<div dir="ltr"><div>Challenge "<span style="font-size:12.8px">Wiki for districts" is completed. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Vonter">User Vonter</a> has added tags for most of the Indian districts :) </span></div><br><div>Thanks,</div><div>naveenpf</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 March 2017 at 21:25, Srihari Thalla <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thallasrihari@gmail.com" target="_blank">thallasrihari@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I have set up these challenges as of today:<div><br></div><div>[1] - Railway Station codes</div><div>[2] - Wiki tags for railway stations</div><div>[3] - Wiki tags for cities and towns</div><div>[4] - Wiki tags for districts</div><div><br></div><div>-</div><div><br></div><div>@Naveen I hope all the NHs are already traced and mapped [and updated to the new numbering]? I'll check if Overpass QL supports regex tomorrow and set up the challenges. I might need your help.</div><div><br></div><div>-</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding tracing roads and building in small towns and villages, I noticed that more 50% of the villages were not even mapped (at least in Andhra/Telangana, I didn't look at other states). I think this procedure might be good:</div><div><br></div><div>[a] - Place `node`s with place=village tags for untagged villages. We don't know all the names, so we might want to leave the name for now.</div><div>[b] - Setup challenges to trace roads; and buildings</div><div>[c] - Work to get data about the villages (starting with their names themselves)</div><div><br></div><div>I can start [a] with Andhra Pradesh and Telangana district-wise-alphabetically. If you are open to this idea, let me know and your thoughts.</div><div><br></div><div>-</div><div><br></div><div>Here are the links for the Challenges [1,2,3,4]:</div><div><br></div><div>[1] - Railway Station codes - <a href="http://maproulette.org/map/2403/" target="_blank">http://maproulette.org/map/<wbr>2403</a></div><div>[2] - Wiki for Railway Stations - <a href="http://maproulette.org/map/2404" target="_blank">http://maproulette.org/map/<wbr>2404</a></div><div>[3] - Wiki for cities and towns - <a href="http://maproulette.org/map/2405" target="_blank">http://maproulette.org/map/<wbr>2405</a></div><div>[4] - Wiki for districts - <a href="http://maproulette.org/map/2406" target="_blank">http://maproulette.org/map/<wbr>2406</a></div><div><br></div><div>cc Arun. Need your help spreading the word :)</div><div>-</div><div><br></div><div>I am in touch with Martijn of MapRoulette. He said he would feature our challenges in the upcoming newsletter. I think the challenges above are pretty easy and useful for getting people from other communities interested in OSM, as Arun said.</div><div><br></div><div>But tracing untraced villages would be good for featuring in his newsletter. That might bring attention. What do you think?</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 at 19:23 Naveen Francis <<a href="mailto:naveenpf@gmail.com" target="_blank">naveenpf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg">One more task <div class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"> - Add wikidata tags for Indian Highways, it has been add for about 100 primary highways. </div><div class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Highways_in_India_by_highway_number#/maplink/0" class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>List_of_National_Highways_in_<wbr>India_by_highway_number#/<wbr>maplink/0</a></div><div class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"> About 200 may be remaining, finding QID is easier since it is in one place :) </div><div class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Roads/India/National_Highways" class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://www.wikidata.org/<wbr>wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_<wbr>Roads/India/National_Highways</a> </div><div class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"> </div><div class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"><br class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"><br class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"><br class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg">On 15 March 2017 at 17:16, Arun Ganesh <span dir="ltr" class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:arun.planemad@gmail.com" class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg" target="_blank">arun.planemad@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg">Challenge 3 and 4 could be quite interesting to get other communities interested in OSM.<div class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"><br class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg">For Wikidata matching, we can share the challenge with the Wikimedia India chapter. Adding these tags also help make maps on Wikipedia. See Naveens' diary <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/naveenpf/diary/40515" class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>openstreetmap.org/user/<wbr>naveenpf/diary/40515</a></div><div class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"><br class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg">For any railway mapping we can spread the word on IRFCA, which would get the railfans really excited. </div><div class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"><br class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_6120023898076638915gmail_msg">Srihari, if you can make the challenges, I could help spread the word. We could also do mapping sprints to map them together with others to knock it off.</div></div>
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