[Talk-us] Why are you missing out on this fun?

[Bill R. WASHBURN]

OK, I'll bite.

Anyone in the Atlanta area willing to meet up (or north of the fall line in
Georgia who can come in to the MARTA service area), please send me a message
and we'll see if we can work out the timing off-list. I know there are a
bunch of mappers in the Decatur area so I'll propose that we meet up near
Decatur, Emory, or some place downtown.

Bill R. WASHBURN
aka, dygituljunky


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 02:09, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> Why aren't you getting more fun out of OpenStreetMap?
>
> Because you don't know the right people.
>
> That's right.  You'll enjoy OSM even more than you do now, once you
> meet some additional local mappers.  But to do that you have to
> actually meet them.  Yes, email is nice, IRC is fine, but you have to
> meet them in person.  And you won't know how much more fun that is
> until you do it.
>
> Do you have an OSM group that meets in your town?  You should.  There
> are regular OSM meetings in every town in Germany with more than two
> traffic signals.[1]  But there are only three OpenStreetMap groups
> that meet regularly in the US.  That means that there are only six
> traffic lights in the USA![2]  That is wrong!
>
> You need to start a local OSM group in your town.  Other mappers are
> waiting for you to pluck up your nerve, pick a location and a date,
> AND DO IT!  Book it.  Add your local group to the OSM calendar[3],
> announce it on talk-us@ and IRC.  Invite the local cycling group, Open
> Data group and Linux user group.  They are all waiting to hear from
> you.  That's all the planning you have to do.  The toughest part is
> just setting the first date and that doesn't sound hard at all.  Now
> do it.
>
> You'll meet the right people. And have more fun.
>
> [1] 17% of statistics in this email are fabricated
> [2] Some of the logic is stretched too
> [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Current_events
>
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