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Simpler is sometimes better. I find that StreetComplete is perfect for adding the details that you've described. Instead of showing the data that's already in OSM, it highlights what's missing.

It only takes a few taps to have the street name, speed limit, road type, material, and/or quality added to a road.

I find that apps like Vespucci, as rubust as they are, have too many steps for essentially a single question (eg. "What is the name of this road?")

Hi,

There are quite a few programs out there which makes edits directly to OpenStreetMap - I'll give a few pointers:

• There is the editor on OpenStreetMap.org - it can do all editing and is good e.g. to add/change/delete paths, buildings, POI... easily.
• For advanced users, JOSM exists. This is an advanced editor which is good e.g. to correct wrong values quickly, move big sections, ... I do not recommend to use this one straight away
• To quickly contribute in the field, there is the android-application StreetComplete which shows a bunch of 'quests' to solve
• In a similar vain, you can try MapComplete where you first pick a topic that is interesting to you. It'll then show all POI of that topic (e.g. bicycle pumps, public bookcases, trees, ...), which you can browse around. Missing information for each POI is queried, if a point is missing you can add it too. (Disclaimer: I'm the main dev)

> no Google services

That's the issue.

Try microG with unifiedNLP

>Unified Network Location Provider (UnifiedNlp) is a library that provides Wi-Fi- and Cell-tower-based geolocation to applications that use Google’s network location provider. It is included in GmsCore but can also run independently on most Android systems.

You should definitely check out openmaptiles.org. The guys at MapTiler did a great job open-sourcing this self-hosting solution.

I've been studying this to replace Google Maps with OSM on travelmap.net

Looks like someone was adjusting street centerlines and (probably) accidentally deleted some shoreline ways: https://osmcha.mapbox.com/changesets/71537440

I reverted it here here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/71796604

Last night before our monthly social meet-up I spent just under an hour updating shops, cafes and bars in the middle of Nottingham. Even though we are now doing this regularly there were getting on for 20 updates. The funny one was a place called DNA Art Space. We'd already mapped it 2 months ago, but I looked more closely in the window and realised it was a hairdresser not an art gallery. Shops which became empty even a few weeks ago have already got new tenants, which was not happening 5 years ago. I also added a few solar-powered rubbish bins, and found a new open-air bar called the Secret Garden.

Walking back from the pub we also did some more updates because I didn't have time beforehand. The shops along here were first mapped back in 2011, and the edit history of many of them is often a list of people who come to the pub from time-to-time (here's one https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2244595796/history).

We don't yet have a systematic approach, but, if we did, we can probably cover the city centre twice a year with 2-3 surveyors (we have 4 suitable meetings from April to September; the other 2 are in Derby where we're doing similar things).

I've been mapping roads and natural features of Ba Ria Vung Tau province (my home province), Vietnam for 6 months. The swamplands shown in this map lies of the northern end of my hometown (Vung Tau) used be occupied by green vast mangrove trees. Now not anymore, as prawn / shrimp farms have gradually replaced the trees. Mapping thus becomes more difficult, esp when drawing all those hundreds of squares full of water. I hate it as these blue shrimp farms take a lot more time than forests.

Another task I have been doing is adding tiny rural roads in the remote, inland areas of this province. These public roads are often well paved and maintained (we're not a poor province after all), but they are always curved and sometimes blurred by trees planted in surrounding houses. Some roads go through rubber plantations and serve as tertiaries connecting villages and hamlets. It's always very difficult to map and determine which of these plantation-roads are public and which are farm roads only.

Why did I map? Because alot of Vietnam-based mappers have worked on the cities only. Not much has been done to complete the provinces and provincial towns. Ba Ria Vung Tau is my home province and I have a passion to "make it great (again)."

No kidding. It really can take time ;) A month ago I went to get a GPS trace to correct a newcomer's edit.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/59460830

I went through the track in scorching sun and it was so dusty I had to clean my shoes afterwards >.< But it was worth it as I added even more roads and found some new POIs.

Suburban villages develop so quickly in Poland that it's sometimes very hard for OSM to keep up.

Hello everyone, I wrote about this app that I had developed here. Here is the reddit version if you prefer that.

This app is designed to be really efficient when it comes to mapping housenumbers. You can read more about it on the diary entry I have linked above.

If you want to download it, click on "Releases" on the github page, and then under the latest release click on "assets" and download the APK.

