[Talk-bd] Fwd: Night of the living maps - in Bangladesh?

[Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed]

I just got this message from Matthias.

ishtiaque

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From: Matthias Meißer <digi_c at arcor.de>
Date: Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 2:50 PM
Subject: Night of the living maps - in Bangladesh?
To: Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque at csebuet.org>


Hi Ahmed,

I contacted you months ago for collecting all local user groups. Now
together with others, we got a similar idea: www.nightofthelivingmaps.org

But of cause, we just created this framework and the event itself consists
of the local parties, where mappers can socialise and work.

So my question is, if you might translate the following text and submit it
to your local community, please?
I'm not sure if you already maintain a twitter account that I can follow?

bye
Matthias


Night of the living maps - virtual global mapping party 07.02.2012



Hello community,



since a few weeks, we had the idea for a global action, that we'd like to
announce today: www.nightofthelivingmaps.org

At Thursday, the 07.02.2012 we stay awake a whole night long, to trace
aerial imagery for the areas, that where we currently lack a lot of
informations: the countryside. Outside the big cities of your counties.

Sadly we have no real big international events here at OSM, maybe we can
change that with this 'LAN party'?



So we please you, to ask your local OSM community, if they doesn't want to
start a small local party. It's not that much work, usually you can get a
room by univeristy/Hackerspace/local goverment/... for free. Then you just
need a few notebooks and Coffee to get the party started ;)

We thought that it would be great, if you submit your changesets with a
comment starting with '#notlm...', so we are able to select them for
animations or just view where all of you are working.



Even if it's not the main goal to promote OSM and to attract newbies, it
would be great, if you could present your event to others. You will
find/can upload flyers and social media contacts right here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/**wiki/Night_of_the_living_maps/**promotion<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Night_of_the_living_maps/promotion>

http://www.facebook.com/pages/**Night-of-the-living-maps/**163865540386200<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Night-of-the-living-maps/163865540386200>

https://twitter.com/**NightOfTheMap <https://twitter.com/NightOfTheMap>





But there is still enough stuff to do, for all of us:

-translating the wiki page for your local community

-setup animation rendering/statistics

-maybe we can get a webcam wall or something similar?

-add a tips&tricks page for your tips on good productivity and how to
surround the usual aerial tracing pitfalls



Of course we know, that using just Bing, is only #2 choice for adding
details to our database and that survey is what we all realy like. But in
this case, we believe, that it is a good compromise (see hints in Wiki).
Currently there seem to be no definitive answer if this technique is right
or wrong, maybe we can decide on this when years passed and we can take a
look back. So for now, let's just do what we are good at: Create together a
real good map :)



bye

Matthias



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Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
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