[Talk-GB] OSM mapping parties/events in London in November

[Tom Hughes]

On 31/10/12 14:45, Kathleen Danielson wrote:

> Sorry to burst into the conversation here, but I organize the Geo DC
> meetups <http://www.meetup.com/Geo-DC/> in Washington, DC, and I am
> going to be in London for vacation on Nov 4-6 and again Nov 18-19, and I
> was wondering if those dates might overlap with any chances to
> socialize! I'm very new to OSM, but I just attended State of the Map US
> a few weeks ago, and I'm excited to learn more and meet more of this
> really interesting community.

We've got one tomorrow, but that's a tad too early... Hopefully Harry 
will chip in shortly and say when we might do the next one.

> Are there any meetups or mapping parties planned, or would anyone be
> interested in meeting up for a drink then? One thing that I know for
> certain I'll be doing is heading to SoHo to check out the [site of the]
> Broad Street pump and the John Snow pub. No idea if the pub is any good,
> but John Snow is a pretty interesting character, so I'm excited to
> follow up some of the reading I've done recently by actually walking
> around the neighborhood that saw the worst of that particular cholera
> outbreak <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak>.

The John Snow is reasonable - it's a Sam Smith's pub these days so 
nothing special except that the beer is cheap.

We have used it once or twice for meetups, but not recently.

Tom

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