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

[Ian Dees]

The book will never be finished. :-)

As I mentioned earlier we are happy to see further changes or suggestions
for more topics. It's very easy to publish another version for printing.
On Oct 23, 2011 1:05 PM, "Besfort Guri" <besiguri at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>
>>>
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