[Talk-us] Fwd: Map the National Mall and Parks on January 10th

[Katie Filbert]

There will be an OpenStreetMap mapping party on January 10th in Washington,
DC, where we will be mapping around the National Mall and parks. (e.g.
Jefferson Memorial).   We invite you to take part.

Some Wikipedians may be joining us, as there is a Wikipedia DC meetup the
day before on January 9th.

Regards,
Katie Filbert

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From: Katie Filbert <filbertk at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Subject: Map the National Mall and Parks on January 10th
To: mappingdc at googlegroups.com

All,

MappingDC is planning the next mapping party for January 10th (tentatively
10 am – 3pm), focusing on the National Mall area and East/West Potomac Park
areas. We are still working on setting a specific meeting.

Although we are doing GIS data imports in DC (we aim to have buildings in by
Jan 10th), there remains plenty of details to collect around the National
Mall area.

Some things to do during the mapping party:

* Adding various statues and smaller monuments, verifying existing data
(much comes from the GNIS dataset, with substantial inaccuracies), and we
can also add description information.
* Food, souvenir and information kiosks, paddle boats, benches, trash cans
(the DC GIS data does not include them for the Mall), bike racks, water
fountains, and other POIs.
* Mark where there are steps and ramps to provide accessibility information
* Collect data about the walkways and bike paths (e.g. type and quality of
pavement), which would be useful for determining where one can go
rollerblading or cycling.
* Other ideas and whatever interests you.

Surrounding the National Mall, in the Penn Quarter/Metro Center, there are
numerous restaurants, shops, and other amenities that need to be added.

To take part in the mapping party, you do not need a GPS. We will have some
to lend out, and GPS is only one way of collection. We also use walking
papers, which are simply low-tech printouts of the OSM map that we mark up
with details when out walking around.  After collecting some data, we will
spend time uploading the data to OSM, with more experienced mappers
demonstrating how it’s done.

A planning page for the mapping party is on the OpenStreetMap wiki.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Washington_DC/National_Mall

Stay tuned to the mailing list and the mappingdc.org site for announcement
of a specific meeting place.

Regards,
Katie Filbert
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