I don’t understand that last line:

$ ./replies.sh | grep " 403 " > shops-to-update

That would mark sites with (auth) errors as up-to-date?

The results can also be misleading. Old sites could have been bought by a DNS provider, which they usually have a selling page for which you get a 200 or one of the 300s. The tool that @bryceco mentions seems more accurate. It can also be done with bash, and maybe elinks for rendering the page into a text only file.

Maybe also exclude https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building?

One question, though. The other day I went hiking to Mont Puget and at the top I met two MB’ers. They used this route to descend (so I did):

https://brouter.m11n.de/#map=18/43.22594/5.45586/standard,route-quality&lonlats=5.458561,43.222223;5.454937,43.227905&profile=MTB-light-wet

Is there any router that’s going to tell them that there is a completely impassable section in the middle? The guys had to dismount and take like 30m to descend with their bikes in a vertical position because it was not even much safe to do it with their bike on the shoulder (also, they were e-bikes, so they probably weight too much for that anyway).

Also, is there anything we could improve in the tagging to make a bike router completely ignore this section?

Very cool, including all the tips and pitfalls :)

Ciao. Mi dispiacce, ma posso lire l’italiano megliore che posso escribirlo.

It’s strange that many have names. I can’t find a definition of ‘vajo’ (not even sure how to pronounce it, since Italian lacks the J letter? :) or ‘boale’, but ‘canalino’ suggests the names refer to water ways. I would leave them as they are, maybe tag them all as intermittent.

Did you think about adding your address? Once you’re registered, it’s just a few clicks away.

you only need to put the street number and name

not even the post code.

Do I need to put the city, post code, and state for each address I put in, regardless of whether I know the full address or not?

Depends on the region: for instance, since France is completely split in regions, départements and communes, you only need to put the street number and name.

Do I always need to mark if the place is vegan, vegetarian, air conditioned, smoke free, etc

It helps people looking for those attributes. If you want to do it quickly, you could use StreetComplete (Android), MapComplete (web) or a JOSM preset (dekstop).

Do I need to perfectly realign the buildings using JOSM

I would try to contact the community around the place you want to edit. They will know better which imagery is best for that.

So I guess the question is, how much is too much detail?

I don’t have OCD, so I’m not sure this will help you. But in many places I go POI mapping is really low, so I try to at least add the POI and its name, or if the mapping app does not have the right preset, a note. If time permits (sometimes I’m mapping from the car or bike, waiting for a green light), open hours (see later), then other info. Try to find a balance, see what’s really important for you. To me is having as many POIs as possible. My main tool for this is OsmAnd.

• https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/issues/2745

• https://github.com/abrensch/brouter/issues/505

• https://github.com/GIScience/openrouteservice/issues/1278

It also seems like an even longer route would be Cape Town <-> Chukchi Peninsula, but no routers demo instances support such transcontinental trips; the demo OSRM instance at least splits the road network between ~eurasia and ~africa. Also of note that seems that both regions are publicly connected only by this single border post between Egypt and Israel:

osm.org/#map=18/29.57482/34.97837

There are more, but all go across military zones on both sides, and it seems like most routers won’t take you through there.

Would you tag https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=rest_area also those highway stops that are bigger than just toilets + picnic tables? For instance these guys:

osm.org/#map=17/43.41499/6.45305

Thank you for this tutorial, I’ll try to follow it soon to reclassify some areas around my home. It would be nice to have some screenshots or even a short video showing all this.

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TL:DR River Polygons with river lines good, river lines alone bad.

Don’t forget: River polygons alone bad too.

Also: River polygons that include many different rivers and/or streams bad too.

I’m not sure what to do about cutting riverbanks at bridges like here: osm.org/?mlat=43.12263&mlon=5.96405#map=18/43.12263/5.96405&layers=Y

Well, the fact that you think of them as buildings is already a local thing :) Here they’re mostly rooms embedded in the first/ground (another local thing!) floor of buildings.

Offer universal vector tiles, i.e. vector tiles that everywhere contain all OSM data in that tile. This should relieve the technical burden such that people with design focus easier can design new styles.

This might be harder than you think. VT still define at which ZLs features appear; f.i., ‘amenities’ (as defined by the osm-carto style) at ZL 10 or more. If anyone would like to render some of those amenities at a lower ZL (that is, 9 or less), they would have to change the minzoom of that layer in osm-carto, and would have to ask you to something similar to your VT compiler.

For tags that is still not rendered on OSM default map tile, they can design their own style for that tags

This could also allow local communities to tag things that are not “translatable” around the world: AFAIK, supermarkets are similar all over the world, but shops selling magazines and newspapers are different in Argentina, España and France. When you go to a “presse” in France you know you can buy many other stuff that’s consistent all over the country but not in the rest of the world. A “kiosko” in at least Argentina is something you will be pressed to find in Europe. A “rotisería” in Argentina is not quite what a “rotisserie” is in France. I’m pretty sure there are gazillion of similar examples from all over the world.

OTOH, mappers are not necessarily good at drawing icons; I talk from personal experience :)

funziona :)

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From another non native speaker, your English is perfect :)

I have no car

Bicycle or kick scooter would be fine, the city does not look that big :)

if I shift Esri layer now, to match my moved buildings? I suppose, gps tracks will be looking misplaced then? No! They are still ‘somewhat on roads’, and that magic gives me anxiety

I think that’s expected. Tracks most probably are independent of imagery, that’s why you could consider tracks as ‘ground truth’ and align imagery based on that. At least, that’s the theory.

If you have more questions, I suggest you to join the #osm IRC channel at oftc.org and ask about these things; I’m not an expert on those myself.

I’m not sure even that what I do is right

As long as you think is the right data, please do. If later someone finds a better alignment, I think the data can be easily realigned. But again, better ask more knowledgeable people. IRC as I mentioned above (mostly synchronous, chat), or maybe the new site at https://community.openstreetmap.org/ (more async, forum).

osm.org is already a site that uses the OSM ‘platform’ (we don’t call it that, so probably you will have to explain what do you mean by that). are you asking how do develop a similar one on a chromebook?