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

[Luke Picciau]

Oh hi Daniel. I have seen your work on OSM a lot!

I have been walking around taking photos of every store in an area and 
collecting any phone numbers or other info I can find on the store 
front. I'm still getting the hang of it but I'm getting a pretty good 
system for collecting info. Many of the points I have collected are not 
even on google maps :)

One interesting thing I have found is many small business websites are 
no longer online.

On 28/10/16 11:08, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 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 <http://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 <mailto: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
>     <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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