Hi everyone Following the extraordinary success of the Schools project we need to decide how to proceed with the next quarter's project.
There is a view we shoud rollover the project for another quarter so as to approach completion. I favour rolling it into an ongoing UK national project (similar to the Irish Townlands project), keeping the existing tools in place to monitor progress. As a byproduct do a major revamp of the UK projects wiki page to bring it up to date. As for the subject for next quarter's project if we move the Schools project to a national project and don't roll it over, a number of ideas have been put forward: 1. Water: add sewage works, rivers,streams and ponds from OSSV, improve lake outlines, improve alignments, separate natural and reservoir tags,improve coastlines, add bridges or tunnels where waterways cross highways and railways etc. 2. Healthcare: add hospitals, doctors, dentists, pharmacies. Or possibly just add doctors which is a smaller target. I think national single Open Data sources exist for all of these. It will need more surveying than Schools (not visible on OSSV or aerial imagery) 3. Highway Maxheights, maxwidths, maxweights: various data sources exist but I don't think there's one national resource. Improving this data will make our data more usable for routing. There is the possibility to involve couriers, haulage companies etc either organisationally, or individual drivers 4.There's also a suggestion to group-mentor a GSoC (Google Summer of Code) project, which I believe doesn't fit well as a quarterly project, as it won't involve a wide swathe of the community. We could explore it as an additional project 5. And a light-hearted suggestion - map some monkey puzzle trees as part of this project <https://monkeypuzzletrees.wordpress.com/> It might also be worth doing some kind of survey to see what motivated participants in teh Schools project, what they liked, what they didn't like, how we could improve, how they heard of the project (if indeed some of the single editors were even aware they were being counted as part of a project) As ever: opinions and other suggestions welcome Regards Brian
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