I feel your pain man… And then they trumpet : “58736 buildings and 2382399 kilometers of roads added !”. Quality control - what is that ?

Maybe the initiators of Tasking Manager jobs are unwilling to frustrate novice contributors by having them correct their errors. Maybe they do not want to do it themselves… Cleaning up after them is infuriating.

Tu pourrais distinguer les cas d’usage “connecté” vs. “déconnecté” de collecte/édition. Là où la connectivité est abondante et peu coûteuse, j’édite sur place avec Vespucci alors qu’en brousse ce sera plutôt OSMTracker à utiliser dans JOSM à la maison.

Even if only a tiny minority participates in mailing lists or other gregarious electronic exchanges, those who do may be in touch with local groups… That way I met a bunch of stealth contributors in a couple of countries.

Correct the names directly on the signs ! In a couple a places in Sénégal, I have seen locals do that after being fed up with the French-speaking authorities misspelling their locality.

Spotted similar figurines in France too - a different model, but they see to mark crossings near schools.

@Richard And on second thought I’m even more ashamed of the awful generalization about its users… Oh well - everyone have one of my nice kula necklaces !

Love saintam1’s Torvalds quote. Even in Dakar I now see misguided Maps.me POI additions sprouting but I try to engage them pedagogically - those may well be our future heavy contributors… And at least, a badly described POI (with a wrong position because it was recorded where the user was standing instead of where the POI lies…) is less bothering than the Potlach highway spaghetti I’m used to see… But maybe it is just that I’m not seeing many yet.

Hello - qu’est-ce que ça a donné ?

To me, the main difference between paper maps and digital maps is that whereas you can unfold the surface of a paper map in its full square meter glory, you look at digital maps through a straw and you have to rely heavily on the zoom feature - which makes the single-scale of paper maps difficult to port to the new medium

Oops - correct URL for Whodidit: http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/whodidit/#

I like the “Validating Openstreetmap” guide - though I’m surprised it doesn’t mention Whodidit (http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/whodidit), which is my primary starting point for patrolling my areas of interest.

Similar in French: a “halte ferroviaire” is defined by the lack of regular service - it is the most basic class of officially defined passenger embarking/disembarking location.

Bravo ! Des applications exploitent ces données ?

Openstreetmap with the attention to detail stereotypical of Japanese industry… Looks like a great match !

Even my surveys with GPS devices benefit from orbital imagery - and few places I map have any alternatives to Microsoft Bing… My Openstreetmap contributions would be almost nothing without it.

sudo ? Why ?

Openstreetmap est un ensemble de données permettant la production de cartes. La question serait donc plutôt de savoir si on peut espérer trouver un jour des données Openstreetmap dans des cartes IGN… Et la réponse est affirmative - d’autres éditeurs tels que Michelin ont déjà exploité des fragments d’Openstreetmap pour composer leurs cartes.

Comme Openstreetmap n’est pas une carte ni un lieu de publication de cartes, “trouver un jour les cartes IGN de France sur Openstreetmap” est incompatible avec la fonction d’Openstreetmap.

Par contre, l’IGN publie certaines de ses données sous des licences compatibles avec celle d’Opentreetmap et Openstreetmap peut donc les incorporer ou les utiliser pour par exemple avoir un point de comparaison pour juger de la complétude d’Openstreetmap: http://www.ign.fr/institut/activites/lign-lopen-data

Six years on and I am still in awe every day !

@SomeoneElse - you are right… And that is what I do and promote - maybe I should have mentioned it. My standard approach is “Hello $contributor, [thanks for contribution etc.], if I may suggest a methodological improvement etc.” but this approach hits its limit when faced with hit & run contributors that are probably recruited in the context of some event and go AWOL afterwards. That said, I have been successful with a few in establishing communication and helping them improve - those who respond are usually happy to talk to someone instead of contributing in isolation.

Well, this is my workaround - and it does not depend on anything but the JOSM XML format, so it is entirely decoupled from JOSM and therefore provides maximal flexibility !