[OSM-newbies] OSM Japan

[SteveC]

Bouncing to people who can help :-)

On Jul 21, 2010, at 5:49 AM, Tony Mitchell wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> I've just discovered OSM and I'm extremely impressed by it. Although I've always loved maps I'm not a cartographer but this is drawing me in I have to say!
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> Basically I'm London based and my girlfriend in Fukuoka, Japan is setting up a website where GoogleMaps to map restaurants, bars, boutiques etc would be an essential feature were it not for the sky-high cost. So looking around for an alternative lead me to OSM.
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> I've added a couple of tiny streets basically from memory and plonked a fantastic little bar/restaurant that I used to frequent (called izakaya in Japanese actually). Should I only be adding street etc using GPS? Anyway they haven't shown up yet but it was only half an hour ago
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> The idea was that she could essentially mark her clients' premises on the map, export them as HTML and embed them in her site. Is that something that is a) possible and b) ok with you guys at OSM? I know what I'm proposing is for commercial use rather than purely for the love of map-making but Fukuoka is such a cool city and there seems to be very few places of interest currently marked out so I guess we could help there. 
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> If it is an option then we'd gladly become members of the foundation and make a contribution to your work.
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> And if it is possible, is there also a way to use our own tiny logo to mark bars, boutiques etc?
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> Anything I can do to help her get her website running so we can start to live in the same city (being separated by 6,000 miles for 5 months is something I wouldn't wish on anyone!) And we're trying to get started with limited funds so something like OSM could reall help.
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> Kind regards,
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> Tony Mitchell
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