Quarterly Project 2021Q1 ideas

Could we map Community Centres and similar public buildings eg village halls? This would be a useful resource especially as many commercial online maps focus on commercial buildings. We could also combine this with mapping the buildings where Polling Stations are situated which would also be useful to do before the next election (they often use the same venues again and again), I don't know if the governments list of polling station venues is opensource. I wouldn't map them as polling stations just make sure the building the polling station will be in is on the map.

I like the idea of green spaces. There are some data sets that might be useful: OS Open Green Space (although not always accurate) and Natural England's CRoW Access Land data. Both of these can be viewed on https://raggedred.net/openover/ .

Also if we did have this as a project, I wonder if we could persuade Fields in Trust to let us have access to their database of playing fields that they protect. There's a search feature on their site at http://www.fieldsintrust.org/ but no bulk download available.

How about adding buildings and landuse (postcodes maybe too?) at the ends of all those service roads that Amazon Logistics have been adding?

Amazon is intending on working on building details themselves starting in 2021, I don't know the details but hopefully they'll do some decent work. We could try and time a QP with them. Does anyone have a contact at Amazon?

I do like the idea of checking landuse=construction, or using data from Barratts and equivalent to help ensure OSM is as up to date as we can be.

I also think building outlines are a good idea as they enable + refine a lot of other quarterly project topics.

We’ve had a huge step up in aerial imagery in the past year. Could the land registry tiles data help with this too?

OSM-ie have made excellent use of the tasking manager to focus building mapping in specified areas. That approach could help direct and motivate.

Additionally, it should be rather suitable considering the various restrictions across the UK so that those shielding can participate too.

I'll start a poll in the next few days, but until then does anyone have any more ideas? Or any previous proposals that we should be considering?

https://www.loomio.org/d/SFX4HT8L/q4-quarterly-project-2020-ideas

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:UK_Quarterly_Project

I'll send this round the Talk-GB list, too, but on the strength of a conversation with a Tesco delivery man yesterday, new housing developments would get a vote from me - with a view to persuading more delivery firms of the value of open data.

I would be really interested in knowing which delivery companies use OSM. Amazon obviously, but do Hermes too? Mapbox customers do, like dpd. I'm pretty sure PALLEX partners do too. I've no idea about the supermarkets, but I'll have to start asking them when I see them.

With the new lockdown just announced, perhaps a focus on local green spaces and cut-through paths that could be used by people for exercise near their homes would be good. This would be an opportunity to try to get some publicity and attract new mappers, long the lines of "help us map the paths you like to use and the places you go to, so they're available to everyone".

I know solar panels have been mentioned before. There are a number of things that could be done to improve the solar panel data on OSM such as turning nodes into mapped areas, updated tags to ensure the number of panels are included, map new solar panels ect. This mostly, if not all, could be done remotely to ensure that no-one is breaking any 'laws' to survey.

Also, I know that the solar data on OSM is very useful to some organisations.