StreetComplete does something related when picking building type. If you select a upper category like residential or commercial it will prompt for a more specific value like house, users can ignore this if they don’t know or select a better value.

I started surveying them a few weeks ago after I saw a KX100 get removed, they don’t seem to be as heavy.

I think I see the traditional phone boxes in gardens more often than functioning nowadays, I like that they are getting some use. One of the local ones may being getting turned into a defib storage unit like you said.

Happy rambling, don’t lose your way.

I don’t think that Google would switch Maps off, or charge end users, but it’s very possible they do another massive price increase for business and academic use. Without OSM small companies would have no chance of being able to make a Pokemon Go type game, they couldn’t afford the Google Maps fees. OSM enables that type of creativity without needing a bunch of start up money.

I think, for me it’s about the ownership of the data. It’s our world, it’s our map of the world. Not a private companies.

And I absolutely love that OSM enables alternative map apps like OSMAnd and Maps.Me, the competition drives the quality of all the map apps, and improves the end users experience.

Pretty clever solution!

And thanks for uploading to Mapillary, I often use it for as source.

Facebook has undoubtedly done a lot of harm, but it has also done a lot of good.

in order to effectively manipulate them

That’s exactly what newspapers used to do when people read them. It’s what the news organisations continue to do.

advertising

That existed before Facebook, and will after, yeah, it kinda sucks as a user experience, but it has allowed Facebook to be an equal platform not limited to the middle and upper classes with disposable income.

influencing voting

Again, this has been done forever. If you are upset that Facebook was involved with Donald Trump being elected in USA you also have to be upset about it electing Barack Obama.

I never expected to be a Facebook defender, I haven’t has an account in almost a decade, I block a bunch of their domains to try and avoid having a shadow profile.

Facebook is helping demolish racism right now, without the massive platform available to all we would have never seen the video of police officers killing George Floyd, or any of the uncountable videos showing it over the last decade. The newspapers wouldn’t have even mentioned it, or if they did it would have been a footnote blaming the victim.

Facebook has undoubtedly done a lot of harm, but it has also done a lot of good.

I think this is a good thing, and welcome Facebook to becoming even more involved with OSM.

I hope Mapillary manages to get Facebook to release some more of its data for use in OSM. POI data for example.

Awesome work. Sometimes when I trace a building I think the few occupants might look at OSM and because there house is mapped become contributors. You can say that for an entire state! Thank you.

And look how powerful that’s been, what started as a few people doing GPS traces while riding on bikes and driving cars created this whole Open Data ecosystem. OSM being an example of Open Data encouraged more data to be released by companies which further improved OSM. The perfect cycle.

Ordnance Survey is now a foot note in the mapping world. You all did that. Like I said before, massive respect to everyone involved.

OSM tries to achieve - creating a map of the world by the people for the people based on these people sharing their local knowledge in egalitarian, self determined cooperation.

OSM is already so much more than just local people mapping local things. I have a lot of respect for the people at the beginning mapping roads with only GPS traces, but OSM wouldn’t be at this level today without using data and satellite images from companies. I don’t have GPS (due to my phone being broken) so I literally couldn’t contribute to OSM without the data already available to us, if the people before me never mapped the roads and the buildings I wouldn’t be able to add shops and POIs.

Companies are already a part of OSMs past and present, I don’t think that’s something to shy away from. Maybe I’m being naively optimistic, but I think they can play a good part in the future of OSM.

I’ve been saying companies, but by that I just mean an organisation of some kind. Charities, foundations, common interest companies and for profit companies were what I was thinking about.

The more companies that rely on it, the more paid mappers will arrive.

I think that’s the big one, companies will invest into parts that they use. Amazon into routing, Facebook into roads. When more companies use OSM data they will invest money and peoples into the data and tooling around OSM.

Welcome to OSM! I mainly edit POIs too, if you have any questions message me.

I do hope OSM gets used in AR projects, unfortunately is seems Hikar is the only project you mentioned that is still active.

That’s awesome news, hopefully more people are joining the project and stick around.

A quick glance at the proposals seems to indicate that the €8 is a student intern, that price is probably so low because they don’t expect to be paid a lot, and probably don’t even know the value of their time. Where as somebody in the middle of a career would want higher compensation even though OSMF is a non profit.

I’m not saying either is wrong, I think in an ideal world OSMF would be able to pay a salary that matches for profit companies. But that’s not currently possible.

Nice video! I do it the other way around, where I live the buildings are already traced but address data is missing. I find StreetComplete the quickest way to add it.

OK nice one, I’m still working on this on and off, making sure all the cafes and pharmacies are in OSM and have contact details.

It looks good, I’m yet to contribute to any HOT tasks, but it’s defiantly on my TODO list!

Looking forward to reading about your project. :)

Good work! Thanks for improving OSM.

@RobJN I added that email :P when I started it said “[ citation needed ]”

I’ve been working through petrol stations, most of them were already in OSM, untagged or with https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:operator=ASDA. A few were missing, but visible on satellite imagery, so I added them. And a few now have notes, waiting for local mappers.

OSM now has 314 out of 319 Asda petrol stations!