[YLUG] Openstreetmap mapping event - activities

[Tom Hayward]

2008/7/22 Matthew Gates <matthew at porpoisehead.net>:
> 1. Missing street names (no GPS required)
>
> Just today I found that there is a really nifty tool which highlights roads
> without names, here: http://tinyurl.com/58mfyn

Unfortunately that link doesn't work for me.


> The reason there is no name might be that the original mapper might have
> missed a street sign, omitted it in error when entering data, or maybe the
> photo of the street sign wasn't legible.  These road names should be filled
> in.
>
> Acceptable methods include going and finding a street sign, filling in from
> prior knowledge (taxi drivers would be really useful here!), or getting the
> name from a non-copyrighted source, like an out of copyright map, or
> something like that.  Names must not be copied from maps which are under
> copyright.
>
>
> 2. Complete cycle route (possibly no GPS required)
>
> There are a few missing national cycle network sections in York.  The OSM
> cycle map is here: http://tinyurl.com/5aj4u6
>
> You can zoom in to York using the mouse wheel or drag a zoom box using
> shift-draw.
>
> It would be good to finish route of number 66, which has missing sections.
> I don't know if it does connect up to route 65, but it seems likely.  I now
> that I have neglected the cycle routes a bit.
>
> Much of this work is just find out which paths/roads the cycle network route
> takes.  For this no GPS is required, just a print out of the existing OSM
> map.
>
>
> 3. Unmapped areas
>
> As mentioned before, there are still some large chunks of the road network
> to do.  There are also area mapping tasks which I have not yet done much
> work on.  This includes parks, cemeteries, nature reserves and so on.  The
> basic idea is to trace the outline of these areas.
>
>
>
> 4. Road names review (no GPS required)
>
> If you know the names of streets in your area, and it has already been
> mapped, please look at the map at high zoom so that the street names are
> printed, and check they are right.  There are quite a few chances for
> mistakes to creep in, so some sort of review would be great.
>
> You can check names against out-of-copyright maps, but must not refer to
> copyrighted maps for this task (besides, who says other maps do not contain
> mistakes? The best way is to go and look at the sign).
>
>
> 5. Maplint
>
> There's a thing called maplint which highlights parts of the map where there
> are possible errors in the way the data has been added to the map.  This
> includes thinks like nodes being tagged as features which are not known
> about by the map renderer.  See the yellow blobs here:
> http://tinyurl.com/6a56xf
>
> What to do here is to load up JOSM, download the map data for that area and
> look to see what is wrong with the map data.  This might be a but confusing
> if you've not used JOSM before.
>
>
> 6. Report map bugs
>
> Mistakes on the map can be reported using the openstreetbugs site:
> http://tinyurl.com/5qyhpw
>
> If you know of a new road layout which is not yet on the map, or can see
> there is a mistake on the map, like an omitted one way section, or a one
> way which is backwards, or anything else which is not right, go to that
> site and add a bug report.
>
>
> 7. Points of interest (no GPS required)
>
> So far, I have been adding road, pubs, post boxes, telephone boxes,
> recycling points, churches, hotels, public toilets, some car parks, the odd
> cash machine and a few misc tourist attractions to the map.
>
> There are many other features which I have not yet added.  Conspicuously
> absent are bus stops, restaurants.  The list goes on... think of something
> which can be mapped, and it becomes an item on the todo list.
>
> In areas where the road network is already in place, it should be possible
> to record the position of points of interest without needing a GPS
> (although a GPS is helpful).
>
> Choose a category and go map all of them in York  :-)
>
> Bus stops are a good one - find out roughly where a route goes, print out
> the OSM map of the route, buy yourself a day ticket and mark the positions
> of all the stops on a route.  I think you'd have to concentrate really hard
> to get them all, but it could work.
>
>
> Matthew
>
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