OpenStreetMap
Hi all,
Since I'm currently in hospital recovering from an acident I thought
it would be good to spend time editing OSM. I have a laptop and WiFi
but am not very mobile at present. Therefore can edit OSM based on
others GPS track files if I'm told the type of right of way etc I'm
based in Leicestershire so East Midlands would take preference..
Discussion
Comment from liftarn on 17 ஜனவரி 2012, 10:03
You can edit from the satellite/aerial photos as well.
Comment from Sanderd17 on 17 ஜனவரி 2012, 13:47
Bing images in Belgium are very recent (from last summer). And there is still the majority of buildings missing. The easiest buildings to map are those in the living areas like this: osm.org/?lat=50.8992&lon=3.02808&zoom=17&layers=M
Real city centers are more difficult to map (as all houses are connected), and industrial buildings are also more difficult.
So if you want to map, there's a lot of work to do.
Get well soon.
Comment from robert on 17 ஜனவரி 2012, 13:53
Ouch, hope it wasn't a mapping-related accident.
This does sound like a good excuse for some armchair mapping from the bing imagery and OS data sources. If you don't like mapping places you don't know, you could always use these data sources to add more detail to your area (have you got all pedestrian crossings, number of lanes in major roads, footway cut-throughs, turning circles, speed bumps, buildings?).
Just make sure you're not working on top of non-odbl tainted data as would be a waste of time.
Get well soon.
robert.
Comment from malenki on 4 பிப்ரவரி 2012, 11:53
Though I am the next one to recommend tracing imagery, I also can give you a small list of places needing attention:
osm.wiki/Unmapped_Aerial_Imagery
(Maybe tracing Albania could be a bit hard regarding the classification of the ways.)
wishing you a "get well soon", too
malenki
Comment from malenki on 4 பிப்ரவரி 2012, 11:57
Thinking of it, you could (if you are a kind of coder) write something to check if gpx-logs on OSM.org are located near ways which would mean that they are mapped.
Additionally you could have a look at some of the top gpx-uploaders¹ and look at osm.org if this data also covers unmapped regions - that is, as far as the traces are public
regards
malenki
¹ osm.org/stats/data_stats.html