Night of the living maps in Israel (this tuesday)

Mr_Israel · February 5, 2012, 8:29pm

I will attend this new way of mapping from home.
Anybody else interested to help the midnight mapping party from their home?

Night of the Living Maps is a global Mapathon on Tuesday 7th Feb. 2012, where all mappers come together in local meetings and trace imagery the whole night long, while the moon shines bright! It’s a LAN-party like feeling for map enthusiasts, and because you may have blood-shot eyes after 8hrs of non stop mapping, we decided to give it a zombie theme

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Night_of_the_living_maps

What could be mapped?

There are still a lot of villages not mapped detailed enough in Israel. A lot of them are marked in OSMbugs.
Search for not translated street names and add those manually?

… (do you have a idea)

what do you think?

dimka · February 7, 2012, 7:35pm

I’m in.
When do we start?

Mr_Israel · February 7, 2012, 7:39pm

I’m already in… and adding some buildings in Tel Aviv. Actually something that I wanted to do for a long while.
We could of course take care of the bugs where villages are not mapped detailed enough.

Any Idea?

dimka · February 7, 2012, 7:46pm

I’ll join you with TLV.

dimka · February 7, 2012, 7:47pm

Are we sure Bing is enough up-to-date there?

Mr_Israel · February 7, 2012, 8:00pm

No. But I expect we will have more poi if buildings are available.
it is also easier to add housenumbers (I know from Netanya).
The bing images are good engough for a approx. building.

Of course its not like in this video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEQo4Jm-aPY

dimka · February 7, 2012, 11:57pm

Here’s the result:
before
after
after2

Mr_Israel · February 8, 2012, 11:47am

Additional to the postings of dimka you can see this post in our Google+ Profile:
With a image showing the changes…

https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108321379594865534027/108321379594865534027/posts

PS: Currently you will see even more building… I just couldn’t hold my hands

Mr_Israel · February 12, 2012, 12:09am

Doesn’t this look nice ?
http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=131&lat=32.08292807185765&lon=34.78140505652722&zoom=15

Needs just somebody that is starting to house number them

BTW: Adding buildings is helping in several ways:

It shows them in the map so people can recognize easier where a POI is.
Somebody else can add easier housenumbers, as the buildings can be easier defined.
Problems are getting detected a lot easier as a bug gap between buildings is maybe a missing road?

dimka · February 16, 2012, 4:57pm

I just couldn’t refrain from a silly smile when I saw this:
http://www.ashtangayoga.co.il/beyoga/contact.html