[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 46, Issue 26

[elvin ibbotson]

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> From: "Andrew Chadwick (email lists)" <andrewc-email-lists at piffle.org>
> Date: 9 June 2008 11:43:03 BDT
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Don't you just hate it when part 2...
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> Vincent Zweije wrote:
>>
>> Hmm... everyone should be wearing their OSM shirt or other mark while
>> mapping... you'd have have a nice conversation as a result.
>
> Slight downside to the OSM high-vis vests that Graham Smith sorted out
> recently: I've noticed that more people ask me for directions when I'm
> wearing it than when I'm not. One local resident even seemed to  
> think I
> was some sort of official surveyor bod and tried to mine me for
> information about some recently-cleared land. Quite what a real  
> surveyor
> would be doing out on a Saturday, I'm not sure, but +1 for how fake-
> official they look.
>
> -- 
> Andrew Chadwick
>

When I'm out surveying (with a tape and level and stuff rather than  
for OSM) I often get nosy types asking what's happening. I tend to  
say I can say too much but hint at (depending on the location) wind  
farms, by-passes or toxic waste sites. So far this has never (as far  
as I know) actually resulted in any NIMBY-style posters or local  
newspaper headlines, but one lives in hope :-)

elvin
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