<div dir="ltr">Hi, Deepak!<div><div><br></div><div>You have to zoom in a little bit. MapRoulette is trying to load the visible map on the screen in JOSM.</div><div><br></div><div>For districts, as they are relations, zoom in on the boundary. This will make sure that JOSM download contains the relation.</div><div>Before (MapRoulette says too much area) - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/4gi6v65xzl9zxja/Screenshot%202017-03-24%2000.03.50.png?dl=0" class="hoverZoomLink">https://www.dropbox.com/s/4gi6v65xzl9zxja/Screenshot%202017-03-24%2000.03.50.png?dl=0</a></div><div>After - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/w4hjq9lpstnkad3/Screenshot%202017-03-24%2000.04.22.png?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/w4hjq9lpstnkad3/Screenshot%202017-03-24%2000.04.22.png?dl=0</a></div><div><br></div><div>For cities and towns, as they are mostly nodes, zoom in on the node.</div><div>Screenshot - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/siivc2in9x70yhq/Screenshot%202017-03-24%2000.05.33.png?dl=0" class="hoverZoomLink">https://www.dropbox.com/s/siivc2in9x70yhq/Screenshot%202017-03-24%2000.05.33.png?dl=0</a></div><div>If it still says too much area, just zoom in a little more!</div><div><br></div><div>Try these once again and let me know if it worked. If there are problems, I will check with Martijn of MapRoulette!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for checking out challenges. Did you find them useful? Any improvements to be done for them to make them even more efficient and exciting?<br></div></div><div>Any other suggestions?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Srihari</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 at 23:49 Deepak Cherian <<a href="mailto:dpak.cherian@gmail.com">dpak.cherian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Srihari,<br class="gmail_msg">
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Thanks a lot. I just successfully procrastinated through a morning<br class="gmail_msg">
searching for Indian Railway station codes.<br class="gmail_msg">
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I tried doing Challenges 3,4 but MapRoulette keeps telling me that the<br class="gmail_msg">
areas are too large to download the data. How do I get around that?<br class="gmail_msg">
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Deepak<br class="gmail_msg">
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On 03/16/2017 09:55 AM, Srihari Thalla wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
> I have set up these challenges as of today:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> [1] - Railway Station codes<br class="gmail_msg">
> [2] - Wiki tags for railway stations<br class="gmail_msg">
> [3] - Wiki tags for cities and towns<br class="gmail_msg">
> [4] - Wiki tags for districts<br class="gmail_msg">
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> -<br class="gmail_msg">
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> @Naveen I hope all the NHs are already traced and mapped [and updated to<br class="gmail_msg">
> the new numbering]? I'll check if Overpass QL supports regex tomorrow<br class="gmail_msg">
> and set up the challenges. I might need your help.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> -<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Regarding tracing roads and building in small towns and villages, I<br class="gmail_msg">
> noticed that more 50% of the villages were not even mapped (at least in<br class="gmail_msg">
> Andhra/Telangana, I didn't look at other states). I think this procedure<br class="gmail_msg">
> might be good:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> [a] - Place `node`s with place=village tags for untagged villages. We<br class="gmail_msg">
> don't know all the names, so we might want to leave the name for now.<br class="gmail_msg">
> [b] - Setup challenges to trace roads; and buildings<br class="gmail_msg">
> [c] - Work to get data about the villages (starting with their names<br class="gmail_msg">
> themselves)<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> I can start [a] with Andhra Pradesh and Telangana<br class="gmail_msg">
> district-wise-alphabetically. If you are open to this idea, let me know<br class="gmail_msg">
> and your thoughts.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> -<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Here are the links for the Challenges [1,2,3,4]:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> [1] - Railway Station codes - <a href="http://maproulette.org/map/2403" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://maproulette.org/map/2403</a><br class="gmail_msg">
> <<a href="http://maproulette.org/map/2403/" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://maproulette.org/map/2403/</a>><br class="gmail_msg">
> [2] - Wiki for Railway Stations - <a href="http://maproulette.org/map/2404" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://maproulette.org/map/2404</a><br class="gmail_msg">
> [3] - Wiki for cities and towns - <a href="http://maproulette.org/map/2405" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://maproulette.org/map/2405</a><br class="gmail_msg">
> [4] - Wiki for districts - <a href="http://maproulette.org/map/2406" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://maproulette.org/map/2406</a><br class="gmail_msg">
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> cc Arun. Need your help spreading the word :)<br class="gmail_msg">
> -<br class="gmail_msg">
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> I am in touch with Martijn of MapRoulette. He said he would feature our<br class="gmail_msg">
> challenges in the upcoming newsletter. I think the challenges above are<br class="gmail_msg">
> pretty easy and useful for getting people from other communities<br class="gmail_msg">
> interested in OSM, as Arun said.<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> But tracing untraced villages would be good for featuring in his<br class="gmail_msg">
> newsletter. That might bring attention. What do you think?<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 at 19:23 Naveen Francis <<a href="mailto:naveenpf@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">naveenpf@gmail.com</a><br class="gmail_msg">
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:naveenpf@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">naveenpf@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> One more task<br class="gmail_msg">
> - Add wikidata tags for Indian Highways, it has been add for about<br class="gmail_msg">
> 100 primary highways.<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Highways_in_India_by_highway_number#/maplink/0" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Highways_in_India_by_highway_number#/maplink/0</a><br class="gmail_msg">
> About 200 may be remaining, finding QID is easier since it is in<br class="gmail_msg">
> one place :)<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Roads/India/National_Highways" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Roads/India/National_Highways</a><br class="gmail_msg">
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> On 15 March 2017 at 17:16, Arun Ganesh <<a href="mailto:arun.planemad@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">arun.planemad@gmail.com</a><br class="gmail_msg">
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:arun.planemad@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">arun.planemad@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> Challenge 3 and 4 could be quite interesting to get other<br class="gmail_msg">
> communities interested in OSM.<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> For Wikidata matching, we can share the challenge with the<br class="gmail_msg">
> Wikimedia India chapter. Adding these tags also help make maps<br class="gmail_msg">
> on Wikipedia. See Naveens'<br class="gmail_msg">
> diary <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/naveenpf/diary/40515" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/naveenpf/diary/40515</a><br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> For any railway mapping we can spread the word on IRFCA, which<br class="gmail_msg">
> would get the railfans really excited.<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> Srihari, if you can make the challenges, I could help spread the<br class="gmail_msg">
> word. We could also do mapping sprints to map them together with<br class="gmail_msg">
> others to knock it off.<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
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