[Talk-ca] Ottawa Missing Map Event In November Planning

[Richard Burcher]

Hi John,

Good points. We talked abit about this at our meeting last Friday and
decided that we'll have a quick introduction to OSM and a beginners "get
going" walk through. Thinking max 30 minutes for this. We'll ensure we have
folks wandering around or that can be flagged down for help. Many of us,
including myself are still learning (lots of detail with OSM) but we want
to pass on what we can:) We'll primarily focus on using iD to keep it
simple plus use a tasking manager (assuming the HOT one). We're thinking of
printing a few large maps that we can use as discussion points for
teaching.

Cheers,

Richard

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On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 8:50 AM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> IDRC as well might have some ideas perhaps?  http://www.idrc.ca
> especially as follow up to their open data conference in Ottawa this year.
> Pete might well have some ideas of what the logistical requirements are.
>
> Does HOT have a mapathon planning guide that could be used?  I know a lot
> of work has gone into training guides recently, trying to make them simpler
> and more relevant.
>
> Note to Richard if you have a lot of newcomers the difficulty is they want
> to get started right away, and experienced OSM mappers don't always read
> the project instructions to see what the HOT conventions are.  Highways for
> example tend to use a subset of the OSM possibilities.  Also iD is fairly
> new so many experienced OSM mappers such as myself don't know their way
> round it to assist newcomers.
>
> Thanks
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On 26 September 2015 at 08:30, Heather Leson <heatherleson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Good point.
>>
>> How about a university? I have had great luck with those. I think that
>> someone from Norman Patterson (Carleton) has been writing about HOT and
>> OSM. Let us know
>>
>> John/Richard, is there a list that folks have on tech specs setting up
>> Missing Maps? I know that Pete has been doing them often in London UK and
>> could help if needed.
>>
>> Heather
>>
>> Heather Leson
>> heatherleson at gmail.com
>> Twitter: HeatherLeson
>> Blog: textontechs.com
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 3:23 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Do you have a confirmed venue with lots of wifi bandwidth?  If its
>>> preinstalled JOSM its not too bad but going by other maperthons iD seems to
>>> be more demanding.
>>>
>>> Thanks John
>>>
>>> On 25 September 2015 at 23:40, Heather Leson <heatherleson at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Richard and OSM friends in Canada
>>>>
>>>> I just wanted to say thank you. I'll it widely. Perhaps consider
>>>> posting on the HOT list too?
>>>>
>>>> Heather
>>>> On 26 Sep 2015 3:24 am, "Richard Burcher" <richardburcher at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> OSM Ottawa is putting on a Missing Maps event [1] up here in Ottawa.
>>>>> Still some details to work out but we're aiming for November 14th from 9am
>>>>> - 3pm.
>>>>>
>>>>> So if you're interested, drop us a line and get involved:)
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://www.meetup.com/openstreetmap-ottawa/events/225620798/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Richard
>>>>>
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