Re: [talk-au] MS open maps

Jubal, I think its great you should be putting in an effort like that. One little worry however, many roads in Australia travel across very lightly populated areas and are often quite unsuitable for certain vehicles and drivers who are inexperienced with the conditions. Such roads are often

Re: [talk-au] MS open maps

Hi Andy, Thanks for the suggestion. Especially for the lakes, adding the wikidata ID for the feature would be useful. I'll talk to the team about modifying the workflow to add the wikidata ID provided we can correctly identify the right lake. Regards, -Jubal -Original Message- From:

Re: [talk-au] MS open maps

On 21 December 2017 at 23:54, Jubal Harpster wrote: > Microsoft have convened a small Open-Maps team that is starting to work > on the OSM data in Australia. Hi Juba, That sounds great. Have you considered adding Wikidata IDs as part of your work? For example, many of

Re: [talk-au] MS open maps

Hi Alex, You’re correct, we are mostly based in Seattle with one person currently based in Belgrade. And fair question on the armchair mapping from the other side of the world. We picked Australia for a number of reasons 1) Important geography for Microsoft, 2) active OSM community, 3)

Re: [talk-au] Australian SOTM 2018 / Local OSMF Chapter

Hi All, Both myself and David Dean are part of the FOSS4G-SOTM-Oceania organizing committee.  We are still put together the details and would really appreciate your feedback on things like presentations, pricing etc. At this point we expect the conference to be over 4 days, with the first day

Re: [talk-au] MS open maps

On Fri, 22 Dec 2017, at 10:44 AM, Andrew Davidson wrote: > > 1. There's a Australian Slack channel? Oh, there's at least two. Great, > just what we need, more fragmentation. > There is the Maptime Australia one — http://maptimeaustralia.slack.com What is the other? (And yes... don't you know