I've given up the dedicated GPS and/or pen and paper for data collection and I do everything using the camera and notes application on my smartphone.
All the pictures I take are geotagged. I transfer the photos to a computer via the USB port and then load them into JOSM with a marker showing where they were taken. There are also smartphone applications to create GPX files, but this seems superfluous for most things I map since recent high-resolution aerial photos are available from Bing. Peter On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Harald Kliems <kli...@gmail.com> wrote: > With help from the wonderful folks at Maptime Madison, we're planning on > hosting the first Madison (Wisc.) mapping party on the Spring Mapathon > weekend. Nobody involved has ever organized or even attended a mapping > party, so we wouldn't mind some advice. From reading on the wiki and > various user diaries, I've come up with the following rough plan: > > - Meet at coffee shop, distribute Field Papers maps of the area to be > surveyed, GPSrs , cameras, calibrate camera clocks. Mention non-obvious > things that can be mapped, e.g. diet, payment method, collection times, > opening hours, backrests on benches. > - Depending on the number of participants, start surveying all together or > in groups of three to four people. Plan on about one hour of surveying. > - Group works it way toward the final meeting point at the local public > library. Have a least two hours to process data and get it into OSM. > Laptops are available at the library. > > Does this sound reasonable? Anything else I should be thinking of? > > Harald. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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