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OSM Notes in Australia

Posted by Fizzie41 on 25 February 2022 in English. Last updated on 28 March 2022.

Late January 2022, I noticed this article in the weekly OSM News: https://www-openstreetmap-org.translate.goog/user/AngocA/diary/398423?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=EN&_x_tr_hl=en-GB, concerning the efforts the local community had made in cleaning up open OSM Notes in Colombia

By strange co-incidence, I’d started cleaning up the Notes in my local area a week or so prior to reading this!, but thought that would be a great thing to do, so, on 26 Jan, I mentioned the idea of cleaning up all the Australian Notes. on the AU mailing list.

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2022-January/015573.html

At that stage, there were ~4500 of them, putting Oz in 22nd place for number of open Notes. That’s not too bad in any sense of the word, but some of them dated way back to 2013!, which certainly isn’t good :-(

So, several of us started working on them, pretty effectively I must say! :-)

On 10 Feb, I was able to post that the count was down to 3543, with ~30 still outstanding from 2017, all of which had had questions asked regarding them. This tally also dropped us down to #33 on the list.

Further update on 21 Feb had us down to 2460 open, with 26 prior to 2019, & also pushing us down to #44.

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2022-February/015751.html

(Edit to add links to AU posts)

Oh, & the Notes page, showing the graph :-) https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-notes-country?c=Australia


Update from Sunday 6 Mar 22: We made the Weekly Newsletter! :-) (& we were at 1092!) ________________________

8 Mar 22 - 999!!! :-) Amazing work everybody! ________________________

28 Mar 22 - I’m calling that pretty well done! 338 open Notes remaining, virtually all of which have either had questions asked to get further info, need on-the-ground checking, are brand new, or need further action by the OP. & once again - check that graph! :-)

https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-notes-country?c=Australia

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