[OSM-talk-be] MissingMaps National

[Marc Gemis]

Indeed the room in Ghent would not be able to deal with 80 participants.
We would also need more experienced mappers per location. Almost
anyone on this list would be able to do that. Most asked question: "Is
this a building ?" Or when we would have to map roads "Which type of
road is this?" If you can answer that question while you are mapping
yourself, you can help those newbies.

Due to people coming in throughout the day, it was a bit more work
than usual. A few got stuck with the instructions after setting up
their account. They didn't know how to start the tutorial. (I didn't
check how it is formulated in the text, but maybe we can improve that
section ?)

It seems that there is some interest from the GIS people working for
the government to participate next time. We should contact them next
time (Joost see my PM with the tweet)

I'm also wondering whether Bing would be interested in having the
information from e.g. Belga corrected. After all they do provide the
imagery and it might be some nice publicity for them. Of course, it's
not our job to their PR.

m.

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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