Sounds like a plan, Also, has anyone had luck contacting local Geocaching associations? I'm going to cross-post to the main talk list, but they would be a wealth of GPX files if nothing else.
If it's planned right, we could cross-link local mapping parties to geocaching.com as events. -- Any ideas on a date/time? On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:00 AM, <talk-us-requ...@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 18:30:03 -0700 (PDT) > From: Nicholas Vetrovec <nickvet...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] US Online Mapping Parties > To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org > Message-ID: <493529.30553...@web82305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > >I'm not sure what an online mapping party would look like. I'm picturing a > concerted effort to knock off a map feature where mappers > >could share their expertise and work on the same feature in multiple > places. > >Barry Parr > > >Were you thinking of doing this via irc?? Or did you have some other > >ideas for how to collaborate?? > >Dave > > IRC of voice chat would be good for comunication during? the party. > We would pick a city, town, area to work on as one mostly using the arial > imagery to map out features and realign roads ect.. but?as a larger group, > we can knock out large areas at once. > I wanted to start out by discussing things we can work on as a group, areas > that need a lot of fixing up, stuff that can be easily worked on in an > olnile environment. Maybe we?should start a wiki for organizing and planning > the online party. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/attachments/20090708/590ef9d6/attachment-0001.htm >
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