Hi Will
Thank you for reaching out before starting, it's really appreciated.
As Phil mentioned, a wiki page detailing the intentions, methods and OSM
editors is important. Here is Facebook's as an example:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Facebook
just a word of caution, when it comes to (semi-)automated edits of the
database: there has been in the past several examples of conflicts
between OSM volunteer editors and well-meaning companies. Communication
is primordial to avoid conflicts and lasting bad reputation in the
community because of community time spent on fixing up dozens of
changesets because the plan wasn't discussed and tested enough before
being executed.
Please keep in mind that I am not criticising business involvement in
editing the database, I am only hoping to minimise potential conflict.
Your ideas sound interesting and useful, and again, you reaching out is
very appreciated :)
About scraping media and housing development data, I guess the legality
of it needs to be thoroughly studied as it might be perceived as a
breach of copyright, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to judge.
I agree with Phil that the established tasks can be something to get
started on, it could be a more guided way to introduce new contributors
to the database.
Cheers
On 7/9/22 07:54, Phil Wyatt wrote:
Welcome aboard Will,
There is no shortage of tasks to make a better Australian map in OSM.
There are plenty of map roulette challenges for updating addresses,
fixing deprecated tagging on features and fixing road tagging to name
just a few.
https://maproulette.org/dashboard/
The community is also very grateful for folks ‘in the know’ who may be
able to source data in truly open formats that can be ingested into
OSM using the normal import procedures or via the RapID editor (for
ESRI community layers)
https://github.com/facebookmicrosites/Open-Mapping-At-Facebook/wiki/Esri-ArcGIS-FAQ
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Esri/ArcGIS_Datasets - as you can
see there are no layers from Australia.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines - import guidelines
If there is going to be concerted effort by Tom Tom then it might also
pay to have a read of the organised editing guidelines and maybe set
up a wiki page with some details of the company intentions (and maybe
a list of OSM editors that will be editing on behalf of Tom Tom.
We look forward to your edits and conversations in the mailing lists.
Cheers – Phil
*From:*William Ireland <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, 7 September 2022 10:12 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* [talk-au] TomTom - OSM Collaboration
Hi Australia OSM Community,
My name is Will from TomTom. From one mapper to another, I can say
that we truly admire how the OSM community collaborates to shape a map
product that benefits everyone, and we would love to be a part of it.
I would like to let you know that we are planning on contributing to
OSM by providing meaningful leads to improve map quality and to locate
missing features. Some initial ideas include but are not limited to
providing leads from media sources extracted by our web scraping tool
or locating missing highways from new housing developments.
We would love to hear from you. What do you think of these ideas? And
are there any other areas where you need assistance or fields we can
collaborate on? We are open to all suggestions and ideas. As for me, I
am based here in Australia and happy to answer any questions or be
part of any discussions.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Will
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