How to: participate

I didn't really map anything today, but I would like to describe how YOU could participate in this project.
There's many things that could be done. let's first focus on building a convenient website, with possibilities for other people to participate. On the main page, we'll keep a worldmap without any special focus. let's just have recent news there.

How to participate. How to edit the content.

First, pick the news.
That's not as easy as it sounds. Almost any news could be mapped. We'll need to pick news that could be mapped and "add value".
The site will obviously not cover every news. it will be very diverse first.
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Pick the source.
Same here. no criteria at first... but that's something to think about. Diverse source is good

Map the news.
To do that, click on "view larger map" under the map on the front page. Then, in the right column, click "Save to my maps" (you need a google account to do that). then, you should be able to click "edit" and map and edit anything you want on the world map.

[optionnal] Edit the news
A good title (clear, in english). An abtract of the article/news, a link to the news source, a picture. a tag about the precision of the mapping: to be defined, not precise, precise.

[optionnal] Clean the map
Move some news to the archive to keep a clean map on the "latest Mappy News".

[optionnal] write a blog post about the mapping

[optionnal] Twitter if it is a breaking news.