Re: [Talk-us] Fall Editathon Seattle Edition

2013-10-22 Thread Lars Ahlzen
We had no less than two successful Editathon events here in the greater Boston area: One by Mike Foster at MIT (Cambridge), and the other one at Telenav's offices. With the recent MA building imports, missing roads at new residental developments now stand out very visibly on the map, and -

Re: [Talk-us] Fall Editathon Seattle Edition

2013-10-22 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com wrote: By the way, I've helped hosting a few mapping parties/editathons in the past, and one of the things I noticed this time was how much easier iD is for beginners to pick up than Potlatch. Kudos to the iD team for making a

Re: [Talk-us] Fall Editathon Seattle Edition

2013-10-21 Thread Steven Johnson
Yes, another ringing endorsement for Battlegrid. I used it quite a bit at yesterday's DC #editathon. It's very helpful in finding alignment needles in haystacks of TIGER/OSM data. Also, thanks to Mele for pulling together a great #editathon how-to. Lots of good stuff there. SEJ -- SEJ --

Re: [Talk-us] Fall Editathon Seattle Edition

2013-10-20 Thread Kathleen Danielson
Mele, That resource page is awesome! We should definitely put that into our toolkit to help future editathon organizers! DC's Editathon is happening later today! KD On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Melelani Sax-Barnett saxb...@gmail.comwrote: Things went well in PDX too-- we had about 14

Re: [Talk-us] Fall Editathon Seattle Edition

2013-10-20 Thread Jeff Meyer
Battlegrid rules. Looking forward to seeing a clean area in the Seattle-Tacoma corridor! On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Kathleen Danielson kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote: Mele, That resource page is awesome! We should definitely put that into our toolkit to help future editathon

[Talk-us] Fall Editathon Seattle Edition

2013-10-19 Thread Clifford Snow
We had a great first day of map hacking in Seattle. I'd like to especially thank Martijn van Exel for creating maproulette.org/battlegrid. Our group is attacking the misaligned roads in Washington State using Battlegrid. For those that haven't used battlegrid, it is a visual tool to find

Re: [Talk-us] Fall Editathon Seattle Edition

2013-10-19 Thread Martijn van Exel
Good to hear you've been having a good time! Re: battlegrid: you're most welcome! I've shown it to the folks present at the SLC Editathon today, and everyone found it useful. Please don't hesitate to send any feedback or suggestions this way. We had a really good time here in Salt Lake. The

Re: [Talk-us] Fall Editathon Seattle Edition

2013-10-19 Thread Melelani Sax-Barnett
Things went well in PDX too-- we had about 14 people who came and went throughout the day. Lots of newbies too! I did forget to take pictures though-- oops. Feel free to use/fork our resources page and slides here: http://pdxmele.com/editathon Repo: https://github.com/pdxmele/editathon Good luck