I need to release more of the half baked #OpenStreetMap programmes that I have. Got a few guides/blog posts I should write as well.
It's important to be positive and creative and constructive.
@ebel I really could do with a "newbies" guide to this. I wanted to put the antenna mast location of our community radio station on #openstreetmap, but also noticed the high school building it is on is completely wrongly dimensioned.
the young lad who also does tech for the station *went* to that school himself so he would know what is and isn't correct. I did sign up for an account but don't want to go and accidentally trash the map for everyone else..
@vfrmedia I can help. If you want you can add the mast itself without touching the building. Or you can clean up the building. *Some* buildings are mapped in detail, for 3d rendering, some aren't. If you give me the area, I can tell you what is what
@ebel cool 😎 next time we are up there I will remember to get the correct GPS coordinates and also chat with the young lad as he would obviously know far better how the school campus has changed (I only moved here in 2006 when I was well in my 30s).
@vfrmedia There's often aerial imagery which can help. if you know "It's on the corner of that building" you can map it from aerial. etc.
@ebel unfortunately what I found was the aerial imagery is offset by a few metres and then the vector drawing of the building doesn't match the (fairly recent) photography either; to me it looks much more like the *older* school building (the sixth form got shifted elsewhere, hence why the new one is a lot smaller). So I didn't want to put inaccurate info on the map. The mast(s) themselves are on the roof of the building, attached to a metal rail that is up there for airco maintenance staff