The OSM Georgia meetup group is today, Feb 5, from noon to 3 PM at Raging Burrito in Decatur, Georgia, USA.<br><br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143384779054605">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143384779054605</a><br clear="all">
<br>Bill R. WASHBURN<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 04:02, Bill R. WASHBURN <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dygituljunky@gmail.com">dygituljunky@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
OK, I'll bite.<br><br>Anyone in the Atlanta area willing to meet up (or north of the fall line in Georgia who can come in to the MARTA service area), please send me a message and we'll see if we can work out the timing off-list. I know there are a bunch of mappers in the Decatur area so I'll propose that we meet up near Decatur, Emory, or some place downtown.<br clear="all">
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<br>Bill R. WASHBURN<br>aka, dygituljunky</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 02:09, Richard Weait <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@weait.com" target="_blank">richard@weait.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Why aren't you getting more fun out of OpenStreetMap?<br>
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Because you don't know the right people.<br>
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That's right. You'll enjoy OSM even more than you do now, once you<br>
meet some additional local mappers. But to do that you have to<br>
actually meet them. Yes, email is nice, IRC is fine, but you have to<br>
meet them in person. And you won't know how much more fun that is<br>
until you do it.<br>
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Do you have an OSM group that meets in your town? You should. There<br>
are regular OSM meetings in every town in Germany with more than two<br>
traffic signals.[1] But there are only three OpenStreetMap groups<br>
that meet regularly in the US. That means that there are only six<br>
traffic lights in the USA![2] That is wrong!<br>
<br>
You need to start a local OSM group in your town. Other mappers are<br>
waiting for you to pluck up your nerve, pick a location and a date,<br>
AND DO IT! Book it. Add your local group to the OSM calendar[3],<br>
announce it on talk-us@ and IRC. Invite the local cycling group, Open<br>
Data group and Linux user group. They are all waiting to hear from<br>
you. That's all the planning you have to do. The toughest part is<br>
just setting the first date and that doesn't sound hard at all. Now<br>
do it.<br>
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You'll meet the right people. And have more fun.<br>
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[1] 17% of statistics in this email are fabricated<br>
[2] Some of the logic is stretched too<br>
[3] <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Current_events" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Current_events</a><br>
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