Marikina Mapping Party/Planning

This page is for coordinating the planning, organizing, preparations, and logistics of the Marikina Mapping Party.

Planning maps

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  Proposed Cake Slices

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  No Name Roads

Before the event

Announcements

• We have a shorturl for the Wiki page: http://bit.ly/MarikinaMappingParty (case-sensitive!)
• http://bit.ly/marikinamappingparty works also

• Facebook. A Facebook event page was created at the OSMPH fan page. This will serve as the main RSVP page (since this Wiki is too geeky for newbies).

• Online announcements. This event was announced/posted online at the following places:
  • Firefly Brigade yahoogroups - c/o maning
  • Philippine Cycling Network yahoogroups - c/o maning
  • waypointsdotph yahoogroups - c/o maning
  • marikinavalley.com - c/o maning
  • WebGeek Philippines Forum - c/o kzap
  • SEO Philippines Forum - c/o kzap
  • PHP User-Group Philippines Forum - c/o kzap
  • Pinoy MTBiker Forum - c/o maning
  • Skyscrapercity forums - c/o seav

Please add links so that we can follow up questions or replies on those forums.

• Posters. A poster was prepared by seav and printed and posted on several barangay public bulletin boards by maning.

Sponsorships and marketing

• There is a potential sponsor (Garmin retailer) but nothing concrete yet. No response until today Maning 11:51, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
• UPDATE: NAVCO (a local GARMIN Nuvi retailer) will offer limited 30% discount to mappers who will attend the event.

During the event

• Schedule/programme
  • Rough outline with times and venue already on the main wiki page.
• Materials
  • Banner - looking for sponsorship; design not yet done
  • Freebies? unofficial OSM license card? Looking for sponsorship
  • Food and refreshments? Nothing will be served :( KKB

Morning briefing @ Blue Wave

• Venue. Jollibee
• Materials
  • I think we should make simple pamphlets to give newbies a rough introduction to OpenStreetMap and the scheduled activities for the day. --seav 04:23, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
    • I'll try to make one, time permitting. (Busy, busy!) --seav 05:31, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
      • Done: File:OSM-PH Flyer 2010-03-19.pdf --seav 02:12, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Field surveying

• Cake sliced already. See the main wiki page.
• GPS units available - 2 from the gpstogo, 3 etrex c/o Sorbi
• walking papers - maning will print

Online editing @ SM City

• Venue. SM City Marikina - sent an email request to use the Mall Activity Area. Will follow-up within the week. If request is denied, we can always use a cafe or the foodcourt to do the edits.
• Materials
  • Laptops are needed
  • Backup mobile internet? Is SM's wifi reliable?

Evening socials

• Venue. None yet.
• Activities. Anything goes. :-)