[OSM-talk-be] Missing Maps, in Belgium

[joost schouppe]

Honestly I wasn't thinking about organizing your work with this tasking
manager :)
If you enjoy your heavy surveying or your efficient imports, I absolutely
agree there is no extra value in a tasking manager.
I'm more interested in tools that help finding new mappers, help them on
their first steps and hopefully turn a few of them into mappers as crazy as
you guys.

Here's how I'm using it myself in the example task:
- map those roads that are present in Wegenregister and clearly missing in
OSM
- make fixme notes for cases where it isn't quite clear
- When this is done, I mark the task as "ready". Then I load the data to my
Osmand, and go for a walk where I check some fixme's in the field (there's
a layer for that in Osmand).
- When the findings are incorporated into the data, I can finally
"validate" the tile.

This is useful to me because it allows me to keep focused on the task at
hand (I've been known to wander), make sure I cover the entire territory
and go out surveying efficiently (I don't really go out surveying, I walk
the dog in areas where I haven't been yet). And Wegspotter mapped a few
squares yesterday, so now I can skip straight to the dog-walking part in
that area.

In other tasks, this flow could be entirely different. For the "shops with
mapillary in Brussels" example, you could easily have a flow where
beginners do the labour of translating mapillary images into shops. The
validation would then be to check the tagging and mark spots where the
imagery wasn't complete enough. A last surveying phase would be to grab a
mobile editor and add those last shops. But that would then be possible on
a quick walk - you wouldn't have to be using the clumsy mobile editor or
walking paper all the time. A lot of people are turned off by surveying
because you're collecting so much data that the mapping afterwards takes
way too long. In this little idea, you could map in the field without
freezing to death.

On a technical note: you don't have to use squares. You can also upload a
custom task division. For city mapping, neighborhoods would be perfect. For
Missing Maps Wallonia, it could be "residential areas without buildings".
For a GRB import, it could be tiny tiny squares, or a custom division of
Flanders into areas with similar numbers of buildings.



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