[Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Happy New Year from MapRoulette!

[the Old Topo Depot]

Some folks were looking at connectivity errors systematicallyfrom early
July, and things accelerated substantively when Martijn released an MR
challenge.

It's likely that nearly 100K connectivity errors were cleared last year
within the US  (remember those horrible county boundaries ;-))

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

> Less, we started the connectivity challenge late November of 2012.
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:
> > Holy shit. This is awesome. 70,000 connectivity errors. In how much
> time? Something like three months?
> >
> > On Jan 10, 2013, at 12:36 AM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> We've seen some great progress from MapRoulette users fixing the
> >> almost 70,000 connectivity errors in the US. Returning from my
> >> Christmas break, they were all but eliminated! Great, but we did not
> >> really have the next challenge ready yet. So for now, we expanded the
> >> scope of the connectivity challenge to include Mexico and Canada, so
> >> we have over 57,000 fresh connectivity errors for you to sink your
> >> teeth into. So stop reading and start fixing, over at
> >> http://maproulette.org/!
> >>
> >> PS the next challenge is almost done, we could also do a parallel
> >> MapRoulette for that, what do you think?
> >> --
> >> Martijn van Exel
> >> http://oegeo.wordpress.com/
> >> http://openstreetmap.us/
> >>
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> > Alex Barth
> > http://twitter.com/lxbarth
> > tel (+1) 202 250 3633
> >
> >
> >
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