Thanks for the interest in mapping in Australia and thanks for posting your plans on this list.
I would add to the caution expressed by others. I live in an urban location in Australia but I have travelled in other areas within Australia. It has taken me quite some time to learn to interpret satellite imagery and I still have a lot to learn about this country. After personally visiting areas and noting what I see, and sometimes taking photographs, I then return home and compare my notes with what I see in the imagery and I am still surprised. I think it can be quite precarious to map features using just satellite imagery unless you have expert assistance in interpreting the imagery. For example, a common error by others has been to map lines of cleared vegetation as roads when they are actually fences. Even where an unmapped road exists, it is probably still unmapped because it is a private road and not accessible by the public - many of the roads on rural properties in Australia are private and, if added to the map, need to marked as such. Farmers get annoyed about intruders on their farms especially as biosecurity is a significant concern in parts of Australia. So while I appreciate contributions to the map, I suggest that "armchair" mapping needs to be undertaken with a lot of caution. On Sat, 15 Aug 2020, at 2:17 AM, OSM NextBillion. AI wrote: > Hi all, > > > > We’re a small team based out of Hyderabad, India. We would be doing > minimal edits in Perth and contribute to OSM in the next couple of > weeks, in-line with OSM and Australia specific tagging guidelines [Link > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines>]. > > > Please refer our Wiki > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NextBillion.AI-OSM> and Github > <https://github.com/NextBillionAI-OSM/OSM/issues/3> project pages for > more information. > > Looking forward to suggestions, if any ☺ > > Thanking you in advance, > Team NextBillion > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
