Re: [OSM-talk] Night of the living maps 07.02.2012 - a 'virtual' global mapping party

2012-02-07 Thread Matthias Meißer
Hi, today evening our nice event starts. As you might have noticed, there are now a lot of parties around the globe. But even if you can't attend, some will meet at IRC for some coordinated mapping. Ok just some last hints before the start: - keep the guidelines in mind and teach them new

[OSM-talk] Night of the living maps 07.02.2012 - a 'virtual' global mapping party

2012-01-27 Thread Matthias Meißer
Hello community, since a few weeks, we had the idea for a global action, that we'd like to announce today: www.nightofthelivingmaps.org At Thursday, the 07.02.2012 we stay awake a whole night long, to trace aerial imagery for the areas, that where we currently lack a lot of informations: the

Re: [OSM-talk] Night of the living maps 07.02.2012 - a 'virtual' global mapping party

2012-01-27 Thread Nick Whitelegg
since a few weeks, we had the idea for a global action, that we'd like to announce today: www.nightofthelivingmaps.org At Thursday, the 07.02.2012 we stay awake a whole night long, to trace aerial imagery for the areas, that where we currently lack a lot of informations: the countryside.

Re: [OSM-talk] Night of the living maps 07.02.2012 - a 'virtual' global mapping party

2012-01-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/1/27 Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk: Good idea but - I would like to urge some degree of caution on this in the UK. +1, actually not only there. So if you're deriving footpaths or tracks from aerial imagery, please only add them if it is *absolutely obvious* that they are

Re: [OSM-talk] Night of the living maps 07.02.2012 - a 'virtual' global mapping party

2012-01-27 Thread SomeoneElse
Matthias Meißer wrote: Of course we know, that using just Bing, is just the #2 choice for adding details to our database and that survey is what we all really like. But in this case, we believe, that it is a good compromise (see hints in Wiki). Currently there seem to be no definitive answer