[OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

[Michael Collinson]

On 06/02/2012 20:54, Philip Barnes wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 19:45 +0100, Michael Collinson wrote:
>    
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> We ask OSM mappers to check their local mapping areas, try and contact
>> anyone who has not decided about re-licensing
>>      
> I have been considering a few well worded posts to other mailing lists
> such as Linux User Groups and Ramblers Lists where I know there are
> other OSM contributors, and could well be a few lapsed ones who have
> changed ISP and are therefore not receiving emails.
>    
That sounds a great idea. Certainly our most difficult targets are 
mappers who have mapped a small area they know well, then stopped and 
not kept up their email address up-to-date ... or who simply don't 
realise that their contributions are important to us.

Since many mapped around 2007/2008, you might also mention that our 
on-line editor is much better now and that, at least in the UK, they can 
also now trace local features using Bing ... great for Ramblers.  I have 
got several dormant mappers to get interested again like that.

Mike