<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 September 2011 14:18, John Sturdy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcg.sturdy@gmail.com">jcg.sturdy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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And I'd be worried about "being brought to the attention of the<br>
authorities" for being seen pointing lasers at infrastructural things<br>
such as electricity pylons --- do people tend to complain about having<br>
their buildings etc visibly surveyed? (I'm a newbie at all this, my<br>
only experience of potential problems has been that I could see that<br>
people were wondering what I was doing when I was walking around<br>
writing down house numbers.) Or does a hi-vis jacket make it all<br>
alright ;-) ?<br>
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__John</font></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>When I'm specifically out mapping, or cycling (so it's a safety thing too), I often wear this OSM high-vis jacket. <a href="http://shop.opencyclemap.org/products/openstreetmap-surveyors-jacket">http://shop.opencyclemap.org/products/openstreetmap-surveyors-jacket</a></div>
<div>Wearing it has mixed results but definitely a difference with people think I'm official (or from Google). I get less people questioning what I'm doing, more people asking me for directions or to fix/report something. In rougher residential areas people are more defensive to the high-vis, they think I'm from the council or something.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But it's nice to be asked what I'm doing with interest. You soon learn key words that are good to mention, I like to make sure I get in "volunteer", "hobby", and "more detailed & more uses than google". This is made easier by kindly offering them a leaflet so they can go away and read about it or look at the map I've made. <a href="http://shop.opencyclemap.org/products/openstreetmap-promotional-leaflets">http://shop.opencyclemap.org/products/openstreetmap-promotional-leaflets</a> (free to UK addresses)</div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div>-- <br>Gregory<br><a href="mailto:osm@livingwithdragons.com">osm@livingwithdragons.com</a><br><a href="http://www.livingwithdragons.com">http://www.livingwithdragons.com</a><br>