[Talk-us] Burning Man old data, publicity opportunity

[Kathleen Danielson]

Clay, does this give you something to work with?


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Michal Migurski <mike at teczno.com> wrote:

> I'd love to help with this, but I'm not much of a burner (first & last:
> 2001) so I won't be able to follow up. Sorry!
>
> -mike.
>
> On Aug 5, 2013, at 11:54 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
>
> > He was certainly involved back then, but like me, his interest in
> > BM/BRC has dropped off a bit. I've connected Migurski with the people
> > in the Bay Area that have all the data and hoping he can help get
> > everything together so it can go into the map.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Steven Johnson <sejohnson8 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I'm almost certain that Mikel was involved in one, or both of those
> '08/'09
> >> efforts to map Black Rock City. Worth contacting him about what it would
> >> take to re-do it for 2013.
> >>
> >> -- SEJ
> >> -- twitter: @geomantic
> >> -- skype: sejohnson8
> >>
> >> There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate
> from
> >> incomplete data.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Clay Smalley <claysmalley at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>> So Black Rock City is mapped on OpenStreetMap... twice. And both are
> old
> >>>> versions (the city as it was in 2008 and 2009). Anyone know why this
> is?
> >>>> Should the two old cities be deleted and replaced with the 2013 city?
> >>>>
> >>>> I have a feeling that this could be a fun publicity opportunity for
> OSM,
> >>>> if we're the first ones to map out Black Rock City during Burning
> Man. Not
> >>>> to mention that the kind of people who go to Burning Man would
> probably
> >>>> rather support OSM over Google Maps, given someone tells them about
> OSM. It
> >>>> brings in people from everywhere, so ideally they could go back to
> their
> >>>> respective communities and possibly get more involved in local OSM
> mapping.
> >>>>
> >>>> Just ranting a pipe dream. Does this sound realistic?
> >>>>
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