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

[Mike Ryan]

My wife tells me it's the latent socialist in me

2009/5/3 Mike Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz>:
> 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
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> 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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