So, further to my previous post, I have now made further edits to the map. STEAM Café and Music shop next door are now added, I am trying to change Peacocks, which is listed as a vacant building to the map. I need to add it as a clothes shop or shop, but can't find in the list, so have asked on Matrix for help.
I have also suggested on the UK community forum that we can perhaps use the Tinkerers meetings to meet up with other OSM hackers. It just needs something to start this off, then a group can be formed, and a more formal schedule can be agreed upon.
There are now some OSM flyers in the STEAM Café,
You should be able to tag me on OSM/Forum and Matrix with @zleap
If you are a local business, then it is in your interest to be on the map accurately, as the OSM data can be used as part of Apps that point to local information, keeping the map updated is really vital.
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Open Street map 4
So, further to my previous post, A little disappointed, but not surprised in the lack of interest in people wanting to help with this.
Suffice to say, I have made my first edit, which is to add the Steam café & Discovery Centre to the Map.
I will endeavour to add more. Furthermore, I also added the music shop next door as this is no longer Lucky Dip, as it has changed hands, but no new shop name has been added to the front of the shop. This is fine, OSM is about local knowledge.
I have also received some post card size flyers from OSM, so will leave some in the STEAM café, and elsewhere too.
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Open Street map 3
So, further to my previous post, I have reached out to community builders and have received a positive first response.
I have also posted a message to the UK OSM forum, so hopefully within Torbay, between various groups add lots of information to the map.
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Open Street map 2
So further to my previous post, I am starting to work on adding items to the Map, mostly in St Mary Church and Paignton Town Centre.
If you log in, you can see what I have done and how others have helped with this too.
I will try and reach out to Torbay Community Builders to see if anyone else can help or recruit volunteers to help with the project, as local knowledge is really essential for accuracy on where places are etc.
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Open Street Map
Online collaborative project creating a world geographic database
There are lots of ways to help with this project. Local knowledge is key to accuracy, if you sign up, find your local area you can add notes to the map or resolve others. I have been doing this for the Torbay Area.
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Back in January, I wrote about some contributions that I was making to Open Street Map. You can read the post here
I have recently made some more updates, mostly around two local schools changing use.
Devon School of English is now Preston Bridge School
Tower House School is now St Michael's CE Primary School
I have updated the map and added some notes. Details can be found on my OSM profile
The project would really benefit from some local help, as it is better for one person to create a note and then have a 2nd person resolve this, that way there are some checks / balances to the contributions to ensure accuracy.
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MAPSCII
This is an interesting little utility to draw an ASCII map on the terminal. It uses OpenStreetMap for the mapping data.
Open a terminal and enter
telnet mapscii.me
You should then be presented with a world map:
I used the mouse to zoom in and view the United Kingdom
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Open Street Map Contributions
Further to my post yesterday. I have been contributing to the Open Street Map project [1] with a few updates for the Torbay area, these are detailed on my OSM profile [2].
These are mostly :
Adding website data for local schools
Updating other data such as the School name if this has changed or different from the map listing
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