[Talk-GB] MapRoulette challenge to add highways

[Philip Barnes]

On Fri, 2023-01-20 at 11:43 +0000, Jez Nicholson wrote:
> Thanks Marjan. 
> 
> My money is on this spotting new housing estates. It is worth
> reminding mappers to try all the aerial sources available. My first
> site https://maproulette.org/challenge/37397/task/145777316 wasn't
> visible on any so I marked as 'too hard/can't see'. My second
> site https://maproulette.org/challenge/37397/task/145777403 has some
> of the roads in Esri World Imagery.
> 
> A quick look at Google Maps aerials may confirm, but obviously we
> cannot use that as a source.

There is OS Opendata Roads which we can use as a source, for this area
square TR if my memory is correct.

The one I have looked at so far have been within allotments and
farmyards, not actual missing public highways.

Is there a reason why they are all in or around Kent.

Phil

> 
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 11:13 AM Marjan Van de Kauter
> <Marjan.VanDeKauter at tomtom.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> > First of all, a big thank you to everyone who completed the tasks
> > in the TomTom isolated highway challenge I posted here a few weeks
> > ago. I was glad to see you liked it!
> >  
> > Since people expressed interest in more challenges, I’m sharing
> > something new with you today. The challenge is called “Add
> > Highways” and it contains 295 missing highways we detected in
> > England by comparing TomTom’s in-house road centerlines to the OSM
> > road network. The results were validated using the available
> > imagery sources in the UK.
> >  
> > Let me know if you have any questions or comments. If you like the
> > challenge, we have more missing highway leads that we can add later
> > on.
> >  
> > Have a great weekend!
> >  
> > Marjan
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