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 !

I came to write what ViriatoLusitano_import just wrote:

• footways are deliberate
• paths are emergent

While some renderings may consider this difference negligible, I believe that it most definitely warrants differentiated tagging.

I guess I could get over the motorways not being blue… But the lack of details (removal of buildings & residential highways) at low zoom levels disturbs me even more : the noise patterns they form talk to me very nicely and I would miss them a lot.

Kudos for the tertiaries rendered as same color but slightly wider - I believe declutters while not degrading readability.

generator:type=solar_photovoltaic_panel n’est-il pas redondant avec power=generator generator:source=solar generator:method=photovoltaic ?

To see who edits in the area you are interested in - and in your specific case to see who may be deleting objects, you might want to take a look at Whodidit: http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/whodidit/index.html?zoom=12&lat=14.70973&lon=-17.30987&layers=BTT#

Joli spam… @vuu472

L’intérêt de Mapiliary est le partage des prises de vues: des photos prises avec OSMTracker ne sont que des notes personnelles tandis qu’un itinéraire photographié avec Mapiliary bénéficie à tous ceux qui s’y intéresseront plus tard.

Sorry for the misformated unordered lists…

Finding nearest neighbours is a question related to QGIS (or whatever is your tool of choice) rather than an Openstreetmap question… Openstreetmap provides all the data you require - all you need is a way to process it.

Here are a couple of approaches to answer your requirement: - http://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/find_neighbor_polygons.html - http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/30011/qgis-polygon-layer-table-of-adjacent-polygons

I like the http://postgis.org/docs/ST_Touches.html Spatialite-based approach a lot. Here is another sample query using it : http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/121943/how-to-use-st-touches-to-get-all-nearby-states

And if you are new to using Spatialite in QGIS: - http://docs.qgis.org/2.6/en/docs/training_manual/databases/spatialite.html - https://code.google.com/p/qspatialite/