[OSM-talk] Increasing map useage (was Merchandise (was : Amazon))

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Etienne" <80n80n at gmail.com>
To: "OJW" <streetmap at blibbleblobble.co.uk>
Cc: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Merchandise (was : Amazon)


> Cake sales?  Now that's an idea...
>
> You'll see here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:80n that I
> strongly believe that the consumer of OSM data should be the one to pay.
> The contributors to OSM are already very generously giving their time.
>
> However, OSM is still at an early stage and its a hard sell at the moment 
> to
> get people to use the data.  I'd be very interested in any success stories
> and accessible examples that we could showcase.

I think we need to make it much easier to:
1) find the maps
2) use the maps
3) give OSM some money

The above also cover some of the things discussed in the recent thread 
"organising the wiki pages".

Can we not have a new subdomain, say http://maps.openstreetmap.org  This 
being a very simple page, with an alphabetical index drilled down by 
country> district>town etc.  there to be available a png version of the map 
and the svg file.  (if we want to increase useage of the maps I think we 
have to make the svg available as it's so more flexible). Obviously there 
would have to be someway to get the png and svg files uploaded and linked to 
the various pages, suggestions?

have a link on each page of  http://maps.openstreetmap.org to two further 
pages which are easy to understand:

page 1-   donate here
page 2 - licence details

Ansd thats it, nice simple site, easy to navigate, and find the maps.

I think we also need to see if we can reduce the OSM logo and CC logo on the 
SVG files produced by osmarender, to maybe just text.

If we make it easier to find and use the maps I am sure it will be easier to 
increase uptake.  For instance we could write to all web designers, graphic 
designers and ad agencies on the Isle of Wight, pointing out we have maps of 
the whole county available.

David

>
> The associate deals I've set up are for products that many OSM users will
> probably be purchasing anyway.  They generate revenue for OSM at no
> additional cost to anyone.  Its a win-win deal that generates short term
> revenue which is sorely needed by OSM to get us to the next stage.
>
> I hope that soon we'll get beyond the stage where we have to do cake-sales
> (I might just organize one for the Rutland mapping party) but at the 
> moment
> every penny helps, and these things really do help us significantly.
>
> Etienne
>
>
> On 8/27/06, OJW <streetmap at blibbleblobble.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> If the merchandise page gets any bigger, 80n will be holding raffles and
>> cake-sales to generate money for OSM.  How about something more relevant,
>> like selling maps and map data?
>>
>> OSM is Free data, but all the people who know how to obtain it, format it
>> for
>> printing, and add features to it, are part of the project.
>>
>> Perhaps you could start by flicking through any holiday brochures, local
>> guidebooks, leaflets for restaurants, pubs and tourist attractions, for
>> maps
>> which could be replaced with OSM data (in areas like surrey), and then
>> contact the publishers to ask if they'd be interested in an alternative
>> map.
>>
>> Formatting some OSM data in a style that reflects their current product
>> would
>> be a good thing to do in advance of contacting them of course, just to
>> show
>> what's available.
>>
>>
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