[OSM-talk] Night of the living maps 07.02.2012 - a 'virtual' global mapping party
Matthias Meißer
digi_c at arcor.de
Fri Jan 27 09:22:49 GMT 2012
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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