[Party] Mapping party advice

[Andy Robinson]

Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
>Sent: 08 March 2007 11:00 AM
>To: party at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [Party] Mapping party advice
>
>El Jueves, 8 de Marzo de 2007 09:49, Nick Black escribió:
>> Hi Iván,
>>
>> Its great that you're organising a party in Spain - but you missing
>> the most important detail - the dates!
>
>They are already set - the workshop is on april 11th, 18th, and 25th
>(wednesdays). The 11th I'll explain how OSM works, followed by a JOSM
>crash-course. The mapping parties "per se" will be on the 18th and 25th.
>
>Then, on the 26th (thursday), we will hold a round table about the legal
>and
>social impact of OSM.
>
>> I would definitely come out to Spain for a weekend, but April is already
>> looking busy, add to that the cost of flights, which get more expensive
>> closer to the time...
>
>I didn't think about non-spanish OSMers coming down here - my goal is to
>involve more spanish mappers. I'm going to tell everyone on the local
>dorkbot
>meeting, on today's legal conference by David Bravo (a spanish CC lawyer),
>and lots of people in next weeks.
>
>> In short - figure out who *has* to be there to make it work, then
>> arrange a date the key people (people lending the units or whatever)
>> can make it, then set a date and tell everyone you see.
>
>This will be hosted by the "MediaLab Madrid". Have a looky here:
>
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcuartielles/151924460/
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcuartielles/53500312/
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcuartielles/53500059/
>
>They'll be providing that huge place, plus GPS loggers (a couple of cheap
>Woxter BT tracers), plus computers to run JOSM. So I can't really push for
>dates: they wanted to host the workshop on several days, a couple of hours
>each afternoon. And not on a weekend.
>
>
>A question: how long is a "standard" mapping party? A 30-minute walk, or a
>8-hour marathon? As Madrid is mostly unmapped, I though that a two-hour run
>would be OK to map the near districts.
>

Mostly it’s a day of two halves on each day, ie some mapping for a couple or
more hours in the morning and the same in the afternoon, especially for
those that have not done much before. For ardent mappers some may stay out
all day.

In the UK on Sundays the day has sometimes started a little slowly
(especially if the evening social has been good ;-)  ) and therefore a
single late morning to early afternoon mapping session works ok with people
leaving for home in the later afternoon on the Sunday.

With Madrid having I would hope a good climate for the party you might move
the sessions around a bit and if daylight is good in the evening consider
that too.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk
>
>Cheers,
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>Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez at escomposlinux.org>
>
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