I see you are using Vespucci to map. If you haven’t already, consider checking out EveryDoor and StreetComplete app. Some of the things they do are much faster and easier to do than with Vespucci. 👍

Why did you name this account like this? You don’t need a separate account to use OSMCha. You should be using your main account for it.

I’m strongly against the switch to relations. OSM instead should’ve switched to using vectors. Everything is a node+vector. Then using vectors you can perform matrix operations, which then opens the door for machine learning! Win, win, win! I’ll take my permanent, lifetime seat on osmf board now and you can call me Grand Poobah.

Not my diary, but telling operators what to do isn’t OSM’s job? We map things as they are, not as they’re meant to be.

You don’t exist outside of OSM? You don’t try to make things better in the outside world beyond OSM? Even if you don’t use OSM, don’t you think having 3 different names for the same stop on the same route is confusing?

As the linked map only covers the British Isles, is this really an issue?

Do you have to surrender your Garmin device when you cross the border of the British Isles? The linked map IS the OSM map.

Newer buses locally do have displayed and spoken announcements of stop names on board, but sometimes the name on the stop, the name displayed on the bus and the name announced on the bus are all different - see for example here and here. I’ve used bus_display_name and bus_speech_output_name where these differ.

Wouldn’t it be better for the bus route operator to fix such inconsistencies on their end? That would improve ease of navigation for everyone.

QR code URL in the name is a pretty bad user experience. Font size is small, and to make use of that URL one would have to type it in switching between browser tabs since you can’t select the text from the map. I think such info is better left for details view if they tap on this stop where it can be made into a working hyperlink or at least a selectable text to copy.

The “r” indicates that there’s some sort of real-time display at the stop and the “s” that there’s a button that people can press to hear an announcement saying when the next buses are due. A “t” is shown if there’s just a timetable.

Having different icons for stop “modifiers” is clever, but I think those tiny letters are too obtuse to understand without a legend. Even more so if the user doesn’t speak English. “s” for speech/sound doesn’t make the same association in other languages. Also sounds are relevant for the visually impaired people, who probably wouldn’t see the icons anyway. Similarly for “t” and “r”. You are working with very few pixels, but perhaps some iconography instead of letters would be more universal.

Your shades are shady.. and probably crooked too. I’d never shop with a company that spams like this.

95th/99th % request times are just as (non-)informative as any other performance numbers of synthetic benchmarks.🤷‍♂️

Well, if you are claiming 290% performance improvements, but it is achieved only at the cost of 100x more memory utilization, such a system might not be scalable to production level traffic.

What about 95th/99th % numbers? What about memory utilization during the benchmarks?

iD, RapiD, EveryDoor, StreetComplete, GoMap!! are all much more beginner-friendly tools compared to josm.

Also what3words is a bad company if you want to use coordinates system that’s easier to remember than GPS coordinates, use Plus codes. It’s fully open and works without data connection unlike what3words.

osm.wiki/What3words

Hello. Please note that you must NOT use Google Maps for mapping in OSM! It is a copyright violation! All data in Google Maps is copyrighted to them! If you use Google Maps to add any data to OSM you are violating your ToS with both Google and OSM and this will result in deletion of all your contributions. You can read more about this at osm.wiki/Legal_FAQ#Can_I_trace_data_from_Google_Maps/Nokia_Maps/…? And osm.wiki/FAQ#Why_don’t_you_just_use_Google_Maps/whoever_for_your_data?

If you want to add notes to remember to map something, OSM has a built-in feature to do that.

Yes, I’m aware of that site. There’s also https://www.webmapping.cyou/WebToOSMOH/ But the point of my request is to simplify things so that there’s no need to switch to a different tab to do that. And it’d be especially useful for new users who might not know about these sites.

@AngocA, please don’t speak for “most mappers”. YOU might be using that site, but you have no accurate information to claim that “most mappers” use it.

There are only so many hours in a day and only so many people willing to do it. 🤷 I’m sure some things slip through the cracks. But hopefully various validation tools will catch incorrect mapping.

And you don’t really need to personally visit an area to be able to watch its edits. As long as you are familiar with how things are mapped in that area and understand OSM concepts you can review edits. If you see something questionable, ask the editor for clarification or supporting info on their edits and/or look things up on your own. Satellite imagery, Bing streetside imagery, govt data sources, social media can all provide useful info.

Has there been any concerted effort to get volunteers to “adopt” an area of the map and watch them for new mapper mistakes and for deliberate vandalism? Seems like it might be a good idea as a QA mechanism?

That’s pretty much what I’m doing with OSMCha/WhoDidIt: On daily basis or as often as I have spare time/desire I look through the feed of changes in my area of interest, review them all and comment on mistakes or fix them myself. OSMCha is my primary way to review changesets but whenever it has outages i fallback on WhoDidIt.

In addition to OSMCha’s rss feeds of changesets for specific region, there’s also https://simon04.dev.openstreetmap.org/whodidit/

For iD some QoL features like automatically format phone numbers to follow the guidelines in phone=*

Improve opening_hours editor beyond just a plain text box.

Improve color picker to sample more than just 1 pixel for specify average or most common roof or other features color.

Or even just look through the PRs and issues. I’m sure many of them are valid and have merit to exist.

Regarding Bing satellite imagery, more often imagery updates, have more consistent vintage metadata to more easily tell if it’s the latest available and if it should be relied on.

I don’t know if that’s wanted, but allocate some development resources for iD since its progress is rather slow.

And similarly for OsmCha. Most obvious 2 are: stability/performance and ability to show diffs for changesets with large bboxes.

So perhaps instead of throwing accusations of baiting and trolling and threats of dwg, normally reply and clarify what they meant by their comment and what you edited.

Looking at https://osmcha.org/changesets/141578158/ it seems like you did a lot more than just moved a node.