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

[Daniel O'Connor]

Another SA person; welcome :)

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_South_Australia talks a bit
about some of the things happening.

In general, a lot of roads are accurate across the state; due to
data.sa.gov.au datasets - names, maybe a little less so. Bus stops...
fairly accurate from a GTFS feed.

Addresses like you've added are great; keep on collecting 'em :) There's a
few mobile tools that make it easy to record data; like Vespucci, if you
are wandering around your neghbourhood.


I find food related businesses really useful when using openstreetmap data,
as well as things like drinking fountains (surprisingly useful but sparsely
mapped!)


AdelaideMetro's journey planner uses Openstreetmap as a base layer, so a
few of us have worked on major transport interchanges or shopping centres
with a reasonable amount of detail.

If you are going through the CBD; capturing building levels or building
height can be really neat

Check out
http://demo.f4map.com/#lat=-34.9306077&lon=138.5964838&zoom=16
or
https://osmbuildings.org/?lat=-34.92743&lon=138.5999&zoom=16&rotation=0&tilt=30

and finally if you find yourself running out of stuff to map; consider data
collection via Mapillary or OpenStreetView.


On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Luke Picciau <luke.b.picciau at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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