Things went well in PDX too-- we had about 14 people who came and went throughout the day. Lots of newbies too! I did forget to take pictures though-- oops.
Feel free to use/fork our resources page and slides here: http://pdxmele.com/editathon Repo: https://github.com/pdxmele/editathon Good luck to the other meetups this weekend! My best, Mele On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: > Good to hear you've been having a good time! Re: battlegrid: you're > most welcome! I've shown it to the folks present at the SLC Editathon > today, and everyone found it useful. Please don't hesitate to send any > feedback or suggestions this way. > > We had a really good time here in Salt Lake. The turnout was good by > our standards (5 people, 2 new). We did not accomplish a lot of > mapping but we did discuss a potential Utah address points import > extensively. Also, because we all agreed this is a pleasant way to > spend a Saturday afternoon, we are introducing a new monthly event, > the Saturday Mapternoon! If you're in the area, check us out: > http://www.meetup.com/osmutah/ > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> > wrote: > > We had a great first day of map hacking in Seattle. I'd like to > especially > > thank Martijn van Exel for creating maproulette.org/battlegrid. Our > group is > > attacking the misaligned roads in Washington State using Battlegrid. For > > those that haven't used battlegrid, it is a visual tool to find > difference > > between OSM roads and current Tiger data. We are finding that the Tiger > data > > is better than OSM, especially in rural/outstate locations. But Tiger > data > > isn't perfect either. Hopefully down the road, the US Census Bureau can > use > > our data to improve their data. > > > > I would also like to thank Tableau Software for hosting this weekend. > > > > -- > > Clifford > > > > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us mailing list > > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > > > -- > Martijn van Exel > http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ > http://openstreetmap.us/ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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