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Comment on Exotic green birds in London by Sheila & David

Sheila & David — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:02:42 +0000

We saw 2 Green Birds this morning in
our neighbours Garden on her bird Feeder….amazed to see them in New
Eltham S.E. London.

Comment on Trip to Shanghai by purelasvegas com au

purelasvegas com au — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:13:23 +0000

Shanghai is a great city but a little overcrowded though. You should make some time to visit Macau if you ever get the opportunity.

Comment on Exotic green birds in London by SpeeInSpace

SpeeInSpace — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:51:56 +0000

They’ve been seen in North London – Muswell Hill eating apples from trees and grapes, thought they were a bit big for GreenFinches.

Comment on Exotic green birds in London by Liz

Liz — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:04:43 +0000

Saw a flock of the green parakeets in a park in Slough. It`s nice to see such colourful birds here in England-makes a change from the usual brown/grey birds.

Comment on Exotic green birds in London by Pauline

Pauline — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:06:40 +0000

There are four of them on the tree in my garden in Grange Park, Enfield. They came last year too! Beautiful when flying.

Comment on Exotic green birds in London by Jackie G.

Jackie G. — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:11:57 +0000

We saw about a dozen this morning on a tree across the road in New Barnet absolutely amazing.

Comment on Repton 3 Comments by Harry Wood

Harry Wood — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:52:55 +0000

No no it should work I think. Download it and try it. Let me know how it goes.

Comment on Repton 3 Comments by Dave Alexander

Dave Alexander — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:55:46 +0000

Running a 64 bit modified laptop means I can’t play the game then I suppose grrrrrrrr. Just have to fire up My BBC then and find the floppy somewhere I suppose!! I would have looked foreward to playing it on here though as the game is ace….

Comment on My SOTM11 talk by Harry Wood

Harry Wood — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:27:40 +0000

Yeah. Obviously it’s happy kind of problem, but in London I come across a few techy people who said they would have tried editing OpenStreetMap, but it seems to be well mapped where they live and work. That then exerts some pressure towards more detail level. I try to attract newbies by telling them they can join in our central mapping parties because we’ve always got more building outlines and POI details to work on.

Also I remember a funny conversation after the Milton Keynes mapping party. A hoard of London OSMers got on a train to go there and map the city, but we reflected afterwards that actually we weren’t doing a very good job of creating a sustainable community, so maybe this was just as bad as doing an import of Milton Keynes! So now the theory is “mapping discourages mapping” …this gets a bit silly. But certainly its true to say that recruiting new mappers is more valuable than doing mapping (but then it’s difficult to persuade someone to volunteer doing something which you’re not bothering to do yourself)

Comment on My SOTM11 talk by maning

maning — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:04:58 +0000

A really interesting talk. Unfortunately, I was in the other room at that time, I was able to listen to your talk only in the video.

I’m interested on your thoughts on how to encourage new mappers in an area which was well mapped already. Not by imports but by a previous mapper who added a lot of detail.

If we follow the line that imports stifle community growth because there is an impression of completeness and not much contribution is needed. This can also be a concern for well-mapped areas. Getting new mappers to tend the garden can be difficult for well-mapped areas if the original mapper suddenly stopped contributing.