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Here's the Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri
photo CC-BY-SA-2 Kevin Ward
This is where the major league baseball World Series will play out. St. Louis Cardinals vs the Texas Rangers. It could be the last game today (if the Texas Rangers win it). Pretty exciting, but not as exciting as...
The OpenStreetMap big baseball project 2011!
With less than two days left on the clock, OpenStreetMap editors are battling it out to reach the top of the rankings.
And how a about a prize! I'll post an OSM baseball cap to our most awesome baseball mapping contributor. Hopefully I've still got it somewhere.
Plus (if the winner wishes it) an email interview posted to OpenGeoData.org about them and their OpenStreetMapping passions.
For a long time the Americans iandees, ToeBee and the Canadian Richard Weait were leapfrogging eachother to the top-spot, but then the German user fx99 smacked it out of the ballpark and sped past them all. I haven't checked if he's been cheating, but he's certainly been doing baseball edits at a remarkable rate, and at the time of writing you'll need to do more than 2000 baseball edits to beat him!
Obviously that's a lot of work, but these ranking games are not what it's all about. If your name is on the edit list at all, then that makes you a OpenStreetMap baseball champion.
Is your name on there? Mapping a baseball diamond is easy. Read the instructions or watch the video to find out how.
Right now there's 181 people on the list. I hope we can get that number at least past 200 by close of play, so spread the word!
Discussion
Comment from LivingWithDragons on 26 October 2011 at 13:59
Richard is an American too, he's just a really really nice one so they made him go and live in Canada.
Comment from ToeBee on 26 October 2011 at 22:28
Do I get any extra credit for having covered the entire state of Kansas? At this point I seriously doubt I'll catch fx99 though. I got slowed down by some horrible, terrible, awful TIGER data that my mapping OCD wouldn't let me ignore. It was truly bad! Most of El Dorado was shifted by 100-200 meters and the geometry was all warped. A couple of neighborhoods were over 300 meters off!
Comment from Harry Wood on 27 October 2011 at 10:13
@LivingWithDragons Richard's not Canadian? I learn something new every day. Come to think of it, I'm not sure if fx99 is German.
@ToeBee Entire state of Kansas? Spectacular! It would be cool to do some other geo analysis on the baseball edits which took place. Which state has the most, or which metro area has the most, or even better... calculate the distance from each baseball diamond to the local MLB team's stadium. Which team won???
Interesting what you say about El Dorado. I've certainly found pockets where TIGER data is hopelessly off. This gives me the idea that we should do some sort of manual mapped out rapid assessment of different areas across the states, to identify areas not just of untouched TIGER data, but untouched and particularly bad TIGER data.
Comment from fx99 on 27 October 2011 at 15:34
High everybody!
I enjoy this project very much. After mapping baseball field in my home country Germany was to frustrating, I moved to my former residence, Rochester, NY and started mapping from there.
I covered all of upstate NY with an short excursion to Erie, PA, but I am fare from claiming that I mapped all baseball fields in upstate NY.