On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Arie Paap wrote: > Hello, > > I've just discovered osm and would like to introduce myself. I live in > Stoneville[1] and work at Edith Cowan University in Joondalup[2] so travel > a fair distance every day (by varying routes). It seems that there has been > a lot of work getting roads mapped in Perth with a lot of it sourced from > Yahoo imagery but there doesn't seem to be much detail or annotation in a > lot of areas. I am interested in contributing to the map in Western > Australia but I'm uncertain about tagging for a lot of things. For example, > I used to live in Greenmount and drove around part of the suburb to survey > road names. Most of the roads don't have a source tag and most don't have > gps tracks. The odd road has source=Yahoo. So I'm wondering is it worth > adding source:name=survey to the roads I've named. And in general is it > worth trying to remedy the lack of source information. > > I've read through some pages on the wiki (in particular: Map Features, the > Australian tagging guidelines and the Western Australia specific page - > which seems very out of date) and I'm struggling to see a clear path. I've > also read quite a few threads on this list and the main talk list and it's > apparent that there isn't a consensus about consistent tagging, but I would > like to know what other people on this list are doing, particularly in WA. > > Regards, > > Arie. > > > [1] > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-31.8722&lon=116.1686&zoom=14&layers=B000 >FTF(mostly unmapped) > [2] > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-31.7474&lon=115.773&zoom=14&layers=B000F >TF welcome to OSM if you have surveyed, please note it as surveyed, or if you wish, gps source:name=survey is very useful
hopefully one of the WA mappers will contact you and give you somehelp with the nitty-gritty of mapping because it is easiest person-to-person of course if you ask here, we guarantee at least 2 opinions :) _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
