Yes, another ringing endorsement for Battlegrid. I used it quite a bit at yesterday's DC #editathon. It's very helpful in finding alignment needles in haystacks of TIGER/OSM data.
Also, thanks to Mele for pulling together a great #editathon how-to. Lots of good stuff there. SEJ -- SEJ -- twitter: @geomantic -- skype: sejohnson8 There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data. On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Jeff Meyer <j...@gwhat.org> wrote: > 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> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
