I'd like to ride on the coat tails of Richard's comments: Thank you Matthias and anyone else who helped set this up. Super excited about such efforts as they further deliniate great tasks for archair mapping and connecting local with global communities.
On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:04 PM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote: > !i! wrote: >> Hi, one last personal note on the mapathon and a big thank you >> (literally): http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/!i!/diary/18132 > > And thank you, too. I've always been sceptical about this sort of event - my > vision for OSM is that we need more contributors with local knowledge, not > more "remote mapping" - but in hindsight I think this, and MapRoulette, are > showing some really interesting ways forward. By applying the OSM community > to a problem in Mechanical Turk fashion, we're able to achieve much better > results than an unthinking import or automated edit would do. > > Give the OSM community a task and it will carry it out much better than > you'd imagine. There's lots we can learn from that. > > cheers > Richard > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Operation-Cowboy-Preaparing-Thank-you-gift-tp5737472p5738099.html > Sent from the USA mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
