Organised Editing/Activities/InfraHub US Local Government Changes
Rationale
InfraHub is a platform used as the source of truth for infrastructural conditions, used by local government departments to observe, prioritize, and upgrade their transit systems.
We're often the first to know of new subdivisions and parcels, and would like to update Open Street Map with this new information as soon as (or before) ground is broken. We prefer to use Open Street Map for display elements in our web application, and would like to keep these maps as up to date as possible for our users.
Contact
Please contact our Chief Technology Officer, Naim Kabir ([email protected]), with questions or comments on this ongoing activity. He will relay feedback from any changeset comments to annotation teams.
Also available and responsive in the OSM US Slack, at @kabir
Community consultation
Socialized in the OSM US Slack here.
Hashtag
We'll use #infrahub-contrib as our hashtag to organize our commits to the database.
Timeframe
This will be an ongoing activity for multiple local governments as we onboard them onto our platform, starting the week of Dec 15.
Tools and data sources
We'll be using the iD editor, qGIS equipped with the latest shapefiles shared by local governments' geospatial intelligence teams, and recent aerial+satellite basemaps to help guide the addition of new way objects.
The iD editor's tutorial will be sufficient to train our team on the mechanics of the editor, and we'll have further strict guidance on specifically adding or editing way objects.
Participants
Kabir-IH (kabir-ih on osm)- Igor-Kov (igor-kov on osm)
- Hnylytska-Julia (hnylytska_julia on osm)
- Revekka-Binder (Revekka Binder on osm)
- Keymakr Operator 1 (keymakr_operator_1 on osm)
- Keymakr Operator 2 (keymakr_operator_2 on osm)
- Keymakr Operator 3 (keymakr_operator_3 on osm)
Training/instructions
All additions are made according to guidelines published at this Confluence Page.
There are two main tasks:
- Update unnamed way objects that have names present in local government GIS files
- Add way objects that are completely absent from Open Street Map but are present in local government GIS files, where such ways are the result of new infrastructure projects and not yet reflected by Open Street Map.