[Talk-in] [Event] Night of the living maps - virtual global mapping party 07.02.2012

Subhodip Biswas subhodipbiswas at gmail.com
Sun Jan 29 05:34:56 GMT 2012


Hello all,

I got this email from Matthias. Sounds pretty interesting so please
join if you want to, it would be really nice.

The email goes below :

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 university/Hackerspace/local government/... 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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Subhodip Biswas


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