[Talk-GB] Fw: English chapter

[Nick Whitelegg]

Chris Hill <chillly809 at yahoo.co.uk> 
18/08/2009 17:08

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Re: [Talk-GB] English chapter






Nick Whitelegg wrote: 
>>>What is the point  of local chapters in England?  We don't have 
language 
 
>>>conversion issues, currency issues or time zone issues.

 
Cheers, Chris
 

>>One need would be to organise and coordinate local mapping. For 
instance, 
>>in my area (the "Solent" area or "central southern England" for want of 
a 
>>better word) a goal to work towards might be to get all towns done, or 
to 
>>map local national parks / recreational areas e.g. the New Forest or 
South 
>>Downs.

Nick

 
>This just feels horribly like a layer of bureaucracy to me.  Why would 
the foundation want to get involved with organising local mapping?  I 
certainly >don't need some "official" body to prod me into completing an 
area.

>Cheers, Chris
That wasn't my intention, it was more local social/organisational groups 
etc. It wasn't  intended to be an "official" body, more like a local user 
group, along with promoting use by local business, etc. It's certainly not 
my intention to be bureaucratic, but without  county / region level user 
or advocacy groups, takeup will remain stubbornly slow I expect. 

At the moment it's more or less myself alone mapping the New Forest 
National Park. If we had a local group, promoting the goal of mapping the 
New Forest NP and crucially promoting the value of OSM data to people who 
could *use* the data, then OSM could take off round here a lot faster than 
it is doing at the moment. 

Nick