It's been a while since I've used OSM! Here's a link to this place, if anyone wants to check my work or just look closer. I'm not sure why these gardens hadn't been done already- perhaps better imagery was only recently released.

I've mapped a few before, I just applied all the tags I could find: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5516568963

I documented it on the wiki, just for you: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dbinoculars

For reference: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/63717285

OP, don't waste your time to argue with a person out of their mind.

Sadly anyone mapping for a while will get to experience such folks. You essentially have to be thick-skinned and diligently document everything to report to the DWG.

I see the section you are talking about now.

How recently did you see it disappear?

I believe this is the section you are talking about. https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2100172#map=10/48.6736/-124.8220

The reason you are having trouble seeing it is because the ID editor (Browser editor) does not handle multipolygons that well.

As best I can tell it is still there it just appears that the render has stopped rendering it. I believe this is because 8 months ago kartler175 changed the multipolygon relation from multipolygon to boundary. This seems to be incorrect and would lead to the rendering issue.

You should not map for the render, but in this case I believe the relation type boundary is being used incorrectly because that type of relation is normally used for administrative boundaries. normally multipolygon is used. Also all the other sections of this national park reserve use the relation type multipolygon. So I am going to go ahead and change it back to multipolygon. This should fix your rendering issue. Since this is such a large area give the Render at least a few days to catch out at the farther out zoom levels.

The https://openmaptiles.org/ stack is open source and can in theory be used to generate tiles. I'm just commenting to warn you that the setup is very involved and requires an orchestra of Docker images. Processing the world will take many CPU days. How to parallelize the stuff or even get live updates is the "secret sauce" of MapTiler.

So if TileMaker is not for you, then the OpenMapTiles stack is neither.

I just read a good write-up here

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/WoodWoseWulf/diary/382394

Originally referenced from OSM weekly,

http://weeklyosm.eu/archives/12209

Does anyone know of any good resources on fighting vandalism in general, not necessarily Pokemon related only?

Yep, definitely ok to improve the edge, and especially ok to improve others' work. That's what OSM's about.

Take a look at the ImproveWayAccuracy mode in JOSM to make your work easier.

If you just want to edit as soon as possible, visit https://www.openstreetmap.org, zoom to an area, and click "edit". (You'll need an account first). The editor has a built-in guide that will explain the basics. You can also click the built-in "help" button at any time.

National Authority for Civil Protection, responsible for coordinating emergency stuff in Portugal, uses OppenStreetMap (compare).

If you want to help improve the data set and therefore the usability, then have a look at StreetComplete.

It is a fun and simple to use Android app that suggest quests to you. These quests extend already existing data with more useful information.

Few examples: * opening hours of shops * speed limits * road surfaces (important for tour planing) * and much more.

F-Droid & Google Play

I'd agree with sp8962 and Doctor_Fegg that the US is probably the country which is least likely to meet typical expectations. Even in large conurbations things like churches, schools etc still only exist as (inaccurate) GNIS nodes. Recently a new mapper accidentally added a node for this church on my local patch (probably because they didn't realise that the search does not default to the visible data), so I had a go using imagery & StreetSide to improve this little patch of West Covina (including a few Jacaranda trees). The church was there, imported as a building, but with no relevant tags, and the adjacent school was unmapped. Relatively few other countries have such good usable sources to enable enhancing OSM without an on-the-ground survey.

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I'd also agree that China lacks lots of data and is hard to map, BUT I'd argue that the country which really lacks information even for large towns is Pakistan. As with China inner city areas (such as Old Lahore) are more or less impossible to map from aerial imagery, and there are also countless villages potentially missing from OSM and much of the rural road network is vestigial. When the rivers flood again (as in 2010) we will still not have good enough data to assist humanitarian work. In the 2010 the area covered by floods was so large it was even beyond the ability of professional cartographers to cope. Thanks to Swiss OSM I have a task set up on their Tasking Manager site for adding residential areas in parts of Pakistan. Do have a go!

They won't show up on the cycle map for something like 1-2 weeks as that doesn't update as often.

The text shows up (tbh it probably shouldn't have a name) but the problem seems to be that they are too close to the road and hidden by its rendering: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/12.97791/77.60712

Nice work.

