Hi All, I watched the OSM animation [1] showing edit activity a few days before and a couple of weeks after the earthquake. It's great ! However, I think some sort of factual annotations (voice or maybe superimposed images ?) would be very helpful to convey how useful the edits were. What I mean by factual annotations is anything that would explain the "white flashes". I know there aren't such big flashes as the ones I saw on another animation (a year of edits 200? showing India flashing and a few US states) but there are some noticeable ones. It could be just flashing the number of nodes/ways/whatever added/edited. Or it could be adding the name of NGO's or organizations that either contributed data (for a specific flash ?) or benefited from it by loading it on their GPS units. Maybe some free floating and moving div with a tag cloud containing organization names ?
I am asking this for a very selfish purpose : I was asked to do a short presentation of OSM at a meeting and I'd love being able to tell the audience what use the data was. The video definitely shows how responsive the OSM community was with respect to the earthquake. I'd like to go further and link some of the data editing activities with its usefulness in the field. Cheers, Yves Moisan [1] http://www.vimeo.com/9182869 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
