Dear All, Not all the members are familiar with intricacies of the data collection for such projects. Since this seems to be a crowd sourcing endeavour, I suggest that the basic data collection protocol be enumerated for newbies so that they can also contribute data which can then be put in proper format by professionals.
Regards, Jasvinder Singh On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 10:32 AM Nikhil VJ <nikhil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > There's a project afoot in the OpenStreetMap and Wikidata communities to > get together Indian Railways data. > > One major part of it: Properly mapping all the railway stations of India, > and ensuring they have wikidata entries. > > Here's a wiki page set up for it: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Indian_Railways > > I'm cross-posting from OpenStreetMap India Telegram > <https://t.me/OSMIndia> group: > > (Arun Ganesh): There seems to be around 7000 stations located. There still > ~1.5k missing. A lot more need names, refs and wikidata links. Overpass: > *http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/EC4 > <http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/EC4>* > > > (Srihari Thalla) : Last year I created two MapRoulette Challenges to tag > station codes and add Wiki tags > *https://maproulette.org/mr3/challenge/2403 > <https://maproulette.org/mr3/challenge/2403>* > *https://maproulette.org/mr3/challenge/2404 > <https://maproulette.org/mr3/challenge/2404>* > > -------- > > The overpass query above queries the whole country and may be slow or > timeout. I adapted the query to work only on the map area being viewed, > so you can zoom into smaller regions. And changed a few things, included a > legend in the comments to explain. > > *https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/EL9 <https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/EL9>* > > > Want to get involved? Engage here. > > > > Regards > > Nikhil VJ > > Pune, India > > > PS: Posting on an older thread from '15 that had the perfect subject line > - didn't want to create yet another new thread. Pro tip: Use Datameet from > google groups <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/datameet> - its > more fun and you can find stuff that was posted long before you joined. > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