In case you're looking for things to map in Dublin then make sure you have a look at the map notes to see if there's anything you can survey and resolve: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/53.3475/-6.2771&amp;layers=N

> If you're using OsmAnd, Maps.me or some other offline map app in your car, you're going to get that highway in up to a month

Subscribe to OsmAnd Live and get hourly updates for 0.66€ per month.

It looks to me like somebody got territorial waters (12-nautical-mile limit) and exclusive economic zone (200-nautical-mile limit) confused. It's not shown on the map unless you find the relation, but Chile does have an EEZ in OSM. So does Ecuador. The expanded borders for Peru would seem to reflect its EEZ and not its actual territorial waters (which are what are shown for other nations).

Welcome!

Make sure to get in touch with other mappers nearby in Italy. When you get the 'thank you screen' on the editor, you get pointed to the forums and chat channels that are active in your region.

Furthermore, I'd like to point you towards the app 'OsmAnd' (Android and iOs) which has way too much features but is really useful in the field. It has offline maps (updates ~1 month) but if you get the subscription you get updates like every hour. It is also my primary mapping tool in the field - at least for general mapping.

(For specific themes, I use this new tool)

BTW https://www.qwant.com/maps is fully OSM based and -does- position itself as a gmaps alternative. Note that even though it is quite well funded, it is obviously missing a couple of bits and pieces that are these days considered essential.

1. Go to the OSM homepage.

2. Sign up for an account, if you haven't yet.

3. Go to the building's location.

4. Click the "edit" button.

5. If you've not done it yet take the tutorial.

6. If the building is traced, great. If no one else has done it, trace it yourself.

7. If the building has only one address select the building trace. If the building has multiple addresses add a point at the address's location.

8. Add the address to the building trace, or the point, by editing the address fields on the left hand side bar.

9. Add more details, for whatever interested you. If you are into riding bikes, add bike infrustructure shops. If you are into doughnuts, add doughnut shops.

10. Wait. Different users of OSM data refresh their databases from OSM's at different rates. The default map on the home page updates every few min. OsmAnd updates about once a month.

To exclude lakes, you should merge them with the wood, not drag the edge of the wood around the lakes¹. In JOSM you can select part of the wood and the lake and then press control+shift+b.

A relatively small fix is all that was needed:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/63286636

1. (the rendering software treats the doubling back as an error)

Probably outline as a park and then add the specific tags for paths, forest, maybe gardens and grassland.

This area in my hometown would be a good example for a perfectly mapped park: https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=17/51.03524/13.77246

As discussed before, there’s also https://kartaview.org/ for street-level imagery. I have no idea how they depend on Google.

Mapillary is a Facebook company, though, so using it without Google services does not really help you (and is the reason I stopped contributing with Mapillary).

No, there are no chunks as such. It's just that JOSM uploads your changes in a number of requests instead of one big request (still inside one changeset). ~~Such small requests seem to get through faster, but it may be a placebo as well :P~~

But this really only matters for very large changesets, like if you drew 1000 new buildings. You may not bother as well.

Edit: "official" info here: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Action/Upload#Configuringthenumberandsizeofuploadrequests

Whatever you decide, you should contact the user that added the tags before changing them, they are still active on OSM. You can use the message link here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Steven%20Vance

It looks like documentation for the tag has been added and removed from https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycleway a few times. I guess the fact that there is a buffer is useful to record but exactly how to do it hasn't been settled yet. I suggest being patient about it.

1. Switch over to iD so you can get details on the parts of the word. Click on one of the word parts and click "View on openstreetmap.org" in the lower left. On the page that opens, look on the left for the changeset ID and click on it to go to the page for the changeset. In this case, it's 49734815.

2. iD doesn't have a revert tool. If you're not comfortable using JOSM and the revert plugin, then it's probably a good idea to email and report this vandalism so that someone else can revert it for you.

(I'll revert it now, though)

I've had a crack and I think it needs to be:

javascript:a=location.href.match(/@(-?[0-9.]+),(-?[0-9.]+),([0-9.]+)z/);location.replace("https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map="+a[3]+"/"+a[1]+"/"+a[2])

Great question and response BTW. This will be very useful!

EDIT: Google can have non-integer zoom levels, so added a "." match on that as well. e.g. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@-27.1366664,-109.357906,12.17z

A quick stab at solving it with a basic bookmarklet:

javascript:a=location.href.match(/@(-?[0-9.]+),(-?[0-9.]+),([0-9.]+)z/);location.replace("https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map="+a[3]+"/"+a[1]+"/"+a[2])

(Add a bookmark and insert it as its Location.)

