[OSM-talk-be] MissingMaps National

[Jo]

200 is indeed incredible and we wouldn't have been able to handle 80 people
in one location or the corresponding 500 in all 7 locations at the moment.
We still need to grow into this and this was a great learning experience
already as it was.

Jo

2016-04-17 22:43 GMT+02:00 joost schouppe <joost.schouppe at gmail.com>:

> Yes, Marc, you did great. I really liked the vrt clip actually.
>
> At the VUB, we knew full well the VTM was coming, but I didn't think for a
> second about how we should shape their message. I did talk to them quite a
> bit, but they didn't ask to interview me. They did interview the professor,
> and that seemed good to me: one of "ours" and one of "theirs" having a
> prime time moment. How on earth they think Google has anything to do with
> the project - you can't imagine how people think, I guess.
> Everything I heard sounded good to me at the time though. We had already
> seen the vrt clip, so honestly I was expecting them to do a copy-paste of
> that clip.
>
> Anyway I don't think any of us expected exposure of this magnitude, so we
> never actually took a minute to think about it. Maybe of some more people
> would have joined the organization, someone would have thought of that :)
>
> The reason VTM does show the Google Earth logo is probably that they have
> a standard setup they use everyday and they know they have to do that. They
> actually added that thing as the image at the tasking manager didn't cover
> all the area being mapped as it was split over three tasks.
>
> As was said here, what has been aired has been aired. But I will send a
> message to Belga - they should do some decent fact checking if everyone
> else is just copy-pasting from them.
>
> Do add links to our work hackpad to any articles you may find.
> https://hackpad.com/Missing-Maps-National-April-16th-6yr1qJEQoqq
>
> All in all a great learning opportunity for all of us I think - also in
> how we fail in reaching people who would potentially absolutely love us. As
> Jo said somewhere, it feels like 30 could have been 80 with more promotion.
> Then again 200 mappers is incredible, IMHO.
>
> Joost
>
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