It appears he is willing to wait. <br><br>But Paul, if you want to organize something before, feel free to post the meetup group: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-OpenStreetMappers/">http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-OpenStreetMappers/</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Shawn Britton</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smbritton@comcast.net">smbritton@comcast.net</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:21 PM<br>Subject: Re: Mercury News story about mapping<br>To: Sarah Manley <<a href="mailto:sarah.m.manley@gmail.com">sarah.m.manley@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word;">
ok, osm-talk-us.<div>Yes, the more knowledgeable people present the better.</div><div>- Shawn</div><div><br><div><br><div><div class="im"><div>On Jan 6, 2010, at 9:59 PM, Sarah Manley wrote:</div><br></div><div><div></div>
<div class="h5"><blockquote type="cite">can i share your email with talk-us?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Shawn Britton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smbritton@comcast.net" target="_blank">smbritton@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12px;">It seems </span></font><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Mike Swift the Mercury News will be at the next mapping party to do an article.</span></font><div>
<font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"></span></font><font face="Arial">This is a publicity opportunity.</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">- Shawn</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br>
</font><div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin: 0px;"> <font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="3" color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><b>From: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="3" face="Helvetica">"Swift, Mike" <<a href="mailto:mswift@mercurynews.com" target="_blank">mswift@mercurynews.com</a>></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="3" color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><b>Date: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="3" face="Helvetica">January 6, 2010 4:58:39 PM PST</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="3" color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><b>To: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="3" face="Helvetica">"Shawn Britton" <<a href="mailto:smbritton@comcast.net" target="_blank">smbritton@comcast.net</a>></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="3" color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><b>Subject: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="3" face="Helvetica"><b>RE: Mercury News story about mapping</b></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div> </div> <div style="word-wrap: break-word;"> <div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Hi Shawn,</font></span></div> <div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">It's Mike Swift at the Mercury News. Sorry, I think I dropped the ball on our conversation. I'd like to do the story sometime in the next month, but I think it would be much better if I can see first-hand what you guys do. So I'm willing to wait until your next big mapping meet-up, even if its in February.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Cheers,</font></span></div><p><font size="2" face="Arial">Mike Swift</font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">San Jose Mercury News</font> <br>
<font size="2" face="Arial">Ph: (408) 271-3648</font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">Cell: (650) 388-8210</font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">Email: <a href="mailto:mswift@mercurynews.com" target="_blank">mswift@mercurynews.com</a></font> <br>
<font size="2" face="Arial">Follow me on Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/swiftstories" target="_blank">twitter.com/swiftstories</a></font> </p> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;"> <div dir="ltr" align="left">
<font size="2" face="Tahoma">-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b> Shawn Britton [<a href="mailto:smbritton@comcast.net" target="_blank">mailto:smbritton@comcast.net</a>]<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 24, 2009 10:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Swift, Mike<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Mercury News story about mapping<br><br></font></div>What kind of time frame are you thinking of? <div>Thanks.</div> <div><br></div> <div>- Shawn</div> <div><br> <div>
<div> On Dec 21, 2009, at 7:10 PM, Swift, Mike wrote:</div><br> <blockquote type="cite"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word;"> <div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Hi Shawn,</font></span></div>
<div> <span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">That would be great. Even if you knew of one person going out by him or herself, who might be willing to have a reporter and a photographer tag along, that would work fine for me. Thanks!!</font></span></div>
<div> </div><p><font size="2" face="Arial">Mike Swift</font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">San Jose Mercury News</font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">Ph: (408) 271-3648</font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">Cell: (650) 388-8210</font> <br>
<font size="2" face="Arial">Email: <a href="mailto:mswift@mercurynews.com" target="_blank">mswift@mercurynews.com</a></font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">Follow me on Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/swiftstories" target="_blank">twitter.com/swiftstories</a></font> </p>
<blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;"> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b> Shawn Britton [<a href="mailto:smbritton@comcast.net" target="_blank">mailto:smbritton@comcast.net</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 21, 2009 4:50 PM<br><b>To:</b> Swift, Mike<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Mercury News story about mapping<br><br></font></div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word;">
<div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Would there by anything sooner than Feb. 20?</font></span></div></div></blockquote>Not by me. <div> <blockquote type="cite"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word;">
<div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Do people ever go out in smaller groups to do mapping?</font></span></div></div></blockquote>Probably, though they don't seem to be announcing using the meetup group.</div>
<div> <blockquote type="cite"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word;"> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;"> <div> <div><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-OpenStreetMappers/" target="_blank">http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-OpenStreetMappers/</a></div>
</div></blockquote></div></blockquote>I'll do some asking around and get back to you.</div> <div><br></div> <div>- Shawn</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>
