Re: [talk-au] Announcing: OpenStreetCam competition

[Martijn van Exel]

Hi all!

Let me give you a status update on the OpenStreetCam competition. We have about 
a week to go before the $100 prize and two $25 prizes will be awarded to the 
most prolific OpenStreetCammers. If you have the app, you can pull up the 
leaderboard and get some idea of where you stand.

The community had collected 144,000 images in Australia before December 1, when 
the competition started. Since then, you collected 191,000 more, comfortably 
doubling coverage in Australia. Wonderful! The last few days saw a particularly 
nice trend upwards.

Also, a word on Waylens dashboard cameras. Telenav had customized cameras made 
that capture and upload OpenStreetCam imagery automatically. OSM US has around 
20 that they lend to their members. A blog post[1] explains in a bit more 
detail what these cameras are. We have some to give out. I would prefer to give 
them to one or more local communities who want to make an effort to capture 
their entire city or area. If you’re interested, please get in touch with me 
off-list.

Happy mapping,
Martijn

[1] https://www.openstreetmap.us/2018/05/camera-lending-program/

> On Jan 18, 2019, at 2:26 PM, Martijn van Exel  wrote:
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> I am not sure if user robbie-blogs is reading on this list -- if you are, 
> please get in touch to get your gift card.
> 
> For all others, the competition is still ongoing and you have until Jan 31 to 
> make your way into the top 3 contributors over the months of December 2018 
> and January 2019 and win a $25 or $100 gift card.
> 
> Some stats so far: we started at 126 752 images in Australia on Dec 1, now we 
> are at 330 648 covering 8882 km of which 6293 unique.
> 
> Happy mapping / capturing :)
> --
>   Martijn van Exel
>   m...@rtijn.org 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019, at 16:40, Martijn van Exel wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> We have the results for the most prolific OpenStreetCam contributors for 
>> Australia for the period Dec 1 - Dec 24:
>> 
>> 
>> #1 ---> robbie-bloggs with 127971 points
>> #2 ---> steve91 with 65470 points
>> 
>> 
>> Congratulations to you both, you have just won yourselves an $25 Amazon gift 
>> card! Please get in touch with me so I can arrange (virtual) delivery.
>> 
>> It's not over yet though. This was just the holiday mid point of the 
>> competition. At the end of January there will be three more prizes ($100 / 
>> $25 / $25) for the overall top contributors for the months of December and 
>> January.
>> 
>> If you haven't started capturing yet, no worries. New, not yet covered roads 
>> get you 10x points. That adds up pretty quickly. For example, this 20km trip 
>> is worth more than 6000 points: 
>> https://openstreetcam.org/details/1318295/0/track-info 
>>  
>> 
>> Best,
>> --
>>   Martijn van Exel
>>   m...@rtijn.org
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018, at 12:33, Martijn van Exel wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>> 
>>> We added an additional holiday prize for the 2 mappers who collect the most 
>>> imagery before Christmas.
>>> Details added on the competition page! You need 25k points minimum to be 
>>> eligible for this prize, but since coverage is very low in Australia,  you 
>>> collect points very quickly.
>>> 
>>> Let me know if you have any questions. Happy mapping / capturing,
>>> --
>>>   Martijn van Exel
>>>   m...@rtijn.org
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Dec 7, 2018, at 11:53, Martijn van Exel wrote:
 Hi folks, 
 
 We (Telenav map team) are holding an OpenStreetCam image capture 
 competition. In case you're not familiar, OpenStreetCam is an open source 
 / open data street level imagery collection platform for OSM. It is widely 
 used to help improve OSM (through iD and JOSM) but there is not a lot of 
 coverage in Australia yet. So with this competition we’re hoping to start 
 to change that. 
 
 More details here: 
 https://github.com/openstreetcam/competitions/wiki/Australia-Competition-Dec-2018
  
 
  
 
 The TL;DR is: collect as many OSC images as you can between now and Jan 
 31, the top 3 contributors get $100 / $25 Amazon gift cards!
 
 Happy mapping / capturing!
 Martijn
 
 PS in case you’re in NZ, we have a separate competition staring there as 
 well, 
 https://github.com/openstreetcam/competitions/wiki/New-Zealand-Competition-Dec-2018
  
 
  
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Re: [talk-au] Our work in last two weeks

[Martijn van Exel]

It sounds like one of those things where opinions are going to vary. Personally 
I would split them, but I don’t think it’s a big deal to do it one way or the 
other, and it doesn’t affect the map either way.

Mapping to make some random QA tool happy doesn’t sound tenable to me. Horea 
(my colleague) shared the OSMCha links mainly because that tool makes it easy 
to show all changesets of a group of mappers in one place. I think it’s a bit 
too opinionated when it comes to identifying ‘errors’. But hey, it’s open 
source software..:)

I’m happy that our work is being scrutinized. Please keep watching our work, we 
need your feedback to make sure we’re doing everything according to local best 
practices.

Martijn

> On Jan 23, 2019, at 2:43 PM, Mark Pulley  wrote:
> 
> I generally split these ways. A couple of reasons:
> 
> 1. Traffic is generally not meant to make U-turns here. Occasionally there is 
> an explicit no-U-turn sign, but most of the time there is a double white line 
> extending from the end of the median strip preventing turning.
> 
> 2. If a route relation uses the road, then it is required to split the road, 
> as traffic following the relation doesn’t do a U-turn. As an example, have a 
> look at https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1284045 
>  - ways 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/175260353 
>  and 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/175260354 
>  are the respective forward 
> members for each direction of travel. (Probably easier to see in the relation 
> editor in JOSM) 
> 
> Mark P.
> 
>> On 22 Jan 2019, at 8:23 am, Nemanja Bračko > > wrote:
>> 
>> @Warin,
>> 
>> I personally do not see why is it wrong if you split? It is just two 
>> segments merged in one node. Geometry and data are exactly the same just it 
>> is represented as two, instead of one line.
>> 
>> If we go deeper in this issue, it is actually wrong, because you have 
>> marked/mapped 2 physical segments with just one line. Angle is not natural 
>> for any road. However, it doesn't make any difference in routing so it is 
>> acceptable to be mapped as one line in cases like this.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Nemanja
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