[Talk-us] End of an Era, data collection to slow in Oklahoma, project announcement

[Martijn van Exel]

Wow, Paul, that is a lot of distance you covered.
I do hope you manage to stay involved.
Let me know if there's anything you want improved to the relation
pages (if you use them).

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> Alright, after nearly 110,000 miles, 4000 notes, 2000 trips, 2 years, and an
> epic road trip from Portland, Oregon to Long Beach, California to Tulsa,
> Oklahoma via Historic Route 66, I'm leaving my current position as a leading
> field service engineer in Northeast Oklahoma to take a job as a support
> engineer with a local internet hosting company.  What does this mean?  My
> GPX uploads and creation of OSM notes is going to become more sporadic, and
> someone in Oklahoma's going to have the opportunity to out-edit me (maybe, I
> still have a massive backlog, plus ongoing projects inspired by my current,
> coming-to-an-end job).  As a result, I'm also going to be pulling back on
> watching out for and maintaining construction zones outside the Tulsa
> City-County network and OklaDOT's Tulsa zone (I don't think I have any
> mapped construction zones outside this area at this time).
>
> I'm not leaving the OpenStreetMap project, though out of a want to continue
> mapping and an understanding on how OSM in Oklahoma is used actively, I'm
> going to become more project oriented (especially once I'm done inspecting
> the vicinity of the traces I collected over the last two years).  Knowing
> the limitations and challenges of every other major mapping provider in the
> region in practice has left me with a unique perspective on how a map should
> work, and I plan on continuing my efforts to help support travelers and
> mobile professionals in the region until I, somehow, manage to find OSM is
> Complete™ (yeah, don't count on that ever happening).  I'm just not going to
> be actively monitoring, on average, 240 highway miles per day like I have
> been.
>
> I've yet to properly name my current project for OSM, which has recently
> gotten underway and is going to take a LOT of time to complete assuming I
> don't get help.  The basic jist of it is that I'm moving from county to
> county, in order of 2010 population, to complete route relations for State
> Highways, State Turnpikes, US Highways, and Interstate Highways in Oklahoma,
> with a special emphasis on ensuring route relations, lane counts, turn
> lanes, and placement=* tags are accurate relative to the most recent Mapbox
> data (or personal recollection, whichever is more recent).
>
> My ultimate goal is to make OpenStreetMap, far and away, the most useful map
> for navigation in Oklahoma, something I already believe we've no doubt
> achieved with apps like Osmand capable of inferring address lookups through
> Nominatim as a supplement to the physically mapped data,
>
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