Based on the fact that GMaps uses a scheme of @LAT,LON,ZOOMz and OSM of #map=ZOOM/LAT/LON in its URI.

Fixed integrating [these corrections](/r/openstreetmap/comments/4o8sb8/extension_to_jump_from_google_maps_to_osm/d4bciub).

Vespucci on F-Droid Vespucci on Play Store

Press B in the website editor to bring up the background list and see if there's clearer aerial imagery (remember to fix the offset if there is any).

Or record a GPS trace using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.guillaumin.android.osmtracker&amp;hl=en_GB - export it in the app, upload to google drive or similar, then download and load the GPX file in the editor.

Best to record when there's less tree cover of course.

The OsmAnd guide pretty much covers the most part of everything, but there are a couple points that I would add:

Here's an example of a shorter route that I'm pretty familiar with

-Don't worry so much about the "platforms" in addition to the bus stops. I rarely see anyone do this and it doesn't heavily affect the use of the route.

-It is really easy to forget to add the roles for the nodes (stop/platform) - don't forget this as it makes them unusable

-The easiest way (for me) to map routes is just to GPX trace a ride on them and add the stops as you go. Its a bit of a rush to get everything, but you can pretty quickly hammer out the stops, plus the GPX trace ensures that you have the full route ready to go. (But thankfully I don't have do that this much as my city has very good open data)

Hey I checked out São Brás de Alportel, Algarve and added some buildings (my changeset). The edits I saw looked fine and the points of interest were good too. The available imagery is very difficult to use and I found myself switching from ESRI to Digital Earth several times just because I couldn't if a set of buildings were continuous or not. It's tough. I trust you know how the buildings are better than I since I'm used to suburban disconnected housing on Long Island, NY. I hope I was able to help

The openstreetmap.org website allows search by house number - e.g. if I search for "31 中港一街 新北市" it finds that address: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=31%20中港一街%20新北市

However, it can only find addresses that have been entered in to the map, so if an address is missing you will need to add it yourself, but only if the address source is OK to use in OpenStreetMap - e.g. if you have been there yourself - you mustn't just copy from other map providers.

JOSM comes equipped with a good tool to simplify ways.

Select the outline of your generated lake and press SHIFT-Y

If you feel that you lose too much detail you can decrease the error-threshold by activating expert-mode and going into settings to search for simplify-way.max-error

More infos: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Action/SimplifyWay

Leaflet or OpenLayers will be your best bet, the task will be fairly straight forward with either of those, and you can use an OSM basemap.

Here are the leaflet docs: http://leafletjs.com/reference.html

Wikipedia and Commons apps use OSM, the first one has more than 10 million downloads:

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons

In Belgium, we tend to map the address on the building when there is only one address for the entire building. But if there are multiple address in the same building outline (like for apartment), then we put the address on node inside the building when we don't know more. If we survey the location and know the door location, i usually put the address directly on the door, with possibly a range of apartment too.

But i read a blogpost a while ago, that in rural area of the US, some emergency service tend to ask people to put their address at the beginning of the driveway leading to the house, so they can find the correct driveway (if it is a few miles long). And OSM can help them if it is correctly mapped as a router can take you through the driveway to the house (if the house is indeed closest to the correct driveway), otherwise in some case i would put the address node near or on the driveway that lead to the correct place (as it helps the navigation in some difficult case). Look at this blog if you are interested : https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/MikeN/diary/392080 .

CC BY-SA is a creative commons licence. See here for details. As you can see, and as /u/rmc has said, it doesn't prohibit commercial use (unlike CC BY-NC for example).

Yep, connect to the streets. As an example, https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/666651836 should end on the corner there. I wouldn't connect it to the park outline, but opinions vary somewhat on things like that.

> Being able to walk on the road and being permitted to walk on the road are different things entirely. One is able to walk across the freeway near my work, but it isn't permitted, and is marked so on the OSM way.

That's what I would connect the sidewalk and than add access=* tags.

Where I am from I can also cross the road at every point if it is safe to do so. So mapped out sidewalks can lead to wrong navigation, when there is no connection between the two sidewalks. Like on this T-intersection.. I would consider Berlin as one of the best mapped places in OSM but I nearly never I have seen mapped sidewalks here because it is very impractical. There is more important stuff one should focus on in my eyes.

