Battlegrid rules. Looking forward to seeing a clean area in the Seattle-Tacoma corridor!
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Kathleen Danielson < kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mele, > > That resource page is awesome! We should definitely put that into our > toolkit to help future editathon organizers! > > DC's Editathon is happening later today! > > KD > > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Melelani Sax-Barnett > <saxb...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> 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 >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org j...@gwhat.org 206-676-2347 OpenStreetMap: Mapping with a Human Touch osm: Open Historical Map (OHM)<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map> / my OSM user page <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory> f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory>
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