#DailyBloggingChallenge (134/200)
Today after getting the weekly #OpenStreetMap recap out of the way, I wanted to clean up my personal notes on #OsmAnd. I started with 132 notes and was able to reduce it down to 40. Most of them were single node edits and some were large area edits like between Starnberg and Weßling.
I made the earlier comment of outdated data there and after updating some areas, I realized that a good chunk of the data hasn't been touched since 2011.
While doing this editing I listed to the "Humans of the Trail" podcast and the episode (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humansofthetrail/episodes/Humans-of-the-Trail-Episode-36---How-to-become-a-Highlander-with-Ariana-Veoi-e20id1f) that triggered me to continue editing was the one on #highlander (https://www.highlanderadventure.com/). I did a quick sweep of their homepage and notice their adventure routes are hosted via OSM with the option to download the GPX files. The sad part is that some adventures are hosted in map data dead zones, thus I have decided to give those areas a touch up.
The first spot will be #Montana and have noticed previous mappers have used #Strava's heat map for a more concrete path through wooded areas. Sometimes one can tell that a path exists because of a dedicated imprint in the forest cover, though most the time that's not sufficient enough to be quantified as qualitative data.
Thus, if one combines Highlander adventures, which have up to 300 participants and if 5% track the journey with Strava, this gives quite a good notion where a trail should be.
This same process can be used in any combination of events plus Strava, as long as the participants stay on the dedicated paths.
