I assume we should target these activities towards mappers of medium or lower skill?
One task I can think of doing is to find newer roads that weren't in the original TIGER data and adding them in, preferably in areas without active mappers. But I assume not many participants would be able to handle a whole county's worth of raw TIGER data for manual conflation. The TIGER 2012 road name tiles on the other hand might be a useful tool for this. Toby On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Matthias Meißer <dig...@arcor.de> wrote: > Hi US community, > > so now the details of the next global mapathon are fixed: > It's called "operation cowboy" and covering the weekend *23.11-25.11* so > every local team should have a fair chance to join in. > Tomorrow I would like to announce it to the whole community, but some things > are still missing. > > But as this is a community project, I need your help, as there is still a > lot of work and of course you are the locals: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Operation_cowboy > > 1. *Mission statement:* > You should discuss, what people should do. Adding details is very general, > but what is interesting? (buildings, landuse, ...) How can TIGER get > improved without creating more worse data by strangers? > We would need 2..3 sentences for motivation and a bigger text for the /join > page. (TIGER catalogue see down). > > 2. *Target areas in tasking server:* > Where should we work? Let there enough space for everybody to edit (last > NOTLM was 200guys working) but keep in mind that we from the rest of the > world, have no idea about US in general and where it might be helpful to add > details (so everybody would pick a random place). > Simon was kind to allow to use his OSM tasking server to manage the areas: > http://rebuild.poole.ch > You will need admin rights, so it would be great if 2..3 people would do > this job of entering suggested areas > (BTW should we now add a "orga team" tab for who is who?) > > 3. *Short TIGER problem guide/gallery:* > Need a very short (people are lazy!) page about what’s usually wrong with > TIGER. Using images only with Top5 bugs would be fine, e.g. so people > learning fast that TIGER is usually bad placed and can be wrong for >10meter > > 4. *Further Imagery* > Is there other or better imagery than Bing for certain areas? How can we > promote this to the other volunteers? > > 5. *OSMF sponsoring* > I already contacted OSMF Communications working group to see if the > foundation would sponsor local parties to buy junkfood, drinks etc. (still > no response) Last year the german FOSSGIS gave 50Eur (~65USD) for all > parties (~5) which was very ok and a good motivation for local organisers. > If this fails, could we get sponsoring by other companies (or would they > like to cater a own local party and invite mappers?) > > 6. *More social media channels:* > Can anybody start and maintain further accounts as facebook, ...? A logo > will come if Ken returns at end of the week, but maybe you could start a > skeleton so we could start promotion in 1..2 weeks. Personally I will put my > focus on Twitter only (sorry lack of time). > > *Later stuff:* > - Checking and translating final wiki pages next days > - Announce to US media in 2..3 weeks > - Creating a "thank you"-photo poster of all remote mapping teams > - Creating a thank you video? Anybody with compositing/cutting skills? > > Ok that's the start. It would be very helpful if some of you would helping > by coordinating some of this aspects. In every case I'm glad to assist you, > but it's just to much for a single (foreign) person. > > I guess this will become fun :) > > bye, > Matthias > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us