[Talk-us] Join us for another import party at the L.A. Times June 25

[Jonathan Schleuss]

Hi all,

The Los Angeles Times will host another import party to push the "Great L.A. County Import" forward. We've imported more than half a million buildings with the great help of locals and the folks from Mapbox. 

My focus is to use this import strengthen the Southern California OSM community. But, the project is open to all. If you're in the area, please join us. 

Meetup even page
Import guidelines
Tasking manager
I've also been working to improve our language on why we're doing this. Feedback and more ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Why are we doing this?

• To improve our map! More data will allow more users to create projects and do analysis on a variety of things. How many units are located within 1,000 feet of a freeway? What's the average building age in a neighborhood? What's the tallest building on Sunset Boulevard? The data will tell you.

• To catch up with other cities! New York has buildings. Seattle has buildings. San Francisco. Portland. Even Bakersfield has buildings. L.A. County should too! 

• Because a big earthquake is coming. Free and open data will assist first responders. And later it will allow folks to update the buildings with tags showing whether they have been destroyed, are dangerous or have been red-tagged.

• To improve the Los Angeles Times maps. The Times has been using and contributing to OpenStreetmap for the last four years. A large portion of their interactive web maps are based on the Quiet LA tiles. And the Times has used OSM data to do a lot of maps, including more than 500 maps printed in the newspaper (with an OSM credit, of course).

• To encourage more edits. Once buildings are in the map, people will be able to orient themselves to the shapes, making it easier to add more data, like names or businesses.

cheers,

Jon Schleuss



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