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Back from Linuxtag 2009
I'm just back from Linuxtag 2009. Today I listened to an excellent talk by Jochen Topf about quality control in OSM. The talk was a good digest of the ideas spread in the last months:
We don't need and don't have a central quality control body, but a crowdsourcing quality control progress. A broad collection of tools emerged in the last year to help getting good quality data: The OSM Inspector, the JOSM Validator, the ITO OSM Mapper, the "unmapped places" heuristics (e.g. from Gary68), only to name a few. There are also published lists of streets from goverment to compare against. He did also show the tool used to check the progress of time limited ortho photography provided by LVG Bayern. I intend to research if we could also use this tool for our canton Neuchâtel, were we also got ortho photos.
But not only Jochen Topf did well: The people at the OSM booth did also a good job. Even if the booth was quite small and in the edge of the hall, it was covered with nice map posters from all over the place. The booth was always crowded - as usual...
I only missed the group of regular meeting this year.
~Andy
Coordinates:Posted by Andy Stricker at Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:28:27 +0000 in English (English)
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My first attended mapping party in Switzerland
Yesterday was a small mapping party in Bremgarten AG, organized by Kire_ and mgeiser. It was located in KuZeB where we had an internet connection and drinks.
We where three experienced mappers and six more or less beginners, some of them didn't even had an OSM account before the event. They lerned very well and so we surveyed the place for an hour and edited the rest of the day. I only edited a single way by myself as I was instructing one of the newcomer.
The city was only mapped partial when we started. Now it looks quite good, even if there is more work required.
~Andy
Coordinates:Posted by Andy Stricker at Sun, 17 May 2009 13:18:45 +0000 in English (English)
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Back from LinuxTag
I've met some people from Germany at LinuxTag OSM booth and Berlin meeting at Friday night.
It was a cosy meeting with peoples known from talk-de list, the OSM booth peoples and native Berliner. We could interchange advices and hints. We talked about tagging schema, our prefered way to map and what we are missing most (The need for OSM software developpers for instance).
I'm hopefully we can repeat that at next LinuxTag.
~Andy
Coordinates:Posted by Andy Stricker at Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:01:07 +0000 in English (English)
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Ever wished to map on closed streets with bicycle
I had today the opportunity to drive secondaries and primaries on median strip. http://www.slowup-schaffhausen-hegau.ch
Coordinates:Posted by Andy Stricker at Sun, 25 May 2008 21:37:37 +0000 in English (English)
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Piste maps
I've had fun in ski holiday last week. Beautiful weather and a lot of snow in Zermatt, Switzerland. So I started to map my first aerial ways and pistes by carry my receiver downhill.
So I joined the Piste Maps [1] project.
What already works are simple aerialway [2], but only with osmarender, not mapnik. Pistes [3] are still in early discussion phase, but I already tried some of the tags. They seems to work fine. But they still needs some cleanup.
Happy skiing or snowbording, the next ski holiday is coming!
Cheers, Andy
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_Piste_Maps
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:aerialway
[3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Piste_Maps
Posted by Andy Stricker at Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:53:13 +0000 in English (English)
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