random stranger
walking the street making notes about the buildings that he's
passing & checking out must look a bit suspicious! :-)</div>
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<div>Once, when I was writing down shop names in a shopping
centre, I've even been asked what I was doing, & explained
that I was gathering details to improve local maps.</div>
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<div>It would be "nice" if we could walk around with a photo ID,
emblazoned OSM Oceania (or maybe Australia / NZ / Fiji etc
etc?) dangling around our necks, as it would look a lot more
"professional" & "official".</div>
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<div>At the same time, also have some brochures produced
explaining what OSM is about, what we do & how everybody
can contribute, & pass them out to anybody interested.</div>
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<div>Worthwhile?</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 at 13:03,
Brendan Barnes <<a href="mailto:brenbarnes@gmail.com" target="_blank">brenbarnes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>Loanable equipment such as high-precision handheld GPS
units for GPS traces, and Waylens or 360 degree cameras
for KartaView image sequences. Similar to the equipment
loan program in Europe <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GPS_Units_for_Loan" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GPS_Units_for_Loan</a></div>
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<div>Hardware for a loanable KartaView rig project, such as
a "trekking-style" backpack for OSM hikers, or a HD
multi-camera, high-precision GPS car rig.</div>
<div><br>
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<div>Funding to help secure more OSM hardware hosting
sponsors in the region. Currently we only have two Tile
Servers, and they are both located in Melbourne,
Australia.</div>
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<div>Drone mapping infrastructure, such as a community Open
Drone Map cloud server, to process orthorectified aerial
imagery.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 at
17:32, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-au <<a href="mailto:talk-au@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-au@openstreetmap.org</a>>
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<div>9 Jul 2021, 03:06 by <a href="mailto:eneerhut@gmail.com" target="_blank">eneerhut@gmail.com</a>:</div>
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<li>Funding for OSM related software development<br>
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<div dir="auto">What about projects that are not <br>
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<div dir="auto">targeting specifically Oceania needs but</div>
<div dir="auto">as useful elsewhere?<br>
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<div dir="auto">Is it going to be lower priority, with <br>
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<div dir="auto">Oceania-focused project having a clear</div>
<div dir="auto">preference?<br>
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<div dir="auto">Or is it not useful to even propose
them?</div>
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