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 quite optimistically named, "Plenty Highway", "Gunbarrel
Highway" and many, many more.
Please don't make any assumptions about such things, apart from putting
misleading information in the map, lives could be put at risk.
Sticking to urban areas might be good idea.
And I note you plan to work on waterways too. We have a lot of water
ways in Australia, however, most of them don't have any water in them .....
David
On 22/12/17 10:54, Jubal Harpster wrote:
Hi Everyone,
You may have noticed some Microsoft folks present on the mailings
lists and Australian Slack channels in the past few months. Microsoft
have convened a small Open-Maps team that is starting to work on the
OSM data in Australia. Our team is not importing data, using
algorithms or robot edits to improve the map, we are using iD & JOSM
to make improvements.
The OSM data in Australia is in phenomenal condition thanks to the
existing contributors. The list of projects we’re working on is
publicly visible on our github repo here:
(https://github.com/Microsoft/Open-Maps). We welcome feedback, please
feel free to reach out to individual members of the team listed here
(https://github.com/Microsoft/Open-Maps/wiki/Open-Maps-Team-at-Microsoft)
to myself directly or to the whole team at [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
Thanks,
-Jubal Harpster
Microsoft
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