What method do you use to collect map data when out strolling?

JOSM used to have two sorts of user authentication, but I think now just has one. You used to be able to sign in with your username and password, or via the OAuth mechanism; the latter is now the only way. So there’s nothing wrong with this request, and it’s required in order for you to be able to upload from JOSM.

Ah cool, thanks @GOwin that makes sense. I’ll try with an older version. Thanks!

I can’t find it in the QGIS plugin list, even with ‘experimental’ ones turned on. What am I missing?

Umm… yes, well now I’m a bit embarrassed. :-) See, I just clicked straight through to the map, and it’s been years since I looked at OSM in Canberra and it’s all so good there and well I guess I just figured this person had done some mapping there and so I thought I’d give them some tiny bit of encouragement because maybe they were a newbie and weren’t quite sure what the diary was to be used for…

Now, of course, I see that chrisPir hasn’t actually made any edits! :-(

So, please feel free to delete my comment and this whole post. :-)

Oh, yes, that all makes good sense. I’ve now re-joined the mailing list and shall try to stay on top of discussion there. :-)

And I think I was rather thinking that me writing this diary entry was sort of counting for “telling the community”, but you’re right I should’ve tried a bit harder. Really though, I’m just starting to investigate this stuff and have only done a couple of dozen road names so far.

Oh, and I was being a bit optimistic when I said that there didn’t seem to be too many missing road names! http://qa.poole.ch/?zoom=8&lat=-32.20686&lon=116.96541&layers=TFFFB0

:-)

I think I’m just going to go back to camera-and-GPS now though…

Do you mean the Legal Speed Zones (MRWA-519) data? I think they’d probably grant permission for that as well. I didn’t ask them for a blanket approval of all datasets because they seemed more inclined to approve specific usages, but you could give it a go. Some of the people at Main Roads are pretty supportive of people using the data, from what I can gather! :-)

And I’m not sure what you mean with your slightly snarky comments about importing. I do realise that using this data is importing, but I’m doing it very slowly and manually and commenting everywhere about what I’m doing. I have read the importing guidelines, and I think I’m following them. Could you be a bit more specific about how I’m not?

And I’ll send an email to the talk-au list, that’s a good idea. I figure more people probably read the diary feed though.

Hurrah! Good work.

(Now I’m all homesick for Canberra.)

Thanks @woodpeck! No fear, I wouldn’t trust myself to write a script to do this automatically. The closest I’m hoping to get is to write a script to prepare the data a bit more.

Although, in my spot checking around the state, it’s really looking like there’s not a huge amount to be done, which is pretty cool. :-)

Thanks for the links, @CloCkWeRX, there’s some good stuff there. Now I have to investigate more about “Mapillary challenges” — is that some way of loading missing things into the Mapillary app for easier ground-truthing? :-)

@maxerickson: good point, but I found that JOSM couldn’t handle the large size of this Shapefile (~280 Mb). It doesn’t have a problem (at least on my computer) with a large .osm file though.

@Omnific: yeah, I thought so, but somehow I managed to not save anything :-( Now I’m being more careful, and pressing save at various points throughout the walk.

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