[HOT] need contact info for a mini-mapathon
John Bocan
jmbocan at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 28 04:12:49 UTC 2016
Greetings all,
This is the firsttime I'm posting to the group, but I've been an avid reader of thelist for almost a year. I am looking to have kind of a mini-mapathonfor Friday, May 6th. It will be actually a hands-onworkshop for the West Virginia GIS Conference. The maximum size is23 and we'll be using desktop machines in one of the computer labs atthe university (WVU).
I've been readingthe material on Missing Maps, especially that pertaining to hosting amapathon. There is the statement in a PDF to “Contact a DevelopmentRelationship Manager or Missing Maps Coordinator with your date andlocation so they can help you with the following....”; however, Iseem not to be able to find that contact info. I'm assuming that themanager/coordinator would find an appropriate task to for us to do. I'm not concerned about advertising the event since it's akin to theconference only. Most of the attendees are GIS professionals likemyself. I was considerably impressed with what I saw and heard atState of the Map US in NYC last year, having been an OSM contributorfor a few years now. I didn't even know of HOT until SOTMUS-NYC! And it was great to participate in the mapathon on the last day.
I will be presentinga session on crowdsource mapping which will emphasis OSM, a bit ofthe National Map Corps but especially HOT. I figured, “since I'mdoing that, why not give them some hands-on work?”, so I decided todo a mini-mapathon. Again, most will be GIS professionals but I'massuming no real experience with the OSM environments. I'll do awalk-through of editing via iD and one of the videos as well. Andof course, go over squaring off the square buildings (hot topiclately, pardon the pun.)
All in all, ifanyone could direct me to “who” I need to contact, it will begreat!
Best,
John Bocan, GISPMorgantown, WV
OSM: JMBocan
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