On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Brian Suda<brian.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been in contact with Björgvin and we've been hammering out some > ideas and now it's time to bring it to the list to get your thoughts > and help. > > I have been experimenting with walking-papers.org for Reykjavik to see > how easy it is. I think we could get a lot more people involved in > mapping Iceland if they knew they could just do a small part and > didn't need a GPS. > > So here's our thoughts about a small mapping party. We can find a > venue, most easily http://www.hugmyndahus.com/ and at the meeting do a > series of short demos and presentations, inviting new comers. The > agenda might be something like:
Firstly it's just great that you guys are working on getting people involved like this, kudos to you. > 1) OSM introduction: Let people know what OSM is, why it is better > than other maps, etc. Lots of people don't even know it exists I think if you/we can harvest some points from this talk that would give people a good idea of what we're trying to do: http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=541 That answers nicely questions like "why not just use ja.is" which are bound to come up. Also pointing out that people can us our map more freely *today* like putting it on their GPS (if they have one) which they can't do with Google Maps / ja.is. This is also a goldmine for showing alternative uses for data: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Featured_images There's neat stuff covered there like maps for walking or for the blind which nobody else is doing. > 2) State of the Icelandic map: describe where we were, were we are now > and the goals for the future. This section on the wikiproject describes our current status pretty well: * http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Iceland#Goals As well as this for the highway system: * http://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listi_yfir_%C3%BEj%C3%B3%C3%B0vegi_%C3%A1_%C3%8Dslandi I also collated a list of towns/areas that have any significant data for osm-diff reports recently: http://osm.nix.is/diff/latest/ That's basically what we have now, for where we'd like to be it's nice to point people here: http://bestofosm.org/ > 3) Explain Walking Papers: We can get wifi and a printer at the venue, > then let people print off their neighbourhood at the meeting, then we > can all chat and maybe go for a drink. Sounds good. > Then, a week or so later, have a second meeting. People can bring > their walking-papers back and we can scan them in (and/or print more). > This give people an opportunity to ask questions and for us to get > feedback about how well they did. At this point, we can also get more > indepth with the map editors, what is a 1st, 2nd, 3rd level road, how > do you annotate a wooded area in iceland, etc. Yeah, I like the model of giving people homework & then answering their questions:) > Who's interested in helping? I can organize some of the stuff and help > spread the word, but I'd need the help from people on this list to > work on #1 and #2 (and other meeting points they want). I'm happy to > talk about #3 or if someone else has more experience, they can > volunteer. I'll help in any way I can, but unless one of the meetings happens to be held at >15:00 at the 4th of august or before I fly from Reykjavík on the evening of the 5th that help will have to be limited to what I can do over the network. I'm also somewhat busy with work and this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%C3%86var%20Arnfj%C3%B6r%C3%B0%20Bjarmason/diary/7019 I can also spam the dormant OpenStreetMap á Íslandi facebook group to try to gather interest there. _______________________________________________ Talk-is mailing list Talk-is@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-is