party time! good and bad ways to run openstreetmap mapping parties
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Party Time!
Good and bad ways to run Mapping
Parties
Harry Wood
Party Time!
Good and bad ways to run Mapping
Parties
Harry Wood
Why Mapping Parties?Boosting map data in an area
Stimulate mapping less attractive areas
Coordinating to achieve more even coverage
Attracting new people
Showing newbies surveying techniques
Showing newbies editing software
Face to face community building
Get the OSMers together
Discuss OpenStreetMap issues of the day
Generating press interest
Alcoholism
Why Mapping Parties?
67 London meet-ups
7 hacking events
43 mapping parties
Mapping Party Marathon!
Mini mapping parties on a week day
+ pub
“Mapchester” First cake diagram?
Blue
Detail mapping
Highstreet POIs
Building outlines
NoName map Show's where to map
Pick a mapping location
London 2008 São Paulo today
Outside the centre
More useful mapping
Central
More popular
(for lazy people)
more social
Fun
?
Buildings
Fill in the central gaps
Pick a pub
Cheap drink & food
Music Football
Somewhere with space
Set up a wiki pagePage per event, or not
Link to it
“City”/”Country” page
“Current Events”
Afterwards
[[past event]] label
Link blogs & photos
Photos & Blogging
Things I doPick a mapping location & pub
Set up the wiki page
Make cake diagram
Create upcoming.org listing
Tweet (@OSMLondon)
Afterwards...
Update the wiki
Publish photos
Blog post
Quite streamlined process. Still takes time
Things I don't do
Press
Contact local community groups & council
Posters
Bring spare GPSs
Wifi
Post to the mailing list
We don't attract enough newbies!
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www.openstreetmap.de
Daily accesses
Heise News(online)
SPIEGEL (online)
SPIEGEL (print)
RTL (TV)
Press
openstreetmap.deopenstreetmap.de
“Stammtisch” “Mappertreffen”
“Atlanta Citywide Mapathon” on Fox Atlanta
U.S.
Imports distract from the task & make it harder Spaced out cities designed for cars Not alcoholics like Europeans
“Mapping Ambassadors”
Need to find a formula that works
Different in types of mapping to be done
Different transport etc
Different pool of OSMers
Different meet-up culture
http://harrywood.co.ukmail at harrywood.co.uk
@harry_wood and @OSMLondon on twitter
Find a format that works you
Harry Wood has been an OpenStreetMap enthusiast, and contributor since 2006. He works as a senior software engineer at placr.co.uk on projects relating to transport and GPS data analysis. Previously he worked in a technical and OpenStreetMap community development role at CloudMade. In 2010 he has continued to volunteer for the project in several roles, as mapper, developer, documenter, wiki gardener, and promoter. For the past two years he has also been the main London event organiser.
Find out more about the London OpenStreetMap events, and sign up to come along to them at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London
Map images cc-by-sa OpenStreetMap.orgSlides are freely re-usable under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 LicenseGlobe image produced by Frederick Ramm using KDE Marble http://svn.openstreetmap.org/misc/pr_material/german_flyer_2010_04/Traffic graph produced by Jochen Topf for SOTM 2008 :http://svn.openstreetmap.org/misc/lectures/2008/sotm2008-state-of-germany-jochen-topf.odp
http://harrywood.co.uk mail at harrywood.co.uk@harry_wood and @OSMLondon on twitter