[OSM-talk] Slippy map initial presentation - the number one marketing need

[Mike Collinson]

IP-based initial presentation sounds like a good 
medium/long-term plan. It works pretty well at a 
country level as ?ICANN?  allocated IP block 
geographically and the recipients then deployed 
usually but not always in just one 
country.   Within a country, it depends how an 
ISP configures allocation, a dynamic address 
might be re-allocated to a place hundreds of 
kilometres away when they tweak their network configuration.

BUT, what about NOW?  Sorry to shout, but I'm 
really excited that we are almost there except 
for one small step.  I'd really like to see 
http://almien.co.uk/OSM/geonavbar/  or something similar implemented yesterday.

To globally reach the sort of critical mass now 
occurring in the UK, we really, really need more 
contributors outside Europe.  I'd say a lot can 
be done with just 5 or 6 per medium-sized country.

The way for current contributors to get them is 
to point them to the OSM website to see what an 
OSM map looks like *in an area of interest to 
them*.  Until the last few weeks that has just 
not been possible ("Tiles loading" does not sell 
OSM).  Thanks to the great efforts of a number of 
people (deeply appreciated),  I can now email 
people a specific lat/lon/zoom link or an 
almien.co.uk city and am confident it will 
load.  The final step is to let them do it themselves.  Looking forward to it!


Mike
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At 01:10 AM 19/02/2007, Jon Burgess wrote:
>On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 16:38 +0100, Iván 
>Sánchez Ortega wrote:> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED 
>MESSAGE-----> Hash: SHA1> > El Domingo 18 de 
>Febrero de 2007 14:37, Barnett, Phillip 
>escribió:> > How about these people - 
>http://www.hostip.info/> > They say "Hostip.info 
>is a community-based project to geolocate IP> > 
>addresses, making the database freely available 
>(see below)" (although I> > can't find the (see 
>below) bit at the moment ... Maybe I'm going 
>blind?> > AFAIK, all of hostip.info is licensed under the GPL... :-)
>Another alternative is the GeoIP data from 
>MaxMind. The data isproprietary but they provide 
>a licence for free downloadhttp://www.maxmind.com/app/ip-location
>The Azureus CountryLocator plugin uses the 
>GeoLite Country data file toprovide country flags for bittorrent connections.
>         Jon