Mapillary is your friend. On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Peter Dobratz <pe...@dobratz.us> wrote:
> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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