party time! good and bad ways to run openstreetmap mapping parties

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

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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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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