[OSM-talk] Practical tips wanted for mapping weekend

[Etienne]

On 8/24/06, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
>
>
> When you're mapping the Isle of Wight, Manchester or Bath, how do
> you get an Internet connection, and how much do you depend on it?
> If you can't get online (which could be hard in remote areas), do
> you swap tracklogs between users and view them offline in JOSM
> during the weekend?  Or do you divide the area in advance, so
> everybody knows exactly which parts of a town to cover, and then
> everybody goes home to upload and process their tracklogs?
>
> Did you combine these excursions with taking photos for and
> georeferencing Wikipedia articles about the area?  There's a
> special WikiProject on the English Wikipedia for U.K. geography,
> that I suppose you could collaborate with,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_UK_geography


Hmmm... just looked at this project.  It seems pretty active at the moment
(judging by the rate of edits of the page).  A handful of the members of
that project seem to live in the Midlands.  Wonder if we should alert them
to the Rutland Map party and invite them along?  Maybe we could get Rutland
to be their collaboration of the month for October?

Etienne




I'm almost about to suggest a meeting in Växjö, southern Sweden,
> on September 22-24.  But I'm not sure how much I need to prepare.
> Växjö is the nearest bigger town to me that is not yet mapped.
>
>
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