[Talk-us] Rural Montana - can we find local mappers?

Wolfgang Zenker wolfgang at lyxys.ka.sub.org
Mon Mar 24 20:20:26 UTC 2014


Hi,

for the last two years I have been cleaning up TIGER data and adding
named waterways in Lincoln County, Montana. This work is now finished.
This doesn't mean our map there is now in any way complete, just that
the data that we DO have is no longer obviously horribly wrong.

While there are still a few things that could be done by an armchair
mapper, having local mappers would be a lot easier. Only the fact
that the county has an average population "density" of 5 people per
square mile might make it a bit unlikely that a lot of locals find
OSM accidently. So some outreach to local groups and institutions
like hiking clubs, tourist associations, boy and girl scouts,
chambers of commerce etc. could be helpful.
My problem here is that I'm living on a different continent, in
a different cultural environment with a different native language
and 8 time zones away, so I'm probably not the best choice to try
connecting with local people in that area.
Any US mappers that want to help? Please speak out.

Wolfgang



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