[Talk-us] [OPC2012] Operation Cowboy - Mission statement

[Matthias Meißer]

Am 09.11.2012 05:09, schrieb Richard Weait:
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 4:59 AM, Matthias Meißer <digi_c at arcor.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> as I don't read any discussions about where and what to map, I would like to
>> bring up this essential question again.
>>
>> Just a few possible ideas (that can be also mixed):
>> - adding new details (as buildings, landuse, ...)
>> - fixing TIGER (alignment, classification, ...)
>> - focus on the coast areas only (big cities)
>> - focus on the countryside (where no one has been before)
>> - focus on n states (and making there a huge step)
>
> Is there any way to tie this event into growing the local community or
> assisting a local community that _wants_ some distant armchair
> support?  How about:
>
> - call a friend in Distant Town and have them agree to survey Main
> Street after you fix TIGER and add the buildings from imagery.
> - have a local user request assistance for Adjacent County TIGER
> fixup, in exchange for surveying names for new subdivisions in
> Adjacent County
> - have new mappers request a mapping coach to join them online allow
> the new mapper to learn with an interested coach helping out on voice,
> IRC, email, whatever...
>
> Just doing armchair mapping has the chance to create a positive
> result, but using the armchair mapping event to grow local communities
> where they don't yet exist would be a greater good.

Sounds really good to me, but I have no idea how to organise this. I bet 
it will be easier, if US folks join the IRC and add a prefix as "US" to 
their nickname, so it will be easy to ask US specific questions.

bye,
Matthias