[Osmf-talk] OSMF Business Card

[Allan Mustard]

A downloadable makes more sense. My auto insurance card (which must 
mandatorily be carried in the car) comes as a downloadable PDF that you 
print on paper. So does my health insurance card. About the only plastic 
cards still mailed out are credit/debit cards, grocery store loyalty 
cards (also available as apps), and driver's licenses. Everything else 
arrives as electrons.

How hard would it be to write code for automatic generation of a 
downloadable PDF file for dues-paying members to print at home? I have 
no idea.

On 12/1/2023 1:09 PM, Robert Grübler wrote:
>
> Am Freitag, 1. Dezember 2023 16:10 Allan Mustard 
> [mailto:allan at mustard.net <mailto:allan at mustard.net>] schrieb:
>
> > The problem I see is simply, "Who is going to do the work of
>
> > producing plastic membership cards, then mailing them out annually?"
>
> Alternatives:
>
> * pkpass file for wallet apps
>
> * pdf
>
> * jpg
>
> Example of my “Alpenverein Mitgliedskarte” (Alpine Club membership card):
>
> https://abload.de/img/osmf_01_msc8edza.jpg
>
> I personally prefer the plastic card, but there are print shops ...
>
> *Von:*Allan Mustard [mailto:allan at mustard.net]
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 1. Dezember 2023 16:10
> *An:* osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org
> *Betreff:* Re: [Osmf-talk] OSMF Business Card
>
> 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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