So question two: what are the chances of foursquare like Q&A prompt UI as a followon; with a bit more understanding of certain venues (bars, restaurants, hotels, etc)? OpenGeoQuestions is there, but it doesn’t necessarily seem to have the same userbase.

More: osm.org/user/CloCkWeRX/diary/35873

So question two: what are the chances of foursquare like Q&A prompt UI as a followon; with a bit more understanding of certain venues (bars, restaurants, hotels, etc)? OpenGeoQuestions is there, but it doesn’t necessarily seem to have the same userbase.

More: osm.org/user/CloCkWeRX/diary/35873

Opening hours editor on mobile, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo.

Game on, Vespucci :P

I’ve had a really good run with Strava’s heatmaps and routing errors as well: it’d be great if improve-osm could render those tiles or use Slide!

Awwww yis.

https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/173 would have been a simple, effective solution for this; but basically stalled entirely.

Kort I hadn’t seen; it would be tempting to fork that an expand the story as to why you do the missions. It’s map-first like wheelmap.org is; but does reasonably well based on your current location to ask questions. I agree - it’d be good to add more interesting questions; I don’t really feel thrilled to be classifying track types. I might have a look at what’s possible there.

Re why you do the missions; you could imagine something like “Spooks” from Charles Stross’ Halting State working as an augmented reality game - a bit of work doing a backstory that you are an industrial spy/secret shopper “gathering intel” on businesses or similar; and missions to document 3 business of the same type with X attributes. Obviously don’t want to get people arrested for sneaking around; but with the right balance… Google’s now spun off game I never quite bought into, though I know many who have (and there’s a high overlap with geocaching in my circle of friends who played that).

That said, I think it’d be trickier than the opengeoquestions approach combined with knowing how to target people based on checkin/location history.

I hadn’t seen that I don’t think, but in the exact right direction! Wonder if the source is avail; demo isn’t too working for me right now.

For roadworks, I think there are better feeds and standards to use to consume data. IE: https://github.com/OKFNau/open-council-data/issues/27 is a similar kind of discussion being had in Australia, and there’s some efforts in http://www.open511.org/ that look really quite useful.

Building an aggregator that consumes all of the various council feeds in that format and turns them into spatial data would be a handy tool to have; but wouldn’t fit well with OSM due to how often it changes.

It’s worth politely writing to them and asking if they’d openly license the data - I worked with the City of Geelong to great benefit :)

Pull requests welcome, Simon.

Should list some of them in openaddresses.io - https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses/issues/586 for example

Also https://www.data.vic.gov.au/data/dataset/ptv-timetable-and-geographic-information-2015-gtfs has recently been released as open data - to do an import is relatively straight forward; the biggest blocker would be getting written approval above and beyond CC 3.0 licencing.

osm.wiki/Data.vic.gov.au also touches on tram datasets

Ooh, I made the list!

However I am doing things like osm.wiki/Import/South_Australian_Roads

It’s pretty incredible, especially when you think that you are somewhat ‘competing’ for attention against large disasters like Ebola.

Is there more than can be done to reach end users of the data/get more feedback?

Secondly, would things like Mapillary be useful for planners? I understand there’s only 20% smartphone penetration, roughly, but it’d be interesting to see what a few taxi drivers, smartphone mount and mapillary could do; coupled with just enough broadband set up. It could potentially take a lot of the building tagging in metro areas from “building=yes” to more relevant data.

You might be interested in http://strava.github.io/iD/#background=Bing - it may be that it is already known

:S

I’ve been helping out a few other cities via mapcraft (mapcraft.nanodesu.ru); just wish it were easier to draw people’s attention there.

Where’s the submit button! re new challenges :(

I like best the fact you can get an RSS feed to catch new errors after you’ve fixed an area.