Welcome aboard Will,
There is no shortage of tasks to make a better Australian map in OSM. There are plenty of map roulette challenges for updating addresses, fixing deprecated tagging on features and fixing road tagging to name just a few. https://maproulette.org/dashboard/ The community is also very grateful for folks 'in the know' who may be able to source data in truly open formats that can be ingested into OSM using the normal import procedures or via the RapID editor (for ESRI community layers) https://github.com/facebookmicrosites/Open-Mapping-At-Facebook/wiki/Esri-Arc GIS-FAQ https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Esri/ArcGIS_Datasets - as you can see there are no layers from Australia. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines - import guidelines If there is going to be concerted effort by Tom Tom then it might also pay to have a read of the organised editing guidelines and maybe set up a wiki page with some details of the company intentions (and maybe a list of OSM editors that will be editing on behalf of Tom Tom. We look forward to your edits and conversations in the mailing lists. Cheers - Phil From: William Ireland <william.irel...@tomtom.com> Sent: Wednesday, 7 September 2022 10:12 AM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: [talk-au] TomTom - OSM Collaboration Hi Australia OSM Community, My name is Will from TomTom. From one mapper to another, I can say that we truly admire how the OSM community collaborates to shape a map product that benefits everyone, and we would love to be a part of it. I would like to let you know that we are planning on contributing to OSM by providing meaningful leads to improve map quality and to locate missing features. Some initial ideas include but are not limited to providing leads from media sources extracted by our web scraping tool or locating missing highways from new housing developments. We would love to hear from you. What do you think of these ideas? And are there any other areas where you need assistance or fields we can collaborate on? We are open to all suggestions and ideas. As for me, I am based here in Australia and happy to answer any questions or be part of any discussions. Looking forward to hearing from you, Will
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