You could start off by reading the good practice guidelines:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice
how things are tagged in Australia:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines
and if your interests are in mapping cycling infrastructure:
Welcome Cameron!
Anything you can do to improve the map is most welcome.
As far as comments go - 2 aspects to this ;
on the overall changeset - when you upload the data- Most like to see
something descriptive ... I like to see some comment on the source of
the information
on the individual
Hi all,
Probably a good time to introduce myself.
I'm Cameron Shorter, a bicycle rider, and software developer (for
geospatial open source applications).
I live in Frenchs Forest, ride to the beaches and the city, and have
been adding in some connector paths that were not on OSM yet, (in
Well ... give then a gold star! Make your comment on their change set
where they might see it ...
I'd add the comment that the LPI Base Map has better boundaries for the
park - using both the Imagery and the Base Map would be good thing.
And try to let them make changes .. ok they might make
This user should get a gold star with bar for good changeset comment
practice:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/45578563
On 28/01/17 10:20, Andrew Harvey wrote:
https://mic.com/articles/166654/pokemon-go-hack-altering-openstreetmap-data-may-create-new-spawn-points-in-the-game
> https://mic.com/articles/166654/pokemon-go-hack-altering-openstreetmap-data-may-create-new-spawn-points-in-the-game
Certainly seems like a lot of these new contributors could be doing it
for this reason.
On 28 January 2017 at 09:00, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have examined the
I have examined the change sets in NSW.
One of the new mappers is 'good', others .. 'could do better'.
Mostly harmless .. would be a good summary ... a couple of basic
mistakes and some basic improvements.
I have left most of the edits alone to see if they will make changes to
improve things.
The cycleway routing should take note of footways that have the tag bicycle=yes
...
Most people don't notice the bicycle signs as they are not using a bicycle.
So adding the bicycle=yes tag is simple and does not cause conflict/edit wars.
To me a cycle way should be principally used by
Apart from the addition of numerous poorly edited parks, numerous footways
(even with no construction or visible path on the ground), water features, etc
by the followers of this children's game, I am also dismayed to see that wide
shared cement ways that most would have previously marked as
Good news people. There seems to have been a surge in the number of new
mappers in Australia:
http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-suspicious?country=3=96=10==t=%3E=1000=c=n#5/-30.600/148.425
and they all seem to be *very* interested in making sure every park is
on the map. Rivers and meadows
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