With help from the wonderful folks at Maptime Madison, we're planning on hosting the first Madison (Wisc.) mapping party on the Spring Mapathon weekend. Nobody involved has ever organized or even attended a mapping party, so we wouldn't mind some advice. From reading on the wiki and various user diaries, I've come up with the following rough plan:
- Meet at coffee shop, distribute Field Papers maps of the area to be surveyed, GPSrs , cameras, calibrate camera clocks. Mention non-obvious things that can be mapped, e.g. diet, payment method, collection times, opening hours, backrests on benches. - Depending on the number of participants, start surveying all together or in groups of three to four people. Plan on about one hour of surveying. - Group works it way toward the final meeting point at the local public library. Have a least two hours to process data and get it into OSM. Laptops are available at the library. Does this sound reasonable? Anything else I should be thinking of? Harald.
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