[OSM-talk] International mapping getting together day

[Tyler Radford]

Hi Andrew, not quite sure this is what you were thinking, but "OSM
Geography Awareness Week" will be held 13-19 November this year. We're
aiming to get 100 mapathons going around the world during that week:
http://osmgeoweek.org/

Would encourage you (and all of us) to think about hosting or helping with
an event in your area.

Best
Tyler

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On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Michael Reichert <nakaner at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> Am 2016-09-30 um 21:43 schrieb Andrew Hain:
> > Any interest in organising a distributed mapping party where we get
> together round the world, attracting armchair mappers who haven't
> experienced field mapping or just people with a casual interest? It could
> be a chance to promote ourselves as the full extent of our project or we
> could have a particular topic that we attract mapping of.
>
> user !i! organized The Night of the Living Maps on 7th February 2012 [1]
> and Operation Cowboy on 23–25th November 2012 [2]. Both were remote
> mapping events—we call them nowadays (and even at that time) "mapathons".
>
> > This would take a little time to get organised, maybe even into 2017.
>
> A date during late spring, summer or early autumn (i.e. May until
> September) is best because that's the time when there is good weather in
> the areas were most of the mapping population lives. (I know that there
> are also mappers in India, Africa, Latin America etc.)
>
> Do you know that annual OSM birthday is the date every year which is
> good (but not best) for such a distributed event? It is not the best
> date because in some countries there are holidays in August.
>
> Best regards
>
> Michael
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Night_of_the_living_maps
> [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Operation_Cowboy
>
>
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