[OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-ie] open street map - what's in it for you?

[Mike Collinson]

At 11:10 PM 2/05/2009, Johnny Rose Carlsen wrote:
>Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Dermot McNally <dermotm at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> > > "drove into a new housing estate" ... "yes but, what's in it for
>> > > you?"
>> >
>> > Why does a painter paint?
>> >
>> > Why play football?
>> >
>> > Why give money to charity?
>> >
>> > Why volunteer to work with stroppy youths? (actually yeah, why?????)
>> >
>> > Why walk up a mountain?
>> >
>> >
>> The short answers to these questions are : Sex, sex, sex, sex, dunno
>> and sex.
>
>Sex is also my reason #1 for doing OSM.

Scene:  amenity=pub

Our OSM-er, smoothness=excellent, voltage=400000, high-visibility surveying jacket a blaze of colourful glory espies a POI.  "tourism=hotel?", he/she asked hopefully.  A glare and "sport=swimming" was the reply (cutting=yes, you might say).  "tracktype=grade5, sac_scale=difficult_alpine_hiking" he/she sighed and went on his/her way. 

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