If the pedestrian area is tagged with area=yes, then I’d say it is a routing issue. Although I think it makes the routing a bit harder (there may still be obstacles to avoid or holes/buildings in the area), and so I don’t know any pedestrian routing that does this.

Cool and welcome to OpenStreetMap. What city is it that you’re working on?

Do you still have Woolworths in Australia? They went bankrupt about 2 years ago in the UK, I didn’t even realise they had stores abroad.

Welcome to OpenStreetMap!

I’ve done a lot of mapping in Durham, but also bits in Newcastle. Feel free to ask me any questions you might have.

Gregory/LivingWithDragons http://www.livingwithdragons.com

Some aspects/practices of importing data depend on the data (it’s size, it’s frequency of updates). If you are uploading a small area and will only do that once, then it might make more sense to do that in your existing account.

The last line “be ready to revert fast if all goes wrong” is a bad thing to state. There should be points on testing the whole import process has gone well, and test/plan (in advance) a way you will be able to revert the changes if needed.

Transform could include “break into smaller geographical chunks if appropriate/needed”

More info at osm.wiki/OpenPisteMap

Those screenshots from the russian-speaking community are great! I find it quick enough to scroll past the entries I don’t understand. Especially as I’m now reading them frequently.

Hello allophos,

The topographic data is not from the OpenStreetMap data. For the cycle map, I think they use the SRTM topographic data. SRTM is by NASA, using sensors on a satellite. Obviously this allows for the whole planet to have topographic data without very very time consuming (and expensive) ground measurements being taken everywhere. Unfortunately it’s accuracy and precision isn’t as good, and that can be more noticeable in certain areas, such as mountain rivers.

I don’t think anything can be done to fix it. If you have a better source (perhaps for Peru or the region) of height data, then you could generate your own maps using that. Although this will require a lot of technical understanding.

Some information can be found at the following page, and by following links from there. osm.wiki/Relief_maps

Oh well, we’re all goofs from time to time. It’s good practice to only make small changesets (like you’ve done), and that makes it easy enough to see what has been done.

I get annoyed when people change things over a whole city or country and then press save with a commit like “edited the map”. Not helpful when I want to know what they were editing around my part of the city.

You can see your changesets here, if you ever want to. @Aniline/edits

It’s the best, because you were partially responsible for it’s creation! What you’ve done so far looks good, just post a new diary entry if you need help or want to tell people what you’ve been mapping.

JOSM is an editor that you can download, and it’s much easier to see what tags are attached to a node as it encourages you to use the “Advanced” mode to add tags, although presets(simple) can be selected from the drop down menu at the top. osm.wiki/Josm

It seems like you’ve worked out how to find your edits and see what was deleted.

Did you physically go there? What do all those bridges go over?

What cities/towns are you going to focus on? There are some local charity shops that aren’t part of chains.

This is one run by my church in Durham osm.org/browse/node/412288388

OpenStreetMap is never going to be accurate enough for legal use or blind-robot-navigation. Going for a walk with the map is a good test, are there curves on the map where you walk in a curve, are the path junctions roughly the right distance apart, etc.

Aerial imagery (Bing) will be offset by a certain amount, depending how far way in the world you are from their reference point. In the JOSM editor for OpenStreetMap, you can define an offset. So I normally go to a nearby place with no tree cover or tall buildings stand still for 3mins till my GPS is accurate to 12ft or so, and then I walk round some obvious land marks. Like road junctions. Then at your computer you can define the imagery offset so that the imagery roads match up with your GPS lines.

Sometimes you can tell from imagery where the stream is, because the tree cover looks slightly different (less dense, or it dips down). Other times you just have to remember roughly what line it took in relation to the path you walked on. Really the importance with streams is what side of the path they are on. They can change a bit over years anyway. They might never again be mapped by someone so focused on details as you.

Does anybody know the building by “Innova21”. You could add the tag old_name=Innova21 so it can still be found if people will search for that name.

Welcome to OpenStreetMap!

I mapped part of Croydon (including paths in parks) several years ago as part of a mapping party. But too much annoyance my phone gps app crashed and I lost the traces. I’ve always wanted to go back and sort it out, but I don’t think I’m likely to be there any time soon.

Enjoy mapping, and getting to know the community.

With Potlatch, I think you are recommended to save frequently, like every 1-5 minutes. An auto-save feature might be avoided because a lot of people start using Potlatch without realising they are editing the real live database.

It’s one reason I prefer JOSM, I can cntrl+s all the time to save, but then uploaded my changes in relevant chunks with specific changeset comments. But I am more technically inclined, so there are lots of reasons I prefer JOSM.

Hi David, welcome to OpenStreetMap!

I don’t deal with anything in 3D* but I’ve seen several exciting screenshots pass my eyes, so OSMers are doing things. Searching on the wiki, I found this page which might be the best starting place for you. osm.wiki/wiki/3D_Development I hope you find something useful and suitable for your needs. Being on Linux might help you, although some of the software could still be in early development and/or not be simple 1-click installs.

*Well I don’t do anything in 3D graphics, but I did a research project on physical 3D models. https://sotm-eu.org/talk?8

This is really helpful.
http://www.livingwithdragons.com/2011/01/searching-in-chrome

For a suggestion, what about adding to the 404 page a "Did you mean..." box. That could link to wiki search results (if a place, then it gives links to the community of said place) along with places on the map.