On 4/3/2015 10:06 PM, Eleanor Tutt wrote:
Paul - If perception of mapping in the US isn't aligning with reality,
we probably *do* need to do a better job as a chapter board of telling
the full story. I see what you mean about the blog posts, though I do
think your interpretation is a bit harsh. For example, the mapathon
post that you characterize as an "indoor event," while it does
admittedly have a photo of people at computers, also makes it clear
that the theme for the upcoming mapathon is "the great outdoors."
Eventually, most people do enter the data they collect in the field
into the OSM while at a computer, and as a mapathon organizer, I don't
always remember to take good "action shot" photos. Rather than assume
no one set foot outdoors, why not assume that no one remembered to
stop mapping to take a photo, because mapping outdoors is really fun?
I thought hard about the mapathon/editathon posts. I ended putting them
down as indoors because that's how their publicity has historically
been. I'm aware that not all are indoors-only events, but I was looking
at what the US chapter publicizes.
Seattle has mapping parties that go outdoors in suitable weather which I
attend - it's not that I'm unaware of surveying going on in the US, but
Martijn asked about the role the US chapter plays, which I think the
data solidly answers.
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