[OSM-talk-ie] Things you can do with the GSGS Maps - Lake Names!

[Killyfole and District Development Association]

Is this something could be made into a Map Roulette task 
(http://maproulette.org/)?

On Wednesday 03 Jun 2015 20:39:08 Dave Corley wrote:
> This is dead handy, thanks Rory. I've named a few lakes this evening
> 
> On 3 Jun 2015 15:29, "Rory McCann" <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I hope ye are all having fun mapping all those townlands! We've just
> > crossed the 50% barrier, and are almost at 30,000.
> > 
> > A new thing you can do with the old maps is map lake names! Overpass
> > Turbo can help with this.
> > 
> > If you go to this Overpass page http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/9Jw and
> > zoom to an area and press "run", it will show you all unnamed lakes.
> > Then "Export", then "JOSM". It'll have opened up those unnamed lakes
> > in your JOSM. Use the GSGS maps to add the name (and "water=lake" as
> > appropriate). You don't need to download any extra data. Upload when done!
> > 
> > It's surprising how many unnamed lakes there are in OSM, and this can
> > help you really knock some off.
> > 
> > I use JOSM's filter feature (
> > https://www.mapbox.com/blog/2012-08-15-using-filters-josm/ ), with the
> > query "name=* and water=*" to hide lakes that I've already named.
> > 
> > Happy Mapping. :)
> > 
> > Rory
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