[Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Preaparing Thank you gift

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On the MapRoulette subject, the connectivity challenge error count dropped
below 10,000 today, down from around 60,000 a mere four weeks ago.

This is really outstanding progress.

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:

> I'd like to ride on the coat tails of Richard's comments: Thank you
> Matthias and anyone else who helped set this up. Super excited about such
> efforts as they further deliniate great tasks for archair mapping and
> connecting local with global communities.
>
> On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:04 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>
> wrote:
>
> > !i! wrote:
> >> Hi, one last personal note on the mapathon and a big thank you
> >> (literally): http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/!i!/diary/18132
> >
> > And thank you, too. I've always been sceptical about this sort of event
> - my
> > vision for OSM is that we need more contributors with local knowledge,
> not
> > more "remote mapping" - but in hindsight I think this, and MapRoulette,
> are
> > showing some really interesting ways forward. By applying the OSM
> community
> > to a problem in Mechanical Turk fashion, we're able to achieve much
> better
> > results than an unthinking import or automated edit would do.
> >
> > Give the OSM community a task and it will carry it out much better than
> > you'd imagine. There's lots we can learn from that.
> >
> > cheers
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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