OpenStreetMap
Vancouver Island woodland project completed
Air a phostadh le DENelson83 3 An t-Iuchar 2024 sa chànan EnglishFinally! After over four months of near-daily almost painstaking manual editing work in JOSM, entirely using aerial imagery with no automated imports whatsoever, and going through a few episodes of arm and hand cramping, all of the remaining woodland data on Vancouver Island, all the way northwest to Cape Scott, is now present in OpenStreetMap. I hope I was able to depict my own part of the world here just a bit prettier than before.
Discussion
Beachd le slice0 3 An t-Iuchar 2024 aig 06:26
well done, I wouldn’t dream of doing anything like this in Australia. The community would flag it as a import and delete it
Beachd le silversurfer83 3 An t-Iuchar 2024 aig 07:20
Great work 💪🏻
(I’ve recently discovered that except for forests there’s no landuse mapping some km from my place and yes, this is a lot of work if done neatly. Keep it up)
(slice0: No, this is not an import. Go ahead, grad your editor of choice and do some landuse mapping in Australia using current aerials available in your editor. You will see your work being welcome)
Beachd le Taya_S 3 An t-Iuchar 2024 aig 18:16
Impressive work!
Beachd le Glassman 3 An t-Iuchar 2024 aig 21:33
Wow - amazing work. I struggled just working in a small area in Washington State. (just to the south of Vancouver Island to those not familiar.) Like you, I noticed the impact on my fingers.
Last I read there are just a few glaciers left on Vancouver Island. Did you map any of those? Other than glaciers at higher elevations, like those in the Cascade Mountain Range, did you notice if they are significantly smaller than what government data sets show?
Beachd le DENelson83 3 An t-Iuchar 2024 aig 23:32
@Glassman: I believe those glaciers were already mapped prior to the work I did.
Beachd le CapitaineMoustache 7 An t-Iuchar 2024 aig 18:14
Great work!😮 The whole island!!! You can rest your hand now.
Beachd le OSMWeekly 11 An t-Iuchar 2024 aig 07:44
Congratulations and excellent work! having done my own fair chunk of woodland mapping, I know how methodical it is! take a well deserved rest!