Challenge "Wiki for districts" is completed. User Vonter <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Vonter> has added tags for most of the Indian districts :)
Thanks, naveenpf On 16 March 2017 at 21:25, Srihari Thalla <thallasrih...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have set up these challenges as of today: > > [1] - Railway Station codes > [2] - Wiki tags for railway stations > [3] - Wiki tags for cities and towns > [4] - Wiki tags for districts > > - > > @Naveen I hope all the NHs are already traced and mapped [and updated to > the new numbering]? I'll check if Overpass QL supports regex tomorrow and > set up the challenges. I might need your help. > > - > > Regarding tracing roads and building in small towns and villages, I > noticed that more 50% of the villages were not even mapped (at least in > Andhra/Telangana, I didn't look at other states). I think this procedure > might be good: > > [a] - Place `node`s with place=village tags for untagged villages. We > don't know all the names, so we might want to leave the name for now. > [b] - Setup challenges to trace roads; and buildings > [c] - Work to get data about the villages (starting with their names > themselves) > > I can start [a] with Andhra Pradesh and Telangana > district-wise-alphabetically. If you are open to this idea, let me know and > your thoughts. > > - > > Here are the links for the Challenges [1,2,3,4]: > > [1] - Railway Station codes - http://maproulette.org/map/2403 > [2] - Wiki for Railway Stations - http://maproulette.org/map/2404 > [3] - Wiki for cities and towns - http://maproulette.org/map/2405 > [4] - Wiki for districts - http://maproulette.org/map/2406 > > cc Arun. Need your help spreading the word :) > - > > I am in touch with Martijn of MapRoulette. He said he would feature our > challenges in the upcoming newsletter. I think the challenges above are > pretty easy and useful for getting people from other communities interested > in OSM, as Arun said. > > But tracing untraced villages would be good for featuring in his > newsletter. That might bring attention. What do you think? > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 at 19:23 Naveen Francis <navee...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> One more task >> - Add wikidata tags for Indian Highways, it has been add for about 100 >> primary highways. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Highways_in_ >> India_by_highway_number#/maplink/0 >> About 200 may be remaining, finding QID is easier since it is in one >> place :) >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_ >> Roads/India/National_Highways >> >> >> >> >> On 15 March 2017 at 17:16, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Challenge 3 and 4 could be quite interesting to get other communities >> interested in OSM. >> >> For Wikidata matching, we can share the challenge with the Wikimedia >> India chapter. Adding these tags also help make maps on Wikipedia. See >> Naveens' diary http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/naveenpf/diary/40515 >> >> For any railway mapping we can spread the word on IRFCA, which would get >> the railfans really excited. >> >> Srihari, if you can make the challenges, I could help spread the word. We >> could also do mapping sprints to map them together with others to knock it >> off. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-in mailing list >> Talk-in@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-in mailing list >> Talk-in@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > >
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