OpenStreetMap
Hi, everytime I promote OSB as an very simple tool to improve our map. But yesterday I noticed that in our state are so many useful bugs open (some forgotten but some waited for ~1year).
Well OSB just works if people that contribute see that their hints get processed.
So come on folks, check your area (and above) for bugs you can solve (without local knowledge)! And do it more often than just today, get a RSS feed of your favorite area :)
Discussion
Comment from Andy Allan on 22 July 2010 at 16:29
It's a good point, and I have the same issue. There's been work undertaken to tie in openstreetbugs into the main website, but it needs someone to pick up the project and finish it off.
http://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/tree/openstreetbugs
Also, potlatch2 now has vector backgrounds, which are the clickable version of normal raster map backgrounds. I'm planning on making OSB available as an option within the editor, so that mappers can see what errors are recorded for the area that they are working on.
Comment from Pink Duck on 22 July 2010 at 17:20
The obvious thing is that OSB should notify OSM users with registered locations near the reported problem locations just once. That will bring things to people's attention with a push-type rather than hoping that they manually check up on these things or are even aware of OSB.
Comment from !i! on 22 July 2010 at 17:24
But Pink Duck, you can register for a RSS Feed of your area?
Yes, well the thing is the different kind of Bugs:
1.Personal Notes (nothing to do)
2.Genereal hints ("here is road XYZ still missing" -> nice to know if you wan't to make a bug killing party)
3.Real precise informations (here is a restaurant -> you can try a searchengine for more informations or just add a poi)
Comment from Chaos99 on 23 July 2010 at 05:01
You are absolutly righht. I should go and fix some osm bugs.
But I also agree that (at least my) failure in doing so on my own is mostly due to the...well....inferior interface. You can't even search for a city on the osm bugs map.
You also mentioned getting an rss feed for my area. Where can I do that? I can't find a link on the openstreetbugs site nor in their FAQ.
Comment from !i! on 23 July 2010 at 06:13
Well ok UX is allways an issue for OSM (or web GIS in gernerell)
Well on the left side are links to get RSS feed or GPX for a bug hunt on your GPS device:
http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/?zoom=11&lat=54.12358&lon=12.14373&layers=B00T
Comment from c2r on 23 July 2010 at 13:30
After a few years of mapping, I only discovered the existence of openstreetbugs the other day - have fixed a couple of questions in my area, though unfortunaltey, as has already sort of been commented on, some of the 'bugs' are just crap.....
Comment from amm on 23 July 2010 at 21:49
I might as well point out, that there is another "OpenStreetBugs" site by skobbler ( http://www.skobbler.co.uk/osmbugs ), which could also do with some bug fixing. Those are navigation bugs reported by the skobbler smart phone navigation users. Unfortunately quite a few are bad or useless bug reports, but there are also quite a bunch of good ones too.
Comment from !i! on 23 July 2010 at 22:19
Yes thanks for your advice amm Skobbler makes it rigth and OffMaps followed this example and added OSB to their clients.