[talk-ph] your osm workplan for 2009

[maning sambale]

A couple more ideas on my head:

1. "More organized area mapping" - we conduct a monthly mapping event
(most likely virtual).  For example, for each month, we focus on a
certain area/city/town for mapping (roads, landuse, buildings other
features).  Of course we cannot label all road names unless we visit
the area.  This will the task of the local mapper.

2. "Q&A Mapping" - for a certain month or week, we focus on correcting
map errors by clearing map bugs (wrong tags, unconnected
intersections, missing labels, etc.)

3. "Feature mapping" - for a certain month or week we focus efforts on
a certain feature.  For example today is coastline mapping, we update
coastlines using either landsat or yahoo!.  Or a month/week for
landuse etc.

This way we can get measurable/visible updates as a group. Of course
this does not have to get in the way of your usual mapping activity.
Perhaps an hour would be alloted to the monthly mapping event?

What do you guys think?



On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:13 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Maning Sambale
> <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 11:24 +0800, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> 1. Declare Metro Manila "complete" (well, there are far too many
>>> ongoing real estate developments to completely map but the general
>>> areas should be done).
>>
>>
>> When we "stamped" an area "complete" we need to define what we mean by
>> complete.  We need to define a rough metric for "levels of
>> completeness".
>>
>> If roughly we say:
>> "All major roads (motorways, trunks and primarys) are mapped and labeled
>> and the data is usable for basic road navigation"
>>
>> Then I can say Metro Manila is complete.
>>
>> I think there are some proposed evaluation/measurements for completeness
>> in the OSM wiki we can use a framework for the Philippines.
>>
>> I propose we set "levels of completeness" like:
>> level 1 - all roads are mapped and labeled
>> level 2 - major POIs (fuel, schools, etc.) are mapped
>> level 3 - footways and paths
>> level 4 - landuse and buildings
>> etc.
>>
>> This kind of levels maybe too car-centric but it could be a start.
>
> This seems to be a good example for "completeness" or mapping status.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CALABARZON#Mapping_Status
> --
> cheers,
> maning
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