[talk-lu] Wiki and Takl-lu usage, address project

[Sven Clement]

Hi all, hi Nils,

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Nils Vierus <nils at vierus.de> wrote:

> Hi subscribers,
>
> first: I think this mailing list is a big step ahead in improving our
> communication in the Luxembourgish OSM community! I hope that lots of the
> people met in June have subscribed to this list. It is a good place to
> share
> new ideas. (For those not being so familiar with talk lists: You can get an
> overview about the discussions here:
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-lu).
> Let me encourage all to contribute to the Wiki pages as well as to thi
> list!
> If you have collected experiences in mapping, help the others to learn how
> to map certain things and lets discuss the details in the discussion pages
> (every page has a corresponding discussion page -).
>

Did not yet come to this, but as I check off more and more tasks on my
ToDo-list I will certainly also use the wiki to share my experiences ;)


>
> Some words to the mapping of addresses (we agreed in June to start a sub
> project): I started around my home in Walferdange in order to have it
> completely mapped one day ... Since Walfer is a small commune, that's a
> realistic target. I got a lot of experiences last few weeks and I want to
> share it with all who want to contribute in address mapping: I started to
> write a HOWTO on my personal Wiki pages
> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Nils_Lux) with a lot of pictures
> to
> make it more easy to understand. Every feedback on the discussion page is
> welcome!
>
> @Sven: That was good news that you got the cadastre data from Steinsel:
> I've
> seen a lot new houses in Steinsel during the last few days - thx a lot for
> the work! Just a remark from my experience: double check the houses with
> Bing satellite: you'll see the missing ones in the cadastre and should add
> them (painting with help of Bing) and add the house numbers by survey. And:
> even the Bing maps are outdated - I had to add some houses as I went out
> for
> collection house numbers. It's for sure: OSM has the most current data ;-)
>

I know that some more work is needed as the Steinsel data is from 2008 so
there are missing houses, but during the mapping of their addresses we
should find them ;)


>
> In order to have a good uniform style in address mapping in the whole
> country, we should agree on the details in the address subproject
> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Luxembourg/Adresses). Feel
> free to contribute here!
>

Will do ;)

Kind regards,
Sven


>
> Regards
> Nils
>
>
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