Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-30 Thread Ed Loach
SK53 mentioned: > In Tendring poleclimber adds notes from planning applications. And we try and check them fairly regularly. He also updates http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/tendring-openstreetmap-notes_97621 I agree trying to close notes would probably not be a good project - it should be

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-30 Thread Philip Barnes
On Thu, 2016-12-29 at 19:17 +, SK53 wrote:ertainly round Nottingham many Notes persist because they remain relevant.  > > In Tendring poleclimber adds notes from planning applications. New > notes tend to get looked at by someone present on the osm-gb IRC > channel within a short time of them

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: > I'd like to float the following ideas for quarterly projects, and see > what folk think. > [...] > What are your thoughts? I'll throw one in early for Q2: campsites, hostels and bunkhouses. OSM coverage is oddly patchy and it would be great to encourage better coverage at

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-29 Thread SK53
Certainly round Nottingham many Notes persist because they remain relevant. In Tendring poleclimber adds notes from planning applications. New notes tend to get looked at by someone present on the osm-gb IRC channel within a short time of them appearing and spurious ones get closed. We get

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-07 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 7 December 2016 at 12:43, Chris Hill wrote: > It would be good to improve the road names We could also improve street name etymology. For instance the new "Derbyshire Way" in Coventry could be tagged: etymology = Delia Derbyshire etymology:wikidata = Q29544

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-07 Thread Chris Hill
It would be good to improve the road names. I feel it is easier to do the survey that is needed to weed out the rather odd 'errors' that pepper the OS Locator when the days are longer. Cheers, Chris (chillly) On 7 December 2016 12:37:52 GMT+00:00, Martyn Evans wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-07 Thread Martyn Evans
How about streets and their names ? According to the ITO OSM analysis, at 24/11/2016, compared to OS Locator, there were 17,687 missing major roads. The UK is 97.8% complete, only 16 out of 408 areas are 100% complete, and in the last month only 68 were added. The ITO tool is available to

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-07 Thread Dan S
Nice ideas. My thoughts: * GLAMs seems a well-defined, well-scoped and accessible task, I like it! * Shops - no, IMHO. I've said this before, but a one-off push to update a high street's shops is unhelpful in my experience it leaves rapidly outdated data thereafter. Shops data needs local

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-07 Thread Paul Berry
I'd vote for the pubs one, spurred on by the poor dataset that maths team used to find the pub crawl: it missed about 10 pubs near me, all long established. Now if they'd used OSM for the dataset and the mapping... Regards, *Paul* On 6 December 2016 at 19:32, Andy Mabbett

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-06 Thread Philip Barnes
On Tue Dec 6 20:46:03 2016 GMT, Rob Nickerson wrote: > All great ideas. The trick for Q1 is to find one that will work well in the > cold weather. I'm not sure I know the answer to that but the idea of doing > Fixmes and Notes is interesting - it could through up literally anything! I > will

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-06 Thread Rob Nickerson
All great ideas. The trick for Q1 is to find one that will work well in the cold weather. I'm not sure I know the answer to that but the idea of doing Fixmes and Notes is interesting - it could through up literally anything! I will probably learn a great deal from doing that one. Best regards,

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-06 Thread Brian Prangle
My vote goes to clearing up Notes and FIXMEs. Last time I looked the UK had one of the poorest clearup rates of Notes. On 6 December 2016 at 19:32, Andy Mabbett wrote: > I'd like to float the following ideas for quarterly projects, and see what > folk think. > > *

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-06 Thread Andy Townsend
On 06/12/2016 19:32, Andy Mabbett wrote: also Wikidata - ... Upon reading that my first thought was actually "checking all of the wikidata references that have been added by people not necessarily familiar with the area". See, for example, the discussion on

[Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
I'd like to float the following ideas for quarterly projects, and see what folk think. * GLAMs - Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. As with schools we could turn points into ploygons, add names, URLs, street addresses, Wikidata items, and other info. * Blue lights - police, fire and