[Talk-us] [OPC2012] Operation Cowboy - Mission statement

[Martijn van Exel]

Hi,

I think it would be good if we can put together a (wiki) page with
resources for armchair TIGER mappers.

Take a TIGER ghost town (I will commit to making a list of those) like
this one here:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.52791&lon=-111.58147&zoom=16&layers=M

and think: what could anyone do to improve the situation here?

* Straightening roads
* Adding traffic signals if there are any [1]
* Positioning GNIS imported POIs
* Adding building outlines for important buildings (most every town
has a school, a church or two)
* Look around the town for weird TIGER ways that don't align with
satellite imagery (usually tracks / unpaved) - reclass and align

There has to be more. Suggestions?

Who can put this together and link to it from the Operation Cowboy page? [2]

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapRoulette/Challenges#Detecting_traffic_signals_on_major_intersections
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Operation_cowboy


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:
> Tiger cleanup is huge in my mind, road alignment is something that can be nicely fixed w/ Satellite imagery.
>
> I'm sure you've seen Martijn's writeup:
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> http://oegeo.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/binders-full-of-tiger-deserts/
>
> And some links that have been thrown out in the comment thread to that article:
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> http://ksmapper.blogspot.ca/2010/12/updated-tiger-map.html
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> http://www.itoworld.com/map/162#
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> On Nov 6, 2012, at 4:59 AM, Matthias Meißer <digi_c at arcor.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> as I don't read any discussions about where and what to map, I would like to bring up this essential question again.
>>
>> Just a few possible ideas (that can be also mixed):
>> - adding new details (as buildings, landuse, ...)
>> - fixing TIGER (alignment, classification, ...)
>> - focus on the coast areas only (big cities)
>> - focus on the countryside (where no one has been before)
>> - focus on n states (and making there a huge step)
>> - ...
>>
>> cya,
>> Matthias
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