Not quite a site, but...

JOSM can do this via filters. Add two rows:
type:way highway=*
type:node
tick the first two boxes for each, and I (invert) for the first.

When you upload the track, it gets added to the database of GPS recorded tracks. When I run JOSM for example, I start editing by downloading OSM data for the area I want to change and at that point, I can also download ALL the GPS tracks for that area that anybody ever recorded and uploaded. Back in the days(tm) before satellite imagery, that was the only way we could draw roads - local knowledge paired with our own and other people's tracks. Now, even with satellite imagery, tracks are still useful. I always use them to check whether the satellite images correlate with the GPS tracks in the area (sometime they are off a few meters, I correct that then using the tracks) and I also use them to continue tracks through the forest, e.g., that are hidden under foliage.

Here's an example how that looks in JOSM - the pink lines are the GPS tracks:

http://i.imgur.com/BU5qvGq.png

Mapbox Unity SDK - https://www.mapbox.com/unity/

The map data is just Mapbox Streets, sourced from OSM.

(Disclosure: I work for Mapbox but I don't know much about this product)

Also take a look at the android app StreetComplete. It creates quests where there is incomplete data. Really nice to discover some lesser known features that are "hidden"¹ in the map data.

1: only used by specific applications

The only good thing waze has is the traffic info (and gas prices are handy), but magic earth is a good alternative that have a similar system https://www.magicearth.com
OSMAnd is a bit complicated but very flexible app

It looks like geo: URIs are not detected as URIs in Signal for example, and Google Maps will not likely register an intent for https://osmand.net/go URLs.

So i don't think you can directly send from OSMAnd a link to GMaps.

You could generate a Google Maps link yourself before sharing it to your friends, like with this tool.

I download the planet file regularly without problems.

You can try downloading from one of the many mirrors or from S3.

I linked to my diary entry which contains screenshots in the comment I made under this post. Someone has linked the reddit version, however that doesn't let you embed images unlike OSM's diary entry page.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/IpswichMapper/diary/395413

Minimum SDK is 21. This means the lowest android version that is supported is 5.0 (for now). I might try and lower this if it seems worth it. However firstly I need to get Android emulators working on my machine so that I can test this application on multiple devices.

I seem to remember that there was an issue with the coastline rendering which flooded large parts of the world. At the moment it looks partially good for me when I look at https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=6/-1.549/105.051 in FireFox and compare to https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=7/-1.774/104.370, where the whole of Sumatra is land :)

It's a relation that has three grassland areas and a meadow as 'inner' elements (i.e. excluded from the forest): https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/10382831

Perhaps something goes wrong rendering it because of its inner areas? The hole near the lake is also strange. What's more, the forest extends beyond the road on the bottom-left and that is not shown.

I'm not going to comment on weather or not "Bak" exists, but are you sure that its wrong - do you live locally? Or what other evidence do you have? Personally if its just something looks off then it might well be investigating/surveying, but it probably shouldn't be deleted unless its blatantly malicious.

As for why it takes some time, especially in 3rd parties, its because what open street map actually is is the data. You delete it, its gone from the data. But everyone (including https://www.openstreetmap.org/) who relies on that data will also need to update their copy, or do any additional processing - like drawing a map - which takes time. https://www.openstreetmap.org/ is pretty quick - it usually takes minutes in my experiences. But third parties can take a lot longer, weeks are not uncommon, or they might not even do so at all, instead just choosing to take a snapshot of OSM at a particular time and never updating it.

No, OP is not a troll. OP is simply voicing something that newcomers realize about OSM in their first 10 seconds discovering it (first thing they do is look up their address and often fail to find it), and then proceed to dismiss the whole OSM effort based on that experience.

All those newcomers are certainly not going to spend "a couple of seconds googling".

Thanks OP.

Edit: of course, I'm intentionally conflating OSM with the browsing experience at https://www.openstreetmap.org with its Nominatim search box, because that is the first and only thing newcomers see before turning around. OSM is much more than a map, and unfortunately that is lost for many.

Exactly that. Minh Nguyen's OSM diary post (https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Minh%20Nguyen/diary/35646) is pretty much the canonical description of the problem - and that's the Bay Area. Most of the rural US is way, way below even this level. There are some pockets of good practice and it cheers me up whenever I encounter one, but there's too many towns and even cities which are a TIGER highway grid and nothing else.

