[talk-au] New to open street maps, looking for advice to get started

[Simon Poole]

Hi Luke

That looks great, if I  may say so as a very non-local :-).

In general there is not a pre-defined top priority list (outside of
mapping your own special area of interest), but I suspect that there is
some agreement that

- general transport infrastructure

- points of interests (shops, amenities, public buildings etc)

- addresses

is stuff that should be mapped.

In some cases we do have access to government open data that can be used
in one way or the other to help with improving OSM, but its suitability
needs to be verified on a case by case base. I'm sure somebody from SA
can help with that.

Happy mapping

Simon



Am 27.10.2016 um 14:26 schrieb Luke Picciau:
> Hi, This is my first time posting to a mailing list so sorry if I mess
> it up.
>
> I just found out about the open street map project and love the idea.
> So far I have just been tracing buildings from the bing satellite
> images and adding info to locations. Here is some of my work
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/-34.94778/138.63054 Username is
> Qwertii. What I was looking to find out is what should I get started
> with and where would I best be spending my time? I don't want to spent
> ages drawing out things that could just be done with a simple script.
> What things should I work on? Are there any pages I should read as a
> new user?
>
> Any advice would be awesome.
>
>
>
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