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

[Deepak Cherian]

Srihari,

Thanks a lot. I just successfully procrastinated through a morning 
searching for Indian Railway station codes.

I tried doing Challenges 3,4 but MapRoulette keeps telling me that the 
areas are too large to download the data. How do I get around that?

Deepak

On 03/16/2017 09:55 AM, Srihari Thalla 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
> <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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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