[OSM-talk] Calling all Yahoo! tracers. Manchester, UK needs you before Saturday!

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

John,

Neat idea. You would not get any traces of course and that makes it a little
more difficult to do POI's and correct positional alignment but in principal
it's a great idea for at least getting street names done.

Cheers

Andy

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>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of John McKerrell
>Sent: 28 October 2008 11:38 AM
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>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Calling all Yahoo! tracers. Manchester,UK needs you
>before Saturday!
>
>
>On 28 Oct 2008, at 10:58, Tim Waters (chippy) wrote:
>
>> Thanks to all Yahoo tracers! It really made a huge difference, gave
>> people, families and children without GPS units a good easy task to
>> fill in the names, and helped us using the GPS devices loaded with no
>> named streets, to know where to capture the names.
>>
>> Many thanks!
>
>This is good to hear, and links to something that I've been thinking
>of doing for the next Liverpool mapping party (whenever I get around
>to arranging that).
>
>I've been thinking of having some sort of registration process for
>people who are coming, just something simple that takes the email
>address of people and their address/postcode/latitude&longitude
>entered on a map. We would then get people to do Yahoo! tracing of the
>areas that people are coming from and then send them through a PDF of
>the blank streets before the mapping party. The idea then would be
>that people could actually turn up to the mapping party having already
>done the mapping and we could then take them through how to enter the
>data into the database.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>John
>
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