On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 2:55 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The events are characterized as "Edit-a-thons" and they were designed > to be run indoors. They were essentially a response from some members > of the community who felt that Mapping Parties were not for them. The > advantage of an Edit-A-Thon is that they can be run indoors (unlike > Mapping Parties), but if you look at most Edit-A-Thons going on next > week, and you look at the history of them (look at the talk-us > archives) they're still largely indoor events.
#editathons are #mapathons since last summer and they've since at least a year and a half now explicitly encouraged people to go outside - not least because of your feedback Serge: June 2013 "Rather want to go outside and survey? Nothing should stop you from that." http://openstreetmap.us/2013/06/july-summer-editathon/ In June 2014 we renamed 'editathons' to 'mapathons' to clarify: go out and survey! http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ I would also love to see a foot survey activity at StateOfTheMap.us in NYC in June. I know my OSM US board colleagues Martijn and Alyssa are talking to some people about this. If anyone here on this list is interested in help lead a foot survey at State of the Map US, get in touch: sot...@openstreetmap.us . -- Alex Barth Vice President OpenStreetMap United States Inc.
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