[Talk-ca] MapRoulette challenges

James james2432 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 15:25:09 UTC 2016


Oh they definitely should be added, then I can stop hearing my wife
complain when we use OSMAnd as a GPS and it doesnt say what the exit
description is via TTS

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

> Yes, they did, and they mainly focused on the main metros I believe. The
> remaining ones should be mainly outside of the larger urban areas. See
> http://maproulette.org/view/499 for locations of the tasks.
>
> Martijn
>
> Martijn van Exel
> http://mvexel.github.io/
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:55 AM, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think mapbox covered this in a previous pass on the canadian
>> motorways(and documented this pretty well):
>> https://gist.github.com/manoharuss/3a1b4f640aaf2c052365fcb1ddb09beb
>> https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/220
>> https://gist.github.com/poornibadrinath/9333f1489732c32c3ffadd58e3068b7e
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/poornibadrinath/diary/39246
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I hope you are aware of MapRoulette! If not, it's a micro-tasking tool
>>> for OSM where you can solve small problems / make small enhancements to OSM
>>> data in a randomized fashion.
>>>
>>> You may not be aware that there are quite a few Canada specific
>>> challenges already. One of them was drawn up by my colleagues at Telenav
>>> and I wanted to get your feedback. This is around motorway exits. We have
>>> had an extensive exit_to vs destination discussion about this in the US and
>>> this eventually came out clearly in favor of using destination. This is now
>>> the majority tag for exit signposts in the US. We identified ~1200 exits in
>>> Canada that don't use this yet. These are in challenge
>>> http://maproulette.org/map/499
>>>
>>> If you want to give it a try and send me feedback on this, I would
>>> appreciate it. There is pretty good OpenStreetView and also Mapillary
>>> coverage for many main highways in Canada already so most can be resolved
>>> without local knowledge.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your time!
>>>
>>> Martijn
>>>
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>>
>>
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