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

[Steve Coast]

Hm

How about we have a coordinated mapping party weekend across the US in 
something like September? Aim to get a party in every state?

That gives us a nice goal, a long time to organize plus we could 
coordinate for national press if we're clever.

Thoughts?

Steve

On 6/2/2011 11:00 AM, Steven Johnson wrote:
> We're overdue to host a mapping party in the DC area. We'll organize 
> one at a meetup to be held sometime in the next two weeks (likely 
> coinciding with WhereCampDC, 10-11 June). So look for an event in 
> WashDC before end of June...
>
> I helped organize and conduct a very successful mapping party at North 
> Carolina State University back in Feb. (Blogged here: 
> http://www.openstreetmap.us/2011/03/openstreetmap-goes-to-school-ncsu-mapping-party/) 
> but the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area still lacks an organized focus 
> for OSM activities (which I find astonishing).
>
> -- SEJ
> -- twitter: @geomantic
> -- skype: sejohnson8
>
> "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting 
> entirely of jokes." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 13:43, Jim McAndrew <jim at loc8.us 
> <mailto:jim at loc8.us>> wrote:
>
>     I've been to a successful mapping party in NYC, which was run by
>     CloudMade.  The meetup.com <http://meetup.com> group still exists,
>     and someone is funding it.  I don't know anyone specific who is
>     still working with it though.
>
>     I believe Lancaster, PA is still trying to have monthly meetups as
>     well.
>
>     --
>     Jim McAndrew
>
>
>     On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Richard Welty
>     <rwelty at averillpark.net <mailto:rwelty at averillpark.net>> wrote:
>
>         On 6/2/11 1:19 PM, Steve Coast wrote:
>
>
>
>             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 <http://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?
>
>         i'm trying to get a group going in the Capitol District of NY;
>         i think
>         that NYC needs its own group, but i don't know of anything going
>         on down there.
>
>         richard
>
>
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