[Talk-gb-westmidlands] New Midlands OSMer

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

Hi Phil,

Welcome to OSM, great to have someone new in the area make contact.

There are several users who live in your general area, one in Bromsgrove I
know of plus several in the s/w part of Brum.

You might want to join the Talk-gb-westmidlands at openstreetmap.org mailing
list, which you can do via http://lists.openstreetmap.org
Say hello to the list if you do.

We have monthly social meets in Birmingham. Always on the first Thursday of
the month. The next one on 3rd Sept may well be on the west side of the
city, so you might be interested in that. Keep an eye on the mappa-mercia
wiki page for that.

For chatroom you need to be at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Irc#IRC
The main and busiest channel, #osm, is the one I hang out on as blackadder.

Finally a couple of userful websites:
www.mappa-mercia.org for our local branding of OSM in the west mids
and
www.itoworld.com and subscribe (fee) to OSM Mapper which lets you see who
has editing and is editing in a give area. 

Hope to see you around sometime.

Cheers

Andy Robinson
(blackadder) 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Philip Striplin [mailto:philstriplin at sky.com]
>Sent: 23 August 2009 5:32 PM
>To: blackadderajr at gmail.com
>Subject: New Midlands OSMer
>
>Andy
>
>It looks from the Midlands OSM page that you're a good contact for the
>local group.  I've just started contributing into the map as a way of
>building a parish map for my local area, West Malvern in Worcestershire.
>
>Do you know if there are any other active contributors around here?
>There's clearly been some work done in the past, and it is, of course, a
>very popular walking and cycling area.
>
>I'd also be interested in joining in with broader projects, and getting
>to know others in the group.  I'm also sure I'm going to have questions
>- is there anywhere to get them answered, like a chatroom?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Phil Striplin
>