[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap US elections: October 12 townhall with candidates

[Mike N]

On 10/14/2015 1:33 PM, Wolfgang Zenker wrote:
> One idea would be to have a mapping party doing TIGER fixup for one
> rural county, then contact the local newspaper, write an article what
> has been done and ask for help regarding wrong/incomplete road names,
> wrong data caused by outdated imagery, etc.
> My guess would be that newspapers in rural towns would be happy about
> every article regarding their local area that they can get.

  I agree with this - just some armchair work from existing mappers 
won't increase overall participation in rural areas, but some 
preliminary work (untangling TIGER is *hard* for new mappers), followed 
by newspaper announcements to check road names, etc would bring in some 
people.   Also suggesting to add parks, park details, trails, etc would 
further attract some people.