Missing Maps Party London November 2014
Event details
24th November, 2014 | 1830-2130
Location: King's College London, Room K4U.12, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS.
Capacity: 50 mappers + King's College geography students
Mapping remotely
You are more than welcome, as always to join us remotely in helping to fill the gaps in the missing maps.
The tutorial for new mappers will start at approximately 1830 and will be broadcast via a link TBC later today.
Mapping tasks
Tasks for the night will include:
Task 748ː CAR Buildings and residential areas only (for new mappers)
Task 749ː CAR Road networks only (needs finishing off)
Task 728ː Rwanda (for mappers with some experience)
Take a look here for photos of BANGASSOU and LEER and their surrounding areas. These are to try and help give the aerial photos you are tracing from some context...
Resources
The following links will help you get started and should answer a lot of technical questions you may have:
The HOT Tasking Manager
Mapping with iD (web-based and simpler, but slower and not as fun)
- Slideshow used by our Missing Maps tutor this evening
- MapGive training video: Learn How to Map in OpenStreetMap
- LearnOSM section on using the iD editor
- Mapping your first square - the basics
Mapping with JOSM (JAVA software needed, but faster and way more fun)
- Download JOSM – how to guide
- How to use JOSM
- Tagging / Map Features
- Hotkeys and shortcuts list
- Mapping your first square - the basics
Support
If you want to get in touch, please do so with the hashtag #MissingMapsHelp and, if they are free, someone will get in touch.
Mapper survey
If you mapped for the Missing Maps today, we'd love to know more about you! It'll take less than five minutes to fill in this survey
Bugs, problems and learnings
Invites
Several people signed up with tickets to map remotely. Original invite should make the distinction clear and refer remote mappers to the event wiki page for more information.