[Talk-us] Who is mapping on the ground in US?

[Steve Coast]

Well.. it's chicken and egg. There wasn't anyone interested in the UK 
when I ran the first mapping parties there either.

If you set up a group on meetup.com you'd be surprised how many people 
join and start to get interested once you have a group meeting monthly.

We should really be aiming for one meetup per state. I think we have MA, 
WA, CA, CO now all have monthly meetups. How does NY, TX and the captiol 
look?

Steve

On 6/2/2011 10:14 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
> From my perspective there are a couple hurdles:
>
> 0) There aren't very many people aware of or interested in OSM in the 
> US yet.
> 1) People interested in OSM who might be able to evangelize OSM 
> already spend their time mapping or (in my case) just don't have any 
> extra time outside of existing obligations, work, family life, etc.
>
> That being said, perhaps there's something that could be done to 
> grease the wheels and make it as easy as possible to get a mappy 
> hour/mapping party going. Can those that have run successful ones 
> recently talk about what they did, who they contacted, what time they 
> held it? I'm thinking something like Harry Wood's diary posts for the 
> London OSM meetups, but for the meetups in the US.
>
> Maybe seeing/reading how others do it in the US (not that it needs to 
> be different) would provide inspiration for the rest of us?
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com 
> <mailto:steve at asklater.com>> wrote:
>
>     Agreed. Our mapping parties and meetups in Seattle have been awesome.
>
>     On 6/2/2011 8:59 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
>
>         I see that a mapping party is planned for Boston this month.
>          This is
>         awesome, and if you are nearby, you should attend.
>         http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Boston/June_2011_mapping_party
>
>         There is also a mapping party on that date in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
>
>         But why aren't there ten times as many mapping parties in the
>         US as
>         there are in Canada?  The US has ten times the population.  Y'all
>         should have more mapping parties.  And Mappy Hours, to meet up
>         with
>         other mappers and talk about mapping over your beverage of choice.
>
>         It's fun.  Really.  You should set one up.  Today.
>
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