[HOT] Progression, Re: Mapping buildings with new mappers at a maperthon

2017-11-18 Thread Bjoern Hassler
Dear friends, Not in direct response to John, but on a tangent. Do people who organise mapathons have a sense of how many people come again vs. those who only come once? Do you have specific strategies to encourage people to come back? Do you have a plan for progression moving people onto JOSM,

Re: [HOT] Progression, Re: Mapping buildings with new mappers at a maperthon

2017-11-18 Thread Donal Hunt
I can share my experience with running events at my previous employer (a large multinational) as part of their CSR efforts… We ran a number of events over a few months and did indeed have some repeat attendees (I didn't get round to validating the numbers but the data was there I believe). Since t

Re: [HOT] Progression, Re: Mapping buildings with new mappers at a maperthon

2017-11-18 Thread Rupert Allan
Hi All, On this subject, I know this retention thing is much discussed at London Missing Maps/OSM events, and Ralph is a key point of contact there. I have spent much time thinking about it, and as a field operator I beleive that connecting remote mappers with the field. This is something we start

Re: [HOT] Progression, Re: Mapping buildings with new mappers at a maperthon

2017-11-18 Thread Rupert Allan
Forgive typos. The sun is bright here on my screen. R On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Rupert Allan wrote: > Hi All, > > On this subject, I know this retention thing is much discussed at London > Missing Maps/OSM events, and Ralph is a key point of contact there. I have > spent much time thinkin

Re: [HOT] Progression, Re: Mapping buildings with new mappers at a maperthon

2017-11-18 Thread Donal Hunt
Thanks for the reminder Rupert! We did find that the participants found the videos from the beneficiaries that exist for some projects both insightful and powerful for the audience (we did get feedback that they could be shorter / more focused but actually getting the first-hand insight of how the

Re: [HOT] Progression, Re: Mapping buildings with new mappers at a maperthon

2017-11-18 Thread john whelan
I think my thoughts are more we are adding mapping to OpenStreetMap, we are not mapping in support of one charity or project. Many many people use OpenStreetMap. One of my favourite charities is one that digs one or two water wells each year. I think its Belgian and its made up of a group of two