[Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - preparations

[Matthias Meißer]

Am 02.11.2012 06:01, schrieb Toby Murray:
> I assume we should target these activities towards mappers of medium
> or lower skill?

We try to involve the community as a whole, which includes newbies as 
well as pros.
>
> One task I can think of doing is to find newer roads that weren't in
> the original TIGER data and adding them in, preferably in areas
> without active mappers. But I assume not many participants would be
> able to handle a whole county's worth of raw TIGER data for manual
> conflation. The TIGER 2012 road name tiles on the other hand might be
> a useful tool for this.

Sounds interesting :) But please keep in mind, that people usually wan't 
to to contribute a huge amount of data. So the task should IMHO include 
a lot of basic tracing work (that can be done without special background 
knowledge) so people get satisfied with the results. Maybe for 
detecting/fixing thing the game aproach by Martjin's roulet is better?

bye,
Matthias
>
> Toby
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Matthias Meißer <digi_c at arcor.de> wrote:
>> Hi US community,
>>
>> so now the details of the next global mapathon are fixed:
>> It's called "operation cowboy" and covering the weekend *23.11-25.11* so
>> every local team should have a fair chance to join in.
>> Tomorrow I would like to announce it to the whole community, but some things
>> are still missing.
>>
>> But as this is a community project, I need your help, as there is still a
>> lot of work and of course you are the locals:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Operation_cowboy
>>
>> 1. *Mission statement:*
>> You should discuss, what people should do. Adding details is very general,
>> but what is interesting? (buildings, landuse, ...) How can TIGER get
>> improved without creating more worse data by strangers?
>> We would need 2..3 sentences for motivation and a bigger text for the /join
>> page. (TIGER catalogue see down).
>>
>> 2. *Target areas in tasking server:*
>> Where should we work? Let there enough space for everybody to edit (last
>> NOTLM was 200guys working) but keep in mind that we from the rest of the
>> world, have no idea about US in general and where it might be helpful to add
>> details (so everybody would pick a random place).
>> Simon was kind to allow to use his OSM tasking server to manage the areas:
>> http://rebuild.poole.ch
>> You will need admin rights, so it would be great if 2..3 people would do
>> this job of entering suggested areas
>> (BTW should we now add a "orga team" tab for who is who?)
>>
>> 3. *Short TIGER problem guide/gallery:*
>> Need a very short (people are lazy!) page about what’s usually wrong with
>> TIGER. Using images only with Top5 bugs would be fine, e.g. so people
>> learning fast that TIGER is usually bad placed and can be wrong for >10meter
>>
>> 4. *Further Imagery*
>> Is there other or better imagery than Bing for certain areas? How can we
>> promote this to the other volunteers?
>>
>> 5. *OSMF sponsoring*
>> I already contacted OSMF Communications working group to see if the
>> foundation would sponsor local parties to buy junkfood, drinks etc. (still
>> no response) Last year the german FOSSGIS gave 50Eur (~65USD) for all
>> parties (~5) which was very ok and a good motivation for local organisers.
>> If this fails, could we get sponsoring by other companies (or would they
>> like to cater a own local party and invite mappers?)
>>
>> 6. *More social media channels:*
>> Can anybody start and maintain further accounts as facebook, ...? A logo
>> will come if Ken returns at end of the week, but maybe you could start a
>> skeleton so we could start promotion in 1..2 weeks. Personally I will put my
>> focus on Twitter only (sorry lack of time).
>>
>> *Later stuff:*
>> - Checking and translating final wiki pages next days
>> - Announce to US media in 2..3 weeks
>> - Creating a "thank you"-photo poster of all remote mapping teams
>> - Creating a thank you video? Anybody with compositing/cutting skills?
>>
>> Ok that's the start. It would be very helpful if some of you would helping
>> by coordinating some of this aspects. In every case I'm glad to assist you,
>> but it's just to much for a single (foreign) person.
>>
>> I guess this will become fun :)
>>
>> bye,
>> Matthias
>>
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