[Openstreetmap] money and what to do about it

[SteveC]

* @ 19/03/05 01:22:09 AM jo at frot.org wrote:
> 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.

A competition of some kind sounds very cool. Have to restrict it to
walking or the only cyclist wins :-)

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

This is kinda funky idea, once we have some actual data. Automatic
index generation, just think!

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/