[Talk-us] Fall Editathon Seattle Edition

[Melelani Sax-Barnett]

Things went well in PDX too-- we had about 14 people who came and went
throughout the day. Lots of newbies too! I did forget to take pictures
though-- oops.

Feel free to use/fork our resources page and slides here:
http://pdxmele.com/editathon
Repo: https://github.com/pdxmele/editathon

Good luck to the other meetups this weekend!

My best,
Mele


On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

> Good to hear you've been having a good time! Re: battlegrid: you're
> most welcome! I've shown it to the folks present at the SLC Editathon
> today, and everyone found it useful. Please don't hesitate to send any
> feedback or suggestions this way.
>
> We had a really good time here in Salt Lake. The turnout was good by
> our standards (5 people, 2 new). We did not accomplish a lot of
> mapping but we did discuss a potential Utah address points import
> extensively. Also, because we all agreed this is a pleasant way to
> spend a Saturday afternoon, we are introducing a new monthly event,
> the Saturday Mapternoon! If you're in the area, check us out:
> http://www.meetup.com/osmutah/
>
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
> wrote:
> > We had a great first day of map hacking in Seattle. I'd like to
> especially
> > thank Martijn van Exel for creating maproulette.org/battlegrid. Our
> group is
> > attacking the misaligned roads in Washington State using Battlegrid. For
> > those that haven't used battlegrid, it is a visual tool to find
> difference
> > between OSM roads and current Tiger data. We are finding that the Tiger
> data
> > is better than OSM, especially in rural/outstate locations. But Tiger
> data
> > isn't perfect either. Hopefully down the road, the US Census Bureau can
> use
> > our data to improve their data.
> >
> > I would also like to thank Tableau Software for hosting this weekend.
> >
> > --
> > Clifford
> >
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