Cake sales? Now that's an idea...<br><br>You'll see here <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:80n">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:80n</a> that I strongly believe that the consumer of OSM data should be the one to pay. The contributors to OSM are already very generously giving their time.
<br><br>However, OSM is still at an early stage and its a hard sell at the moment to get people to use the data. I'd be very interested in any success stories and accessible examples that we could showcase.<br><br>The associate deals I've set up are for products that many OSM users will probably be purchasing anyway. They generate revenue for OSM at no additional cost to anyone. Its a win-win deal that generates short term revenue which is sorely needed by OSM to get us to the next stage.
<br><br>I hope that soon we'll get beyond the stage where we have to do cake-sales (I might just organize one for the Rutland mapping party) but at the moment every penny helps, and these things really do help us significantly.
<br><br>Etienne<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">OJW</b> <<a href="mailto:streetmap@blibbleblobble.co.uk">streetmap@blibbleblobble.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If the merchandise page gets any bigger, 80n will be holding raffles and<br>cake-sales to generate money for OSM. How about something more relevant,<br>like selling maps and map data?<br><br>OSM is Free data, but all the people who know how to obtain it, format it for
<br>printing, and add features to it, are part of the project.<br><br>Perhaps you could start by flicking through any holiday brochures, local<br>guidebooks, leaflets for restaurants, pubs and tourist attractions, for maps
<br>which could be replaced with OSM data (in areas like surrey), and then<br>contact the publishers to ask if they'd be interested in an alternative map.<br><br>Formatting some OSM data in a style that reflects their current product would
<br>be a good thing to do in advance of contacting them of course, just to show<br>what's available.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">
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