[OSM-newbies] Conversational gambit: New to OSM?

[Lucio Chiappetti]

On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Richard Weait wrote:

> 1. What first brought your attention to OSM?  A magazine article?  A
> web site interview?  SteveC's FLOSS Weekly interview?

An article on Corriere della Sera, a leading italian newspaper.

> 2. What made you decide to get involved and join this list?

I wished to find a place publishing administrative boundaries and plans of 
public transport lines in a format which can be exported and used in a 
scalable way. I intended to use that for a public transport user 
committee.

> 3. What is the trickiest part about starting with OSM, for you?  Can
> you suggest how to make this tricky thing less-tricky?

Unfortunately I really had no time to start yet !

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