No need to remove traced bdgs with no extra tags - the absence of tags is already a good indicator of incompleteness. Brian
On 1 April 2016 at 08:30, Ed Loach <edlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was thinking of a different possible project which perhaps we can > postpone until a different quarter rather than starting today. > > > > There are a lot of buildings which have been traced from various imagery > layers but with no other useful information on them. Is it a shop, a house, > what is its address, etc? > > > > I was going to suggest that we spend three months trying to gather the > address information for such buildings, and at the end of the quarter > remove all the others to give us a better idea of how complete the map is. > If we just want approximate building shapes we’ve got OS OpenData for that. > At the moment they give a false impression of completeness, and also make > it harder without zooming in to work out which areas still need a proper > survey. > > > > If the project proves successful we could extend it to farmland areas > where hedges and fences haven’t been added to break up the area. > > > > Ed > > > > *From:* Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 31 March 2016 18:53 > *To:* Talk GB > *Subject:* [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project April-June 2016 > > > > Hi everyone > > It seems from the discussion on this topic that you would like a subject > similar to schools for which monitoring tools can be built relatively > quickly; will improve the map for the greatest number of potential users; > and now we might have some better weather, something that needs some > surveying rather than rely on too much armchair mapping. > > So the suggested topic we start on from tomorrow is Healthcare facilities, > concentrating on hospitals (get a complete dataset, get detailed site > plans,add bus routes and stops,do some indoor multi-level mapping etc.) and > doctors surgeries. Anybody who wants to go off and concentrate on others > such as pharmacies, dentists etc feel free to do so > > I feeel that we should continue background effort on schools to keep some > of the momentum, and list it as a national ongoing project on the wiki. I'm > sure Robert's postcode-based completion will continue to be available and > RobJN will continue to run the taginfor script for schools > > Happy mapping > > Brian > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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