[Talk-us] Where are my local mappers at?

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Sun Apr 27 20:10:19 UTC 2014


In the spirit of egalitarianism, go ahead and run it for all 50 states, the
District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Iraq and
Afghanistan, since I know US mappers are active in all of those locations.


On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

> The mapper names only appear in the visualisation when there is space to
> put the labels. Your contribution may have been to tiny :) If your bar is
> not tall enough to accommodate a label, it is probably because you
> contributed over a longer period of time, and not a huge amount. The bars
> length is determined by your first and last edit in the area, and the area
> is being determined by the total # of contributions.
>
> I will do one for each of the states you mentioned. Give me a couple days.
> (not that it takes that long to run, I just need to find the time to start
> the process, get the state extracts, publish results.)
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>
>> I was trying to grep myself in the visualization, since I know I've used
>> my LA County experience to do some mapping there.  That said, I'd be
>> curious about the quad-state area here (OK/KS/MO/AR).  Though I'm sure some
>> other mappers here would be more interested in an Arklatexana tearout.
>>  (also, I think it's amusing how close I've been to Louisiana to be in an
>> area that names itself in part after that state; some definitions include
>> as far northwest as Okmulgee (we do have a lot of "bayous" here), yet I've
>> never actually been to Louisiana).
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> What would you want to search for? You can search the spreadsheet for
>>> usernames, sort / filter it in pretty much any way you want. The
>>> visualization is mostly eye candy, but it can offer some insights into who
>>> the 'sustaining' mappers in a community are, and perhaps also unveil import
>>> accounts.
>>>
>>> Do you want me to export one for your metro or state, Paul?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Interesting concept, but pretty much unusable without being able to
>>>> search it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Inspired by Dennis's talk at SOTM US and ensuing discussions I decided
>>>>> to dust off some old code that tells you what your local mapping community
>>>>> looks like. Here's what LA County looks like:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://mvexel.github.io/bravemappers/#
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's the source data:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aJYRnYrEyZxaKvPYcBAl6xNwcb4eIJyhNvFjDmS8XWw/edit#gid=876327018
>>>>>
>>>>> More background in a diary entry:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/21720
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me know if this is fun / useful and if you have suggestions for
>>>>> improvement.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Martijn van Exel
>>>>> http://oegeo.wordpress.com/
>>>>> http://openstreetmap.us/
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Martijn van Exel
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>>> http://openstreetmap.us/
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Martijn van Exel
> http://oegeo.wordpress.com/
> http://openstreetmap.us/
>
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