Joint Meeting with Open Data STL for the world-wide OSM Editathon

Come help get Cherokee Street on OpenStreetMap.

It is official! We will be having a joint MeetUp with the Open Data St Louis group on 19 October in an effort to Map Cherokee Street in South St Louis. This event will support the OpenStreetMap US #editathon.

We are going to meet at multiple locations along Cherokee Street to teach people how to contribute to OpenStreetMap, the most comprehensive world-wide crowd-sourced map.

Please register for the event on eventbrite! (http://editathonstl.eventbrite.com/) We will use eventbrite to keep track of expected attendance for each tutorial.

The agenda looks like this:

At Nebula Coworking (http://nebulastl.com/) (3407 S Jefferson Ave), we will meet as a group to edit OpenStreetMap online using the iD editor. An introduction to OpenStreetMap will take place at 12:00 and 2:00 - no experience required!

At Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts (http://www.fortgondo.com/) (3151 Cherokee St) we will hand out paper Field Papers (http://fieldpapers.org/) maps so that participants can explore the neighborhood and mark up maps by hand (to be digitized at Nebula Coworking the same day). An introduction to OpenStreetMap and a presentation on how to edit using Field Papers will take place at 12:00 and 2:00.

You can pick one location or visit both spots. Start at one and walk to the other, mapping things along the way!

Following the event, we will host a Mappy Hour at Foam (http://foamstl.com/) (3359 S Jefferson Ave) at 4pm.

More details on the nationwide #editathon event are available at OSM.us (http://openstreetmap.us/2013/08/october-fall-editathon/).

Keep on mapping!

Rick Marshall