[HOT] Missing Maps launch tomorrow, and LearnOSM

[Kate Chapman]

Hi Charlotte,

I previously sent out an introduction to this collaboration on list(1)

In case people missed it you read more about Missing Maps on its website(2)
and the HOT blog post about the launch(3).

Thank you to everyone who has ever volunteered for HOT in someway, this is
really your doing!

Thanks,

-Kate

(1) https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2014-October/006452.html
(2) http://www.missingmaps.org/
(3) http://tinyurl.com/kzazqm8

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Nick Allen <nick.allen.54 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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 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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