User:Antdoghalo
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About me
- Joined: November 1, 2008
- Became active on Wikimapia: December 27, 2010
- Started project to clean up the Southern US: January 6, 2012
- Became Documentor: February 9, 2012
- Began to have watch over entire Southern US: July 4, 2012
- Became Advanced User: December 31, 2012
- Reached 100,000 Edits: TBA
- Nationality: USA
- Watch Area: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia.
- Every edit there is being watched by me and sometimes other users do NOT fool around!
My history on Wikimapia
2008-2010
- Pre-registration
I first found Wikimapia in mid 2008, Initially I didn't have time (or a computer available to me 24/7) to do much on Wikimapia. I created places here and there such as lakes or volcanic features as a guest.
- Registration and 2 year inactivity
On November 1st 2008 I decided to register on Wikimapia, due to not having an available computer 24/7 until 2010 my edits were sporadic for the next 2 years, in December 2010 that was about to change when I got my first computer.
- Finding an unmonitored area
In December 2010 I started to go around many areas like Canada and adding polygons to squares on very large lakes. In Mid January I got into a couple disagreements with a couple advanced users on a few edits and noticed some users had a specific area they monitored, I noticed that my favorite place Clermont was not monitored by anyone and I wanted to map out the unusually hilly Florida town, and that's how my first project began.
2011
- Clermont, Florida watchlist and the birth of a new major Wikimapia user (late January-September 2011)
I began to map out the roads, subdivisions, parks, stores and everything in Clermont, this began to expand outward and eventually cover a large portion of Lake County, Florida, by the time I got done mapping out the area I wanted to map I had made over 10000 places and 40000 edits. I had this idea to watch over a place and choose to start watching over north Florida in September 2011 (no one had a watchlist there).
- Catching first speed-tagger, plan to start project in South (October 2011-December 2011)
Soon after making the Florida watchlist I caught my first speed editor in Tallahassee in October (and banned him after negligence to listen to multiple warnings) and in December I noticed that beyond the Florida's border lay the entire Southern US, unwatched since Wikimapia was founded and filled with the results of vandalism, speed editing, and spam. The annoyance of seeing such negligence on an area I have been interested in for the last few years convinced me to make it my 2012 project. Meanwhile I was finding many bugs or ideas on Wikimapia and I began to report news events on the forum.
2012
- Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi (January-February 2012)
On the sixth of January I created watchlists for Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. One thing I noticed were the numerous squares without polygons and I began a project to eliminate them, meanwhile I began to teach new users about how to use Wikimapia.
- Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee (March 2012)
In March I created watchlists for Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. I also began a collaboration to improve the Southern US which I monitor to ensure only users who have made edits in the South join it.
- Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia(May 2012)
In May I created watchlists for Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia.
- Oklahoma and Texas (June 2012)
In June I created watchlists for Oklahoma and Texas.
- South Florida(July 2012)
In July I added a watchlist for South Florida and have since acted as the guardian of the Southern US.
2013
- Places without polygon in South Arizona, South Florida, Missouri, South New Mexico, Virginia portion of Delmarva, North panhandle of West Virginia.
Promotion to Documenter Status
Years ago Wikimapia had a tutorial for it's functions called "User Guide". In 2011 developing difficulty's in editing the user guide along with a Russian interface contrary to English being the main Forum language caused the user guide to become obsolete. In February, 2012 a new tutorial for Wikimapia was announced named "Documentation" with calls for users to volunteer in editing it and further developing it. I decided to join on February 9th and became a Documentor along with 23 other users.
Promotion to Advanced User Status
On December 31st (January 1st for GMT east) I was promoted to Advanced User status as the last advanced user of 2012 or the first of 2013. I prefer to be labeled as the last Advanced User of 2012 because I use EST (Eastern Standard Time) which in the Western Hemisphere was still in 2012.
Projects
Major Projects
- 2011 Clermont, Florida
- 2012 Add polygons to squares in the entire South (Southern US).
- 2013 ???
Minor Projects
These are minor projects that I may work on a little bit every now and then.
- Ocklawaha Watershed
In this I am drawing tributaries of the Ocklawaha River in Florida
- Tibesti
The volcanic Tibesti Mountains lie in an area of the Sahara Desert that is almost entirely devoid of edits by other users even when compared to the rest of the desert. I map out a feature of the volcanoes every now and then when I feel like taking a break from work in the US.
Other
I prefer to be contacted through WM messaging, use private only if you have a conflict with another user that needs to be resolved. I don't have a Facebook or Twitter and I am not planning to get one. If you have questions message me or post it in the appropriate topic on the Wikimapia forum.
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