[HOT] Missing Maps launch tomorrow, and LearnOSM

[Nick Allen]

Charlotte,

Although I'm very noisy on this list, I'm actually a very small cog in a 
great big machine.

I know of this article 
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/06/-sp-missing-maps-baraka-democratic-republic-congo-drc, 
and I know that Facebook & twitter are being used extensively.  I'll be 
at this event in London UK.

For both facebook & twitter search on hotosm &/or Missing Maps project.

Hope this helps

Regards

Nick


On 07/11/14 06:16, Charlotte Wolter wrote:
> Nick,
>
> Are we sending out a press release, so someone other than the readers 
> of the HOT list actually will know that it's happening?
>
> Charlotte
>
>
> :41 AM 11/6/2014, you wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Missing Maps (http://www.missingmaps.org/ )  has its official launch 
>> tomorrow, 7th November. I've deliberatly not put a time in this 
>> message, as its a pretty worldwide launch and it's going to depend on 
>> your and their time zone.
>> As well as the people who attend the mapathons, there will also be 
>> many joining in 'remotely'. Of course, some of the people will have 
>> already done some mapping with HOT in the past, but my experience of 
>> helping at mapathons tells me that less than 5% will know what they 
>> are doing, and the rest will be fairly new, but may have done some 
>> research & looked at help guides etc.
>> At a conservative guess / estimate there will be 300 mappers, the 
>> vast majority of them new, helping with various projects tomorrow. I 
>> think this is a very conservative estimate, and would hope to see 
>> considerably more - perhaps double my first figure, and I wouldn't be 
>> surprised if there were even more!
>> Most of these mappers will look for guidance to LearnOSM 
>> (http://learnosm.org/en/). Because of the way LearnOSMÂ  is set up I 
>> don't think we can get stats. for hits on the site (I'm quite happy 
>> to be contradicted on this).
>> If you've done any exploring on the LearnOSM site you'll have noticed 
>> that's it's not just for 'new mappers' and it has some very 
>> comprehensive guides on some complex subjects. It's good! But it 
>> needs constant attention - the editing tools and processes are 
>> constantly evolving, and what was a current guide last month, may now 
>> need a slight update.
>> LearnOSM is also multilingual, or at least it should be. There are 
>> many sections that need more translations. There are guides on how to 
>> simply produce these translations 
>> (https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/blob/gh-pages/CONTRIBUTING.md).
>>
>> Now (last week would have been better!) would be a good time to have 
>> a read through LearnOSM, and if you see something that needs sorting 
>> out, either sort it, or send a message asking for someone else to do 
>> it. If you've managed to master mapping, then getting something 
>> amended or updated on https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm 
>> <https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm> is only a minor stumbling block, 
>> and could have a big impact on 700 people who will potentially read 
>> it over the next few days.
>>
>> *New Mappers* - we need to know what is missing, or needs rephrasing. 
>> Let us know, please.
>>
>> Regards
>> -- 
>>
>> Nick
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Nick

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