Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

2017-01-27 Thread Andy Robinson
Oh joys J On the plus side there are a lot more new users in those 30 ish who have added more than one item and one or two who have added some really good new stuff, so in some ways the attention will have some upsides. Just need to be vigilant around our own patches. Cheers Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

2017-01-27 Thread Andy Robinson
Oh joys J On the plus side there are a lot more new users in those 30 ish who have added more than one item and one or two who have added some really good new stuff, so in some ways the attention will have some upsides. Just need to be vigilant around our own patches. Cheers Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

2017-01-27 Thread Nick Allen
Hi Andy, I update http://learnosm.org/en/ and I'm seeing many searches on the site concerning pokemon go. Also, some visitors are from https://www.reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/5q4ctl/warning_players_of_pok%C3%A9mon_go_may_be_editing_osm/ & other sections on reddit. Maybe connected?

Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

2017-01-27 Thread Michael Booth
It's been mentioned on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/5q4ctl/warning_players_of_pok%C3%A9mon_go_may_be_editing_osm/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/5pvkkn/about_openstreetmap_and_pokemon_go People are commenting on changesets but if new users don't

Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

2017-01-27 Thread Tom Hughes
On 27/01/17 16:03, Andy Robinson wrote: There has been a large number of new editors in the wider midlands over the last few days (32 since Monday) most of which have been adding new or adding to exiting park areas. Some are fine first edits (a little awkward in placed but not unreasonable) but

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

2017-01-27 Thread SK53
Hi Andy, These are Pokemon Go edits driven by the fact that the South Korea release of the game is definitely using OSM as the base map. Total number of editors has picked up massively worldwide in the past few days with a ridiculous peak of 3000 new users a minute sometime this afternoon

Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

2017-01-27 Thread SK53
Hi Andy, These are Pokemon Go edits driven by the fact that the South Korea release of the game is definitely using OSM as the base map. Total number of editors has picked up massively worldwide in the past few days with a ridiculous peak of 3000 new users a minute sometime this afternoon

[Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

2017-01-27 Thread Andy Robinson
There has been a large number of new editors in the wider midlands over the last few days (32 since Monday) most of which have been adding new or adding to exiting park areas. Some are fine first edits (a little awkward in placed but not unreasonable) but others are not, so if it's also happening

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] New editors working on parks

2017-01-27 Thread Andy Robinson
There has been a large number of new editors in the wider midlands over the last few days (32 since Monday) most of which have been adding new or adding to exiting park areas. Some are fine first edits (a little awkward in placed but not unreasonable) but others are not, so if it's also happening

[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM #340 17/01/2017-23/01/2017

2017-01-27 Thread weeklyteam
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 340, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/8656/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who?: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages

[Talk-gb-london] community mapping party in Millbank this Saturday

2017-01-27 Thread Nicolas Fonty
Hi London mappers. If you are interested, the 7th JustMap mapping workshop will be organised this Saturday 11am with the Millbank community. It will take place inside a very inspiring exhibition dedicated to map the area : the Millbank Atlas. + friendly lunch at 1pm with local ! All the details