[talk-au] What data is useful - request for ideas

[Phil Wyatt]

Nice work bob3bob3,

 

I wish I could spend that much time on the road. I also prefer the backroads rather than main drags and shoot with a GoPro at 0.5 second intervals. I also have Garmin Virbs which I have used for Mapillary. One thing that is useful in small towns is a cruise around the main and back streets with a camera at 90 degrees (I shoot over the road from the drivers side) to capture shop fronts etc. This can be useful for business points - the local butcher, hardware shop, addresses etc.

 

I tend to map randomly in OSM. Sometimes its mapping towns facing natural disasters (ie fires, floods, cyclones etc) and at other times just areas of interest - Outback stations I find on satellite imagery or obscure routes I have travelled in the past. Having Mapillary images helps immensely in these obscure places. It’s a way to pick up station names, road names and especially road surfaces.

 

Keep up the good word

 

Phil (aka tastrax)

 

From: Bob Cameron [mailto:bob3bob3 at skymesh.com.au] 
Sent: Tuesday, 7 May 2019 9:56 PM
To: talk-au at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [talk-au] What data is useful - request for ideas

 

I don't do much OSM editing, but being permanently on the road in Australia I take Mapillary images that are a useful information layer.

I would like to get an idea about what routes and features are useful for OSM editors, so that in my travels I can provide the best data.

- Up until December last year I only uploaded 1280x720 images. I am now doing 4K (3840x2160)
- Since mobile data costs are high I upload roughly every 3 months in NE NSW over NBN. The daily take is around 10-20GB.
- I do not traverse cities or large towns. I am mostly on country roads and in smaller towns
- I am currently near St George Qld going towards Griffith then up to Armidale in late May. I then embark for WA through Broken Hill, do some circling on the Eyre Peninsula, across to Norseman WA and probably the SW.
- I don't do off road, but gravel is okay.
- My username is bob3bob3. If you wish to check some of my 4K images, look around Armidale NSW and the Snowy.

Ideas please?

Thanks, Bob

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