<br> <div> <div>On Dec 20, 2009, at 9:07 PM, Swift, Mike wrote:</div><br> <blockquote type="cite"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word;"> <div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Hey Shawn,</font></span></div>
<div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Thanks for putting together that great note. Would there by anything sooner than Feb. 20? Do people ever go out in smaller groups to do mapping? Thanks!</font></span></div>
<div> </div><p><font size="2" face="Arial">Mike Swift</font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">San Jose Mercury News</font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">Ph: (408) 271-3648</font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">Cell: (650) 388-8210</font> <br>
<font size="2" face="Arial">Email: <a href="mailto:mswift@mercurynews.com" target="_blank">mswift@mercurynews.com</a></font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">Follow me on Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/swiftstories" target="_blank">twitter.com/swiftstories</a></font> </p>
<blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;"> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b> Shawn Britton [<a href="mailto:smbritton@comcast.net" target="_blank">mailto:smbritton@comcast.net</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 10, 2009 7:37 PM<br><b>To:</b> Swift, Mike<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Mercury News story about mapping<br><br></font></div>Mike- <div><span style="white-space: pre;"></span>Thanks for your interest.</div>
<div><span style="white-space: pre;"></span>Yes there is another mapping party / hike coming up. </div> <div><a href="http://www.lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/calendar.asp?eventid=1403" target="_blank">http://www.lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/calendar.asp?eventid=1403</a></div>
<div><br></div> <div>I don't have this listed with the Bay Area Mappers yet.</div> <div><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-OpenStreetMappers/" target="_blank">http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-OpenStreetMappers/</a></div>
<div>I'll get to that this weekend.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Tentatively, how about 7:00 PM Tuesday for a call? I can handle the event and hiking part. For in depth information about open source mapping, I may recommend someone else to talk to, or make it a conference call</div>
<div>with someone more knowledgeable than I. But I can do it in a pinch.</div> <div><br></div> <div>- Shawn</div> <div><br></div> <div>here is some background:</div>
<div><br></div> <div> <div>The GIS committee was started about 4 years ago on a suggestion by the Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter Executive Committee.</div> <div>I got startup information from Dean Wallraff of the Sierra Club Angeles chapter. Our efforts were focused then around use ESRI's ArcGIS mapping software.</div>
<div><a href="http://www.esri.com/" target="_blank">http://www.esri.com/</a></div> <div>ESRI provided demo copies of their mapping software product.</div> <div>A chapter map (by Steve Sears) and a high speed rail map (by Darla Sadler) were produced. These can be viewed at </div>
<div><a href="http://lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/geoinfosys/" target="_blank">http://lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/geoinfosys/</a></div> <div><br></div> <div>We have been working with Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch</div>
<div><a href="http://www.ebbettspassforestwatch.org/" target="_blank">http://www.ebbettspassforestwatch.org/</a></div> <div><br></div> <div>To produce timber harvesting maps to aid their anti-clear-cutting efforts. </div>
<div><br></div> <div>On our website, you will find an example map for EPFW by Paul Pribor.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Recently, some chapter demographic maps were produced for the ExCom, however these were done by Alex Steinberger of the Angeles chapter. The local volunteer had</div>
<div>to drop out.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Now the mapping parties / hikes:</div> <div>Another effort is a collaboration with CloudMade</div> <div><a href="http://cloudmade.com/" target="_blank">http://cloudmade.com/</a></div>
<div>and Open Street Map</div> <div><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/</a></div> <div>which presents a wiki open source map of the world.</div>
<div><br></div> <div>CloudMade makes mapping tools for the Open Street Map effort.</div> <div><br></div> <div>I have been leading new member hikes for the Guadalupe Regional Group (a regional group of the Loma Prieta Chapter), and have made these "mapping parties" as well.</div>
<div><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-OpenStreetMappers/" target="_blank">http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-OpenStreetMappers/</a></div> <div>CloudMade kindly loans me GPS units that hikers, if they choose to, can use to collect way points and tracks, to help improve the mapping of the park where we hike.</div>
<div>We then meet at a coffee shop after the hike to download the data from the GPS units to laptop computers then upload it to OpenStreetMap for editing and inclusion in the Wiki map.</div>
<div>The wiki map is not copyrighted, and is constantly maintained by volunteers. The mapping parties have increased hike attendance as well.</div> <div><br></div> <div><br>
</div></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>I'll do the <br> <div> <div>On Dec 9, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Swift, Mike wrote:</div>
<br> <blockquote type="cite"> <div><p><font size="2" face="Arial">Hi Shawn,</font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">It's Mike Swift with the Mercury News. Thanks for returning my phone call the other about the mapping party you guys had done in Gilroy this past weekend. I was hoping to at least get a photographer down there, but our photo desk was short staffed that day and it just didn't work out. Are you guys planning any other mapping trips in the near future that we might be able to tag along on? And would you have a moment to talk on the phone in the next few days about the group and about open source mapping in general?</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial">Thanks! </font></p><p><font size="2" face="Arial">Mike Swift</font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">San Jose Mercury News</font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">Ph: (408) 271-3648</font> <br>
<font size="2" face="Arial">Cell: (650) 388-8210</font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">Email: <a href="mailto:mswift@mercurynews.com" target="_blank">mswift@mercurynews.com</a></font> <br><font size="2" face="Arial">Follow me on Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/swiftstories" target="_blank">twitter.com/swiftstories</a></font> </p>
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