[talk-au] New User Surge.

[Warin]

Welcome Cameron!
Anything you can do to improve the map is most welcome.

As far as comments go - 2 aspects to this ;
on the overall changeset - when you upload the data- Most like to see 
something descriptive ... I like to see some comment on the source of 
the information
on the individual added nodes/ways/relations - Adding the tag source= 
here - I like to do this ... some of my edits have multiple sources .. 
so I go overboard here and add the individual source tags.

The comments and sources are really to explain what your doing ..
  both to yourself and to other mappers ... if you come to look back at 
what you did a year ago they can be very helpful.
another 'explanation' tag is the note= tag .. the fixme= tag is for when 
you know something needs more work.



On 28-Jan-17 10:10 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Probably a good time to introduce myself.
>
> I'm Cameron Shorter, a bicycle rider, and software developer (for 
> geospatial open source applications).
>
> I live in Frenchs Forest, ride to the beaches and the city, and have 
> been adding in some connector paths that were not on OSM yet, (in 
> particular I'm hoping to improve data which drives OSM bicycle routing 
> engine).
>
> I'd be happy to hear any advice on how I could improve my edits. Based 
> on feedback so far, I could probably do a better job of commenting my 
> edits.
>
> Cheers, Cameron
>
>
> On 27/01/2017 9:52 PM, Andrew Davidson 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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