[OSM-talk] International mapping getting together day

[Michael Reichert]

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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