Hello! Congratulations for your first edit and welcome to our community! Indeed, there is a lot to be done in rural areas and OSM is by far the best data source for hiking maps - way more detailed and up-to-date than Google etc. Your contribution is worth a lot!

Let me give you a few hints: When I plan to map certain features, let’s say a few unmapped paths in the forest, I will have a look at the OSM wiki page for the elements I am likely to add. Example: highway=path As you can see, every element can have a great variety of additional attributes. If you are aware of these, you can generate much richer information from a single mapping hike.

When I am hiking in forest areas, I try to bring along two independent GPS receivers (or better: a combined GPS/GLONASS/Baidu/… receiver like many modern smartphones) for improved accuracy. Even better: walk the paths several times to have even more GPS tracks. Loading all of them in JOSM will give you a good hint about the accuracy of your data. Draw your path as an average of all tracks, discarding outliers.

I sometimes upload my tracks into OSM, this helps the project to prove that the data was not illegally copied from other maps, but was genuinely created.

Have fun! Hendric

2 million. Consider me officially impressed! Congratulations and keep up the great work!

@rorym: I appreciate your comment. I am taking care of the notes in my home region or during my travel. What I would like to see is an integrated service unifying the separate resources of OSM notes, Keepright and other QA tools, so we can have it all in one place and fix them more easily.

A mon avis, ce sont des traces GPS d’une personne qui a oublié d’éteinder son appareil en rentrant dans cette maison. Le GPS perd alors une bonne partie de sa précision et commence à “sauter” dans tous les sens, créant ainsi ce type de traces vagabondes.

I feel your pain and frustration! Generally, I bring along two GPS devices: one dedicated Garmin eTrex plus a phone running OSMand. So, there is little risk of having zero usable traces at the end.

Sorry, natürlich Schweiz!

Da sieht man - auch in deutschland ist noch lange nicht alles kartiert. Danke für Ihren Beitrag und weiterhin frohes Mappen!

Perhaps the guy is from the UK and has put the “oneway” direction as he would expect in his own country… :-) Also, this example shows well how important it is to document the changes we make by adding a meaningful comment. This helps to understand if the intention of the mapper matches the nature of the change.

Bienvenue

et beaucoup de plaisir dans tes contributions pour OSM!