Am 02.11.2012 06:01, schrieb Toby Murray:
I assume we should target these activities towards mappers of medium
or lower skill?
We try to involve the community as a whole, which includes newbies as
well as pros.
One task I can think of doing is to find newer roads that weren't in
the original TIGER data and adding them in, preferably in areas
without active mappers. But I assume not many participants would be
able to handle a whole county's worth of raw TIGER data for manual
conflation. The TIGER 2012 road name tiles on the other hand might be
a useful tool for this.
Sounds interesting :) But please keep in mind, that people usually wan't
to to contribute a huge amount of data. So the task should IMHO include
a lot of basic tracing work (that can be done without special background
knowledge) so people get satisfied with the results. Maybe for
detecting/fixing thing the game aproach by Martjin's roulet is better?
bye,
Matthias
Toby
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Matthias Meißer <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi US community,
so now the details of the next global mapathon are fixed:
It's called "operation cowboy" and covering the weekend *23.11-25.11* so
every local team should have a fair chance to join in.
Tomorrow I would like to announce it to the whole community, but some things
are still missing.
But as this is a community project, I need your help, as there is still a
lot of work and of course you are the locals:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Operation_cowboy
1. *Mission statement:*
You should discuss, what people should do. Adding details is very general,
but what is interesting? (buildings, landuse, ...) How can TIGER get
improved without creating more worse data by strangers?
We would need 2..3 sentences for motivation and a bigger text for the /join
page. (TIGER catalogue see down).
2. *Target areas in tasking server:*
Where should we work? Let there enough space for everybody to edit (last
NOTLM was 200guys working) but keep in mind that we from the rest of the
world, have no idea about US in general and where it might be helpful to add
details (so everybody would pick a random place).
Simon was kind to allow to use his OSM tasking server to manage the areas:
http://rebuild.poole.ch
You will need admin rights, so it would be great if 2..3 people would do
this job of entering suggested areas
(BTW should we now add a "orga team" tab for who is who?)
3. *Short TIGER problem guide/gallery:*
Need a very short (people are lazy!) page about what’s usually wrong with
TIGER. Using images only with Top5 bugs would be fine, e.g. so people
learning fast that TIGER is usually bad placed and can be wrong for >10meter
4. *Further Imagery*
Is there other or better imagery than Bing for certain areas? How can we
promote this to the other volunteers?
5. *OSMF sponsoring*
I already contacted OSMF Communications working group to see if the
foundation would sponsor local parties to buy junkfood, drinks etc. (still
no response) Last year the german FOSSGIS gave 50Eur (~65USD) for all
parties (~5) which was very ok and a good motivation for local organisers.
If this fails, could we get sponsoring by other companies (or would they
like to cater a own local party and invite mappers?)
6. *More social media channels:*
Can anybody start and maintain further accounts as facebook, ...? A logo
will come if Ken returns at end of the week, but maybe you could start a
skeleton so we could start promotion in 1..2 weeks. Personally I will put my
focus on Twitter only (sorry lack of time).
*Later stuff:*
- Checking and translating final wiki pages next days
- Announce to US media in 2..3 weeks
- Creating a "thank you"-photo poster of all remote mapping teams
- Creating a thank you video? Anybody with compositing/cutting skills?
Ok that's the start. It would be very helpful if some of you would helping
by coordinating some of this aspects. In every case I'm glad to assist you,
but it's just to much for a single (foreign) person.
I guess this will become fun :)
bye,
Matthias
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