'I will spend an hour OpenStreetMapping features on Caribbean islands from Yahoo! aerial imagery and will also donate £10 to the OpenStreetMap Foundation'

Pledge “osmfieldwork”

"I will spend an hour OpenStreetMapping features on Caribbean islands from Yahoo! aerial imagery and will also donate £10 to the OpenStreetMap Foundation but only if 60 other people will do the same."

— Gervase Markham, OSM community member

Deadline to sign up by: 30^th September 2008
72 people signed up (12 over target)

More details
Google recently set up Google Map Maker to ask people to map various areas of the world with no available mapping data, by tracing over satellite images. The countries involved include many Caribbean islands, leading Ed Parsons of Google to express sadness that fieldwork was not involved. We thought it would be cool to have a similar thing for OpenStreetMap, but with fieldwork. :-)

So, if you pledge, you will spend one hour or more adding to OpenStreetMap by tracing over Yahoo! aerial imagery on a Caribbean island, and make a donation of £10 to the OpenStreetMap Foundation. (See below for the fieldwork.)

The list of islands, in the order we are going to tackle them, is as follows:

* Grenada (primary focus)
* British Virgin Islands
* St. Kitts and Nevis
* Cayman Islands
* Antigua and Barbuda
* St. Vincent and the Grenadines
* St. Lucia
* Netherlands Antilles
* Barbados
* Bahamas
* Trinidad and Tobago
* Jamaica

Subsequently, the OSMF may(*) choose one name at random from the list of pledgers who fulfilled their pledge and send them on a fieldwork trip. That is, the OSMF may buy them a return flight to one of those locations, and hand over some cash as hotel and spending money. That person would be expected to spend a week completing the map and evangelising OSM on the island. The choice of location would be a negotiation based on data quality at time of departure, with the OSMF having the final say. The timing would be the person's choice, allowing it to fit in with their schedule and budget.

(*) There is no promise, because then this would become a lottery. But then, we can't make the fieldworker promise to work on the map either. So it's trust on all sides.

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Grant Slater, 3 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
Remember, you don't need to donate the money until the pledge is fulfilled. That's the point :-) Also, we have a special donation link to track donations: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cm...
Gervase Markham, 3 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
Great idea! It would be even better if we had a group of people on the excursion. How about we raise the bar to 600 people? I'm sure we can find a corporate sponsor to finance any missing pounds.
Sjors Provoost, 3 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
Sjors: let's get to 60 first, and then worry about whether we need any more. Do you have any friends you can persuade to sign up?
Gervase Markham, 3 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
Gervase: of course, I had actually not seen the slow down in new applications. I will see what I can do.
Sjors Provoost, 3 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
I spent an hour working on St. Lucia. It was hard to see the line of several roads through wooded areas, so fieldwork is definitely needed there.
Graham Asher, 3 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
What's the current status of the pledge? Because on the OSM wiki it states that a fieldworker has already been chosen with a deadline of August 26th.
Is this a new pledge?
Maarten Deen, 3 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
No, this is the same pledge. As far as I can see, it's not possible for me to close it "early" compared to the date I set when I created it. But there is not much point in any new people signing it (although people who have already signed it should still do what they pledged, if they haven't already!)
Gervase Markham, 3 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
DONE: Steve Chilton off to Antigua.

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Grant Slater, 2 years ago. Abusive? Report it!