[OSM-talk] Bringing OSM to walkers - countering negative attitudes

[Richard HARDWICK]

   >Maybe the Ramblers would be a better channel?

    My experience of ordinary walkers is same as yours - they
    prefer a good old map and compass; even when gps could
    save their lives (see
    http://users.skynet.be/watermael/gps/50546.xhtml )

    I thought I could teach them; but my learning-by-doing
    tutorial of gps in down-town Bruxelles
    http://users.skynet.be/watermael/gps/pecten/50935.html
    was a lead balloon.

    So I suggest start at the top - i.e. Mountain Rescue.
    Friend of mine in Austrian Mountain Rescue wouldnt go up
    without his GPS + this year's maps of where the crevasses
    are. If M'R' endorse, then the others might listen.

    Richard Hardwick

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>Message: 6
>Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 11:51:47 +0100
>From: Nick Whitelegg <nick at hogweed.org>
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Bringing OSM to walkers - countering negative
>    attitudes
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>Sadly I never seem to get a positive response when I have tried to encourage
>use of firstly Freemap, and then OSM, to walking groups on the Internet. For
>instance on thread.
>
>http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.walking/browse_thread/thread/f6b6aac0f12c5566/5f9cfe7b97b20965#5f9cfe7b97b20965
>
>I attempted to tell the uk.rec.walking newsgroup about the planned Lake
>District event, but have got no interest whatsoever.
>
>Am I actually completely deluded about walkers being interested in Free
>mapping? It would surprise me, because my own needs in this area were what
>brought me to this whole Free mapping thing in the first place.
>
>Maybe the Ramblers would be a better channel?
>
>Nick