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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/20/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">SteveC</b> <<a href="mailto:steve@asklater.com">steve@asklater.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">* @ 19/10/05 07:52:00 PM <a href="mailto:noodles@earth.li">noodles@earth.li</a> wrote:<br><br>> I've been trying to convince various people I know to get involved with
<br>> OSM (including one who works with GPS tracking of trucks), but I'm not<br>> quite sure what I can show them as benefits other than the maps on the<br>> website?</blockquote>
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<div>Get in touch with me and/or Steve off list if you want to meet up and talk about this more. It sounds worth pursuing and it would be ideal to have a few more large contributors alongside Petter's taxi data and our courier contacts. We have personally signed NDAs before which allow us to talk with people about their data without them worrying about us running off with it (and showing their competitors their weak points, for example). The same might help here?
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Show them a copy of the poster we have for sale, and say they could get<br>a ton of publicity if they give us the data?
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<div>This is the big one I think - GPS-derived maps are a different breed, and there's a bunch of analysis we can do as well as "just" tracing maps. Things like the map print we did serve to illustrate how rich the aggregate data can be and get people to be more enthusiastic about contributing.
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<div>Tom.</div>
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