This is dead handy, thanks Rory. I've named a few lakes this evening On 3 Jun 2015 15:29, "Rory McCann" <r...@technomancy.org> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I hope ye are all having fun mapping all those townlands! We've just > crossed the 50% barrier, and are almost at 30,000. > > A new thing you can do with the old maps is map lake names! Overpass > Turbo can help with this. > > If you go to this Overpass page http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/9Jw and > zoom to an area and press "run", it will show you all unnamed lakes. > Then "Export", then "JOSM". It'll have opened up those unnamed lakes > in your JOSM. Use the GSGS maps to add the name (and "water=lake" as > appropriate). You don't need to download any extra data. Upload when done! > > It's surprising how many unnamed lakes there are in OSM, and this can > help you really knock some off. > > I use JOSM's filter feature ( > https://www.mapbox.com/blog/2012-08-15-using-filters-josm/ ), with the > query "name=* and water=*" to hide lakes that I've already named. > > Happy Mapping. :) > > Rory > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVbw8PAAoJEOrWdmeZivv2AyQIAJvLrx5snofBSltOrBk5AKXn > NWNIJHWsNvsJ+aQMxDfP7aBSrwPErhKlA3YGOKrVtgKJPXgpBUJAHUDCKivgvFou > 5sFinqMrI9N1AM1J3wAH50xA2PEQrr6ewhjf0UUJHeTtOSoSbQl1D6RepDWzV4fb > 1Kniwhgae56PSU3dujjuNtrzT5LKGmPrEbrLjsJKz4Qm/ixGEaqav+mSr3LTjTMK > e5zT6mRKVTj3BvnwKEf64sYUi5VFjq63VJVVrLk3GPJqmwfYSh+3mO0R+YZWRnOp > sOu2LGwxV2r3zBtLXlYvH6ayXjbxKvJG5agsymRoJoE/TDSqGWd/kSCqFVN92L0= > =lWNI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
