[Talk-mw] Working together in improving Taiwan roads

[maning sambale]

Sorry, wrong list

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:28 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 你好!
>
> Apologies for posting in English.
>
> I'm Maning Sambale from Mapbox.  Our data team is looking at improving
> road network for Taiwan in OpenStreetMap, this is similar to what we
> did in Japan [0] last year.  This initiative is part of our mission to
> make OpenStreetMap more navigable.
>
> We are in the early stages of research and we will share our findings
> soon.  Initially, we are seeing the following:
>
> * Road coverage is very good especially for the major cities on the
> west coast of the country.
> * There were alignment issues in some major roads when compared to
> Strava heat map (our team fixed some of them last week).
> * It's difficult to use current Bing imagery because its old and they
> are not aligned to Strava in some areas.
>
> Before we proceed, it would be great to discuss with everyone here on
> how we should proceed and work together.  We would be happy to discuss
> in a conference call if needed.
>
> 多謝
>
> [0] https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/120
>
> Maning Sambale
> Data team, Mapbox



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