For the quarterly project, would you say that we're looking for something that does all of the following?: * include/attract lots of people * improve the UK map in either accuracy or coverage * attract outside attention * be sort-of interesting to us
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 at 17:33 Brian Prangle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone > > Following the extraordinary success of the Schools project we need to > decide how to proceed with the next quarter's project. > > There is a view we shoud rollover the project for another quarter so as to > approach completion. > > I favour rolling it into an ongoing UK national project (similar to the > Irish Townlands project), keeping the existing tools in place to monitor > progress. As a byproduct do a major revamp of the UK projects wiki page to > bring it up to date. > > As for the subject for next quarter's project if we move the Schools > project to a national project and don't roll it over, a number of ideas > have been put forward: > > 1. Water: add sewage works, rivers,streams and ponds from OSSV, improve > lake outlines, improve alignments, separate natural and reservoir > tags,improve coastlines, add bridges or tunnels where waterways cross > highways and railways etc. > 2. Healthcare: add hospitals, doctors, dentists, pharmacies. Or possibly > just add doctors which is a smaller target. I think national single Open > Data sources exist for all of these. It will need more surveying than > Schools (not visible on OSSV or aerial imagery) > 3. Highway Maxheights, maxwidths, maxweights: various data sources exist > but I don't think there's one national resource. Improving this data will > make our data more usable for routing. There is the possibility to involve > couriers, haulage companies etc either organisationally, or individual > drivers > 4.There's also a suggestion to group-mentor a GSoC (Google Summer of Code) > project, which I believe doesn't fit well as a quarterly project, as it > won't involve a wide swathe of the community. We could explore it as an > additional project > 5. And a light-hearted suggestion - map some monkey puzzle trees as part > of this project <https://monkeypuzzletrees.wordpress.com/> > > It might also be worth doing some kind of survey to see what motivated > participants in teh Schools project, what they liked, what they didn't > like, how we could improve, how they heard of the project (if indeed some > of the single editors were even aware they were being counted as part of a > project) > > As ever: opinions and other suggestions welcome > > Regards > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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