[OSM-talk] [Talk-us] The Open Source OpenStreetMap Book

[Besfort Guri]

The Book is finished ? or need more for the end version ?

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the kind words, Martijn.
>
> One of the questions we have yet to answer is how we should distribute the
> books that Google bought for us. I would prefer to give them to people that
> are a) likely to talk/blog about them (and thus OSM), b) not completely
> aware of OSM, c) have limited internet connectivity, and/or d) are unable to
> afford the cost of the book.
>
> I'd be happy to hear about other ideas, though. There are only 9 books
> available from Google, by the way. It is my opinion that if we want to give
> them out to new OSM US members we should spend OSM US money to buy some for
> existing and new members.
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
>
>> Great, absolutely great. I just ordered a hard copy but I see you have
>> a stash right there?! It would make an awesome welcome gift for new
>> OSM (-US) members. Welcome package: the book, an OSM surveying vest
>> and a list of 10 1-hour cleanup projects in your own area.
>>
>> Martijn
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > Over the last week, Kate Chapman, Shaun McDonald and I worked together
>> with
>> > some professional documentation people to write an open source
>> OpenStreetMap
>> > getting started book.
>> > Please read my diary post to get an idea of what we
>> > did: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/iandees/diary/15152
>> > We're looking for feedback and help keeping it up to date. In the
>> > medium-term we'd like to expand this book so that it can replace the
>> Getting
>> > Started pages on the wiki and create a second book to cover the more
>> > technical use cases (pulling the technical bits out of this current
>> doc).
>> > -Ian
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