I’ve never even considered the zoo here in Perth… we’ve got some work to do to catch up!

Great work! :)

“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well” and all that? :-)

I think the link is wrong. The correct one is http://blog.v6shell.org/2015/11/03/humanity-geography-gis-opendata/

And I reckon you’re right! :)

Fixed two in Australia. :-)

Thank you both for the ideas. It sounds like paper and clipboard are the way to go. :)

Now I shall wrangle with getting JOSM to print things…

Is there any write-up anywhere of good methods for collecting house address data? I mean specifics such as: “trace buildings first, then cycle up one side of the street taking photos of letter-boxen, then back down the other…” (which is sort of how I’ve done it, but I get some pretty funny looks from people!).

Voted! :)

And for mappers on the other side of the Tasman, here’s a request for the Digital Cadastre Database to be open-licenced: https://datagovau.ideascale.com/a/dtd/DCDB-Cadastre/20080-26233

Cool map! I’ve added the Artifactory.

Now to figure out what “12oz” “drip” and “house coffee” mean. :)

Ha! Yes, exactly! :)

Ah! Cool. Thanks. :-)

There’s a print plugin for JOSM. Bit odd at times (when pages sizes change and things) but it works very well and you can print in a bunch of different ways.

I used to do far more shared nodes than I do now, because I’ve started just mapping exactly “what’s on the ground”.

A stream, for instance, is a way down the centreline of the stream, and one area (often) on either side, following the riverbank.

Two areas will usually have some sort of boundary, which I map as a way set between the two areas.

The only time I share nodes is when the boundary between them actually has no width (e.g. is a imaginary line between two survey points or something).

Just makes it easier to edit, as PurpleMustang says.

(Egh. When are we going to be able to edit comments here?!)

Great idea!

I notice you’re putting the route names in the bus stop names. These should probably be put in as [route relation(osm.wiki/Relation:route) names instead (along with Clovis Transit as the operator).

Then you’ll get nice red lines along all the routes too! :-)

I’ll help, if you don’t mind an antipodean view (via Bing)!

I had a tiny crack at it, but you're right: it's not the most interesting part of the world to trace!

If you're ever interested in a Perth mapping party, by the way, drop me a line (if you are in Perth, I mean!).

Thanks Harry! It is centred around Perth indeed; this is where all the vehicles are based. They go out for 10–14 day swings, taking GPS positions every ~30s.

Did you notice my tracey subterfuge with a big empty circle around the Perth metro area?! I get the data in massive clumps of nmea files, and process them with gpsbabel using -x radius,distance=20K,lat=-31.995815,lon=115.73512,nosort,exclude

I wish I had more time to map things, but it's hardly a central part of my employment... :-(

Hurrah for beer and walking. And mapping.

I'm part of the Fremantle Society, who're setting up a civic wiki called FreoWiki, and we're planning on using OSM maps on that extensively. I've been doing a bit of mapping around the place, in patches. Mainly using Walking Papers (and some people here have raised the idea of helping school children contribute this way, although nothing's happened yet).

The council here has recently implemented something called IntraMaps which looks pretty interesting (and slow, and not slippy). It doesn't really do anything that OSM can't... it's got things like 'Municipal Heritage Inventory', which shows where all the local government heritage-listed buildings are (which we can put on OSM); and all property boundaries (which we can only guess at because that data belongs to LandGate).