Cool!

Hi, Atirut.

For the sorts of information you’re editing, have you tried the StreetComplete app?

https://streetcomplete.app

Chris UK

Nice write-up, Graham. I’ve been mapping for a long time, but not tried this approach; I’ll give it a go.

Cheers,

Chris

Hi,

This sounds like a really interesting idea, and you’ve obviously put a lot of specialist work into developing this far. It will be good to see the constructive feedback from people who know more about this specialist area.

Good work,

Chris

A really good article/ write up of an unknown (to me) issue. It sounds like this could be a really good basis for rationalising the tags. Even if we could get this down to 200 tags, that would potentially clear up a lot of mostly well intended, but inconsistent tagging.

As I read the article, and saw reference to ‘Satellite TV’, it made me think that we’re all familiar with that term, but I wonder in the UK, how useful that would be, with one of the main providers (Sky) now moving to the ‘content over broadband’ model, and literally dumping the satellite dishes.

Thanks for taking a huge amount of time to clearly articulate this tagging situation.

Chris (chris_debian)

Hi, Hillwalker.

I was a little concerned that adding this information to OSM, may not be very popular.

I’ve now had a quick look, and can see that the tag/ key combination is a valid option.

This link gives a quick pictorial view of where tagging had already been used. I found this more helpful than the raw output from the ‘taginfo’ reports.

I think this could be approached in an ad-hoc way, but I wonder whether it would be better to do this in a structured way, perhaps using MapRoulette to create challenges for each DX Entity? My next thought would be, how do we check that these are maintained, or new ones added, for example.

Does anyone else have any thoughts on the best way to implement Hillwalker’s idea?

Many thanks,

• Chris
• chris_debian
• 2E0FRU

If an Android client existed for Panoramax, so I could easily collect imagery when driving/ cycling, I would permanently switch from Mapilio.

Fingers crossed.

Chris

Thanks, that’s brilliant! Will have a look at the link, above.

Cheers,

Chris

Hi, this is a really good idea. Have you thought about making a small task on MapRoulette https://maproulette.org/ , so that others can methodically work on corrections?

Thanks,

Chris

This subject is new to me, but the region seems to be recognised by 46 UN membership states.

Wikipedia was just a quick way to get some background; as suggested above, it may be worth discussing on the forum.

Thanks,

Chris

Hi, SJ.

Good to hear your progress. I agree with your reasoning, and having now been made aware of the ‘esoteric’ tag :-) ; this as you say, would seem most appropriate. I wonder whether any sub-tags have been proposed for regularly stocked items, such as books, Tarot cards/ readings, crystals, etc.

As a side note, I think a lot of people think Glastonbury is a festival, and are not aware of the town and it’s ancient monuments and unique ‘feel’.

Well done,

Chris (NW Wilts)

Hi, Alfred.

I should have added a link. MapRoulette has huge potential. As a contributor, ie, someone who works through the tasks/ challenges, I’d ask anyone creating a task, to make it a manageable size. People working on the tasks, get easily put off by neverending tasks.

For example, if a task was created to correct the use of ‘steps’, have a look at how many results the query produces. If it’s over 150, then maybe reduce the geographical area on which the query is run, so that number reduces. So intead of a task for a whole country, perhaps reduce it to state/ county > city.

I’m working on a UK task at the moment, to correct overlapping buildings. The task has 500 results to check and correct. This is still a little big for my liking, and I think more people would contribute if the tasks were smaller. I was having an email conversation with the task creator (Hi, Marjan @TomTom), and I asked her not to tell me the total number of overlapping buildings in the UK. Little and often is the best approach.

If you are interested in creating a MapRoulette task, I think it’s probably best to clone an existing one, and just tweak it.

I hope you find MapRoulette inspiring; we can make the world map better, one edit at a time.

Cheers,

Chris

Good work, Alfred. Are there sufficient results to merit a MapRoulette task?

Cheers,

Chris

Well done.

Have you tried it with AI assistance?

https://rapideditor.org/

This is a powerful tool, but remember the responsibility is yours, when you edit the map, so don’t just blindly follow the suggestions. For example, a shadow or a group of trees could be wrongly interpreted. Perhaps use it to inform your mapping?

Cheers,

Chris

Well done! Making the world better, one edit at a time. ‘The more the merrier’.

Chris

@kmpoppe Hi, just had a go at a settlement in the UK. Could you consider:

1. Amending the comment that is auto-generated on MapRoulette, so it is more meaningful. At the moment, it looks very automated, and could cause concern from reviewers. I added the additional text “Added buildings to settlement” to my commit.

2. It’s difficult to know when the task is ‘complete enough’, so when saving the edits, I paused when I was deciding to click on the options. The number of houses/ buildings that can be added, could be huge (many hundreds+ ?).

3. Related to the last point, and to avoid change sets that are huge, can tasks be split into smaller chunks, that can be completed? I tend to limit my change sets to 50 ‘commits’. Even using AI to assist in the edits (https://rapideditor.org/) the tasks could be potentially endless, and huge. People contributing, will soon lose interest, if each task seems endless.

This is a really good initiative, and my comments are meant to make this work even better, and are definitely not a criticism.

Many thanks,

Chris.

Hi, K.

This is really good work, and I think the MapRoulette idea is a good one. I’d give the UK a good go, then look at other priorities.

As an aside, the figures for Ukraine may be a false positive, and I believe all map amendments are paused, until the invasion is resolved. This may have changed, but worth checking, before investing any effort.

Well done,

Chris

Thanks, Xvtn; I’ll give this a go.

Chris

Yep, I know that one, from old :-)

Could we have:

historic=animal enclosure,

Then

1. animal enclosure=pinfold
2. animal enclosure=pound

or, similar? This means that the historic dialect variation is retained.

Cheers,

Chris