Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon
DC went great with about 25 people showing up. Had a great conversation here with steven johnson about going more directly after student participants. Maybe a model for other editathons too? For dc, it definitely helps branding the editathon as explicitly open to beginners. We routinely have about 10 pple show up who havent done much openstreetmap before. On Sunday, April 27, 2014, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I got pretty much no response locally to the idea, but then discovered that eastern Oklahoma was already awash in events this weekend. I ultimately went to Wild Nights http://www.wildnights.org/ and I'm doing laundry now. I believe we also had a couple big renfaires and a maker's fair in the region this weekend, and next weekend's another big renfaire weekend. Aah, the perils of trying to organize an editathon in a part of the country where nerdy pursuits are mainstream! On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.usjavascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','a...@openstreetmap.us'); wrote: This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in the US. Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend? Put your place on the list to be in the blog announcement on openstreetmap.us tomorrow: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014 Learn all about #editathon's here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.orgjavascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Talk-us@openstreetmap.org'); https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon
Seattle's event had a good turn out. We had about 9 people, although some people came late and others left early. We had a mix of new people and experienced ones. Thanks to the OSM-US we now have OSM vests that Paul Norman brought down from Vancouver. It is interesting that we had new people that have never mapped before and new to OSM but have a background in GIS. As a side note, the iD introduction is great for getting people going. We just have to help with how to tag items. We did have a lively discussion on copying data (don't.) Now, where are the statistics from this weekend? On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: DC went great with about 25 people showing up. Had a great conversation here with steven johnson about going more directly after student participants. Maybe a model for other editathons too? For dc, it definitely helps branding the editathon as explicitly open to beginners. We routinely have about 10 pple show up who havent done much openstreetmap before. On Sunday, April 27, 2014, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I got pretty much no response locally to the idea, but then discovered that eastern Oklahoma was already awash in events this weekend. I ultimately went to Wild Nights http://www.wildnights.org/ and I'm doing laundry now. I believe we also had a couple big renfaires and a maker's fair in the region this weekend, and next weekend's another big renfaire weekend. Aah, the perils of trying to organize an editathon in a part of the country where nerdy pursuits are mainstream! On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.uswrote: This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in the US. Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend? Put your place on the list to be in the blog announcement on openstreetmap.us tomorrow: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014 Learn all about #editathon's here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon
We had a big turnout in San Francisco, with about 40 people showing up over the course of the day. We think we had a peak of about 30 people all at the same time in the early afternoon, around 2-3pm. By the end of the day the numbers dwindled to about a dozen. Big thanks to Telenav for buying pizzas for the contributors who stayed until dinner time! I wrote up a post (including pictures) on the Stamen blog here: http://content.stamen.com/openstreetmap_spring_editathon Alan On Apr 29, 2014, at 8:00 AM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: I'll amplify Alex' comment about our DC editathon by adding that two of our participants were a father-son team mapping their neighborhood. Let's do more to encourage parents to bring their kids and get youthful mappers in the pipeline. Get 'em started young and make lifelong mappers out of 'em. -- SEJ -- twitter: @geomantic -- skype: sejohnson8 There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data. On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: DC went great with about 25 people showing up. Had a great conversation here with steven johnson about going more directly after student participants. Maybe a model for other editathons too? For dc, it definitely helps branding the editathon as explicitly open to beginners. We routinely have about 10 pple show up who havent done much openstreetmap before. On Sunday, April 27, 2014, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I got pretty much no response locally to the idea, but then discovered that eastern Oklahoma was already awash in events this weekend. I ultimately went to Wild Nights and I'm doing laundry now. I believe we also had a couple big renfaires and a maker's fair in the region this weekend, and next weekend's another big renfaire weekend. Aah, the perils of trying to organize an editathon in a part of the country where nerdy pursuits are mainstream! On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in the US. Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend? Put your place on the list to be in the blog announcement on openstreetmap.us tomorrow: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014 Learn all about #editathon's here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon
Great idea. I am starting to think 'editathon' is almost a bit of misnomer as going out and surveying is something #editathons should actively encourage. On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: As much as I love when people use MapRoulette, OSM NYC will be holding a mapping party this upcoming weekend. - Serge On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in the US. Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend? Put your place on the list to be in the blog announcement on openstreetmap.us tomorrow: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014 Learn all about #editathon's here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon
