[OSM-talk] Practical tips wanted for mapping weekend

[David Groom]

To: "Lars Aronsson" <lars at aronsson.se>
Cc: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Practical tips wanted for mapping weekend


On 8/24/06, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
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> 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?

On the Isle of Wight we managed to find an arts centre which had free wife, 
and a room we could use.  The real benefit of having internet access was not 
so much that we could edit what was being collected during the weekend, but 
it was useful to demonstrate to people new to the OSM project (potential OSM 
contributors, the press, local MP) what it was all about, and how editing 
and map production was carried out.


> 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?
>
We met up on the morning of the first day and divided up the Island.  Then 
on the second day loaded all the GPS tracks collected on day 1 into JOSM, so 
we could find out what had been covered, and what needed to be done on day 
2.

David


> 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