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

[Martijn van Exel]

That is indeed a very useful tool.

It would be nice if someone put together a friendly 'how to find
mappers in my area' guide containing some of this info and perhaps
more. I'd really like to have something like that on openstreetmap.us.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Brad Neuhauser
<brad.neuhauser at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wolfgang, you might also try looking at contributors with activity in this
> area, via the Who's Around Me? map.
> (http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/oooc?zoom=7&lat=47.8062&lon=-113.57002&layers=B00FTFFFFT)
> I don't see anyone active in the exact county you mention, but there are a
> few fairly regular OSM users in Montana/Idaho who you might contact.
>
> Brad
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Russell Deffner <russdeffner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Wolfgang,
>>
>> Lots of rural United States, as well as many places do not currently have
>> a
>> local mapping community.  We are working on it, and a good chance to
>> 'recruit' help is at the State of the Map - US (stateofthemap.us) coming
>> up
>> in a couple of weeks.  I am also co-organizer for OSM-Colorado
>> ('unofficial'
>> meetup.com group) and have been slowly spreading the message into Wyoming
>> (which I believe is the least populous state); so I appreciate any
>> suggestions, contacts, etc.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> =Russ
>>
>> russdeffner at gmail.com
>> http://www.meetup.com/OSM-Colorado/
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wolfgang Zenker [mailto:wolfgang at lyxys.ka.sub.org]
>> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 2:20 PM
>> To: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: [Talk-us] Rural Montana - can we find local mappers?
>>
>> 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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