[Talk-us] Best practices for outdoor mapping party

[Peter Dobratz]

I've given up the dedicated GPS and/or pen and paper for data collection
and I do everything using the camera and notes application on my smartphone.

All the pictures I take are geotagged.  I transfer the photos to a computer
via the USB port and then load them into JOSM with a marker showing where
they were taken.

There are also smartphone applications to create GPX files, but this seems
superfluous for most things I map since recent high-resolution aerial
photos are available from Bing.

Peter


On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Harald Kliems <kliems at gmail.com> wrote:

> With help from the wonderful folks at Maptime Madison, we're planning on
> hosting the first Madison (Wisc.) mapping party on the Spring Mapathon
> weekend. Nobody involved has ever organized or even attended a mapping
> party, so we wouldn't mind some advice. From reading on the wiki and
> various user diaries, I've come up with the following rough plan:
>
> - Meet at coffee shop, distribute Field Papers maps of the area to be
> surveyed, GPSrs , cameras, calibrate camera clocks. Mention non-obvious
> things that can be mapped, e.g. diet, payment method, collection times,
> opening hours, backrests on benches.
> - Depending on the number of participants, start surveying all together or
> in groups of three to four people. Plan on about one hour of surveying.
> - Group works it way toward the final meeting point at the local public
> library. Have a least two hours to process data and get it into OSM.
> Laptops are available at the library.
>
> Does this sound reasonable? Anything else I should be thinking of?
>
>  Harald.
>
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