[YLUG] Openstreetmap mapping event - activities

[Tom Hayward]

http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/no-names/?zoom=13&lat=53.95879&lon=-1.07874&layers=0B000
this however does appear to work

2008/7/23 Tom Hayward <nessieliberation at gmail.com>:
> 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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