We have talked about just calling them #mapathons - how does that sound? It can cover both armchair and survey type events. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: Great idea. I am starting to think 'editathon' is almost a bit of misnomer as going out and surveying is something #editathons should actively encourage. On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.comwrote: As much as I love when people use MapRoulette, OSM NYC will be holding a mapping party this upcoming weekend. - Serge On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in the US. Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend? Put your place on the list to be in the blog announcement on openstreetmap.us tomorrow: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014 Learn all about #editathon's here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Martijn van Exel President, US Chapter OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.us/ http://osm.org/ ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon
I really like #mapathon. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Martijn van Exel mart...@openstreetmap.uswrote: We have talked about just calling them #mapathons - how does that sound? It can cover both armchair and survey type events. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: Great idea. I am starting to think 'editathon' is almost a bit of misnomer as going out and surveying is something #editathons should actively encourage. On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.comwrote: As much as I love when people use MapRoulette, OSM NYC will be holding a mapping party this upcoming weekend. - Serge On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in the US. Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend? Put your place on the list to be in the blog announcement on openstreetmap.us tomorrow: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014 Learn all about #editathon's here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Martijn van Exel President, US Chapter OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.us/ http://osm.org/ -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon
editathon and mapathon don't imply any indoor or outdoor activity to me. For what it's worth, I'm going to be trying to get my mappers to go outdoors in Chicago this weekend. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Martijn van Exel mart...@openstreetmap.uswrote: We have talked about just calling them #mapathons - how does that sound? It can cover both armchair and survey type events. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: Great idea. I am starting to think 'editathon' is almost a bit of misnomer as going out and surveying is something #editathons should actively encourage. On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.comwrote: As much as I love when people use MapRoulette, OSM NYC will be holding a mapping party this upcoming weekend. - Serge On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in the US. Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend? Put your place on the list to be in the blog announcement on openstreetmap.us tomorrow: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014 Learn all about #editathon's here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Martijn van Exel President, US Chapter OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.us/ http://osm.org/ ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon
Me too. I will be hosting in an area with lots of new construction, businesses etc. Should be fun for mappers to explore, and use mobile tools to edit perhaps. (I love Pushpin!!) I decided to go with the Maptime moniker for the local OSM / geo group. Just focusing on OSM we just haven't been able to grow the group as much as we wanted to. Here's the new web site: http://maptimeslc.org/ Perhaps something to consider for smaller cities? Also I started a new and hopefully easier way to put your local OpenStreetMap group on a map. The old way requires you to add a template to the wiki, and that ends up being too big a hurdle. So now, to get your local OSM group on this map right here: https://github.com/osmlab/localgroups/blob/master/osmgroups.geojson - all you need to do is go to https://github.com/osmlab/localgroups and follow the simple instructions. Have a great edit-a-thon Saturday! On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: editathon and mapathon don't imply any indoor or outdoor activity to me. For what it's worth, I'm going to be trying to get my mappers to go outdoors in Chicago this weekend. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Martijn van Exel mart...@openstreetmap.us wrote: We have talked about just calling them #mapathons - how does that sound? It can cover both armchair and survey type events. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.uswrote: Great idea. I am starting to think 'editathon' is almost a bit of misnomer as going out and surveying is something #editathons should actively encourage. On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.comwrote: As much as I love when people use MapRoulette, OSM NYC will be holding a mapping party this upcoming weekend. - Serge On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in the US. Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend? Put your place on the list to be in the blog announcement on openstreetmap.us tomorrow: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014 Learn all about #editathon's here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Martijn van Exel President, US Chapter OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.us/ http://osm.org/ ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Martijn van Exel President, US Chapter OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.us/ http://osm.org/ ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon
This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in the US. Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend? Put your place on the list to be in the blog announcement on openstreetmap.us tomorrow: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014 Learn all about #editathon's here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon
As much as I love when people use MapRoulette, OSM NYC will be holding a mapping party this upcoming weekend. - Serge On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in the US. Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend? Put your place on the list to be in the blog announcement on openstreetmap.us tomorrow: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014 Learn all about #editathon's here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ Alex -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
