[Talk-us] Mapping Party

2013-04-16 Thread Mueller, Thomas
Hello My name is Tom Mueller and I am a GIS professor at California University of Pennsylvania. I am also a new member of the OSM - US. My class will be having our Cal U Mapping Party next week to add Cal U's main campus to Open Street Map. Thank you Tom Mueller Thomas R. Mueller, Ph.D.,

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping Party

2013-04-16 Thread Martijn van Exel
That's great to hear! Putting CalU on the map sounds like a good objective; except for one building there is no trace of CalU on OSM as yet... Is this your first mapping party? Let us know if you need anything to help make it a success. If you need inspiration for things to map on a campus,

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping Party

2013-04-16 Thread Mueller, Thomas
Thank you. We have not started yet. I have completed a few practice ones to make sure that I explain the process correctly. One of those is the Eberly building. Yes this is our first one and I am having them completing it in class. So the first step will be to create all the buildings and

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping Party

2013-04-16 Thread Brad Neuhauser
One thing I'd note *not* to do in the example Martijn sent: individual buildings should not generally be tagged amenity=university, they should be building=* (along with name and whatever other tags). amenity=university is for the overall area outline (or one central node if there isn't an area