[talk-au] TomTom - OSM Collaboration

[Phil Wyatt]

Welcome aboard Will,

 

There is no shortage of tasks to make a better Australian map in OSM. There
are plenty of map roulette challenges for updating addresses, fixing
deprecated tagging on features and fixing road tagging to name just a few.

 

https://maproulette.org/dashboard/

 

The community is also very grateful for folks 'in the know' who may be able
to source data in truly open formats that can be ingested into OSM using the
normal import procedures or via the RapID editor (for ESRI community layers)

 

https://github.com/facebookmicrosites/Open-Mapping-At-Facebook/wiki/Esri-Arc
GIS-FAQ

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Esri/ArcGIS_Datasets - as you can see
there are no layers from Australia.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines - import guidelines

 

If there is going to be concerted effort by Tom Tom then it might also pay
to have a read of the organised editing guidelines and maybe set up a wiki
page with some details of the company intentions (and maybe a list of OSM
editors that will be editing on behalf of Tom Tom.

 

We look forward to your edits and conversations in the mailing lists.

 

Cheers - Phil

 

 

 

From: William Ireland <William.Ireland at tomtom.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, 7 September 2022 10:12 AM
To: talk-au at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [talk-au] TomTom - OSM Collaboration

 

Hi Australia OSM Community,

 

My name is Will from TomTom. From one mapper to another, I can say that we
truly admire how the OSM community collaborates to shape a map product that
benefits everyone, and we would love to be a part of it. I would like to let
you know that we are planning on contributing to OSM by providing meaningful
leads to improve map quality and to locate missing features. Some initial
ideas include but are not limited to providing leads from media sources
extracted by our web scraping tool or locating missing highways from new
housing developments.

 

We would love to hear from you. What do you think of these ideas? And are
there any other areas where you need assistance or fields we can collaborate
on? We are open to all suggestions and ideas. As for me, I am based here in
Australia and happy to answer any questions or be part of any discussions.

 

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Will

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