Still, there's plenty that can be done to fix that and I hope we will.

In Britain many local authorities have reduced the speed limits from 30 mph to 20 mph on residential streets. It's quite hard to map all these changes systematically with a survey. So in these cases it's been quite hard to track the updates. It also doesn't help that the LA may not sign the new speed limit correctly which means that legally it cannot be enforced (I had to report 2 missing speed limit signs when a local area had a 20 mph limit introduced). In places in London, such as Greys Inn Road which now have a 20 limit, the older 20 mph limit signs were still in place on the side roads which is also confusing.

Oneways are another thing and usually get mapped very quickly: sometimes too quickly. This street in Caceres, Spain was reversed a day before the rule came into effect, but, and it's a BIG BUT, someone decided to return it to its old direction based on old aerial imagery.

I've been mapping everything (buildings, roads, farmland, meadows, woods, residential areas, farmyards, etc) on the Cooley peninsula in Louth, Ireland.

Yea no problem. I started on ID in the browser as well and eventually moved to JOSM because it lets you do a lot more. everyone has to start somewhere. Just glad to see another contributor that is helping add to the map.

Here is a link to the change-set.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/62571461

If there are any left over problems you can DM me on here or on OSM and I can try to fix any other left over issues if there are any.

Like I said it might take at least a few days for the render to start updating but it looks right on JOSM so I expect it is correct.

The export has a limit of 50'000 nodes, so even when the current server move is over, you won't be able to download this bounding box in one go. Try a smaller bounding box and several downloads, or switch to Overpass API, or any of the other export options mentioned on osm.org instead.

While your browser only gives you a meaningless error ("Page not available"), you can see the actual error message when using curl (and friends) for download:

curl https://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/map?bbox=8.7864%2C53.071%2C8.8213%2C53.0859 You requested too many nodes (limit is 50000). Either request a smaller area, or use planet.osm

I'm using http://www.qlandkarte.org/ when viewing and editing GPX tracks - it can use rendered OSM maps from osm.org as a background. On Android I use OsmAnd+, it downloads the OSM data in vector format (which the makers of OsmAnd provide about once a month) and displays it quite nicely.

You can do this with UtilsPlugin2: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Plugin/UtilsPlugin2

Replace Geometry - Ctrl+Shift+G: Replaces geometry of selected way with a new one

Select the node and the footprint than run this command

It sounds like you want the improve way tool, (shortcut key "w"). It combines clicks and keyboard modifiers to quickly add/move/remove points on a way:

https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Action/ImproveWayAccuracy

Also note that your edit won't be approved by anyone, when you submit it, it goes live right away.

You might also try the simplify way command, but that tends to remove a lot of points if you don't adjust it.

You might have to turn on expert mode, bottom of the view menu, to get the tools in the UI.

If you are looking for even more advanced tools, have a look at the plugins section in the JOSM preferences menu. A starting place could be UtilsPlugin2 which offers some really helplful operations.

You can try JOSM, it's a bit more complex than iD but makes modifications easier on "large" data.

Short closure of roads (i.e. less than 1-2 weeks) shouldn't be tagged in OSM but on tools dedicated to real-time data such as OpenEventDatabase

Precise timetable also shouldn't be entered in OSM, it is not well suited for it. However I think seasonality can be useful, but I do not know how to enter it either.

Buildings are always good to fill an area if possible. I would say that Mapbox Satellite is the most recent and provides good imagery for that. Lots of buildings are missing and the already existing can be improved (geometry mainly). Also pitches and parking areas. Service ways also.

Some of the streets can also be split, but that might require to go through a bunch of route relations as far as I can see. Maybe a task for later.

Have you had a look at JOSM? (https://josm.openstreetmap.de/) Might make the task more easier as it's a more powerful tool than the iD editor.

I think this is a good question, and hope someone has a better answer to it. It certainly should be a feature, since we, as a community, have gone to a fair bit of trouble to be put internationalised names data into OpenStreetMap. We should track different "Map Internationalisation" services and approaches on this wiki page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_internationalization My favourite one at the moment is the OpenMapTiles demo here: https://openmaptiles.org/languages/native/#0.53/0/0 I found myself using that one while in Japan.

