[OSM-talk] Night of the living maps 07.02.2012 - a 'virtual' global mapping party

[Matthias Meißer]

Hi, today evening our nice event starts.
As you might have noticed, there are now a lot of parties around the 
globe. But even if you can't attend, some will meet at IRC for some 
coordinated mapping.

Ok just some last hints before the start:

- keep the guidelines in mind and teach them new mappers 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Armchair_mapping

- use "#notlm" as prefix in changeset comments

- take photos and share them on twitter or the Forums (and afterwards)

- HAVE FUN :)

At this point, just a big big THANK YOU to all the people who organized 
local parties and to everyone who will contribute from home!

bye
Matthias
(user:!i!)

Am 27.01.2012 10:22, schrieb Matthias Meißer:
> Hello community,
>
> since a few weeks, we had the idea for a global action, that we'd like
> to announce today: www.nightofthelivingmaps.org
> At Thursday, the 07.02.2012 we stay awake a whole night long, to trace
> aerial imagery for the areas, that where we currently lack a lot of
> informations: the countryside. Outside the big cities of your counties.
> Sadly we have no real big international events here at OSM, maybe we can
> change that with this 'LAN party'?
>
> So we please you, to ask your local OSM community, if they doesn't want
> to start a small local party. It's not that much work, usually you can
> get a room by univeristy/Hackerspace/local goverment/... for free. Then
> you just need a few notebooks and Coffee to get the party started ;)
> We thought that it would be great, if you submit your changesets with a
> comment starting with '#notlm...', so we are able to select them for
> animations or just view where all of you are working.
>
> Even if it's not the main goal to promote OSM and to attract newbies, it
> would be great, if you could present your event to others. You will
> find/can upload flyers and social media contacts right here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Night_of_the_living_maps/promotion
> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Night-of-the-living-maps/163865540386200
> https://twitter.com/NightOfTheMap
>
>
> But there is still enough stuff to do, for all of us:
> -local parties itself
> -translating the wiki pages for your countries
> -setup animation rendering/statistics
> -maybe we can get a webcam wall or something similar?
> -add a tips&tricks page for your tips on good productivity and how to
> surround the usual aerial tracing pitfalls
>
> Of course we know, that using just Bing, is just the #2 choice for
> adding details to our database and that survey is what we all really
> like. But in this case, we believe, that it is a good compromise (see
> hints in Wiki). Currently there seem to be no definitive answer if this
> technique is right or wrong, maybe we can decide on this when years
> passed and we can take a look back. So for now, let's just do what we
> are good at: Create together a real good map :)
>
> bye
> Matthias
> (user:!i!)
>
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