aww, thought I would have made the list at #379, dang must be just outside the rankings

ohh so close!

Gauntlet thrown so. Next predicition is 2nd Nov 2015

hi Jan, did you happen to take many geotagged photos on your travels? If so, it would be great if you could upload them to mapillary

Also, out of curiosity, how long did the journey take you?

Wow, thats fantastic, I look forward to reading whatever links you put up. I’d be interested to get their perspective on the various activities

Jan, this must have been an epic journey

I’d map a field of corn, I’d map a minefield. There’s no difference in terms of mapping

Hi atrus70

I understand your point, I was referring to the JOSM plugins which allow you to easily create relations for turnlanes (lane connector & turn lanes plugins) both of which are set for driving on the right only.

When I try to use them, any changes I try to make, happen to the opposite side of the road

Hedaja,

Thanks, those are useful

I wanted to add turn lanes but I could find no option to configure the turn lanes or lane connector plugins for driving on the left.

Does anybody know if there is some option that I missed that would allow me to use those plugins for Ireland and other countries in the same boat

I saw you tweet about this one, it was done in no time, nice work

ohh nice!

Something I forgot to mention, having it on a Saturday and making it 6 hours means people are more likely to make an effort to travel that bit further to attend

This likely isn’t an issue in larger cities, but if you want to include those from outside the cities then it really helps

I know I personally hadnt a clue what overpass was until the wizard came along

It really has made a huge difference

Harry,

Take a look at the differences for a possible clue

The thing that jumps out to me is location. I don’t know about you but a pub would be right at the bottom of my list for a good location for a meetup for a variety of reasons

• trying to plug in a laptop
• protect the laptop from pints spilling
• hard to move around to mingle or even to get someone to look over your shoulder
• can be loud
• a pub environment, for someone new, walking into a crowd who know each other well…thats intimidating
• the association with alcohol discourages younger participants

To give an example of some of the Irish meetups

• we meet on a weekend, 12-6pm, the pub happens afterwards for anyone who wants to
• a line of tables
• plenty of space to move around
• wifi
• thats it

We’ve had local council people, start ups, academia, OAP’s, students etc etc, a huge mix, attending over the various meetups.All have had a wide variety of interests and reasons for attending.

zool & Harry

Regarding promoting the event, you can never have too many channels if all you use them for is promoting the event. Sure keep one or two as the main communication channels, but for future events I’m looking at

• mailing list
• twitter
• facebook
• google+
• meetup.com (I was really surprised at how effective this one is from other groups)
• 1 page flyer that can be printed by anyone and posted anywhere (work, college, etc) and linked from all of the above
• etc etc

Also start a week or two out from the event, and continuously promote it as the time draws closer

If the whole point is to promote something to increase the amount of people attending, why on earth would you place a restriction on your avenues of promotion. If sharing personal info is a concern (Facebook) sign up as OSM “Whatever” and set up a group page

You also want your own members promoting the hell out of it too

If anyone complain about spam, well they were never likely to go in the first place so let them unsubscribe if one or two extra emails is that much of an inconvenience.

We typically have quarterly meetups, so they are more of an event when they happen which may have an impact also

Completely agree

Address mapping is a slooooow process but it is undoubtedly valuable data and data that fits perfectly within OSM

neat little service that, I like it

does it result in much data being opened?

Thanks, yes we have had a great year and we’ve some great plans for this year too

I’m not sure what you mean by get more feedback? Most of the current users of the data in lesotho are government planners and there is a nice loop going where they look at an area, map it, then use the data to assist with further planning for the same area. Is that what you mean?

Mapillary will indeed be fantastic fior somewhere like Lesotho and I personally will be pushing it a lot when we visit in a few weeks.

There is a high % of smartphone penetration, so much so that Vodacom, the main phone / broadband provider are skipping any further DSL rollout due to poor penetration of landlines and instead going straight to LTE / 4G mobile networks across a lrage portion of the country.

This will be a big help to OSM mapping but the big risk is data charges. If they make it too expensive it’ll die on its proverbial ass

Nice work :)

as always, nice work folks

Love it!

If reports /notes are what users are comfortable with in terms of improving the underlying data, more power to them :)

I look forward to seeing these notes popping up around the place

Nice one rorym!

Fyi, the link to a users OSM page is written as follows

http://www.townlands.ie/mapper/DaCor/www.openstreetmap.org/user/DaCor/

So its just opening townlands.ie again rather than jumping out to OSM