OpenStreetMap
It's been quite a miserable weekend in London. Not great for mapping. Personally I did a little armchair mapping instead. There's some nice new aerial imagery for the Philippines which Andy has made available. This was a donation from DigitalGlobe showing an area hit by flooding after the Typhoons (and we thought our weather was bad) Check out Philippines HOT page for details.
Humanitarian OSMers will also be interested in mapkibera.org, Mikel's latest project which is in full swing right now. Note that this is not a remote mapping exercise (See note)
We'll be unleashing some other challenges for the U.S. TIGER fixup, on the CloudMade community blog pretty soon, since the dupe nodes clean-up is going so well.
But armchair mapping is not as good as real mapping. It's great to see the weather doesn't stop some people. There's been some good follow-up mapping taking place after some of our previous london mapping parties too: Roger in Farringdon, Tila in Paddingdon
Even so... I'm afraid our next meet-up is just a pub meet-up (This Wednesday in Kings Cross) Maybe we should sit in the pub and map the Philippines!
Discussion
Comment from maning on 2 November 2009 at 03:09
> Maybe we should sit in the pub and map the Philippines
Yes please do! We need more people helping out.
Comment from Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason on 2 November 2009 at 14:19
> But armchair mapping is not as good as real mapping.
How many people could you help if you mapped the entire planet from Landsat? Surely more than if you just did your city and surrounding areas.
We need both armchair and in-the-field mapping and would do well to encourage both activities. Some mappers are interested in one and not at all in the other.