[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project April-June 2016

[Brian Prangle]

No need to remove traced bdgs with no extra tags - the absence of tags is
already a good indicator of incompleteness.
Brian

On 1 April 2016 at 08:30, Ed Loach <edloach at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was thinking of a different possible project which perhaps we can
> postpone until a different quarter rather than starting today.
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> There are a lot of buildings which have been traced from various imagery
> layers but with no other useful information on them. Is it a shop, a house,
> what is its address, etc?
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> I was going to suggest that we spend three months trying to gather the
> address information for such buildings, and at the end of the quarter
> remove all the others to give us a better idea of how complete the map is.
> If we just want approximate building shapes we’ve got OS OpenData for that.
> At the moment they give a false impression of completeness, and also make
> it harder without zooming in to work out which areas still need a proper
> survey.
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> If the project proves successful we could extend it to farmland areas
> where hedges and fences haven’t been added to break up the area.
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> Ed
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> *From:* Brian Prangle [mailto:bprangle at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 31 March 2016 18:53
> *To:* Talk GB
> *Subject:* [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project April-June 2016
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> Hi everyone
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> It seems from the discussion on this topic that you would like a subject
> similar to schools for which monitoring tools can be built relatively
> quickly; will improve the map for the greatest number of potential users;
> and now we might have some better weather, something that needs  some
> surveying rather than rely on too much armchair mapping.
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> So the suggested topic we start on from tomorrow is Healthcare facilities,
> concentrating on hospitals (get a complete dataset, get detailed site
> plans,add bus routes and stops,do some indoor multi-level mapping etc.) and
> doctors surgeries. Anybody who wants to go off and concentrate on others
> such as pharmacies, dentists etc feel free to do so
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> I feeel that we should continue background effort on schools to keep some
> of the momentum, and list it as a national ongoing project on the wiki. I'm
> sure Robert's postcode-based completion will continue to be available and
> RobJN will continue to run the taginfor script for schools
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> Happy mapping
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> Brian
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