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)
My interest lies primarily with points of interest data. As many of you may recall, I work for one of the traveline regions for public transport journey planning. We are most interested, therefore, in the places that people actually want to travel to. Hospitals and other medical facilities are obviously one of those, as are schools. Churches also seem to be a key destination, and I have had contact from organisations that are trying to create directories of Mosques and other places of worship. At present we buy in our point of interest data. However, we would like to use OSM because it is free, and because we don’t have to worry about POI locations moving or being missing - we can just create them in the map ourselves, and have it in our next data release. On that basis, I participated in the schools project because I was slightly horrified at the number of schools that were missing in a relatively small area like Southend. I didn’t participate in the previous project (which, if I recall, was postboxes) because I frankly don’t care about such “micro" objects when large objects like schools are missing, and for a future project I would be interested in mapping larger objects that we can reasonably accurately fix in space and track. So hospitals / medical facilities are one, places of worship another, and probably also parks / woods / nature reserves. These latter fall into the category of large areas which are not suited to points, but where there are defined access points and possibly central “information” points that could be considered “main entrances” or the focal point of the area. Regards, Stuart ------------------------------------ Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia On 13 Mar 2016, at 17:31, Brian Prangle <[email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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