[talk-au] New User Surge.

[Warin]

I have examined the change sets in NSW.


One of the new mappers is 'good', others .. 'could do better'.
Mostly harmless .. would be a good summary ... a couple of basic 
mistakes and some basic improvements.
I have left most of the edits alone to see if they will make changes to 
improve things.

One I have edited out as it removed a road, replacing it with a foot path.

I have left comments for most new users ... giving information, and 
questioning a few things ... like a house (possibly their home) being 
made into a park


On 28-Jan-17 08:03 AM, Warin wrote:
> The cycleway routing should take note of footways that have the tag 
> bicycle=yes ...
> Most people don't notice the bicycle signs as they are not using a 
> bicycle.
> So adding the bicycle=yes tag is simple and does not cause 
> conflict/edit wars.
>
> To me a cycle way should be principally used by cyclists, most of 
> these are shared paths and the majority might be pedestrians.
>
> As for the new mappers .. welcome, provided these things are real, 
> very welcome.
>
>
> On 27-Jan-17 10:45 PM, nwastra wrote:
>> Apart from the addition of numerous poorly edited parks, numerous 
>> footways (even with no construction or visible path on the ground), 
>> water features, etc by the followers of this children's game, I am 
>> also dismayed to see that wide shared cement ways that most would 
>> have previously marked as cycleways to aid cycle routing are now 
>> being changed to footways. Most of my osm editing time is taken up 
>> trying to fix all these poor edits.
>> Hopefully all these new editors gain experience and become a valued 
>> editing force.
>> Nev
>>> On 27 Jan 2017, at 8:52 PM, Andrew Davidson <theswavu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Good news people. There seems to have been a surge in the number of 
>>> new mappers in Australia:
>>>
>>> http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-suspicious?country=3&hours=96&mappingdays=10&tsearch=&anyobj=t&comp=%3E&value=1000&action=c&obj=n#5/-30.600/148.425 
>>>
>>>
>>> and they all seem to be *very* interested in making sure every park 
>>> is on the map. Rivers and meadows are quite popular too.
>>>
>>> In other news:
>>>
>>> https://mic.com/articles/166654/pokemon-go-hack-altering-openstreetmap-data-may-create-new-spawn-points-in-the-game 
>>>
>>>
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