[Talk-co] Fwd: Night of the living maps - in Colombia

[Debucquoi Sébastien]

It's would be great to start mapping party and events in Colombia :)

I'm in stand by in Bucaramanga.

Sébastien.

Le 29/01/2012 01:33, Fredy Rivera a écrit :
> Hi Fredy,
>
> together with other mappers, we got a 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 and submit the following
> text 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://www.facebook.com/pages/Night-of-the-living-maps/163865540386200
> 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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