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About proposing a project

Please propose something which meets as best as possible these guidelines:

  • The project must encompass remote users to be successful
  • A local component, like running a mapping party, in conjunction with remote users is ideal. For example remote users can add or fix geometry, and locals name it
  • It doesn't have to be about mapping. For example, cleaning up part of the wiki.
  • It's helpful if someone can spend only 5 minutes helping right up to hours. Then it will attract people whatever time they have to give.

Proposals

Enhancing one location

  • Map all the buildings near 2010 FIFA Woldcup Stadiums, Y! coverage permitting. And User:Nic will survey and map near the Rustenburg stadium for which there is no Y! coverage.
    • super awesome idea -- Steve 19:04, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
    • Started Soccer 2010 Map -- Firefishy 19:26, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
    • added as PotW 14 March 2010 Rw 17:10, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
  • Trace over Castile-León farmlands and rural roads. Hey, we've got permission to hammer their WMS servers with 25-centimeters-per-pixel orthophoto. (That's one foot per pixel for you US guys). And you know you'll love tracing over that. Ivansanchez 21:59, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
  • Vancouver Winter Olympic Locations
  • Carnarvon, Western Australia, has hi-res Nearmap imagery, still needs buildings to be fully mapped out and other land uses.
  • Fairmount Park system, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Adding trails and local roads for US National Parks. Maps at http://nps.gov are public domain.
  • Remote mappers help before one of the upcoming mapping parties?
  • Complete landuse for central London from local knowledge (and Yahoo). (The density of users may be high enough here.)
  • Clean up TIGER import data in Sussex County, New Jersey.
  • Find the shadow of electrical pylons and wires on yahoo imagery, then trace them to their source (Power lines in OSM)
  • put your proposals here

Global and Wiki tasks

  • Wiki Cleanup Drive ideas anyone?
  • Make a wiki-page for your city with the place template
  • Set an OSM-Link on your own homepage
  • Help to add TMC-data (Traffic Message Channel)
  • Add the name of the biggest cities in the world in your language for the language-maps
  • Everybody translate one wiki page into annother language
  • Everybody try another OSM editor than the one you always use.
  • put your proposals here

Affecting each user's vicinity

  • OSB-Week: Clean up all errors reported by OpenStreetBugs in your home town.
  • Keep-Right-Week: Clean up all errors reported by Keep Right in your home town.
  • Start your local regular OSM meeting
  • Make a presentation about OSM in you local church / hobby meeting / etc.
  • Try OSM routing applications and fix problems caused by wrong data in your home town
  • Get in contact with local geocachers (because they have GPS devices already!)- Join their meetings or hide your OSM-Geocache
  • Recheck your town: Find a partner in your surroundings and check his/her vincinity for changes and errors.
  • put your proposals here

Featured tags

  • Complete your local rivers
  • Complete your local bus routes
  • Add all local maxspeeds
  • Add all local highway surfaces
  • Add all local barriers, steps and access ramps to wheelchair users
  • Add all crossings, island crossings, zebra crossings, traffic signal pedestrian crossings for navigation software for the blind.
  • Add all local lit=yes/no

Holiday Locations

OSM is becoming a very useful resource for visiting unfamiliar locations - for example when I went to Paphos, Cyprus last autumn I was very impressed at the quality of the map of the area - I could print myself an A4 map with important things like supermarkets, banks and restaurants highlighted on it. I am about to go to Nerja in Spain, and the map is not so useful, although there is quite a lot there!

My proposal is to re-visit the map of the last place you went on holiday and add as many 'tourist' features as you can remember, to make it easier for the next visitor.

Grahamjones 23:48, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

via wiki.openstreetmap.org

that might work... hmmm.... #dots with back up!

Posted via web from ElyssaD's Posterous

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