[talk-au] New User Surge.

[Andrew Davidson]

This user should get a gold star with bar for good changeset comment 
practice:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/45578563

On 28/01/17 10:20, Andrew Harvey wrote:
>> https://mic.com/articles/166654/pokemon-go-hack-altering-openstreetmap-data-may-create-new-spawn-points-in-the-game
>
> Certainly seems like a lot of these new contributors could be doing it
> for this reason.
>
> On 28 January 2017 at 09:00, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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