However for printing, if you wanted to combine this with use of the "bigmap" tool, I think you'd need a raster tile service rendering "en" names. Is anyone publicly running such a thing for general use at the moment? I'm not sure. Running your own is always a possibility of course.

It is interesting that they added the turn restriction editor when MapBox is starting to focus on Smart Directions: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/launching-smart-directions/ https://www.mapbox.com/blog/smart-directions-with-osrm-graph-model/

Don't get me wrong, I think it is great. Anything to increase the quality of OSM.

Not PBF but KDE Marble can display OSM XML directly. But it's quite slow. The other option is to download the PBF and render tiles from it which it can then display.

You can also ask them to use StreetComplete, which has a quest to add sidewalk tagging. It is super simple to use. You add tags via simple quests.

> an android tablet

If you have the bandwidth to download offline maps, OsmAnd and Maps.me are dedicated apps that make it easy to search by POI.

Edit: Guatemala is only a 8.3 MB download in OsmAnd so not that bad.

You can download the whole planet using OsmAnd for example. It works fully offline (or online if you want).

There is also a dedicated article about that on the wiki.

Here's a tutorial: http://learnosm.org/en/beginner/id-editor/

It's not the same as the walkthrough, though.

To start the walkthrough, sign in to OpenStreetMap.org (create an account if you haven't), and then click the "Edit" button. The default editor is called iD.

This link takes you to the iD editor and focuses on downtown Whiting, Indiana.

To re-start the walkthrough you need to click on the "?" button on the vertical menu on the right side of the map.

Then, a Help box slides out from the right. Click on the "Start the Walkthrough" button. After you click on this, an interactive tutorial will appear and guide you through what the different buttons mean and it will ask you to start drawing specific things on the map (it will tell you what to draw and where).

Hi,
it would be best if you could link to your OSM profile or the changeset so people can check simply by clicking a link:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/58821320
Clicking and dragging nodes is the right way to do it.
As you can see by the various mysterious keys on the node, it was originally not added by a human but imported:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:gnis:feature_id
That explains why it was not in the exact right location

Maybe look at the tags of the Cap San Diego: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/137318607 While it leaves the harbour from time to time, it's mapped as 'building=ship'...

States, country and most administrative boundaries are mapped in OSM. A geocoder (nominatim for example) can find the city, state, country in which a POI is located by finding in which administrative boundary it's located, without needing tags on each and every addresses.

Example : the state of California (a little slow to load)

If I'm being completely honest, I'm only just now realizing that the dark mode isn't the normal mode for OpenStreetMaps. I just always assumed that was how it looked by default.

I'm pretty sure its a tool I have on my browser doing it, but I can't say for certain. It's called Dark Reader, and you can find it here: https://darkreader.org/

Or better yet, GPSTest from Google Play or from F-Droid; it's the only one that'll give you country flags for the satellites (along with distinguishing constellations in the elevation/azimuth chart) and multiple entries if your phone is L1 and L5 capable.

I dont know why everyone is suggesting you do weird things with GPX files, but most apps like that can upload straight to OSM. OsmAnd and OsmTracker both can export direct to OpenStreetMap. Then when you're on the website editor, you just enable that in the data sources tab.

Alternately, there's a good chance you can find it on the Strava heatmap.

> Ideally I'd use my phone, walk around, stop in front of a house, and use my GPS Location to enter in a house/business address ### wiħ an auto-suggestion for what street I am currently on.

Look into the Vespucci app (OSM editor) for that. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.blau.android

I just installed it, "Efficiently Adding Addresses

Vespucci has an "add address tags" function that tries to make surveying addresses more efficient. It can be selected:

after a long press: Vespucci will add a node at the location and make a best guess at the house number and add address tags that you have been lately been using. If the node is on a building outline it will automatically add a "entrance=yes" tag to the node. The tag editor will open for the object in question and let you make any necessary further changes.in the node/way selected modes: Vespucci will add address tags as above and start the tag editor.in the tag editor.

House number prediction typically requires at least two house numbers on each side of the road to be entered to work, the more numbers present in the data the better."

Thanks, I just downloaded maps.me (the source) and will install it on my smartphone as well, but not sufficient as I actually want a program that I can run on my computer and was just hinted about Offroad which is an adaptation of OSMAnd (which is also smartphone) as well as a the new vectorized version of Marble.

