<div dir="ltr"><p>New month, new quarter, new project.</p><p>Our first attempt at a
quarterly project has just finished, where fixing road names was the
target. I'm sure there was an uplift in the rate of clearing these up
and a big thank you to everyone who took part, but we don't have any
formal metrics (perhaps ITOworld might do some analysis on comparable
rates across quarters) and there's still a way to go to clear the total
number of mis-named roads. What is clear is that there's not enough
mappers on the ground to tackle something basic like this and we don't
have a scalable method for contacting existing and potential mappers. I
guess maintaining a map isn't as exciting as creating one! Anyway as
we proceed with quarterly projects hopefully we'll evolve how to solve
both problems.</p><p>Our goal with quarterly projects is obviously to
improve the map in a co-ordinated way but also to try and develop the UK
mapping community by reaching out to new audiences and to re-energise
existing and lapsed mappers.</p><p>So, on to our next project: <strong><em>all things delivery-related</em></strong></p><p>This
could be Royal Mail postboxes (still loads to do); Royal Mail delivery
offices and sorting offices; delivery areas/gates to factories and town
centre shopping malls; maxheights and maxweights on roads; courier
depots; distribution warehouses; new internet shopping parcel lockers (<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom/Parcel_Lockers">see wiki entry</a>);
there's a new parcel-collection service based around mainline stations
called Doddle.it; airfreight facilities; railway marshalling yards;
secure lorry parks; port/dock facilities and anything else you can think
of. All suggestions and stories welcome.</p><p>Regards</p><p><br></p><p>Brian<br></p></div>