[Osmf-talk] OSMF Business Card

[Allan Mustard]

The problem I see is simply, "Who is going to do the work of producing 
plastic membership cards, then mailing them out annually?" The MWG is 
like all working groups a small set of volunteers who run the MWG in 
their spare time and I have yet to hear from its members that they would 
be willing to add this to the MWG's task list. And even then, a plastic 
membership card is IMHO unlikely to quell paranoia any better than a 
self-printed business card would.

Another approach to this problem is for the OSMF board to authorize 
community members to use the OSM logo for customizing surveyor's vests 
and then wearing them while collecting data. On-line retailers offer 
them for competitive (=low) prices. Wearing surveyor's vests while 
collecting data would allay the concerns of most (but certainly not all) 
suspicious and paranoid neighbors.

On 12/1/2023 1:34 AM, 
b.kilhu+ytrwslnopdfujmrtjzkvsxweizfjncifmzdwwypiihjzdikulpnvql+- at gmail.com 
wrote:
> What keeps one from first paying a few euros for an official annual
> OSMF membership, waiting for the plastic card to arrive by mail and
> only _then_ doing photography for their terrorist activities? The
> answer is nothing and that this conversation isn't heading in the
> right direction. I still believe my suggestion was the best so far.
>
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