Traveling OSM Salesgirl Problem ✊🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦In about 15 minutes (22:15 IST/16:45 UTC) I’ll be mapping some stuff on OpenStreetMap. Feel free to observe, chat, or map along. https://meet.fsci.in/contramaps
Thanks to everyone who joined! The stream went on for about 2 hours, and here’s the stuff I added -
Train 64534 Panipat Ghaziabad MEMU - add partial train route
In a few minutes I’ll start mapping some stuff. Feel free to observe, chat, or map along. https://meet.fsci.in/contramaps
RE: https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B3OSxXA8B5dzSg4UW8
Came back to Delhi to find that all my posters had been taken down. I didn’t even get any calls from them…
How do I get them to stick around? Or do I just keep putting them back up? 🤔
Traveling OSM Salesperson Problem ✊🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦 (@[email protected])
Put up a few posters yesterday, in what little time I had…#contraMaps #OpenStreetMap #OSM #Delhi #India
Was talking to someone the other day about theatre. “I think of hosting mapping parties to be similar to doing a theatre production,” I said. But - rather thoughtlessly - I added, “Organizing mapping parties is easier. It doesn’t matter if one or two members of your team don’t turn up. In theatre, a single unavailable actor can jeopardize the whole show.”
On second thoughts, that’s not true at all. Organizing mapping parties is identical to doing theatre. I’ve been in parties where everyone was new and I was the only mentor, and I’ve been in parties where I had plenty of mentors to rely on. I get run ragged in the former - it’s a bit like doing a solo act, you never have a moment’s rest.
Wish I could afford a trackball. I refuse to buy a unrepairable landfill fodder mouse…but mapping with a laptop trackpad is a special kind of hell.* (Also, mice aren’t as ergonomic, need a flat and even surface to work, and need more desk space.)
*That’s partly why I map with Vespucci so much…but there are times when JOSM is simply better. Like drawing rectangles, or drawing terraced buildings, or adding public transport routes.
There was so much to map in Madurai that I eventually gave up on my usual standards of granular changesets and detailed changeset comments. 😅
Thank glob for @vespucci_editor ‘s autogenerated changeset tags, though!
Madurai - add POIs, railway station details, addresses, drive-by features
RE: https://en.osm.town/@OSMIndia/116121472367451859
Each mapping party results in more tweaks to the teaching process. 🙂
OpenStreetMap India (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image A big thanks to all 17 participants of the 7th #OpenStreetMap #Mumbai Mapping Party! 🙂 A total of 398 features were added, including... 139 shops 74 streets 48 buildings 28 landuse 17 public transport facilities 12 amenities 6 healthcare facilities 6 utilities 4 tourism facilities 3 leisure facilities 1 office And thanks to #TomTom for sponsoring the food! #OsmMumbai #India #OSM
Put up a few posters yesterday, in what little time I had…
I was planning to crowdfund the poster designs separately, but since someone sent that $52 (₹4711) donation…here they are 🙂
