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Indeed its a good 2-hour conversation. +A mini-conference is a good idea we can share our ideas on how to use OSM in any way we can. As if an "OSM Philippines Conference" this can be a way to promote OSM to Filipinos.<br>
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Art and George and the rest of you guys what do you think?<br>
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Best,<br>
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murlwe<br>
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>From: maning sambale [emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com]<br>
>Sent: 7/13/2009 10:19:46 AM<br>
>To: talk-ph@openstreetmap.org<br>
>Subject: Re: [talk-ph] finally met murlwe last friday and some thoughts wediscussed<br>
><br>
>As the subject says, I met murlwe last Friday, he returned one of the<br>
>gpstogo units (which will be lent to ronny by august).<br>
><br>
>We had a very interesting conversation I would like to share to the group.<br>
><br>
>* Expanding the gpstogo program - gps loggers (for example navman) are<br>
>now very cheap. You can get a blue-tooth enabled unit for less than<br>
>2K PHP. Most phones have a bluetooth. Won't get into the details but<br>
>I think you get the idea.<br>
>Plutocrat has this rig:<br>
>http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/plutocrat-osm-ph-mapper/<br>
><br>
>If we can raise some cash let's say 20K PHP, we can buy 20 data<br>
>loggers and lend them to more mappers. Jim (from one of his mails)<br>
>suggested to make it a "competition". If the mapper can gather X<br>
>number of traces with the loaned unit, the mapper can own the gps.<br>
>Now the question is, how can we raise the funds?<br>
><br>
>* OSM-PH mini-conference - murlwe and the rest of the Davao mappers is<br>
>very much interested in this. Their ideacamp-davao spurred a lot of<br>
>interest for OSM down south. I think the ideacamp format (similar to<br>
>unconference/bar-camp event) can be adopted here. He suggested we<br>
>need about 6 months lead time to get this rolling. It doesn't have to<br>
>be in Manila, btw. If anyone can sponsor the event in any place I<br>
>think everyone is OK with that.<br>
><br>
>* Neuraltech - is developing really cool things around OSM data<br>
>(address geocoding, routing, etc.) which is of particular interest to<br>
>some of you. I'll leave it to murlwe and smackcode to share them to<br>
>us.<br>
><br>
><br>
>-- <br>
>cheers,<br>
>maning<br>
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