Wolfgang, Lots of rural United States, as well as many places do not currently have a local mapping community. We are working on it, and a good chance to 'recruit' help is at the State of the Map - US (stateofthemap.us) coming up in a couple of weeks. I am also co-organizer for OSM-Colorado ('unofficial' meetup.com group) and have been slowly spreading the message into Wyoming (which I believe is the least populous state); so I appreciate any suggestions, contacts, etc.
Thank you, =Russ russdeff...@gmail.com http://www.meetup.com/OSM-Colorado/ -----Original Message----- From: Wolfgang Zenker [mailto:wolfg...@lyxys.ka.sub.org] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 2:20 PM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-us] Rural Montana - can we find local mappers? Hi, for the last two years I have been cleaning up TIGER data and adding named waterways in Lincoln County, Montana. This work is now finished. This doesn't mean our map there is now in any way complete, just that the data that we DO have is no longer obviously horribly wrong. While there are still a few things that could be done by an armchair mapper, having local mappers would be a lot easier. Only the fact that the county has an average population "density" of 5 people per square mile might make it a bit unlikely that a lot of locals find OSM accidently. So some outreach to local groups and institutions like hiking clubs, tourist associations, boy and girl scouts, chambers of commerce etc. could be helpful. My problem here is that I'm living on a different continent, in a different cultural environment with a different native language and 8 time zones away, so I'm probably not the best choice to try connecting with local people in that area. Any US mappers that want to help? Please speak out. Wolfgang _______________________________________________ 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