Hi All, (Kate from HOT, but I come to Australia at least once a year so I lurk on here)
I was going to suggest as another possibility a government sponsored Mapathon. It could be a good way to get some new mappers interested where having accurate transport routing is important to them potentially outside of the "traditional" OpenStreetMap contributors. Best, -Kate On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Daniel O'Connor <daniel.ocon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would be great to participate in that convo. > > Have being doing a lot of HOT stuff with Haiyan, and that has generated a > lot of possibilities for what I do during work hours (property industry) - > custom tiles, how quickly satellite data was acquired, use of the task > manager. > > While my work interests are more on land than routing, would be neat to see > what can be useful to them. > > On 20/11/2013 4:40 PM, "Alex Sims" <a...@softgrow.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I met this afternoon with Garth Walker from the SA Government DPTI who’s >> using OpenStreetMap data with OpenJourneyPlanner for public transport >> journey planning on Adelaidemetro.com.au >> >> One thing that came up early on was a lot of footpaths crossing but not >> meeting highways giving them and their users issues, e.g. from KeepRight >> >> >> http://www.keepright.at/report_map.php?zoom=13&lat=-34.91529&lon=138.52762&layers=B0T&ch=0%2C191%2C192%2C193%2C194%2C195%2C196%2C197%2C198&show_ign=1&show_tmpign=1 >> >> If anyone is feeling like some armchair mapping here it would be most >> appreciated. >> >> One question I tried to answer for Garth is how could his area help >> OpenStreetMap locally. I had a couple of ideas: >> * A loan drone that I saw elsewhere today that can get images and >> integrates into OpenStreetMap and seems practical, (at least in France) for >> mapping areas without imagery quickly from 120m >> * A Friday afternoon meeting for them to show us how they use >> OpenStreetMap >> * Release of Survey Marks in SA for georeferencing >> >> Are there any more ideas? >> >> It was really helpful for me to find someone putting all of our hard work >> to good use in a public way. >> >> Alex >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: GW - Customer Experience <garth.wal...@sa.gov.au> >> Subject: {Adelaide Metro Developer Group} Open Street Maps Contribution >> Date: 20 November 2013 3:35:06 pm ACDT >> To: adelaide-metro-developer-gr...@googlegroups.com >> >> I'd like to say hi to the Open Street Maps community. >> >> We've identified a few areas of improvement for South Australian Open >> Street Maps which we would encourage contributors to focus on. >> It would be really helpful to us and we're keen on building a relationship >> with the community on this front. >> >> >> We're keen to see improvements to walking paths, official bike ways, >> accessibility detail, street address detail and points of interest such as >> tourist destinations. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-au mailing list >> Talk-au@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