I now have plenty of stuff to test before the vacation, I intend to install a car computer as well. This car computer can actually run Android but I prefer a full Linux.

It's somewhat weird actually as Android apps are just java apps but compiled with another jvm and a special environment, so it would be great to be able to run Android apps under X on Linux as well.

Depends. I connect areas related to city zoning unless there's a road or body of water between them. There is an exception for service roads but otherwise I end the area at the actual edge of the road NOT the way. Other areas not related to zoning such forests, grass, parking lots is best left disconnected.

Look at one of my edits as an example. I wanted to experiment with grass areas and trees but honestly it may be pointless. Regardless, you can see that the retail area ends a few feet before the shoulder of the road rather than on the way itself. Grass areas are mapped with accuracy and end where there's pavement rather than at the edge of the retail area.

I don't think you're supposed to try to model highways in general as areas. All highways obviously have a width and are technically areas, but from a mapmakers perspective that's not really important.

Imo the correct way to model a park like this is more like https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/47.38064/8.53943&amp;layers=N where paths are paths, and only large plazas where people can freely move in whatever direction they like are modeled as areas.

Quick update: I’ve only been mapping for a few days and I don’t want to mess things up. Would any of you want to edit it? Here are the coordinates https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/38.94548/-3.22551

Open to learn from more experienced people :).

I think it rendered rather nicely. Have a look if you like. If some tiles haven't rendered at all zoom levels yet, it makes for a nice before/after comparison.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/40.58297/-74.16425

If it's a typical town centre then most buildings will not be dedicated to one purpose (they'll probably have residential use above), so it's better to go with nodes for the POIs/shops. Also allows them to be positioned more accurately.

For example, Edinburgh: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/55.94907/-3.19278

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Amazon_Logistics

Basically Amazon uses OSM for deliveries and any errors or missing roads they encounter are added to OSM.

Normally you will see their changes in the form of added service roads, e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/870419596

Thanks u/AlexBr967, nice work :)

I have done a bit more cleanup, from earlier mappers' work.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.51144/-0.29178

Sorry if this has already been posted but I saw it in this post here and found it quite fascinating. I did a quick search for SWOT and nothing came up in reddit.

The county GIS is operated by the property appraiser's office. The external web view doesn't say one way or the other. Having said that, I see nothing about the roads belonging to the county, so I suspect they do not.

Location is southwest Gilchrist County FL, and the name is Greenway Palms. OSM view is here. The four named streets, two of which connect to CR-341.

It depends. Some parts are much-used, whereas other parts are more calm. On workdays it will never be too crowded, but there are parts which you should avoid on a sunny weekend. Mainly Bastei in Rathen and the Schrammsteine. So maybe adjust your trip in a way you avoid those two areas on weekends or pass there at evening or in early morning.

A spot you shouldn't miss is Waitzdorfer Höhe, where you will have a beautiful view all around the saxon switzerland and even to Dresden.

Also make sure to go to the Schrammsteine viewpoint (Schrammsteinaussicht) even though it is not part of the Malerweg itself

When you walk through Schmilka have a look for the small brewery inside of the town. I always bought a beer there and drank it on top of the mountain ;)

If you have any additional questions I will happily answer them

Direct link to tile https://ecn.t1.tiles.virtualearth.net/tiles/a120221300012001222.jpeg?g=8559, it's close to the Vierwaldstättersee in Switzerland, where I hiked through on the past weekend. Here's a link to the hiking path we took: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/234114243

The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) has various tasks.

If you look around somewhere near the relatively flat west coast of North Korea, you'll probably find some unmapped settlement, like at 39.40366, 125.50911.

One more, this cliff is wrong side: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/771491823

you should reverse the way. The little triangles should be facing down.

Saw my council doing this with one of their projects, so I emailed them (fortunately it was two specific people) basically saying the following and they have since added the copyright info/link.

"I noticed you're using OSM on PAGE URL. While it's great you're using OSM, it is however a requirement that you credit OpenStreetMap as detailed here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Please ensure you update the website and any other images or documents where the map is used to include a credit to OpenStreetMap."

Try emailing the general contact again, then try to find someone more specific, then contact your local councillor and see if they can help with an email contact - before going to legal. Could always get them via social media as well.

Thanks for the post. Pretty interesting write up about a subject that I've been wondering about myself. I wish that someone paid me to make some edits like this one user I found.