[Talk-us] Best practices for outdoor mapping party

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Mon Mar 9 18:11:58 UTC 2015


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On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Peter Dobratz <peter at dobratz.us> wrote:

> 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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