[Talk-in] Use MapRoulette to improve OSM - India data

[Srihari Thalla]

I think not all of the NH are listed in the Wikipedia page. I don't see
NH340C, NH544D, etc,. Are these listed some where else?

[1] -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Highways_in_India_by_highway_number

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017, 16:08 Naveen Francis <naveenpf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks like we dont have somewhere 228 highways without wikiarticle.
>
> http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/nz2 [20 mb]
> <http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/nz2>
>
> On 3 April 2017 at 13:28, Srihari Thalla <thallasrihari at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Very happy to know that :)
>
> I see that he has also updated NH wiki tags (but with errors, he is
> correcting too). @Naveen Can you check if all the NHs are properly tagged
> and complete with Wiki-pedia/data? Thanks.
>
> He is also adding Wiki info for cities and towns now.
>
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 at 06:53 Naveen Francis <naveenpf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Challenge "Wiki for districts" is completed.
> User Vonter <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Vonter> has added tags for
> most of the  Indian districts :)
>
> Thanks,
> naveenpf
>
> On 16 March 2017 at 21:25, Srihari Thalla <thallasrihari at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have set up these challenges as of today:
>
> [1] - Railway Station codes
> [2] - Wiki tags for railway stations
> [3] - Wiki tags for cities and towns
> [4] - Wiki tags for districts
>
> -
>
> @Naveen I hope all the NHs are already traced and mapped [and updated to
> the new numbering]? I'll check if Overpass QL supports regex tomorrow and
> set up the challenges. I might need your help.
>
> -
>
> Regarding tracing roads and building in small towns and villages, I
> noticed that more 50% of the villages were not even mapped (at least in
> Andhra/Telangana, I didn't look at other states). I think this procedure
> might be good:
>
> [a] - Place `node`s with place=village tags for untagged villages. We
> don't know all the names, so we might want to leave the name for now.
> [b] - Setup challenges to trace roads; and buildings
> [c] - Work to get data about the villages (starting with their names
> themselves)
>
> I can start [a] with Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
> district-wise-alphabetically. If you are open to this idea, let me know and
> your thoughts.
>
> -
>
> Here are the links for the Challenges [1,2,3,4]:
>
> [1] - Railway Station codes - http://maproulette.org/map/2403
> [2] - Wiki for Railway Stations - http://maproulette.org/map/2404
> [3] - Wiki for cities and towns - http://maproulette.org/map/2405
> [4] - Wiki for districts - http://maproulette.org/map/2406
>
> cc Arun. Need your help spreading the word :)
> -
>
> I am in touch with Martijn of MapRoulette. He said he would feature our
> challenges in the upcoming newsletter. I think the challenges above are
> pretty easy and useful for getting people from other communities interested
> in OSM, as Arun said.
>
> But tracing untraced villages would be good for featuring in his
> newsletter. That might bring attention. What do you think?
>
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 at 19:23 Naveen Francis <naveenpf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One more task
>   - Add wikidata tags for Indian Highways, it has been add for about 100
> primary highways.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Highways_in_India_by_highway_number#/maplink/0
>     About 200 may be remaining, finding QID is easier since it is in one
> place :)
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Roads/India/National_Highways
>
>
>
>
>
> On 15 March 2017 at 17:16, Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Challenge 3 and 4 could be quite interesting to get other communities
> interested in OSM.
>
> For Wikidata matching, we can share the challenge with the Wikimedia India
> chapter. Adding these tags also help make maps on Wikipedia. See Naveens'
> diary http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/naveenpf/diary/40515
>
> For any railway mapping we can spread the word on IRFCA, which would get
> the railfans really excited.
>
> Srihari, if you can make the challenges, I could help spread the word. We
> could also do mapping sprints to map them together with others to knock it
> off.
>
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