<html><head></head><body>Thanks for the tasking manager tip. Will have a look.<br><br>Regarding start date I thought since I don't know the exact date I chose the one from the images.<br>Once images are updated the source date could be updated while the start date stays.<br><br>Can we go back in time with LPI images?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 January 2020 9:20:15 am AEDT, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Nice work, would love to see more roof top solar panels mapped.</div><div><br></div>The Tasking Manager <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tasking_Manager">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tasking_Manager</a> might suit this better than MapRoulette, since Tasking Manager breaks an area up into tiles and you go in, choose a tile, complete it, then upload. It helps track progress, avoid conflicts and ensures a whole area is done without gaps in coverage.<div><br></div><div>MapRoulette works differently, it's based on identifying features already which need some work.</div><div><br></div><div>> start_date=* - set to the date of the LPI NSW Imagery - or should this be rather source:date=*??<br></div><div><br></div><div>start_date is when the feature started, so when the solar panel was installed, you can just do YYYY if you only know the year or YYYY-MM if you only know the month, but if you don't know you can omit it. source:date is better for the imagery date.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 at 08:50, Sebastian S. <<a href="mailto:mapping@consebt.de">mapping@consebt.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>So far I have not worked out a good grid method.<br>I go by suburb in my area and keep the file local until I've completed the suburb. Only then I upload.<br>While offline I use a temporary area tagged as wood. I expand this box over the area I've worked through. This is just because I don't know any better solution. 😃<br><br>If you want to see a map showing the modules you can use open infrastructure map, link is at the bottom of the wiki.<br><br>I thought about making this a mapping challenge on <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapRoulette" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapRoulette</a> but so far I've not looked into it. I've got no experience with this but am happy to receive guidance.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 January 2020 7:11:07 am AEDT, Dion Moult <<a href="mailto:dion@thinkmoult.com" target="_blank">dion@thinkmoult.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<pre>On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 11:29:13PM +1100, Sebastian Spiess wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(114,159,207);padding-left:1ex">I'd like to present my latest pet project:<br><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:ConsEbt/NorthernBeachesSolar" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:ConsEbt/NorthernBeachesSolar</a><br>I wanted to share this and collect some feedback or comments.<br></blockquote><br>I love it! I might do a bit of solar mapping too! How easy is it to set a grid<br>to know which areas have been mapped?<br></pre></blockquote></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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