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

[Srihari Thalla]

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

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@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.

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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.

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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 :)
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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
>
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> 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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