Wow, Paul, that is a lot of distance you covered. I do hope you manage to stay involved. Let me know if there's anything you want improved to the relation pages (if you use them).
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Alright, after nearly 110,000 miles, 4000 notes, 2000 trips, 2 years, and an > epic road trip from Portland, Oregon to Long Beach, California to Tulsa, > Oklahoma via Historic Route 66, I'm leaving my current position as a leading > field service engineer in Northeast Oklahoma to take a job as a support > engineer with a local internet hosting company. What does this mean? My > GPX uploads and creation of OSM notes is going to become more sporadic, and > someone in Oklahoma's going to have the opportunity to out-edit me (maybe, I > still have a massive backlog, plus ongoing projects inspired by my current, > coming-to-an-end job). As a result, I'm also going to be pulling back on > watching out for and maintaining construction zones outside the Tulsa > City-County network and OklaDOT's Tulsa zone (I don't think I have any > mapped construction zones outside this area at this time). > > I'm not leaving the OpenStreetMap project, though out of a want to continue > mapping and an understanding on how OSM in Oklahoma is used actively, I'm > going to become more project oriented (especially once I'm done inspecting > the vicinity of the traces I collected over the last two years). Knowing > the limitations and challenges of every other major mapping provider in the > region in practice has left me with a unique perspective on how a map should > work, and I plan on continuing my efforts to help support travelers and > mobile professionals in the region until I, somehow, manage to find OSM is > Complete™ (yeah, don't count on that ever happening). I'm just not going to > be actively monitoring, on average, 240 highway miles per day like I have > been. > > I've yet to properly name my current project for OSM, which has recently > gotten underway and is going to take a LOT of time to complete assuming I > don't get help. The basic jist of it is that I'm moving from county to > county, in order of 2010 population, to complete route relations for State > Highways, State Turnpikes, US Highways, and Interstate Highways in Oklahoma, > with a special emphasis on ensuring route relations, lane counts, turn > lanes, and placement=* tags are accurate relative to the most recent Mapbox > data (or personal recollection, whichever is more recent). > > My ultimate goal is to make OpenStreetMap, far and away, the most useful map > for navigation in Oklahoma, something I already believe we've no doubt > achieved with apps like Osmand capable of inferring address lookups through > Nominatim as a supplement to the physically mapped data, > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Martijn van Exel President, US Chapter OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.us/ http://osm.org/ _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
