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

Arun Ganesh arun.planemad at gmail.com
Sun Jan 29 06:10:59 GMT 2012


How about we fix the Mumbai data?

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Subhodip Biswas
<subhodipbiswas at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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