[Openstreetmap] money and what to do about it

[Jo Walsh]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 01:06:04AM +0000, Matt Amos wrote:
> for 1000 UKP you can probably get 8-10 handheld GPS units to lend to 
> people... imho, this would be highly productive and potentially 
> limitless

argh! of course you are right. but i am hoping anticipating that we
can acquire more potential money in the future that will enable us to
do this. we need to perform some preparations before running distance
/ coverage games, but we can potentially act on photographic data now...

> or a massive prize for the GPS-a-thon ;-)

definitely... i was thinking we could make Garmin format output maps
of the GPS traces collected so people would have an incentive/guidance
for where to cover. This would involve having to get the blue etrex
rather than the most basic model which doens't have enough map memory.
We have a recipe for making garmin base maps.

Also people keep suggesting quite strenuously that we should offer PDF
output of maps, that would really have more public appeal they claim.


-jo