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Well.. it's chicken and egg. There wasn't anyone interested in the
UK when I ran the first mapping parties there either.<br>
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If you set up a group on meetup.com you'd be surprised how many
people join and start to get interested once you have a group
meeting monthly.<br>
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We should really be aiming for one meetup per state. I think we have
MA, WA, CA, CO now all have monthly meetups. How does NY, TX and the
captiol look?<br>
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Steve<br>
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On 6/2/2011 10:14 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
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cite="mid:BANLkTimhzu0jdOPTw8TzTuyrsXaU4Zn3fA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">From my perspective there are a couple hurdles:
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<div>0) There aren't very many people aware of or interested in
OSM in the US yet.</div>
<div>1) People interested in OSM who might be able to evangelize
OSM already spend their time mapping or (in my case) just don't
have any extra time outside of existing obligations, work,
family life, etc.</div>
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<div>That being said, perhaps there's something that could be done
to grease the wheels and make it as easy as possible to get a
mappy hour/mapping party going. Can those that have run
successful ones recently talk about what they did, who they
contacted, what time they held it? I'm thinking something like
Harry Wood's diary posts for the London OSM meetups, but for the
meetups in the US.</div>
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<div>Maybe seeing/reading how others do it in the US (not that it
needs to be different) would provide inspiration for the rest of
us?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:09 PM,
Steve Coast <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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wrote:<br>
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0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);
padding-left: 1ex;">Agreed. Our mapping parties and
meetups in Seattle have been awesome.<br>
<br>
On 6/2/2011 8:59 AM, Richard Weait wrote:<br>
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0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);
padding-left: 1ex;"> I see that a mapping party is
planned for Boston this month. This is<br>
awesome, and if you are nearby, you should attend.<br>
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href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Boston/June_2011_mapping_party"
target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Boston/June_2011_mapping_party</a><br>
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There is also a mapping party on that date in
Sherbrooke, Quebec.<br>
<br>
But why aren't there ten times as many mapping parties
in the US as<br>
there are in Canada? The US has ten times the
population. Y'all<br>
should have more mapping parties. And Mappy Hours, to
meet up with<br>
other mappers and talk about mapping over your beverage
of choice.<br>
<br>
It's fun. Really. You should set one up. Today.<br>
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