[OSM-talk] OSM-Postal an idea to extend Walking-Papers to "not connected" people

[John McKerrell]

On 12 Aug 2009, at 10:13, Emilie Laffray wrote:

>
> It is really an excellent idea. I was planning to organize a walking  
> paper mail out in my home town in a few months to see how it could  
> work out. I was planning in my case to contact the mayor office to  
> see if I could coordinate with them if they were interested.
> The idea of postcard is very good.  If you need help, let me know I  
> will see what I could do.

I printed out two copies each of six areas in Liverpool and left them  
in two cafés. On the other side of the paper I put some text briefly  
describing the project and asking that people either hand it in to one  
of the cafés or scan it in and email it to me - didn't have much space  
and I was hoping people realised they could post it back if they  
wanted. So far I don't know if anyone has completed an area, I'm not  
aware of them being handed in and haven't received an email, but I  
know a few have been taken and they even got me in touch with a  
Slovakian person with an interest in OSM who happened to be in  
Liverpool!

If you're interested this is what I put on the reverse side, if I do  
it again I'll add a title saying what area is covered though in my  
case it should have been guessable from the existing coverage:

http://johnmckerrell.com/files/osm-walking-papers-cover.pdf

John