Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon

2014-04-22 Thread Alex Barth
Great idea. I am starting to think 'editathon' is almost a bit of misnomer as going out and surveying is something #editathons should actively encourage. On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: As much as I love when people use MapRoulette, OSM NYC will be

Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon

2014-04-22 Thread Martijn van Exel
We have talked about just calling them #mapathons - how does that sound? It can cover both armchair and survey type events. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us wrote: Great idea. I am starting to think 'editathon' is almost a bit of misnomer as going out and

[Talk-us] Come out and map this weekend: spring editathon

2014-04-22 Thread Alex Barth
We have 10 cities who're joining this spring as physical locations for #editathons. But really, you can join from everywhere: http://openstreetmap.us/2014/04/spring-editathon/ By the way, it's called editathon, but that doesn't mean you can't go outside and map ;-) -- Alex Barth Secretary

Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon

2014-04-22 Thread Alex Barth
I really like #mapathon. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Martijn van Exel mart...@openstreetmap.uswrote: We have talked about just calling them #mapathons - how does that sound? It can cover both armchair and survey type events. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Alex Barth

Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon

2014-04-22 Thread Ian Dees
editathon and mapathon don't imply any indoor or outdoor activity to me. For what it's worth, I'm going to be trying to get my mappers to go outdoors in Chicago this weekend. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Martijn van Exel mart...@openstreetmap.uswrote: We have talked about just calling

Re: [Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon

2014-04-22 Thread Martijn van Exel
Me too. I will be hosting in an area with lots of new construction, businesses etc. Should be fun for mappers to explore, and use mobile tools to edit perhaps. (I love Pushpin!!) I decided to go with the Maptime moniker for the local OSM / geo group. Just focusing on OSM we just haven't been able

[Talk-us] Local groups on the map!

2014-04-22 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, I mentioned this in another thread but it may have gotten buried. Have you ever wanted to see all local OSM groups on a map? If you're anything like me, you have! There are 'solutions' that don't quite work for me, like this maphttp://usergroups.openstreetmap.de/that has been around for