[OSM-talk] Help from Tourist office?

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi,
Great idea,
What im working on (for Across Canada).  Is actually going ahead and filling
in those amenities that the typical town-visitor would like to see
(myself).   So I will be able to, probably using KOSMOS, create a nice map
of the town, then just donate the map to the tourist office.  And they can
make copies of it.

What i would then do is ask the people at the tourist office, for when they
actually draw on the map, and indicate things which are not listed, to make
a 'working-copy', so then i can go back to the tourist office at a later
date, and show them (in person) how to edit the map.  And make a new
version, and print it off.   (Considering we know that most of the time
there are LOTS of things missing on other tourist maps.) :-)

Alot of the tourist offices i have been to offer a computer with internet
access todo local searches and email. (sometimes for a fee), and some have
wi-fi.  since i use a mini-notebook, it's easy to show people on-the-fly.

... at least thats what i plan on doing, once this Canada Import is well
underway. .. Probably for next year.

Have fun,
Cheers,
Sam Vekemans
Across Canada Trails

Twitter: @Acrosscanada
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans


On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Kai at VieleVisels <kai at vielevisels.de> wrote:

>  Hi,
> i recently travelled to a city with nearly 40.000 inhabitants and was
> surprised, that almost no hotels, restaurants and other amenities were in
> OSM.
> So I had the idea to contact the tourist office with a short introduction
> on OSM and how to tag, to give this to shops, hotels, restaurants and so on.
> So with no effort, all these shops can have their business in OSM.
> Did anyone try this? What do you think of the idea?
> Kai
>
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