[Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

[Dan S]

Hi all,

I'm looking forward to OSM's 10th birthday. It occurred to me that we
should perhaps use it as a potential opportunity for some press
coverage, ideally to get press coverage outside the usual tech/gis
world. To do this we'd need some kind of event which makes a story.

There are already plans for OSM birthday celebrations/meetups, and
that's all good. I'm NOT talking about a social event but some event,
perhaps even just brief, as long as it's got something that might
appeal in a soft-news kind of sense. And maybe in London, since London
is the birthplace of OSM.

A couple of ideas:

* We could organise a march following the route of the first ever GPS
track (carrying Steve Coast aloft, sitting crosslegged on a splashmap)

* We could visit the first ever tea-shop added to OSM, then the first
ever park, then of course the first ever pub. We could give a plaque
to each place to commemorate its place in history.

To make it a press-worthy event, it needs to be something that we can
write a press-release about in advance, and it needs to be something
photogenic. So let's get more creative...

* We could 3D-print a candle in the shape of all the OSM nodes in
London! and put it on top of an earth-shaped cake!

* We could print out a map of London at 1:1 scale...

Anyone interested in working on something? Anyone got crazier ideas than me?

Dan