<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 9 Jul 2009, at 02:30, Nicholas Vetrovec wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">>I'm not sure what an online mapping party would look like. I'm picturing a concerted effort to knock off a map feature where mappers</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">>could share their expertise and work on the same feature in multiple places.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">>Barry Parr<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">>Were you thinking of doing this via irc? Or did you have some other<br>>ideas for how to collaborate? </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">>Dave</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">IRC of voice chat would be good for comunication during the party.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">We would pick a city, town, area to work on as one mostly using the arial imagery to map out features and realign roads ect.. but as a larger group, we can knock out large areas at once.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">I wanted to start out by discussing things we can work on as a group, areas that need a lot of fixing up, stuff that can be easily worked on in an olnile environment. Maybe we should start a wiki for organizing and planning the online party.</div></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>A virtual mapping party could be as simple as agreeing to focus effort on a particular area over a period of time, create a wiki with a task list and a 'cake' and a way for people to claim tasks and then advertise it on talk-us and also on talk.</div><div><br></div><div>For a while I would do work on water features in the area of a US mapping party in the week before the event because I had been frustrated and mystified about how to get water, islands and rivers to work in other places for over a year on both osmarender and mapnik. When I cracked it I decided to take that role more generally. I did work on water in Portland, Pittsburgh, Washington and Tampa for example. I also did stuff around New Orleans and Houston.</div><div><br></div><div>So... one could for example create a 'cake' for an area on the wiki and then people could claim sections for the cake for tiger fix-up and water etc. No necessity for IRC or conference calls, just the sense of community created by working together for a bigger goal. There could be a mentoring focus as well, but it should allow people in many time-zones to participate - and do remember to Europe based arm-chair mappers who have completed their home areas! One could be pretty ambitious, such as covering all interstate tiger fixup for a state and also major rivers.</div><div><br></div><div>The idea of use these mapping parties in conjunction with work on the ground seems very powerful and I would suggest that you always create arm-chair and time-zone independent tasks in association with physical mapping parties to help build a wider community around the place.</div><div><br></div><div>Possibly we could have a 'twinning' program where towns in different countries 'twin' to share effort and swapping tagging techniques. Twinning would be a great way of stopping tagging diverging around the world and learning from other places.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Peter Miller (PeterIto)</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>_______________________________________________<br>Talk-us mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Talk-us@openstreetmap.org">Talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>