[Talk-GB] Quarterly task
It's not just Notes but the fixme tag too. And yes, this will be skewed to areas with fewer active mappers. This is partly the point of the project - to help improve lesser mapped areas and to encourage us to spread the word about OSM! The aim for me has always been "at least one mapper in every town". We need to pick something for the Q1 Winter months and in my view it's this quarter where remote mapping best fits. Many fixme tags can be improved using all the new remote resources we now have access to. Rob P.s. sorry for new thread - I only read the messages via the archive. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects
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 an ongoing task to resurvey notes to check them. Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects
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 appearing and spurious ones get > closed. > > We get plenty of notes via MapBox which are in areas where we don' > t have mappers and therefore it is not possible to close them without > a specific survey. > > I worry that a focus on clearing Notes & Fixmes would end up in the > removal of useful information. So I'm not in favour of this for a > quarterly project. > > I would also add that Andy (SomeoneElse) has created a very simple to > use way of grabbing a set of notes or fixmes and creating a GPX file > which can be loaded into a GPS or smartphone for mapping on the move. > I'm with Jerry on this, new notes are notified to the #osm-gb channel and we are pretty good at clearing up the rubbish as it is created so what remains is mostly stuff that needs surveying and will be in areas where we don't have mappers or mappers don't visit often. These should not be simply closed. OSMand displays notes, so when travelling it is useful to be able to see and maybe change route a bit to survey notes, I would certainly encourage this. But to make this a task would be wrong. Phil (trigpoint)___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects
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 the start of the "outdoor season". Might be a good way of reaching out to outdoor communities too. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Ideas-for-quarterly-projects-tp5887035p5888328.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
