Charlotte,
Although I'm very noisy on this list, I'm actually a very small cog in a
great big machine.
I know of this article
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/06/-sp-missing-maps-baraka-democratic-republic-congo-drc,
and I know that Facebook & twitter are being used extensively. I'll be
at this event in London UK.
For both facebook & twitter search on hotosm &/or Missing Maps project.
Hope this helps
Regards
Nick
On 07/11/14 06:16, Charlotte Wolter wrote:
Nick,
Are we sending out a press release, so someone other than the readers
of the HOT list actually will know that it's happening?
Charlotte
:41 AM 11/6/2014, you wrote:
Hi,
Missing Maps (http://www.missingmaps.org/ ) has its official launch
tomorrow, 7th November. I've deliberatly not put a time in this
message, as its a pretty worldwide launch and it's going to depend on
your and their time zone.
As well as the people who attend the mapathons, there will also be
many joining in 'remotely'. Of course, some of the people will have
already done some mapping with HOT in the past, but my experience of
helping at mapathons tells me that less than 5% will know what they
are doing, and the rest will be fairly new, but may have done some
research & looked at help guides etc.
At a conservative guess / estimate there will be 300 mappers, the
vast majority of them new, helping with various projects tomorrow. I
think this is a very conservative estimate, and would hope to see
considerably more - perhaps double my first figure, and I wouldn't be
surprised if there were even more!
Most of these mappers will look for guidance to LearnOSM
(http://learnosm.org/en/). Because of the way LearnOSMÂ is set up I
don't think we can get stats. for hits on the site (I'm quite happy
to be contradicted on this).
If you've done any exploring on the LearnOSM site you'll have noticed
that's it's not just for 'new mappers' and it has some very
comprehensive guides on some complex subjects. It's good! But it
needs constant attention - the editing tools and processes are
constantly evolving, and what was a current guide last month, may now
need a slight update.
LearnOSM is also multilingual, or at least it should be. There are
many sections that need more translations. There are guides on how to
simply produce these translations
(https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/blob/gh-pages/CONTRIBUTING.md).
Now (last week would have been better!) would be a good time to have
a read through LearnOSM, and if you see something that needs sorting
out, either sort it, or send a message asking for someone else to do
it. If you've managed to master mapping, then getting something
amended or updated on https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm
<https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm> is only a minor stumbling block,
and could have a big impact on 700 people who will potentially read
it over the next few days.
*New Mappers* - we need to know what is missing, or needs rephrasing.
Let us know, please.
Regards
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