[Talk-us] Best practices for outdoor mapping party

[Simon Poole]

The real core question is: will you have newbies or not?

Old hands will have their favourite method of mapping anyway and are
unlikely to change (obviously for nearly every thing except large scale
geometry changes vespucci is the only reasonable solution :-)). For them
you simply need a reasonable way of splitting up the area in question,
essentially any print out of OSM will do OK, field papers working
particularly well.

If you have newbies you need to think about if you want to pair them up
with old hands or have them go out and learn the ropes on their own
(I've tried both and there are likely an even number of pros and cons
for both).

Simon



Am 09.03.2015 um 17:09 schrieb Harald Kliems:
> 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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