On 9 Jul 2009, at 02:30, Nicholas Vetrovec wrote:
>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.
A virtual mapping party could be as simple as agreeing to focus effort
on a particular area over a period of time, create a wiki with a task
list and a 'cake' and a way for people to claim tasks and then
advertise it on talk-us and also on talk.
For a while I would do work on water features in the area of a US
mapping party in the week before the event because I had been
frustrated and mystified about how to get water, islands and rivers to
work in other places for over a year on both osmarender and mapnik.
When I cracked it I decided to take that role more generally. I did
work on water in Portland, Pittsburgh, Washington and Tampa for
example. I also did stuff around New Orleans and Houston.
So... one could for example create a 'cake' for an area on the wiki
and then people could claim sections for the cake for tiger fix-up and
water etc. No necessity for IRC or conference calls, just the sense of
community created by working together for a bigger goal. There could
be a mentoring focus as well, but it should allow people in many time-
zones to participate - and do remember to Europe based arm-chair
mappers who have completed their home areas! One could be pretty
ambitious, such as covering all interstate tiger fixup for a state and
also major rivers.
The idea of use these mapping parties in conjunction with work on the
ground seems very powerful and I would suggest that you always create
arm-chair and time-zone independent tasks in association with physical
mapping parties to help build a wider community around the place.
Possibly we could have a 'twinning' program where towns in different
countries 'twin' to share effort and swapping tagging techniques.
Twinning would be a great way of stopping tagging diverging around the
world and learning from other places.
Regards,
Peter Miller (PeterIto)
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